{
 "title": "Crawl4AI Cloud vs Bright Data",
 "page": "https://crawl4ai.com/compare/brightdata/",
 "facts_read_on": "2026-11-12",
 "crawl4ai_live_prices": "https://crawl4ai.com/v1/prices",
 "rule": "Bright Data facts restate Bright Data's own pages; not_published means their pages say nothing, not that the feature is missing.",
 "short_answer": "Crawl4AI charges by the work each page needs ($0.10 per 1,000 plain pages, $0.50 with a real browser) and nothing for a failed or blocked call; Bright Data's Unlocker charges $1.50 per 1,000 requests for every page, and its plans start at $499 a month. Crawl4AI refunds within 14 days and its extra credits never expire; Bright Data's agreement calls its fees \"non-cancelable and non-refundable\". Crawl4AI runs in the EU, Singapore and the US with teams and an audit log from the $99 Builder plan; Bright Data lists SSO and audit logs under Enterprise and publishes no data region. Agents set Crawl4AI up from one message, run their own budget with 17 MCP tools, and 93 recipes return named sites such as LinkedIn as rows for 1 credit.",
 "jobs": [
  {
   "job": "One page to Markdown",
   "crawl4ai_per_1000": "$0.10",
   "brightdata_per_1000": "$1.00–$1.50",
   "costs_less": "crawl4ai"
  },
  {
   "job": "A page that needs a real browser",
   "crawl4ai_per_1000": "$0.50",
   "brightdata_per_1000": "$1.00–$1.50",
   "costs_less": "crawl4ai"
  },
  {
   "job": "A site that blocks bots",
   "crawl4ai_per_1000": "$2.00",
   "brightdata_per_1000": "$1.00–$1.50",
   "costs_less": "brightdata"
  },
  {
   "job": "Google results as data",
   "crawl4ai_per_1000": "$1.00",
   "brightdata_per_1000": "$1.00–$1.50",
   "costs_less": "crawl4ai"
  },
  {
   "job": "A LinkedIn profile as rows",
   "crawl4ai_per_1000": "$1.00",
   "brightdata_per_1000": "$1.00–$1.50",
   "costs_less": "crawl4ai"
  }
 ],
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  {
   "table": "enterprise",
   "group": null,
   "row": "SSO (SAML, OIDC)",
   "crawl4ai": "Yes",
   "brightdata": "Enterprise only",
   "brightdata_quote": "Enterprise: SSO, custom SLA, account management and audit logs.",
   "brightdata_source": "https://brightdata.com/llms.txt",
   "not_published": false
  },
  {
   "table": "enterprise",
   "group": null,
   "row": "SCIM user sync",
   "crawl4ai": "Yes",
   "brightdata": "Not published",
   "brightdata_quote": null,
   "brightdata_source": null,
   "not_published": true
  },
  {
   "table": "enterprise",
   "group": null,
   "row": "Teams, roles and audit log",
   "crawl4ai": "From Builder ($99), no seat limit",
   "brightdata": "Audit log: Enterprise only",
   "brightdata_quote": "SSO & audit logs",
   "brightdata_source": "https://brightdata.com/pricing/scraping-browser",
   "not_published": false
  },
  {
   "table": "enterprise",
   "group": null,
   "row": "Zero data retention",
   "crawl4ai": "Yes",
   "brightdata": "Not published; deletion on request",
   "brightdata_quote": "Customer data deletion available at any time upon request",
   "brightdata_source": "https://docs.brightdata.com/general/security/security-overview",
   "not_published": false
  },
  {
   "table": "enterprise",
   "group": null,
   "row": "IP allowlist and key limits",
   "crawl4ai": "Yes",
   "brightdata": "IP allowlists; one key per user",
   "brightdata_quote": "Each user can generate only one API key. The total number of API keys cannot exceed the number of account users.",
   "brightdata_source": "https://docs.brightdata.com/api-reference/authentication",
   "not_published": false
  },
  {
   "table": "enterprise",
   "group": null,
   "row": "Static exit IPs",
   "crawl4ai": "Yes",
   "brightdata": "ISP and datacenter IPs, sold per IP",
   "brightdata_quote": "$1.3/IP",
   "brightdata_source": "https://brightdata.com/pricing/web-unlocker",
   "not_published": false
  },
  {
   "table": "enterprise",
   "group": null,
   "row": "Where data is processed",
   "crawl4ai": "EU, Singapore or US, your choice",
   "brightdata": "Not published; \"based in Israel\"",
   "brightdata_quote": "Note that we are based in Israel and some of the data recipients listed above may be located outside the European Economic Area (EEA).",
   "brightdata_source": "https://brightdata.com/privacy",
   "not_published": false
