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Bright Data vs HarvestAPI

HarvestAPI wins 10 of 17 decided metrics across 2 shared suites; the loser still leads where its column is highlighted. Same frozen test sets, same run; the better value in each row is highlighted.

Bright Data live

Web-data infrastructure and company data feeds unifying 10+ sources, delivered to warehouses and files.

★ 4.7 · 413 reviewsA

Access: MCP · CLI · API · Dataset · CSV · Batch · Webhooks · Integrations

HarvestAPI live

Pay-as-you-go LinkedIn scraping API: live profiles, companies, jobs, posts and lead search without cookies, with optional email search on a profile. Also sold as Apify actors.

No public reviews

Access: API

People Datacore + suite-specific metrics

updated 2026-09-25

Metric	Bright Data · #20 of 24	HarvestAPI · not measured
Profile match rate	89.8%	-
Identity accuracy	97.7%	-
Latency p50	12,746ms	-
Price / matched profile	$0.0013	-
Current employer accuracy	84.1%	-
Move detection	76.9%	-
Decoy hit rate	0.0%	-
Job title accuracy	0.0%	-
Seniority label accuracy	-	-
Location accuracy	95.5%	-
Work history completeness	-	-
Education completeness	68.2%	-
Skills present	0.0%	-
Social / profile URLs	100.0%	-
Coverage by geo / function / seniority	57.1%	-

Live Profile Datacore + suite-specific metrics

updated 2026-09-26

Metric	Bright Data · #5 of 5	HarvestAPI · #2 of 5
Current-job accuracy	79.2%	93.1%
Fetch success	91.1%	99.0%
Latency p50	9,230ms	3,350ms
Cost / profile	$0.0013	$0.0037
Move detection	84.6%	94.2%
Still at previous employer	5.0%	2.4%
Control accuracy	73.5%	91.8%
Work history completeness	-	9.1
Education completeness	68.5%	99.0%

Jobs Datacore + suite-specific metrics

updated 2026-09-25

Metric	Bright Data · #1 of 6	HarvestAPI · #3 of 6
Employer coverage	98.3%	95.0%
Postings recall	85.0%	59.3%
Latency p50	-	4,579ms
Cost / job	$0.0017	$0.0001
Closed or unknown postings	10.4%	10.6%
Duplicate postings	15.0%	33.8%
Location accuracy	95.5%	96.3%
Posted-date accuracy	24.5%	32.8%
Description present	100.0%	0.0%
Coverage by country	92.9%	91.7%

Questions about Bright Data vs HarvestAPI

Which is better, Bright Data or HarvestAPI?

HarvestAPI wins 10 of the 17 metrics decided between them, across 2 benchmarks that measured both. Leaderboard ranks: Live Profile Data: Bright Data #5 of 5, HarvestAPI #2 of 5; Jobs Data: Bright Data #1 of 6, HarvestAPI #3 of 6.

Which is cheaper, Bright Data or HarvestAPI?

Measured on the list price of each provider's central self-serve pack, divided by what it actually returned: Live Profile Data, cost per profile: Bright Data $0.0013, HarvestAPI $0.0037; Jobs Data, cost per job: Bright Data $0.0017, HarvestAPI $0.0001.

How do Bright Data and HarvestAPI compare in user reviews?

Bright Data holds 4.7 / 5 across 413 reviews on G2, Capterra and Product Hunt; HarvestAPI has no public reviews on G2, Capterra, TrustRadius or Trustpilot. Ratings belong to their platforms and play no part in the benchmark grades.

How can you get data out of Bright Data and HarvestAPI?

Bright Data offers an MCP server, a command-line tool, an API, dataset delivery, CSV export, batch endpoints, webhooks and native integrations; HarvestAPI offers an API. Both offer an API.