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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. Browse AI publishes a starting price ($19); BrowserAct does not. Both have a free tier. Both ship a public API.

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 month—
Public APIYesYes
PlatformsWeb, API, Chrome ExtWeb, API
CompanyBrowse AI Inc.BrowserAct
Launched2020—
Last verifiedSep 6, 2026Sep 6, 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 and automation-platform delivery built in. The catch is pricing you cannot compare before signing up, plus a meter that charges per step, per gigabyte and per browser at once.

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
  • Self-healing runs and a visual workflow builder as a fallback

Cons

  • Subscription prices are hidden behind registration
  • Multi-axis credit meter makes cost estimation awkward
  • Credit packs expire at the next monthly reset rather than rolling over

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

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