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Browse AI vs HARPA 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.

The short answer

Free plan
Both have one
Public API
Browse AI has one; not confirmed by us for HARPA AI
Higher Trust score
Browse AI — 92 vs 85 for HARPA AI
Best fit
Browse AI: Marketers tracking competitor prices or listings without a developer · HARPA AI: Sales and research work that repeats the same extract-then-summarise loop across many pages
Status
Both up at our last check (Oct 15, 2026)

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 websiteHARPA AIBrowser extension pairing chat models with web page automation

Side by side

FactBrowse AIHARPA AI
CategoryWeb Scraping & Data ExtractionBrowser Extensions & Copilots
Pricing modelFreemiumFreemium
Starts at$19/mo—
Public APIYesNot confirmed
Trust score92 / 10085 / 100
PlatformsWeb, API, Chrome extensionWeb, Chrome extension
CompanyBrowse AI Inc.HARPA AI TECHNOLOGIES LLC
Launched2020—
Last verifiedOct 15, 2026Oct 15, 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

HARPA AI

The strongest option if you want one extension that both discusses a page and acts on it, and it earns its price only if you actually build repeatable web workflows. For plain summaries and a chat sidebar, cheaper single-purpose extensions do the same job.

Pros

  • Commands run against the live DOM, so they work on pages behind a login
  • Bring-your-own-key and web-session modes keep running costs down
  • Registered EU entity with GDPR and ISO 27001 claims, unusual for an extension
  • Lifetime licence exists for people who refuse subscriptions

Cons

  • The command builder has a genuine learning curve
  • Token metering makes monthly spend hard to forecast
  • No developer API of its own, despite the automation positioning
  • Automations break when target sites change their markup

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 HARPA AI if you need

  • Sales and research work that repeats the same extract-then-summarise loop across many pages
  • People who prefer bringing their own model API keys over another per-seat AI subscription
  • Watching pages for price or stock changes and firing alerts

Browse AI vs HARPA AI: the questions people ask

Is Browse AI cheaper than HARPA AI?

Browse AI starts at $19/mo. HARPA AI has a free tier; what its paid plans cost is not confirmed by us yet.

Does Browse AI or HARPA AI have a free tier?

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

Which has a public API, Browse AI or HARPA AI?

Browse AI ships a public API, as of our last verification. A public API for HARPA AI is not confirmed by us — check its developer docs before you plan an integration.

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