> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.brightdata.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Welcome to Bright Data

> Bright Data's web data platform: residential, mobile and ISP proxies, 1000+ pre-built scrapers, a dataset marketplace and AI-ready APIs.

Bright Data is a web data platform that helps you collect, process and scale access to public web data. It brings a 400M+ IP proxy network, 1000+ pre-built scrapers, ready-made datasets and AI-ready APIs together under one account, so you can focus on using data instead of building and maintaining scraping infrastructure.

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  [Start now](https://brightdata.com/?hs_signup=1\&utm_source=docs) with **5,000 free credits per month**. No credit card required. See the [free tier](/general/account/billing-and-pricing/free-tier).

  Bright Data will also match your **first account deposit up to \$500**.
</Note>

## Who this platform is for

Bright Data is designed for:

* Developers building data-driven applications
* Data teams collecting large-scale web data
* AI teams needing real-time public web information
* Businesses that require reliable and scalable web access

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    <Card title="Proxy infrastructure" icon="globe" href="/proxy-networks">
      Access any website, anywhere. Use a global network of **400M+ monthly residential IPs** with **99.99% uptime** to navigate the web reliably and at scale, while keeping data collection ethical and compliant.
    </Card>

    <Card title="Web access APIs" icon="bolt" href="/scraping-automation">
      Automate web data collection through APIs that handle unblocking, browser automation, crawling and search. Focus on using the data, not managing scraping infrastructure.
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    <Card title="Data feeds" icon="table" href="/datasets">
      Access ready-to-use, structured datasets without building or maintaining scrapers. Data feeds deliver real-time or historical web data with zero infrastructure overhead.
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    <Card title="MCP server" icon="microchip-ai" href="/ai/mcp-server/overview">
      Power AI systems with live web intelligence. The MCP server connects your models to real-time public web data without scraper management or custom pipelines.
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  For billing, account settings and user access management, visit the <a href="/general/account/overview" target="_blank">Account management</a> section.
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<Card title="Service status" icon="circle-check" href="https://brightdata.com/network-status">
  View real-time service status and uptime for all Bright Data products.
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