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BrowserActBrowserAct Review (2026)Pay Monthly, Pay Up to Double

Developer ToolsResearched assessment · by Daniel HaketUpdated 2026-09-02

The yearly toggle wears a -20% badge, but the arithmetic on the page is steeper than that: Basic is $13 yearly against $20 monthly (35% less), Essential $56 against $100 (44% less) and Advanced $96 against $200 (52% less).

Best for: teams that need a reusable web scraper or browser bot without writing selectors, want the browsers, residential proxies and CAPTCHA handling managed for them, and can commit to yearly billing -- at $13 a month Basic is a cheap way to run a few scheduled bots.

Visit BrowserAct → Affiliate link — the rest of this page is the honest version, including who should skip it.

Pricing (2026)

✓ Pricing re-verified 2 Sep 2026

A credit-metered subscription with a free tier. Free Trial is $0 with 1,500 credits on signup and 5 free local browser profiles. Basic is $13 a month on yearly billing ($156 a year) or $20 month-to-month, for 10,000 credits a month, 10 simultaneous tasks, up to 5 static proxies and 10 local browsers. Essential is $56 a month yearly ($672) or $100 monthly, for 50,000 credits, 20 tasks, 25 static proxies and 50 local browsers.

Advanced is $96 a month yearly ($1,152) or $200 monthly, for 100,000 credits, 40 tasks, 50 static proxies and 100 local browsers. Every paid tier carries a 7-day free trial (1,000, 1,500 and 2,000 credits respectively) and access to extra credit packs. The meters are published on the same page: a workflow step costs 5 credits, a local fingerprint browser 100 credits, residential proxy traffic 5,000 credits per GB; static proxies are priced by location and tier without a figure, and the cloud browser is free for a limited time. Plans change — always verify the live price on their site.

What the pricing page doesn’t say

BrowserAct pricing page
BrowserAct’s own pricing page Sep 2026. Prices change — always check the live page.
The catch

Read the other way, paying month to month costs up to twice the yearly rate. And the 'as low as' figures under the meters do not come from these tiers either: at Advanced a credit works out to about $0.00096, so a 5-credit workflow step is roughly $0.0048, not the advertised $0.0032 -- that lower number must belong to a credit pack whose price the page does not show.

What BrowserAct does

No-code web scraper and browser-automation bots from one prompt, with managed browsers, residential proxies and CAPTCHA solving in one credit pool. Free tier with 1,500 credits; Basic $13/month on yearly billing ($20 monthly) for 10,000 credits, up to Advanced $96/$200 for 100,000. Monthly billing costs up to twice the yearly rate.

BrowserAct product
BrowserAct, from their own site — for context, not a paid placement.

When the paid plan is worth it

Essential is where the plan stops being a toy: 50,000 credits is 10,000 workflow steps a month against Basic's 2,000, and 25 static proxies instead of 5. At $56 yearly that is about $0.0011 a credit versus $0.0013 on Basic, so the middle tier is also the cheaper credit. Advanced at $96 buys 100,000 credits and 40 simultaneous tasks; the per-credit price falls again to $0.00096. Nothing on the page says what happens when a task runs out of credits mid-way except that packs exist, so size the plan to the proxy traffic, not to the step count.

BrowserAct vs Browse.ai, side by side

Both columns come from the same place: each vendor’s own published pricing, read on the date shown in the sources at the foot of this page. We do not average them into a score.

BrowserActBrowserAct →
What it costs
Basic is $13 a month on yearly billing ($156 a year) or $20 month-to-month, for 10,000 credits a month, 10 simultaneous tasks, up to 5 static proxies and 10 local browsers.
The catch
The yearly toggle wears a -20% badge, but the arithmetic on the page is steeper than that: Basic is $13 yearly against $20 monthly (35% less), Essential $56 against $100 (44% less) and Advanced $96 against $200 (52% less).
Best for
teams that need a reusable web scraper or browser bot without writing selectors, want the browsers, residential proxies and CAPTCHA handling managed for them, and can commit to yearly billing -- at $13 a month Basic is a cheap way to run a few scheduled bots
Browse.aiBrowse.ai →
What it costs
Credit-metered (2026): Free ~50 credits/mo (2 sites); Personal about $19/mo annual (12,000 credits/yr, 5 sites); Professional ~$69/mo annual (60,000 credits, 10 sites); Premium custom (600k+ credits, managed).
The catch
Two honest realities of no-code scraping.
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

Both names above are affiliate links: we may earn a commission if you sign up, at no extra cost to you. Neither changes what this table says: both columns come straight from the vendors’ own pricing pages.

The natural comparison is Browse.ai — Both turn a website into a scheduled, reusable data robot without code. Browse.ai is the older name and prices per robot run on a credit ladder that starts at $19 a month on annual billing, $48 monthly; BrowserAct starts lower at $13 yearly and bundles managed browsers, residential proxies and CAPTCHA solving into the same credit pool. If your bottleneck is blocked pages, BrowserAct's infrastructure is the difference; if it is simply extracting a table on a schedule, either does the job and Browse.ai has the longer track record..

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