WebRobot

Browserless Pricing for Every Plan With Unit Costs, Browser Hours and Real Monthly Bills

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Browserless pricing starts with a Free plan of 1,000 units, then Prototyping at $35 a month for 20,000 units, Starter at $200 for 180,000 and Scale at $500 for 500,000, with annual billing at $25, $140 and $350. A unit is 30 seconds of one browser, so Prototyping buys about 167 browser hours. Residential proxy traffic (6 units per MB) and captcha solves (10 units) come out of the same balance.

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figures taken from the Browserless pricing page and its machine-readable pricing file; prices in USD before tax

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The plans

Browserless plans, prices and units at a glance

Price and concurrency are the only things that change between monthly and annual billing. The last column converts units into browser hours at 120 units an hour.
Plan Monthly Annual, per month Units a month Concurrent (monthly) Concurrent (annual) Max session Overage per unit Browser hours
Free $0 $0 1,000 2 2 2 min - 8.3
Prototyping $35 $25 20,000 5 10 15 min $0.0020 167
Starter $200 $140 180,000 30 40 30 min $0.0017 1,500
Scale $500 $350 500,000 80 100 60 min $0.0015 4,167
Enterprise Custom Custom Custom Custom Custom Custom Custom Custom

Storage for session replays and the log search window grow with the plan too: 7 days of replays on Prototyping, 30 on Starter, 90 on Scale. Bring-your-own proxies start on Prototyping, and traffic sent through your own proxy uses no proxy units. Enterprise adds private deployment, a commercial license for self-hosting, SSO, user roles and a technical account manager. Every paid plan lists SOC 2 Type II and GDPR compliance, with a DPA available.

The meter

What uses Browserless units

Time is only one of four things on the meter. On protected sites the proxy line often costs more than the browser.

The practical consequence: the cost per page depends on how you write the script. Opening a fresh connection for every URL bills at least one unit per page even if the page loads in four seconds. Reusing one session for a batch of pages bills by elapsed time instead, which is cheaper for quick pages and more expensive if one slow page holds the session open.

Worked bills

Browserless cost for three real monthly jobs

Each bill assumes one connection per page under 30 seconds. Page weights are assumptions; check yours in the session replay before you pick a plan.

Job 1

10,000 product pages, no proxy

10,000 connections at 1 unit each is 10,000 units. That fits inside Prototyping's 20,000 with room to retry failures.

$35 a month

$25 on annual billing

Job 2

3,000 pages a day on residential proxies

90,000 pages a month at 1 unit of time plus 0.5 MB of residential traffic (3 units) is 360,000 units. Starter covers 180,000; the other 180,000 at $0.0017 add $306, so the bill is about $506. Scale's 500,000 units cost $500 and leave headroom.

$500 a month

$350 on annual billing

Job 3

A logged-in portal, 20 minutes a day

One session that signs in and walks 200 pages for 20 minutes is 40 units, plus 10 for a captcha, so 50 units a day or about 1,500 a month. The units are tiny, but the 2 minute Free session limit rules it out, so it lands on Prototyping.

$35 a month

15 minute session cap, so split it in two

Notice what none of these bills include: the Puppeteer or Playwright script, the parser that turns HTML into columns, the scheduler, the database and the code that pushes rows to a sheet. Raw output from those scripts usually also needs a pass to dedupe and normalize the CSV files before anyone trusts the numbers. That is developer time, and it is the larger part of the real cost.

Compare

Browserless pricing next to other ways to buy the same pages

Different meters, so compare what a month of the entry plan gets you for the job you actually have.
Product What you pay for Entry paid plan Parser, schedule and delivery Best for
Browserless Browser time, proxy MB and captcha solves, in units $35 for 20,000 units (about 167 browser hours) You build all three Developers with existing Puppeteer or Playwright code
ZenRows Successful requests, in credits (1 to 25 per page) $19 for 45,000 credits You build all three Developers who want HTML back from one API call
Apify Compute units plus actor and proxy fees Starter $19 a month Scheduling and storage included; extraction depends on the actor Teams happy to pick and tune marketplace actors
WebRobot Records delivered Launch $79 for 10,000 records, 5 robots, daily runs Included: describe the columns, rows go to Sheets, Excel, CSV or the API Business teams with no developer to own the script

Per page, Browserless is cheaper than WebRobot when a developer is already on payroll and the script exists. It stops being cheaper the first time a site redesign breaks the selectors on a Friday. For the credit maths behind the request-based APIs, see ZenRows pricing and Apify pricing; the web scraping API page lines up every meter we have checked.

Which plan

Which Browserless plan to buy, or whether to skip it

  • Prototyping fits one developer running scripts up to about 20,000 short connections a month, with 15 minute sessions.
  • Starter is the jump for parallel work: 30 browsers at once (40 on annual) and 30 minute sessions. Most teams land here once proxies are involved.
  • Scale pays off when your monthly units pass about 360,000, where Starter plus overage costs more than $500.
  • Skip it if nobody on the team writes browser automation code. A browser with no script does nothing.

The no-script route

WebRobot runs its own browsers, so there is no unit meter and no script. You paste a URL and write the columns you want, for example "product, price, stock, rating". The robot follows pagination and detail pages, runs daily on Launch ($79) or hourly on Scale ($249, with logins and change alerts), and writes the rows to a feed your Google Sheets web scraper tab reads with one formula.

If what you are really automating is clicks and form steps rather than extraction, the browser automation page covers that, and WebRobot pricing lists every limit.

FAQ

Browserless pricing questions buyers ask

Browserless has a Free plan and three paid plans. Prototyping is $35 a month ($25 billed annually) for 20,000 units, Starter is $200 a month ($140 annually) for 180,000 units, and Scale is $500 a month ($350 annually) for 500,000 units. Enterprise, with private deployment or a self-hosting license, is quoted by sales.

A unit is up to 30 seconds of one browser connection. A session that runs longer uses another unit for every further 30 seconds, and a reconnect counts as a new connection with a fresh unit. Proxy traffic and captcha solves draw units too: 6 per MB of residential proxy, 2 per MB of datacenter proxy and 10 per successful captcha.

Yes. The Free plan gives 1,000 units a month with no card, 2 concurrent browsers and a 2 minute session limit. When the 1,000 units are used, Browserless rejects further requests until the month resets, so it works for testing a script but not for a production job.

Paid plans keep running and bill overage per unit: $0.0020 on Prototyping, $0.0017 on Starter and $0.0015 on Scale. Overage is invoiced when it reaches the price of your subscription, when you change plans, or at month end, and Browserless emails you when overage starts, at most once an hour.

Yes. Annual billing cuts Prototyping from $35 to $25 a month, Starter from $200 to $140 and Scale from $500 to $350, which Browserless describes as up to 30% off. Annual plans also add concurrency: 10 browsers instead of 5 on Prototyping, 40 instead of 30 on Starter and 100 instead of 80 on Scale.

The open-source Docker image is free under the SSPL-1.0 license, but using it inside a closed-source commercial product or closed-source CI requires a commercial license, which comes with Enterprise. You also pay for and run the servers yourself, so the saving is the subscription, not the work.

Browserless is a good hosted browser for developers who already write Puppeteer or Playwright scripts and want to stop running Chrome fleets. It does not decide what to extract, schedule jobs, store rows or deliver them to a sheet. A team that wants named columns on a schedule without writing the script needs a scraper, not a browser.

Skip the script and get the rows

Describe the columns, check a live run, and get data in Sheets, Excel or the API every day. Plans from $79 a month.