Software companies we track

Bright Data: what it sells, price and AI features

Bright Data is on the social monitoring map. We record 17 dated launches and events for it. The latest is dated Oct. 11, 2026.

Updated . Launches and events from Jan. 6, 2023 to Oct. 11, 2026.

Web Scraper API and prebuilt datasets for LinkedIn profiles, companies, jobs and posts (posts dataset ~132M records). An agent calls the scraper API by dataset_id or buys a snapshot; MCP server wraps the platform. Source: brightdata.com.

Site
brightdata.com
Founded
2014
Category
Social data APIs and scrapers
Status
Active

On the research maps

  • The social monitoring map

    Web Scraper API and prebuilt datasets for LinkedIn profiles, companies, jobs and posts (posts dataset ~132M records). An agent calls the scraper API by dataset_id or buys a snapshot; MCP server wraps the platform. Source: brightdata.com.

    Category
    Social data APIs and scrapers
    Price
    Pay as you go $1.5/1K records; Scale $499/mo incl. 384,000 records then $1.3/1K; free tier 5K records/mo; datasets 'up to $0.0025 per record', $250 min order ($250 for 100K records).
    Platforms
    LinkedIn
    Scale
    Enterprise incumbent: nine-figure revenue or public-company scale (CEO reports above $300 million ARR and 50,000+ customers (company-reported).)
    Founded
    2014

    Sources: brightdata.com, brightdata.com and en.wikipedia.org.

    Bright Data on the social monitoring map

Launches and dated events, newest first

  1. brightdata-mcp v3.0.0 removes 46 web_data_* tools for scraper tools

    Deprecation, . Breaking change to tool names; agents with pinned tool lists must reconfigure.

    Source: GitHub. From the social monitoring map.

  2. Adds a free tier and collapses scraping-API pricing to Free/Scale

    Pricing change, . Web Scraper API added 5,000 free records monthly; Bright Data's X Scraper API is a well-known omitted company in this slice.

    Source: usagepricing.com. From the social monitoring map.

  3. Grok Scraper available again after blocking by Grok

    Announcement, . Grok scraper was down in May and again 2026-06-14 due to blocking; shows LLM-answer scrapers break when the target blocks.

    Source: Bright Data docs. From the social monitoring map.

  4. Free tier: 5,000 free credits every month, shared pool across Web Unlocker, SERP, Web Scraper API, Scraper Studio, MCP

    Pricing change, . No credit card; renews on the 1st; MCP free tier draws from the same pool.

    Source: Bright Data docs. From the social monitoring map.

  5. LinkedIn restricted public access to Position, Experience and Education fields

    Policy, . Platform change: those three fields now return cached data; fill rate fell from 50-64% to about 2%. Other fields still scraped live.

    Source: Bright Data docs. From the social monitoring map.

  6. New social scrapers: Facebook profiles, Reddit profiles, Reddit posts by subreddit

    Launch, . Week ending 2025-10-31 release notes; also YouTube Podcasts and Explore-page scrapers.

    Source: Bright Data docs. From the social monitoring map.

  7. Bright Data debuts free tier of The Web MCP (5,000 requests/month)

    Launch, . Free Web MCP for agents with unblocking; 3-month private beta with 15,000 developers per trade press.

    Source: SiliconANGLE. From the social monitoring map.

  8. current_company.industry unsupported

    Deprecation, . Docs: the current_company.industry field has been unsupported since 2025-08-07.

    Source: Bright Data docs. From the social monitoring map.

  9. X Corp. v. Bright Data docket terminated

    Ruling, . CourtListener shows dateTerminated 2025-07-01; reason (settlement, dismissal) not found in opened sources.

    Source: CourtListener. From the social monitoring map.

  10. brightdata-mcp GitHub repository created

    Launch, . Open-source Bright Data MCP server repo created; latest release v4.1.0 on 2026-10-20.

    Source: GitHub API. From the social monitoring map.

  11. brightdata/brightdata-mcp repository created

    Launch, . First public Bright Data MCP server (GitHub). 2,686 stars on 2026-10-23; MIT licence.

    Source: GitHub. From the social monitoring map.

  12. X Corp. allowed to amend: trespass to chattels, DMCA, CFAA, CDAFA added

    Ruling, . Server-impairment allegations cured the damages gap; scraping claims preempted by copyright stayed dismissed.

    Source: Technology & Marketing Law Blog. From the social monitoring map.

  13. Judge Alsup dismisses X Corp. claims against Bright Data (leave to amend)

    Ruling, . Access claims failed for lack of damages; claims over selling user posts preempted by Copyright Act.

    Source: Technology & Marketing Law Blog. From the social monitoring map.

  14. Meta drops its case against Bright Data

    Ruling, . Meta moved to withdraw; docket terminated 2024-02-26.

    Source: CTech. From the social monitoring map.

  15. Court grants Bright Data summary judgment on Meta's contract claim

    Ruling, . Judge Chen: Meta's terms did not bar logged-out scraping of public data; CAPTCHA bypass differs from password-protected access.

    Source: TechCrunch. From the social monitoring map.

  16. X Corp. v. Bright Data filed (N.D. Cal. 3:23-cv-03698)

    Lawsuit, . X Corp. sued Bright Data over scraping X data and selling it.

    Source: CourtListener. From the social monitoring map.

  17. Meta Platforms v. Bright Data filed (N.D. Cal. 3:23-cv-00077)

    Lawsuit, . Meta sued over scraping Facebook and Instagram public data.

    Source: CourtListener. From the social monitoring map.

Methodology and corrections: what counts as a launch, how each one is checked, and how to report an error.

License: CC BY 4.0. Reuse it with credit to Newsprint.

Cite as: Newsprint, "Bright Data: what it sells, price and AI features", https://www.newsprint.com/companies/bright-data/, updated 2026-11-11

This page as Markdown or JSON.