# Bright Data

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/bright-data/  
**Website:** https://brightdata.com  
**APIs profiled:** 17

Bright Data is an Israeli web data platform and operator of the world's largest legitimate residential proxy network (400M+ IPs across 195 countries). The platform combines proxy infrastructure (residential, ISP, datacenter, mobile) with higher-level web-access APIs — Web Unlocker, SERP API, Web Scraper API, Scraping Browser, Deep Lookup, and Web Archive — plus a 350-dataset marketplace and an MCP server that exposes 60+ web-access tools to AI agents. Serves 20,000+ customers across eCommerce, finance, real estate, ad-tech, and AI/ML, and is a primary supplier of training and grounding data for foundation-model providers.

## Kin Score — 53.0 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 53.0).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 66.7 |
| Contract Quality | 65.7 |
| Governance | 9.8 |
| Contract Governance | 9.8 |
| Operational Transparency | 42.1 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 59.5 |
| Commercial Clarity | 56.6 |
| Access Clarity | 56.6 |

## Agent readiness — 32.6 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | documented |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | documented |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Paid · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: paid, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (17)

- **Bright Data SERP API** — Real-time SERP data from Google, Bing, Yandex, and DuckDuckGo across 31 languages and 195 countries. Supports organic, news, images, videos, shopping, jobs, hotels, flights, len...
- **Bright Data MCP Server** — Bright Data's Model Context Protocol server exposes 60+ web-access tools (search, scrape, structured extraction, browser automation, datasets) to MCP-compatible clients includin...
- **Bright Data Access API** — The Access API from Bright Data — 3 operation(s) for access.
- **Bright Data Archive API** — The Archive API from Bright Data — 4 operation(s) for archive.
- **Bright Data Billing API** — The Billing API from Bright Data — 2 operation(s) for billing.
- **Bright Data Datasets API** — The Datasets API from Bright Data — 2 operation(s) for datasets.
- **Bright Data Delivery API** — The Delivery API from Bright Data — 2 operation(s) for delivery.
- **Bright Data IPs API** — The IPs API from Bright Data — 2 operation(s) for ips.
- **Bright Data Lookup API** — The Lookup API from Bright Data — 6 operation(s) for lookup.
- **Bright Data Proxies API** — The Proxies API from Bright Data — 4 operation(s) for proxies.
- **Bright Data Scrape API** — Trigger and monitor asynchronous scraping jobs.
- **Bright Data Sessions API** — Inspect active Scraping Browser sessions.
- **Bright Data Shield API** — The Shield API from Bright Data — 4 operation(s) for shield.
- **Bright Data Snapshots API** — The Snapshots API from Bright Data — 6 operation(s) for snapshots.
- **Bright Data Tokens API** — The Tokens API from Bright Data — 1 operation(s) for tokens.
- **Bright Data Unlock API** — Submit and retrieve unlock requests.
- **Bright Data Zones API** — The Zones API from Bright Data — 3 operation(s) for zones.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Bright Data Agentic Access** — 56 operations · 27 acting · 1 human-in-the-loop

## Security (2)

- **Bright Data Authentication** — http · 1 scheme
- **Bright Data Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Bright Data Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Web Data, Web Scraping, Proxy, Residential Proxy, Datacenter Proxy, ISP Proxy, Mobile Proxy, SERP, Web Unlocker, Scraping Browser, Dataset Marketplace, MCP, AI Agents

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/bright-data/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.