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Axiom vs Browse AI

Two fact sheets from our own research, side by side — pricing, platforms, API access and status re-checked by us rather than quoted from the vendors. Axiom starts at $15, Browse AI at $19. Only Browse AI has a free tier. Both ship a public API.

AxiomNo-code Chrome bot builder for clicking, scraping and filling web forms on a scheduleBrowse AINo-code robots that scrape and monitor any website

Side by side

FactAxiomBrowse AI
CategoryBrowser Automation AgentsWeb Scraping & Data Extraction
Pricing modelPaidFreemium
Starts at$15 month$19 month
Public APIYesYes
PlatformsWeb, Chrome Ext, APIWeb, API, Chrome Ext
CompanyAxiom Ai LimitedBrowse AI Inc.
Launched—2020
Last verifiedSep 6, 2026Sep 6, 2026

What our research says

Axiom

The split between unmetered desktop runs and metered cloud hours is Axiom's most useful design decision: long jobs can stay on your own machine while only scheduled work consumes quota. The catch is that the cheapest tier gives five cloud hours and no API, so anything you want automated end to end starts at $50.

Pros

  • Desktop runs have no runtime or concurrency limit on any plan
  • Stored logins and TOTP support so bots can pass two-factor prompts
  • Playwright and Puppeteer can connect to their hosted browsers
  • Registered UK company with a company number published in the terms

Cons

  • No free plan, only a two-hour trial
  • Webhooks and API access require the $50 Pro tier or higher
  • Starter is limited to one cloud bot with a one-hour cap per run

Browse AI

The quickest way to get a non-engineer extracting data from a site, but what you are actually buying is a credit meter — monitoring jobs that run often get expensive long before the feature list runs out.

Pros

  • Recorder-based setup needs no CSS selectors or scripting
  • REST API plus webhooks make it usable inside a pipeline, not just as a CSV export
  • Around 250 prebuilt robots cover common sites like Amazon, eBay and LinkedIn

Cons

  • Month-to-month billing is roughly 2.5x the annual rate ($48 versus $19)
  • Credits do not carry over between billing cycles
  • Premium starts at $500/month, so there is a wide gap above the $69 Professional tier
  • Robots still break when a target site restructures its markup

Which one fits

Choose Axiom if you need

  • Ops and marketing staff automating repetitive site work without code
  • Scheduled scraping and form-filling jobs that must run unattended
  • Teams that want a visual builder but occasional code-level control

Choose Browse AI if you need

  • Marketers tracking competitor prices or listings without a developer
  • Recruiters and analysts pushing structured rows into Sheets or Airtable
  • Alerting when a specific page changes on a schedule

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