  },
  {
   "table": "enterprise",
   "group": null,
   "row": "Deployment",
   "crawl4ai": "Cloud, dedicated fleet, inside your network, managed pipeline; one engine",
   "brightdata": "Managed service; on-premise not published",
   "brightdata_quote": null,
   "brightdata_source": null,
   "not_published": true
  },
  {
   "table": "enterprise",
   "group": null,
   "row": "DPA and invoice billing",
   "crawl4ai": "Every Enterprise plan",
   "brightdata": "Wire transfer for larger accounts; DPA not published",
   "brightdata_quote": "plus wire transfer and Amazon Marketplace for larger accounts",
   "brightdata_source": "https://docs.brightdata.com/general/account/billing-and-pricing/payment",
   "not_published": false
  },
  {
   "table": "enterprise",
   "group": null,
   "row": "Refunds",
   "crawl4ai": "14 days, if no credits were used",
   "brightdata": "None",
   "brightdata_quote": "The Subscription Fees are non-cancelable and non-refundable.",
   "brightdata_source": "https://brightdata.com/license",
   "not_published": false
  },
  {
   "table": "enterprise",
   "group": null,
   "row": "Status page",
   "crawl4ai": "Hourly uptime per service, public",
   "brightdata": "50 incidents in 12 months, 7 outages",
   "brightdata_quote": "brightdata.com/web_api/lum_status: 50 incidents, Nov 2025 to Nov 2026, 7 marked outage",
   "brightdata_source": "https://brightdata.com/network-status",
   "not_published": false
  },
  {
   "table": "enterprise",
   "group": null,
   "row": "Uptime and response SLA",
   "crawl4ai": "Typical: 99.9% a month; service down: first answer within 1 hour, 24/7; part broken: 4 business hours; a question: 1 business day; 5% of the month's fee back if missed, 10% under 99%",
   "brightdata": "99.9%; credits capped at $1,000 or $2,000",
   "brightdata_quote": "5% or $1,000 (the lower of the two)",
   "brightdata_source": "https://brightdata.com/sla",
   "not_published": false
  },
  {
   "table": "enterprise",
   "group": null,
   "row": "Support",
   "crawl4ai": "A named engineer",
   "brightdata": "Sunday to Friday, 7AM to 8PM UTC; 24/7 for P0",
   "brightdata_quote": "Sunday through Friday between 7AM to 8PM UTC time",
   "brightdata_source": "https://brightdata.com/sla",
   "not_published": false
  },
  {
   "table": "enterprise",
   "group": null,
   "row": "Security assurance",
   "crawl4ai": "Controls monitored every day in Drata, with the evidence kept; dependencies watched for known vulnerabilities; SOC 2 audit by Sensiba under way, report target January 2027. Security pack on request: policies, audit status, DPA, questionnaire answers.",
   "brightdata": "SOC 2 Type II for Jun 2024 to May 2025; ISO 27001",
   "brightdata_quote": "SOC 2 Type II … Period: Jun 1, 2024 – May 31, 2025",
   "brightdata_source": "https://docs.brightdata.com/general/security/security-overview",
   "not_published": false
  },
  {
   "table": "side_by_side",
   "group": "Pricing",
   "row": "How you pay",
   "crawl4ai": "Credits in every plan: Free, Starter $10, Builder $99, Scale $499",
   "brightdata": "Pay as you go, then plans from $499 a month",
   "brightdata_quote": "$499 /month",
   "brightdata_source": "https://brightdata.com/pricing/web-unlocker",
   "not_published": false
  },
  {
   "table": "side_by_side",
   "group": "Pricing",
   "row": "Free start",
   "crawl4ai": "1,000 credits a month (10,000 plain pages), no card",
   "brightdata": "5,000 credits a month, 1 per request",
   "brightdata_quote": "5,000 free credits per month, no credit card required.",
   "brightdata_source": "https://docs.brightdata.com/general/account/billing-and-pricing/free-tier",
   "not_published": false
  },
  {
   "table": "side_by_side",
   "group": "Pricing",
   "row": "1,000 plain / browser / hard pages",
   "crawl4ai": "$0.10 / $0.50 / $2.00",
   "brightdata": "One price: $1.50, down to $1.00 on $1,999",
   "brightdata_quote": "Pay as you go $1.5/1K requests",
   "brightdata_source": "https://brightdata.com/pricing/web-unlocker",
   "not_published": false
  },
  {
   "table": "side_by_side",
   "group": "Pricing",
   "row": "Failed calls",
   "crawl4ai": "Free, blocked pages included",
   "brightdata": "Free, but all billed with your own headers",
