Browserbase
Last verified 2026-08-09
Browserbase is a leading platform for giving agents control of real cloud browsers via Playwright, Puppeteer, Selenium or its own Stagehand SDK. It bundles Agent Identity (stealth and captcha solving), session recording, a Model Gateway and a runtime, billed primarily by browser-hour. It is SOC2 compliant with US and EU regions.
Key specs
| Isolation | Cloud browser (isolated) |
| Pricing model | Per browser-hour + plan |
| GPU | No |
| Session limit | Session-scoped |
| Persistence | Session replay + recording |
| MCP support | Yes |
| Deployment | Managed cloud |
| Free tier | Free (3 concurrent, 1 browser-hour, $5 model tokens) |
| Browser-hour | $0.10 to $0.12 |
| Plans | Free, $20, $99, custom |
| Retention | 7 to 30 days |
Strengths
- Category leader with the Stagehand SDK
- Stealth, captcha solving and Agent Identity
- Works with Playwright, Puppeteer and Selenium
- Session replay and observability
Trade-offs
- Browser-hour pricing can add up at scale
- Cloud-only (no on-prem)
Best for: Teams building browser agents that need reliable cloud browsers with stealth and captcha handling.
How Browserbase works
Browserbase is a browser sandbox, not a code runtime: it runs fleets of real cloud browsers that your agent drives with Playwright, Puppeteer, Selenium or Browserbase's own Stagehand SDK. On top of the raw browser it layers the parts that make web automation reliable at scale, Agent Identity for stealth, captcha solving, session recording and replay, a Model Gateway and a runtime. It works with agent frameworks like LangChain and CrewAI and is SOC2 compliant with US and EU regions.
Pricing in practice & watch-outs
Billing is primarily per browser-hour, roughly $0.10 to $0.12 depending on plan, with a free tier (3 concurrent browsers, 1 browser-hour) and paid Developer and Startup plans that raise concurrency, browser hours and data retention. A browser hour covers a lot (a typical scrape runs in under two minutes), but at high concurrency the hours add up, so model your expected session volume. It is cloud-only, so there is no on-prem option, and stealth and captcha features sit on the paid tiers.
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