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 "id": "browse-ai",
 "name": "Browse.ai",
 "research_status": "researched",
 "vendor_domain": "browse.ai",
 "category": "IT & Productivity",
 "task": "AI development, agents & data",
 "summary": "No-code web scraping and data extraction. Turn any website into an automated data pipeline or spreadsheet automatically.",
 "best_for": "ops, research and growth teams that want to monitor competitors, prices or listings and pipe structured web data into sheets without writing scrapers",
 "skip_if": "you need one-off extractions (free tools or a VA are cheaper), or mission-critical pipelines where you'd rather own the code than rent the robot",
 "honest_knock": "Two honest realities of no-code scraping. Credits burn faster than expected: row counts, screenshots and 'premium' sites all multiply the meter, so monitor a big site daily and do the math first. And scrapers break when sites redesign — robots need maintenance, which is your time even when the tool is no-code. Also check the terms of the sites you monitor; 'technically possible' and 'permitted' aren't the same thing.",
 "pricing": {
  "status": "public",
  "entry_price": "$19",
  "entry_price_terms": "a month billed annually (12,000 credits/yr), or $48/mo billed monthly",
  "from_price_usd_month": 19.0,
  "plans": [
   {
    "name": "Free",
    "price": "$0",
    "includes": "50 credits a month, 2 websites, 3 users"
   },
   {
    "name": "Personal",
    "price": "$19 a month billed annually",
    "includes": "12,000 credits a year, 5 websites, 3 users"
   },
   {
    "name": "Professional",
    "price": "$69 a month billed annually",
    "includes": "60,000 credits a year, 10 websites, 10 users"
   },
   {
    "name": "Premium",
    "price": "Starting at $500 per month, billed annually",
    "includes": "600,000+ credits a year, managed onboarding"
   }
  ],
  "plans_source": "summarised from pricing.notes; every plan name and amount appears verbatim in those notes",
  "notes": "(price re-verified 2026-09-21 in a live browser on www.browse.ai/pricing, with browse.ai/llms.txt read alongside it) Credit-metered, prices in USD. Free is $0 with 50 credits a month, 2 websites and 3 users. Personal is $19 a month billed annually, for 12,000 credits a year, 5 websites and 3 users. Professional is $69 a month billed annually, for 60,000 credits a year, 10 websites and 10 users. The annual column advertises “20% discount & all credits upfront”. Premium is the one that changed: it no longer reads simply “custom” but “Starting at $500 per month, billed annually” for 600,000+ credits a year with managed onboarding, and llms.txt puts the same floor in plain words — “Minimum investment: $500 per month with annual contracts”. So the managed tier now has a published entry price, which is the number to budget against rather than a quote. A credit is roughly 10 extracted rows, and premium sites cost more credits; the comparison table now prices them directly at $0.024 per credit on Personal and $0.017 down to $0.013 on Professional, both on annual plans. The monthly column is a different ladder rather than the same one divided by twelve: Personal is $48 a month for 2,000 credits a month, Professional is $87 a month for 5,000 credits a month, and the credit buckets there run 5,000, 10,000, 20,000 and 30,000. Extra websites are $4 a month on Personal and $2.40 on Professional when you pay annually, and $5 and $3 when you pay monthly. Credits reset at the end of the billing cycle and do not carry over unless you upgrade first; data retention is 90 days on all three self-serve plans, and the shortest monitor interval is hourly on Free against 5 minutes on the paid plans. Bigger credit buckets are sold inside a plan rather than by upgrading — Personal 24,000 credits a year at $38/mo, Professional 120,000 at $129, 240,000 at $239 and 360,000 at $319 — but those figures carry their own date: they sit behind a selector this re-verification could not operate, so they stand as read on 14 September 2026 and not as re-checked. One vendor-side inconsistency is still there: browse.ai/llms.txt, the file AI assistants are pointed at, lists Starter $49, Professional $149 and Team $399 plans that appear nowhere on the pricing page (read 21 September 2026).",
  "verified_at": "2026-09-21",
  "source_url": null,
  "schema_offer": null,
  "source_quotes": null
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 "free_plan": true,
 "free_plan_evidence": "Free is $0 with 50 credits a month, 2 websites and 3 users.",
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  {
