Agentik vs Bright Data

What Agentik and Bright Data publish, feature by feature, read on 10 October 2026. Each sign says Yes, Partly, No or Not published.

	Agentik	Bright Data
Billing
How you pay	A prepaid balance; each call at the provider’s price. No plan	Pay per use by product, per 1,000 requests or records, per GB or per IP; managed services monthly13
To start free	$5 of credit for eligible new accounts, for 14 days, for low-cost calls	5,000 requests a month (about $7.50), renewed on the 1st, no card; requests stop when used up31
Fees	0% markup on tool calls. Top-ups carry 5.5%, minimum $0.80, added on top; none on a first top-up of $10 or less	From $1 per 1,000 requests or $0.75 per 1,000 records by product; MCP results at $1.50 per 1,000 past the free tier413
Agent pays per call over x402	No. Card only, by design	Not published
What your agent can use
Catalog, as published	2,287 tools that run today, from 52 providers (catalog of 10 October 2026)	Proxies (400M+ monthly IPs), unblocking, search, crawl and browser APIs, pre-built scrapers and datasets; 75 tools in its MCP server13
SEO and search data	Yes. DataForSEO, SEMScraper and Exa	Yes. Google, Bing and Yandex results, and ChatGPT, Grok and Perplexity answers for AI visibility3
Web search and page reading	Yes. Firecrawl, Exa and 8 more	Yes. Any page as Markdown past bot detection and CAPTCHAs, full-site crawling, and a remote browser32
Social media data	Yes. 980 tools from TikHub, ScrapeCreators and 2 more	Yes. Profiles, posts and comments from Instagram, TikTok, X, Facebook, YouTube and other platforms31
Ad libraries	Yes. Adspy.sh, ScrapeCreators, TikHub and DataForSEO	Not published
People, companies and emails	Yes. Icypeas, Leadsforge and 3 more	Yes. LinkedIn people and company profiles, people search, and Crunchbase and ZoomInfo company data3
Image, video and audio generation	Yes. 200 models from fal.ai	Not published
Your ad and analytics accounts	Yes. 650 tools on your own ad and analytics accounts, connected once per workspace	Not published
Actions in your own apps (mail, chat, CRM)	No. No mail, chat or CRM actions	Not published
How your agent connects
Remote MCP server	Yes. One server, OAuth or API key	Yes. Hosted at mcp.brightdata.com with an API token, or run locally32
Setup for Claude and ChatGPT	Yes. Guides for Claude, ChatGPT, Claude Code, Cursor and Codex	Partly. Setup for Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf and other clients; ChatGPT not named13
REST API	Yes. REST API and OpenAPI	Yes. An API for every product, with API keys, and a CLI1
Bring your own provider keys	No. Agentik holds the provider accounts	Not published
Open source	No. Hosted service	Partly. Its MCP server is open source (MIT); the platform is hosted3
Control
Price shown before each call	Yes. Each tool’s price, and the most a call can reserve	Partly. Starting prices per product, and a rate per 1,000 MCP results13
Spending caps	Yes. Hourly, daily, lifetime and per-tool caps per key	Yes. A spend cap on pay-as-you-go use; free requests stop when used up3
A record of every call	Yes. Price, latency and status of every call	Partly. Audit logs on Enterprise1
Team workspace	Yes. Invite teammates	Yes. Team accounts with several users; SSO on Enterprise31

“Not published” means the pages we read say nothing about it, not that Bright Data lacks it. Agentik’s column comes from its catalog of 10 October 2026 and its pricing.

• Pages that block ordinary scrapersIts MCP server routes every request through Bright Data’s unblocking (bot detection, CAPTCHAs, proxy rotation), on a proxy network of 400M+ monthly IPs across 195+ countries.31
• Scraping and datasets at volumeOver 1,200 pre-built scrapers, bulk requests of up to 5,000 URLs with unlimited concurrency, and ready-made datasets delivered to Snowflake, S3 or a webhook.31
• A free tier that renews5,000 free requests every month, renewed on the 1st, with no card. Agentik’s free credit is a one-off for new accounts.3
• An open-source MCP server with a remote browserIts MCP server is MIT-licensed, runs hosted or locally, and has 13 browser tools for login walls, infinite scroll and dynamic pages.3

• Many providers for one jobAgentik puts 2,287 tools from 52 providers on one balance, so one research job can mix SEO data from DataForSEO, posts from TikHub or ScrapeCreators, emails from Icypeas or Leadsforge and pages from Firecrawl or Exa, each at the provider’s price.
• Ad research with an analysis of each adAdspy’s 17 tools search Meta and Google ads and analyse each one, from the same balance as every other tool.
• Your own ad and analytics accounts650 tools read and change your ad accounts, Google Analytics and Search Console, connected once per workspace. Changes are previewed first and applied only when confirmed.
• Jobs ready to run101 playbooks each combine several providers for one job, with the prompt to paste and the most the example can cost.
• A price before every callYour agent reads each tool’s price and quotes the call before it runs. Most tools reserve a guaranteed maximum; tools billed at actual cost say so.

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