Browserbase pricing

Browserbase publishes 3 plans: Free: 1 browser hour a month at no charge, no overage; Developer: $20 a month for 100 browser hours, then $0.12 an hour; Startup: $99 a month for 500 browser hours, then $0.10 an hour. Browser time is billed by the minute, with a one-minute minimum per session. For 100 browser hours a month (3,000 sessions of 2 minutes, Browserbase's own sizing of a scraping job) the cheapest Browserbase plan is Developer at $20, $0.20 an hour; 5 of the 9 other hosted browsers we price by the hour cost less.

Every Browserbase plan

Plan	A month	Browser hours	Each extra hour	Concurrent	Longest session
Free	$0	1	–	3	15 min
Developer	$20	100	$0.12	25	6 h
Startup	$99	500	$0.10	100	6 h

Monthly billing. "–" means the plan stops at its allowance.

What does a month cost?

Browser hours a month	Plan	A month	Per hour
1	Free	$0	$0.00
10	Developer	$20	$2.00
50	Developer	$20	$0.40
100	Developer	$20	$0.20
250	Developer	$38	$0.152
500	Developer	$68	$0.136
1,000	Developer	$128	$0.128
2,500	Startup	$299	$0.12
5,000	Startup	$549	$0.11

Sessions of 2 minutes, cheapest published plan, monthly billing, before proxy traffic.

How does Browserbase bill?

Browser time: "Browser time is billed by the minute and proxy bandwidth by the MB, rounded, with a one-minute and one-MB minimum per session."
Proxies: Developer: 1 GB included, then $12 per GB; Startup: 5 GB included, then $10 per GB. No proxies on Free.
CAPTCHAs: solved automatically on Developer and Startup, not on Free.

Quick answers

How much does Browserbase cost?

Developer $20 a month, Startup $99 a month, plus a free plan. Developer: $20 a month for 100 browser hours, then $0.12 an hour; Startup: $99 a month for 500 browser hours, then $0.10 an hour.

How much does Browserbase cost per hour?

Past a plan's allowance, $0.12 on Developer and $0.10 on Startup. With the allowance used in full: $0.20 on Developer and $0.198 on Startup. For 100 hours a month the bill is $20, $0.20 an hour.

Does Browserbase have a free plan?

Yes: 1 browser hour a month at no charge, no overage, with up to 3 concurrent browsers and sessions of up to 15 min.

How much do proxies cost on Browserbase?

Developer: 1 GB included, then $12 per GB; Startup: 5 GB included, then $10 per GB. No proxies on Free.

How many browsers can run at once on Browserbase?

3 on Free, 25 on Developer and 100 on Startup.

Is Browserbase cheaper than Browserless?

For 100 hours a month of 2-minute sessions, Browserbase costs $20 and Browserless $35. The head-to-head prices both at eight volumes and for short sessions.

Browserbase against every hosted browser

3,000 sessions of 2 minutes a month, 100 browser hours, cheapest published plan on each; Browserbase ranks 6 of 10:

Kernel (headless)$1.00/mo$0.01 per browser hour. Developer: free with $5 of usage a month, then $0.06 an hour. Billed per second, with no charge for idle time.
Browser Use$2/mo$0.02 per browser hour. Pay as you go: $0.02 an hour, no monthly fee. Billed by the minute, rounded up, with a one-minute minimum.
Steel$10/mo$0.10 per browser hour. Launch: $0.10 an hour, no monthly fee. Billed by the minute, rounded up.
Cloudflare Browser Run$13.10/mo$0.131 per browser hour. Workers Paid: $5 a month for 10 browser hours, then $0.09 an hour. Billed in daily totals of seconds, with the month rounded to the nearest whole hour.
ZenRows Scraping Browser$19/mo$0.19 per browser hour. Build B1: $19 a month for 45,000 credits (150 browser hours), no overage. Billed at 5 credits a minute of session time.
Browserbase$20/mo$0.20 per browser hour. Developer: $20 a month for 100 browser hours, then $0.12 an hour. Billed by the minute, with a one-minute minimum per session.
Hyperbrowser$30/mo$0.30 per browser hour. Startup: $30 a month for 30,000 credits (300 browser hours), then $0.10 an hour. Billed per second.
Browserless$35/mo$0.35 per browser hour. Prototyping: $35 a month for 20,000 units (166.7 browser hours), then $0.24 an hour. Billed in units of up to 30 seconds per browser connection.
Kernel (headful)$43.00/mo$0.43 per browser hour. Developer: free with $5 of usage a month, then $0.48 an hour. Billed per second, with no charge for idle time.
Anchor Browser$50/mo$0.50 per browser hour. Starter: $50 a month of usage at $0.05 an hour plus $0.01 a browser. Billed to the nearest full minute, plus $0.01 for each browser created.
Bright Data Browser APIPer GBBilled by traffic, not browser time: $8 per GB pay as you go.

Head to head: Browserbase vs Browserless, with short sessions and yearly billing. Leaving? See Browserbase alternatives. Price your own sessions on every vendor in headless browser API pricing.

Source: Browserbase pricing, read on the date below.

Prices checked against each platform's own pricing page on 7 October 2026.