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Best Alternatives to Bright Data

Explore 19 scrapers tools similar to Bright Data. Compare features, pricing, and reviews to find the best fit for your stack.

Firecrawl
Firecrawl

40K+ GitHub stars, 80K+ companies

LLM-first crawl and scrape API for turning pages or full sites into markdown, JSON, screenshots, and mapped URLs with managed rendering and agent workflows.

  • Web Extraction
  • Scheduled Scraping
  • Data Export
llm-ready
markdown
api
8.5/10
From $19/mo
Crawlee
Crawlee

Scrapes millions of pages daily

Open-source crawling framework for JavaScript and Python that combines request orchestration, queueing, proxies, and browser automation for reliable scraper development.

  • Web Extraction
  • Scheduled Scraping
  • Data Export
nodejs
playwright
open-source
8.5/10
Free
Apify
Apify

Trusted by Microsoft, McKinsey & Accenture

Actor-based cloud platform for running scrapers, browser automation jobs, and website content crawlers with built-in datasets, scheduling, storage, proxies, and AI integrations.

  • Web Extraction
  • Scheduled Scraping
  • Data Export
platform
marketplace
actors
8/10
From $29/mo
ScrapingBee
ScrapingBee

Popular scraping service

Managed scraping API that handles headless browsers, proxy rotation, JavaScript rendering, screenshots, and anti-bot bypass so teams only focus on extraction.

  • Web Extraction
  • Scheduled Scraping
  • Data Export
api
headless
captcha
7.5/10
From $49/mo
Puppeteer
Puppeteer

Widely adopted automation tool

Headless Chrome automation library for scripted browsing, rendering, screenshots, PDFs, and custom scraping workflows in JavaScript environments.

  • Web Extraction
  • Scheduled Scraping
  • Data Export
chrome
headless
google
8.5/10
Free
Playwright
Playwright

Used by 35K+ companies

Cross-browser automation runtime for scripted interaction, rendering, screenshots, testing, and custom extraction flows in modern engineering stacks.

  • Web Extraction
  • Scheduled Scraping
  • Data Export
microsoft
cross-browser
testing
9/10
Free
Scrapy
Scrapy

Leading web scraping framework

Battle-tested Python crawling framework for building large scraping jobs, request pipelines, and repeatable extractors with full control over the crawl stack.

  • Web Extraction
  • Scheduled Scraping
  • Data Export
python
framework
open-source
8.5/10
Free
Cheerio
Cheerio

Trusted by 150+ enterprise customers

jQuery-style HTML parser for Node.js that extracts and transforms page markup once retrieval is already handled elsewhere.

  • Web Extraction
  • Scheduled Scraping
  • Data Export
nodejs
html-parser
lightweight
8/10
Free
Jina Reader
Jina Reader

Popular open-source tool

Lightweight reader API that converts any reachable URL into LLM-friendly markdown or JSON for agent prompts, retrieval, and downstream AI workflows.

  • Web Extraction
  • Scheduled Scraping
  • Data Export
llm-ready
simple
api
8/10
From $20/mo
ScrapeGraph AI
ScrapeGraph AI

AI-powered scraping solution

Prompt-driven extraction toolkit for using LLMs to pull structured data from pages without manual selector authoring, with options for code or API workflows.

  • Web Extraction
  • Scheduled Scraping
  • Data Export
ai-powered
structured-data
llm
7.5/10
From $17/mo
Diffbot
Diffbot

Used by 42 Fortune 500 companies

AI-powered extraction platform for turning messy web pages into normalized entities, structured records, and knowledge-graph-style web data feeds.

  • Web Extraction
  • Scheduled Scraping
  • Data Export
ai
knowledge-graph
structured
7.5/10
From $299/mo
Octoparse
Octoparse

4.5M+ users since 2016

No-code scraping platform with desktop and cloud execution, auto-detect workflows, templates, scheduling, and exports for business data collection at scale.

  • Web Extraction
  • Scheduled Scraping
  • Data Export
no-code
point-click
visual
7/10
From $69/mo
ParseHub
ParseHub

Popular web scraping tool

Visual scraping tool for dynamic websites that uses browser rendering, click workflows, and scheduled runs to export structured data without custom code.

  • Web Extraction
  • Scheduled Scraping
  • Data Export
visual
javascript
free-tier
6.5/10
From $189/mo
Selenium
Selenium

Industry-standard automation tool

Multi-language browser automation framework for scripted interaction, UI testing, and custom browsing flows across the major browser engines.

  • Web Extraction
  • Scheduled Scraping
  • Data Export
standard
multi-language
testing
7.5/10
Free
BeautifulSoup
BeautifulSoup

Used by 1,983+ companies worldwide

Python parsing library for turning raw HTML and XML into navigable document trees when you already control fetching or crawling upstream.

  • Web Extraction
  • Scheduled Scraping
  • Data Export
python
parser
simple
8/10
Free
Instant Data Scraper
Instant Data Scraper

1M+ users trust it

Chrome extension for quickly extracting tabular data from pages into spreadsheets without writing code or setting up a crawler stack.

  • Web Extraction
  • Scheduled Scraping
  • Data Export
chrome
extension
instant
7/10
Free
Browse AI
Browse AI

9,000+ GitHub stars

No-code scraping and monitoring platform for point-and-click robots, deep scraping workflows, scheduled alerts, and turning websites into APIs or live datasets.

  • Web Extraction
  • Scheduled Scraping
  • Data Export
no-code
monitoring
robots
7/10
From $39/mo
Zyte (Scrapinghub)
Zyte (Scrapinghub)

Enterprise scraping solution

All-in-one web scraping platform that combines automated unblocking, headless rendering, AI extraction, proxy intelligence, and managed compliance-minded data collection.

  • Web Extraction
  • Scheduled Scraping
  • Data Export
professional
proxy
auto-extract
7.5/10
From $49/mo
Spider
Spider

Modern web scraping platform

Rust-powered crawler built for LLM data pipelines, large site traversal, and extraction workflows that output clean content and structured crawl results.

  • Web Extraction
  • Scheduled Scraping
  • Data Export
rust
fast
llm-pipeline
7.5/10
From $29/mo