Browserless pricing

Browserless publishes 4 plans: Free: 1,000 units (8.3 browser hours) a month at no charge, no overage; Prototyping: $35 a month for 20,000 units (166.7 browser hours), then $0.24 an hour; Starter: $200 a month for 180,000 units (1,500 browser hours), then $0.204 an hour; Scale: $500 a month for 500,000 units (4,166.7 browser hours), then $0.18 an hour. Browser time is billed in units of up to 30 seconds per browser connection. For 100 browser hours a month (3,000 sessions of 2 minutes, Browserbase's own sizing of a scraping job) the cheapest Browserless plan is Prototyping at $35, $0.35 an hour; 7 of the 9 other hosted browsers we price by the hour cost less.

Every Browserless plan

Plan	A month	Browser hours	Each extra hour	Concurrent	Longest session
Free	$0	8.3 1,000 units	–	2	2 min
Prototyping	$35 $25 yearly	166.7 20,000 units	$0.24 $0.0020 a unit	5	15 min
Starter	$200 $140 yearly	1,500 180,000 units	$0.204 $0.0017 a unit	30	30 min
Scale	$500 $350 yearly	4,166.7 500,000 units	$0.18 $0.0015 a unit	80	1 h

Monthly billing; the yearly price is per month, billed yearly. "–" means the plan stops at its allowance. A browser hour is 120 units.

What does a month cost?

Browser hours a month	Plan	A month	Per hour
1	Free	$0	$0.00
10	Prototyping	$35	$3.50
50	Prototyping	$35	$0.70
100	Prototyping	$35	$0.35
250	Prototyping	$55	$0.22
500	Prototyping	$115	$0.23
1,000	Starter	$200	$0.20
2,500	Starter	$404	$0.162
5,000	Scale	$650	$0.13

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

How does Browserless bill?

Browser time: "A “Unit” is a block of browser time of up to 30 seconds per browser connection. Longer-running automations use an extra Unit for every 30 seconds."
Proxies: 6 units per MB of residential proxy traffic, from the plan's units: $9 to $12 per GB at overage rates. Datacenter proxy traffic: "2 Units per MB for Datacenter Proxy".
CAPTCHAs: 10 units per successful solve, $0.02 on Prototyping, $0.017 on Starter and $0.015 on Scale at overage rates.

Quick answers

How much does Browserless cost?

Prototyping $35 a month, Starter $200 a month, Scale $500 a month (Prototyping $25, Starter $140 and Scale $350 a month billed yearly), plus a free plan. Prototyping: $35 a month for 20,000 units (166.7 browser hours), then $0.24 an hour; Starter: $200 a month for 180,000 units (1,500 browser hours), then $0.204 an hour; Scale: $500 a month for 500,000 units (4,166.7 browser hours), then $0.18 an hour.

How much does Browserless cost per hour?

Past a plan's allowance, $0.24 on Prototyping, $0.204 on Starter and $0.18 on Scale. With the allowance used in full: $0.21 on Prototyping, $0.133 on Starter and $0.12 on Scale. For 100 hours a month the bill is $35, $0.35 an hour.

Does Browserless have a free plan?

Yes: 1,000 units (8.3 browser hours) a month at no charge, no overage (a unit is up to 30 seconds of one browser), with up to 2 concurrent browsers and sessions of up to 2 min. "Free plans will actively reject incoming requests after the threshold is met."

How much do proxies cost on Browserless?

6 units per MB of residential proxy traffic, from the plan's units: $9 to $12 per GB at overage rates.

How many browsers can run at once on Browserless?

2 on Free, 5 on Prototyping, 30 on Starter and 80 on Scale.

Is Browserless cheaper than Browserbase?

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

Browserless against every hosted browser

3,000 sessions of 2 minutes a month, 100 browser hours, cheapest published plan on each; Browserless ranks 8 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 Browserless alternatives. Price your own sessions on every vendor in headless browser API pricing.

Source: Browserless pricing, read on the date below. Monthly prices were read with the page's Pay Monthly toggle selected.

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