   "id": "usage_metered",
   "label": "Usage-metered",
   "evidence": "(price re-verified 2026-09-21 in a live browser on www.browse.ai/pricing, with browse.ai/llms.txt read alongside it) Credit-metered, prices in USD.",
   "verified_at": "2026-09-21",
   "source_url": null
  },
  {
   "id": "annual_lock",
   "label": "Annual commitment",
   "evidence": "Premium is the one that changed: it no longer reads simply “custom” but “Starting at $500 per month, billed annually” for 600,000+ credits a year with managed onboarding, and llms.txt puts the same floor in plain words — “Minimum investment: $500 per month with annual contracts”.",
   "verified_at": "2026-09-21",
   "source_url": null
  }
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 "compare_with": {
  "name": "Octoparse or Apify",
  "why": "close scraping platforms — Apify is more developer-oriented; compare credit math on YOUR row volumes and site list"
 },
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  "review": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/b2b/browse-ai-review/",
  "marketplace": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/marketplace/browse-ai/",
  "vendor_site": "https://browse.ai"
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 "purchase": {
  "seller": "the vendor",
  "how": "AIBuilder Marketplace does not sell this software. Sign up, start a trial or buy on the vendor's site.",
  "handoff_url": "https://partners.browse.ai/2p19q7ssljpk",
  "affiliate": true,
  "disclosure": "Where purchase.affiliate is true, purchase.handoff_url is an affiliate link: AIBuilder Marketplace may earn a commission at no extra cost to the buyer. Commission never changes what a record says, and products are not ranked by commission. Where it is false the link is the vendor's plain site."
 },
 "provenance": {
  "research": "hand-researched dossier, read on the vendor's own pages",
  "researched_since": "2026-07",
  "method": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/how-we-review/",
  "license": "CC BY 4.0. Credit 'AIBuilder Marketplace' with a link to https://aibuildermarketplace.com/atlas/.",
  "note": "A rebuild is not a new measurement: pricing.verified_at is the date that matters."
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 "cost": {
  "status": "not_yet",
  "engine": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/agents/#cost",
  "rules": null,
  "growth": null
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 "unknowns": [
  "Contract terms (cancellation, data export, data location, minimum seats) are not researched as separate fields; pricing.notes mentions them only where the vendor's pricing page does.",
  "Being verified: free trial and refund terms are not yet matched to a verbatim line on the vendor's own pages. Not matched does not mean there is none.",
  "No computable price rules yet: cost at a given team size cannot be calculated for this product.",
  "Not tested hands-on by us: what the product does comes from the vendor's pages and our reading of them."
 ],
 "verification": {
  "price": "read",
  "free_trial": "being_verified",
  "refund": "being_verified"
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 "status_page": null,
 "task_evidence": null,
 "open_questions": [
  {
   "question_id": "browse-ai:cancellation_terms",
   "key": "cancellation_terms",
   "question": "Can a customer cancel at any time, and what happens to an annual plan that is cancelled mid-term?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "browse-ai:data_export",
   "key": "data_export",
   "question": "Which data can a customer export, in which formats, on which plans?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "browse-ai:data_location",
   "key": "data_location",
   "question": "Where is customer data stored, and can a customer choose the region?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "browse-ai:minimum_seats",
   "key": "minimum_seats",
   "question": "Is there a minimum number of seats or users on any plan?",
   "status": "open"
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  "agent_checkout": {
   "status": "not_found",
   "detail": "No explicit support for purchases by AI agents on the vendor's own pages.",
   "checked_at": "2026-10-07",
   "method": "homepage, /pricing and the pricing page we cite, read as plain HTML (no JavaScript) and searched for explicit support of purchases by AI agents: Agentic Commerce Protocol, Instant Checkout, Agent Payments Protocol, buy in ChatGPT, agentic checkout"
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