   "brightdata_quote": "you'll be charged for 100% of the requests (both successful and failed)",
   "brightdata_source": "https://docs.brightdata.com/products/web-unlocker/configuration",
   "not_published": false
  },
  {
   "table": "side_by_side",
   "group": "Pricing",
   "row": "A page already cached",
   "crawl4ai": "Half price",
   "brightdata": "No cached copy (Fetch API)",
   "brightdata_quote": "Each request fetches the live page. There is no cached copy.",
   "brightdata_source": "https://docs.brightdata.com/products/scrapers/fetch-api/introduction",
   "not_published": false
  },
  {
   "table": "side_by_side",
   "group": "Pricing",
   "row": "Unused money",
   "crawl4ai": "Extra credits never expire",
   "brightdata": "Monthly commitment does not roll over",
   "brightdata_quote": "Your monthly commitment will not roll over to the next month, regardless of whether your usage charges fell below the minimum commitment.",
   "brightdata_source": "https://docs.brightdata.com/general/usage-monitoring/Usage",
   "not_published": false
  },
  {
   "table": "side_by_side",
   "group": "Pricing",
   "row": "Refunds",
   "crawl4ai": "14 days, if no credits were used",
   "brightdata": "None",
   "brightdata_quote": "The Subscription Fees are non-cancelable and non-refundable.",
   "brightdata_source": "https://brightdata.com/license",
   "not_published": false
  },
  {
   "table": "side_by_side",
   "group": "Pricing",
   "row": "New accounts",
   "crawl4ai": "The full product from sign-up",
   "brightdata": "100 a minute and $100 top-ups until verified",
   "brightdata_quote": "Accounts in Limited Trial mode can only add up to $100 to their balance at a time until verification is completed.",
   "brightdata_source": "https://docs.brightdata.com/general/account/limited-trial-restrictions",
   "not_published": false
  },
  {
   "table": "side_by_side",
   "group": "What you get back",
   "row": "Formats",
   "crawl4ai": "Markdown, HTML, links, media, metadata, tables; engine and cache on every answer",
   "brightdata": "Raw HTML, JSON or Markdown",
   "brightdata_quote": "With a 98% success rate, simply send a URL and get back clean HTML or JSON, ready to use.",
   "brightdata_source": "https://brightdata.com/products/web-unlocker",
   "not_published": false
  },
  {
   "table": "side_by_side",
   "group": "What you get back",
   "row": "Whole site",
   "crawl4ai": "/site deep crawl (500 pages a call); /scan up to 50,000 URLs",
   "brightdata": "Crawl API from a root URL",
   "brightdata_quote": "Simply define the root URL and retrieve the full website content as Markdown, Text, HTML, or JSON files.",
   "brightdata_source": "https://brightdata.com/products/crawl-api",
   "not_published": false
  },
  {
   "table": "side_by_side",
   "group": "What you get back",
   "row": "Search",
   "crawl4ai": "/search 1 credit; Google results as data with /serp",
   "brightdata": "SERP API, $1.50 per 1,000 pay as you go",
   "brightdata_quote": "Pay as you go $1.5/1K requests",
   "brightdata_source": "https://brightdata.com/pricing/serp",
   "not_published": false
  },
  {
   "table": "side_by_side",
   "group": "What you get back",
   "row": "Named sites",
   "crawl4ai": "93 recipes; a LinkedIn profile 1 credit",
   "brightdata": "Scraper API, $1.50 per 1,000 records",
   "brightdata_quote": "$1.5/1K record",
   "brightdata_source": "https://brightdata.com/pricing/web-scraper",
   "not_published": false
  },
  {
   "table": "side_by_side",
   "group": "What you get back",
   "row": "Extraction",
   "crawl4ai": "/extract: JSON by your schema or plain words",
   "brightdata": "One schema-to-JSON call: Not published",
   "brightdata_quote": null,
   "brightdata_source": null,
   "not_published": true
  },
  {
   "table": "side_by_side",
   "group": "What you get back",
   "row": "Documents",
   "crawl4ai": "PDF, Word and Excel; a PDF costs one page",
   "brightdata": "Not published",
   "brightdata_quote": null,
   "brightdata_source": null,
   "not_published": true
  },
  {
   "table": "side_by_side",
   "group": "What you get back",
   "row": "Change monitoring",
   "crawl4ai": "Watch (beta)",
   "brightdata": "Not published",
   "brightdata_quote": null,
   "brightdata_source": null,
   "not_published": true
  },
  {
   "table": "side_by_side",
