> ## 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, 660+ pre-built scrapers, dataset marketplace, and AI-ready APIs.

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  [Start now](https://brightdata.com/?hs_signup=1\&utm_source=docs) with **\$5 in free credits**. No credit card required.

  We’ll also match your **first account deposit up to \$500**.
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Bright Data is an enterprise-grade web data platform designed to help teams **reliably collect, process, and scale access to public web data**.

Our products handle the complexity of web access, so you can focus on building insights, applications, and AI systems powered by real-time data.

## 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 maintaining ethical and compliant data collection.
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    <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 requiring 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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