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Browse AI vs BrowserAct

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.

The short answer

Cheaper paid plan
BrowserAct — $16/mo vs $19/mo for Browse AI
Free plan
Both have one
Public API
Both have one
Higher Trust score
Browse AI — 92 vs 80 for BrowserAct
Best fit
Browse AI: Marketers tracking competitor prices or listings without a developer · BrowserAct: Recurring competitor, price or listing extraction without maintaining browsers

From our own records as of each tool's last check. Anything we have not confirmed is left out rather than guessed. How we verify

Browse AINo-code robots that scrape and monitor any websiteBrowserActDescribe a scrape in plain language and get a reusable cloud bot with proxies included

Side by side

FactBrowse AIBrowserAct
CategoryWeb Scraping & Data ExtractionWeb Scraping & Data Extraction
Pricing modelFreemiumFreemium
Starts at$19/mo$16/mo
Public APIYesYes
Trust score92 / 10080 / 100
PlatformsWeb, API, Chrome extensionWeb, API
CompanyBrowse AI Inc.Hongkong Ziniao Technology Co., Limited
Launched2020—
Last verifiedOct 15, 2026Oct 16, 2026

What our research says

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

BrowserAct

Bundles the annoying parts of scraping — proxies, fingerprints, CAPTCHAs, retries — behind a prompt and a credit meter, with API, MCP and automation-platform delivery built in. Plans now start at $16 a month for 10,000 credits, but the meter charges per step, per gigabyte and per browser at once, so the real monthly cost depends on how heavy each run is.

Pros

  • Bot is built by exploring and testing the live site, then reused
  • Proxies, fingerprinting and CAPTCHA handling are included, not bolted on
  • Documented API, MCP support and Make, n8n and Zapier delivery
  • Public plan prices with a free tier and a 7-day trial on every paid plan

Cons

  • Multi-axis credit meter makes cost estimation awkward
  • Credit packs expire at the next monthly reset rather than rolling over
  • Operating entity changed from a Singapore company to a Hong Kong one, per the terms

Which one fits

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

Choose BrowserAct if you need

  • Recurring competitor, price or listing extraction without maintaining browsers
  • Non-developers who want a scraper from a written brief
  • Piping structured rows into n8n, Make or Zapier flows

Browse AI vs BrowserAct: the questions people ask

Is Browse AI cheaper than BrowserAct?

On published entry prices, BrowserAct starts lower — $16/mo against $19/mo for Browse AI. Entry price is the lowest paid plan as we last verified it; what each plan includes differs.

Does Browse AI or BrowserAct have a free tier?

Both: Browse AI has a free tier, and BrowserAct has a free tier.

Which has a public API, Browse AI or BrowserAct?

Both ship a public API, so either can be built on; the fact table above shows the platforms each one runs on.

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