   "group": "Hard sites",
   "row": "Addresses",
   "crawl4ai": "Our own addresses; rented residential ones at the extra level; country choice",
   "brightdata": "Residential only after a company KYC",
   "brightdata_quote": "Bright Data Residential proxies are available only to verified companies that pass a human-reviewed KYC (Know Your Customer) check by the Bright Data compliance team.",
   "brightdata_source": "https://docs.brightdata.com/products/residential/faqs",
   "not_published": false
  },
  {
   "table": "side_by_side",
   "group": "Hard sites",
   "row": "Bot checks and CAPTCHA",
   "crawl4ai": "Gets past bot checks and CAPTCHA pages on hard sites, and a page we cannot get costs nothing",
   "brightdata": "CAPTCHA solving, \"98% success rate\"",
   "brightdata_quote": "Web Unlocker API handles proxy rotation, CAPTCHA solving, and anti-bot bypass in a single API call",
   "brightdata_source": "https://brightdata.com/products/web-unlocker",
   "not_published": false
  },
  {
   "table": "side_by_side",
   "group": "Agents",
   "row": "MCP",
   "crawl4ai": "Hosted, no install; key or OAuth; 17 tools",
   "brightdata": "Hosted and local; 30 tools",
   "brightdata_quote": "FAQs about the Bright Data MCP server (30 tools)",
   "brightdata_source": "https://docs.brightdata.com/products/mcp-server/faqs",
   "not_published": false
  },
  {
   "table": "side_by_side",
   "group": "Agents",
   "row": "Setup",
   "crawl4ai": "One message sets it up in 7 coding agents",
   "brightdata": "A skills package; agent sign-up gets $2",
   "brightdata_quote": "A one-time $2 trial credit, valid 7 days.",
   "brightdata_source": "https://brightdata.com/auth.md",
   "not_published": false
  },
  {
   "table": "side_by_side",
   "group": "Agents",
   "row": "Agent budget",
   "crawl4ai": "Estimate, balance, spend cap and top-up as tools; cost on every answer",
   "brightdata": "No budget tool; a call counter",
   "brightdata_quote": "Report how many times each tool has been called during the current MCP session.",
   "brightdata_source": "https://docs.brightdata.com/products/mcp-server/tools",
   "not_published": false
  },
  {
   "table": "side_by_side",
   "group": "Agents",
   "row": "Page tool",
   "crawl4ai": "A real browser when the page needs one",
   "brightdata": "\"No JavaScript rendering\"",
   "brightdata_quote": "No JavaScript rendering; pages that take longer than 45 s time out.",
   "brightdata_source": "https://docs.brightdata.com/products/mcp-server/tools",
   "not_published": false
  },
  {
   "table": "side_by_side",
   "group": "Open source",
   "row": "License",
   "crawl4ai": "Apache 2.0, 87,236 GitHub stars",
   "brightdata": "Open-source clients of the paid API",
   "brightdata_quote": "two open-source URL to Markdown tools that call the Bright Data Fetch API",
   "brightdata_source": "https://docs.brightdata.com/products/scrapers/fetch-api/introduction",
   "not_published": false
  },
  {
   "table": "side_by_side",
   "group": "Open source",
   "row": "Self-host",
   "crawl4ai": "The same engine as the Cloud",
   "brightdata": "Engine: Not published; MCP needs their token",
   "brightdata_quote": "an API token",
   "brightdata_source": "https://docs.brightdata.com/products/mcp-server/faqs",
   "not_published": false
  }
 ],
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  {
   "name": "Bright Data Web Unlocker pricing",
   "url": "https://brightdata.com/pricing/web-unlocker"
  },
  {
   "name": "Bright Data SERP and Scraper API pricing",
   "url": "https://brightdata.com/pricing/web-scraper"
  },
  {
   "name": "Bright Data Master Service Agreement",
   "url": "https://brightdata.com/license"
  },
  {
   "name": "Bright Data SLA",
   "url": "https://brightdata.com/sla"
  },
  {
   "name": "Bright Data docs: limited trial, Residential KYC, Unlocker billing, MCP tools",
   "url": "https://docs.brightdata.com"
  },
  {
   "name": "Bright Data security overview",
   "url": "https://docs.brightdata.com/general/security/security-overview"
  },
  {
   "name": "Bright Data network status",
   "url": "https://brightdata.com/network-status"
  },
  {
   "name": "Crawl4AI prices",
   "url": "https://crawl4ai.com/v1/prices"
  },
  {
   "name": "Crawl4AI legal",
   "url": "https://crawl4ai.com/legal/"
  }
 ]
}