Magpie vs Bright Data · Checked 17 Sep 2026
Both can get you Shopee, Tokopedia and Lazada data. Bright Data gives you the raw product records and the infrastructure to collect more. Magpie gives you monthly sales and market share already worked out.
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Magpie
A data API that only covers ecommerce marketplaces. The Data API returns monthly GMV, units sold, prices and market share by SKU, brand, merchant and category across five Southeast Asian marketplaces. The Scraping API fetches live product pages, listings and search results when you need today's state.
Bright Data
A large web data company. It sells proxy networks, scraper APIs for hundreds of websites, ready-made datasets and a retail analytics product called Bright Insights. Its Shopee, Tokopedia and Lazada datasets hold product records with price, rating, reviews, stock, seller and a sold count.
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| Magpie | Bright Data | |
|---|---|---|
| What you buy | Monthly marketplace metrics, plus on-demand page scraping | Proxies, scraper APIs, raw datasets, and a retail insights product |
| Southeast Asian marketplaces | Shopee, Tokopedia, TikTok Shop, Lazada and Blibli | Scraper APIs and datasets for Shopee, Tokopedia and Lazada; a TikTok Shop dataset is listed |
| Sales and market share | Monthly GMV, units and share by SKU, brand, merchant and category | Datasets carry a sold count per product record; Bright Insights covers sales and market share for retail teams |
| Category structure | One three-level category tree across all five marketplaces | Each dataset follows its source site |
| Other websites | Marketplaces only, plus Amazon in ten countries | Hundreds of websites, plus proxies and an unblocker for any site |
| Pricing model | Prepaid credits, charged only for rows or items returned; no subscription | Pay per request or record; datasets per record with a minimum order, one-time or on a refresh subscription |
| Free start | Free trial credits, and free exact cost estimates before any export | Free tier on several scraper APIs, including Shopee, Tokopedia and Lazada |
| Formats | Parquet or gzipped CSV exports; JSON for scraping jobs | JSON, CSV or Parquet for datasets |
| AI agents | MCP connector on the same API key | Bright Data MCP server |
We checked every Bright Data detail on its own website on 17 Sep 2026. Products change, so check their current pages before you decide, and tell us if something here is out of date. Tell us →
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Choose Magpie if
Choose Bright Data if
Using both
Some teams use both: Bright Data to collect from sites Magpie does not cover, and Magpie for Southeast Asian marketplace sales and share, so nobody has to rebuild those numbers from raw records.
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Yes. When we checked on 17 Sep 2026, Bright Data listed a Shopee scraper API with a free monthly allowance and a Shopee dataset with product records, including a sold count. Tokopedia and Lazada are listed too.
Monthly GMV, units sold and market share already calculated per SKU, brand, merchant and category, on one category tree across Shopee, Tokopedia, TikTok Shop, Lazada and Blibli. With a raw dataset you do that aggregation and category mapping yourself.
It depends on what you need. For raw records at very large volume, per-record datasets are hard to beat. If you need finished monthly metrics, compare the cost of Magpie rows with the cost of collecting and processing raw records into the same numbers. Magpie export estimates are free, so you can price your exact scope first.
Yes. The catalog call lists every market, category and month available, and every export request can return an exact row count and cost without charging you.
Sign up for free trial credits, then run a free estimate on the markets and categories you need.