Browserbase

What is Browserbase?

Browserbase is infrastructure for AI agents and automations that need to use websites like a person would. It runs fleets of headless browsers in the cloud that you drive from Playwright, Puppeteer, Selenium or Stagehand, its own AI automation framework with natural-language workflows. Beyond browsers, it offers Search and Fetch APIs that return web context for language models, an agent identity layer with captcha solving and proxies, a runtime for deploying agents, and a Model Gateway that gives access to major models through one API key and unified billing. Sessions can be recorded for debugging, and the vendor lists SOC 2 coverage on every plan, with HIPAA, DPA and SSO on the Scale plan. Companies use it for insurance verification, loan workflows, listing sync, payroll tasks, data entry and scraping. The Free plan costs $0, Developer is $20, Startup is $99, and Scale is custom, with pay-as-you-go overage beyond each plan's allowance.

Use cases

• Run headless browsers for AI agents
• Automate forms and portal workflows
• Scrape and extract web data at scale
• Fetch and search web context for LLMs
• Test sites in parallel browser sessions
• Deploy browser agents to a hosted runtime

Who it's for

• AI engineers
• Developers
• Startups building agents
• Enterprise automation teams

Why use Browserbase

• Removes the work of running and scaling your own browser fleet.
• Works with the automation frameworks and languages developers already use.
• Allocations are not hard limits: usage over the plan is billed rather than cut off.
• Built-in captcha solving, proxies and session recording speed up debugging and reliability.
• A free tier lets you prototype before paying.

Browserbase features

• Fleets of cloud headless browsers with concurrency by plan
• Compatible with Playwright, Puppeteer, Selenium and Stagehand
• Search and Fetch APIs for LLM-ready web context
• Extract API for structured page data
• Agent identity with automatic captcha solving
• Residential proxies, custom proxy configurations and rotation
• Session recording and observability
• Browserbase Functions runtime, free on every plan
• Model Gateway with one API key and unified billing
• SSO, HIPAA BAA and DPA on the Scale plan

Browserbase integrations

• Playwright
• Puppeteer
• Selenium
• Stagehand
• CrewAI
• LangChain

How to get started with Browserbase

1. Sign up for the Free plan and create an API key.
2. Create a browser session with the SDK and connect to it from Playwright, Puppeteer, Selenium or Stagehand.
3. Run your script or agent against the cloud browser, using proxies, captcha solving and Search or Fetch calls as needed.
4. Open session recordings to debug and monitor usage on the dashboard.
5. Upgrade to Developer or Startup for more concurrency and hours, or contact sales for Scale.

Browserbase limitations

• The Free plan includes 3 concurrent browsers, 1 browser hour and 15-minute sessions
• Each session bills a minimum of one minute
• Browser hours and proxy bandwidth beyond a plan's allocation are billed at overage rates
• HIPAA, DPA and SSO are available only on the Scale plan

Browserbase pricing

Yes, Browserbase has a free plan. Paid plans start at $20 per month, according to the official pricing page on 24 Oct 2026.

Browserbase plans

• Free

  $0

  • 3 concurrent browsers
  • 1 browser hour
  • 3 agent runs
  • 1,000 search calls
  • 1,000 fetch calls
  • 15-minute sessions
  • 7-day data retention

• Developer

  $20/month

  • 100 browser hours, then $0.12/hr
  • 25 concurrent browsers
  • 1 GB of proxies, then $12/GB
  • 15 agent runs
  • Auto captcha solving
  • 7-day data retention

• Startup

  $99/month

  • 500 browser hours, then $0.10/hr
  • 100 concurrent browsers
  • 5 GB of proxies, then $10/GB
  • 50 agent runs
  • 30-day data retention
  • Priority support

• Scale

  Custom

  • 250+ concurrent browsers
  • Usage-based browser hours
  • Verified agents and captcha solving
  • SSO, HIPAA BAA and DPA
  • High priority support

Plans as listed on the official pricing page on 24 Oct 2026. Prices can change and may vary by country or exclude tax. Check the official pricing page.

Browserbase alternatives

The main Browserbase alternatives listed on Debuly are Hyperbrowser, Stagehand, Browser Use, Moli, Spider and agent-browser. The table compares pricing and platforms; order is A–Z.

1. 

   agent-browser

   Native Rust command-line browser automation tool built for AI agents, with compact accessibility snapshots and 50+ commands.

   Developer platformsAutomation and agentsCoding
   Open sourceVisit agent-browser (official site)
2. 

   Browser Use

   Cloud browsers and hosted web agents for AI, plus an MIT-licensed open-source browser agent, billed pay-as-you-go from $0.02 per hour.

   Developer platformsAutomation and agentsCoding
   PaidVisit Browser Use (official site)
3. 

   Hyperbrowser

   Cloud infrastructure that gives AI agents hosted Chrome sessions, isolated sandboxes, and web fetch, crawl and search APIs.

   Developer platformsAutomation and agentsCoding
   FreemiumVisit Hyperbrowser (official site)
4. 

   Moli

   Open-source browser engine from Lexmount that lets AI agents extract web content and automate pages with low memory use.

   Developer platformsAutomation and agentsCoding
   Open sourceVisit Moli (official site)
5. 

   Spider

   Web crawling and scraping API with cloud browsers and residential proxies, billed per request, for AI agents and data pipelines.

   Developer platformsAutomation and agentsResearch and search
   PaidVisit Spider (official site)
6. 

   Stagehand

   Open-source SDK from Browserbase for building browser agents with act, extract and observe calls in TypeScript, Python or Go.

   Developer platformsAutomation and agentsCoding
   Open sourceVisit Stagehand (official site)

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