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Brightdata vs Extend
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Bright Data's Web MCP server enabling AI agents to search, extract & navigate the web
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Turn documents into structured data: parse, extract, classify, split, and fill PDF forms.
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Neither has been reviewed yet, so the comparison rests on the scan and the public usage numbers. The safety scan favours Extend (97/100 against 77). Extend is hosted and callable through the gateway; Brightdata runs on your own machine. Brightdata has noticeably more public adoption.
| Brightdata | Extend | |
|---|---|---|
| User rating | No reviews yet | No reviews yet |
| Safety grade | B77/100 | A97/100 |
| Adoption | Established | Growing |
| GitHub stars | 2.7k | 0 |
| Downloads / week | 9.2k | – |
| Runs where | Your machine (local) | Hosted (remote) |
| Gateway-ready | No | Yes |
| Tools | — | — |
| Write actions | — | — |
| Price per call | Free | Free |
| Licence | MIT | MIT |
| Last release | 2026-09-17 | 2026-09-18 |
| Category | Scraping and browsing | Scraping and browsing |