Browserbase
the best real browser to hand an agent, billed by the hour
the strongest agent-browser product here, with captcha solving and stealth included from the entry tier — and a time-based bill that makes a fixed page count impossible to forecast.
when the job needs a real chromium — authenticating, clicking through a flow, handling a single-page app that never settles — a proxy api is the wrong tool and Browserbase is the best-built right one. Stagehand, its automation layer, is the most mature way to let a model drive a browser, and there is an official mcp server delivered over a hosted streamable http endpoint so an agent can use it without a client library.
the entry plan is $20 a month for 100 browser-hours and 25 concurrent browsers, with captcha solving and stealth mode included rather than metered — Steel and Hyperbrowser both charge per captcha solve. that bundling makes the effective cost easier to reason about than the raw hourly rate suggests.
the description above is ours, condensed from the ranking. pricing moves — check it on the vendor's own page before you rely on it.
- category
- web scraping apis
- pricing
- $20 / month on Developer
- website
- browserbase.com
the strongest agent-browser product here, with captcha solving and stealth included from the entry tier — and a time-based bill that makes a fixed page count impossible to forecast.
we researched this category against vendors' own pricing pages and licence files. that is where this line comes from — not from the vendor, and not from anything they paid for.