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Browserless pricing: Browserless.io pricing, API pricing and cost per unit

The short answer

Browserless sells monthly unit allowances. Prototyping is $35 a month for 20,000 units, Starter $200 for 180,000 and Scale $500 for 500,000, or $25, $140 and $350 a month billed yearly, which saves 30%. A unit is up to 30 seconds of browser time on one connection, so a page that loads in 4 seconds on its own connection still costs a full unit: $1.75 per 1,000 pages on Prototyping, $1.11 on Starter and $1.00 on Scale at monthly rates. Residential proxy traffic costs 6 units per MB and each solved captcha 10 units. The free plan gives 1,000 units a month. We read every figure from the Browserless pricing page on 26 September 2026.

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Browserless prices browser time, not pages, and the pricing page stops one step short of the number you actually need. So do the division. Prototyping is $35 a month for 20,000 units, which is $0.00175 a unit. Starter is $200 for 180,000, about $0.00111. Scale is $500 for 500,000, exactly $0.001. Billed yearly the same plans cost $25, $140 and $350 a month, a 30% saving that also raises the concurrent browser limit.

A unit is up to 30 seconds of browser time on one connection, and every further 30 seconds is another unit. That rounding is where the cost per page comes from. Open a new connection for every page and each one pays for 30 seconds even if it rendered in four: $1.75 per 1,000 pages on Prototyping, $1.11 on Starter and $1.00 on Scale. Keep one connection open and navigate many pages inside it, and the same fast pages cost a fraction of a unit each. Reconnecting to a live session counts as a new connection and starts a fresh unit, so the saving only comes from genuinely long-lived sessions.

The line items that surprise people are the add-ons. Residential proxy traffic is billed at 6 units per MB and datacenter proxy traffic at 2 units per MB. A 2 MB product page loaded through a residential proxy therefore costs 12 units of bandwidth on top of its unit of browser time, which turns $1.11 per 1,000 pages on Starter into about $14.44. Each successful captcha solve is another 10 units. None of that is hidden, but none of it is on the plan card either.

We sell a crawl and extraction API, so read our column in the table with that in mind. If your code needs a real browser it can drive, with clicks, logins, captcha solving and proxies, Browserless is the right purchase and we are not a substitute. We are the cheaper and simpler one when the job is reading public pages and getting back clean markdown or typed JSON, without writing and hosting the Puppeteer code in between.

If you are weighing cloud browsers against each other, our Firecrawl vs Browserbase cost per page comparison works through the same per-minute versus per-page arithmetic, and the Browserbase alternatives page covers the wider cloud browser field. If all you run Puppeteer for is rendering JavaScript before you read the page, the JavaScript rendering API does that in one call, and the cheapest web scraping API table ranks every vendor by monthly budget.

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Why it works

Three things the Browserless pricing page does not add up for you

Every connection rounds up to 30 seconds

A unit covers up to 30 seconds on one browser connection, and a reconnect is charged as a new connection. A scraper that opens a fresh browser per URL pays for 30 seconds on every page, however fast the page is. Reusing one connection across many navigations is the single biggest lever on a Browserless bill, and it is a change in your code, not in your plan. Measure units per page on a real batch before choosing a tier.

Residential proxy traffic is the real meter

At 6 units per MB, residential proxy bandwidth costs about $6.67 per GB on Starter at the monthly rate and $10.50 on Prototyping, before overage. A heavy page can burn ten times more units on proxy traffic than on browser time. Block images, fonts and media you do not need, and only route the domains that actually refuse datacenter traffic through residential proxies.

Overage is billed during the month, not at the end

Paid plans keep running past their allowance at $0.0020, $0.0017 or $0.0015 a unit. Browserless bills that overage whenever it reaches the price of your subscription, so a runaway job can produce a mid-month charge equal to your whole plan. Changing plans also resets the billing cycle and charges the full price of the new plan. The free plan simply rejects requests once its 1,000 units are gone.

What it handles

Any URL in, clean structured data out

Point ClawEngine at a public page and it crawls, renders the JavaScript and extracts clean markdown or typed JSON in one call. Define a schema for structured fields, and respect robots.txt and Terms of Service by default.

All four Browserless plans at monthly and yearly rates
Cost per unit, per browser hour and per 1,000 pages on each plan
How 30-second rounding and reconnects change cost per page
What residential proxies, datacenter proxies and captchas add
How and when Browserless bills overage
Where Browserless is the right purchase and a crawl API is not

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{
  "url": "https://example.com/products/atlas",
  "title": "Atlas Field Notebook",
  "markdown": "# Atlas Field Notebook\n\nDurable...",
  "data": {
    "name": "Atlas Field Notebook",
    "price": 24.00,
    "currency": "USD",
    "rating": 4.7
  },
  "links": [ "/products", "/cart" ],
  "metadata": { "rendered": true }
}

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Head to head

Browserless pricing by billing period, with a flat per-page crawl API in the third column

Every Browserless figure below was read from the Browserless pricing page and the plan data behind it on 26 September 2026, never from a review aggregator. We put ourselves third, and we lose every row about driving a browser.

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What you are comparing	Browserless, monthly billing	Browserless, yearly billing	ClawEngine
What you buy	A monthly allowance of 30-second browser units	The same allowance, paid a year at a time	A monthly page allowance: 50,000 on Hobby, 250,000 on Startup, 1,500,000 on Scale
Price	Prototyping $35, Starter $200, Scale $500 a month	Prototyping $25, Starter $140, Scale $350 a month	$49, $99 or $399 a month. No free plan
Units included	20,000, 180,000 and 500,000	The same	Not unit-based. One page of allowance per page
Cost per unit	$0.00175, about $0.00111, $0.00100	$0.00125, about $0.00078, $0.00070	Not applicable
Cost per 1,000 pages, one connection per page	$1.75, $1.11, $1.00	$1.25, $0.78, $0.70	$0.98 Hobby, $0.40 Startup, $0.27 Scale
Cost per 1,000 pages, 2 MB page on residential proxy	About $22.75, $14.44, $13.00 (13 units a page)	About $16.25, $10.11, $9.10	No proxies offered, so not comparable
Browser hour equivalent	About $0.21, $0.13, $0.12 (120 units an hour)	About $0.15, $0.09, $0.08	Not offered. We render pages, we do not rent browsers
Overage per unit	$0.0020, $0.0017, $0.0015	The same	Not applicable
Concurrent browsers	5, 30 and 80	10, 40 and 100	Concurrency scales with plan
Maximum session length	15, 30 and 60 minutes	The same	Not applicable. Each page is one request
Captcha solving	10 units per successful solve	The same	Not offered. We defeat no anti-bot system
Drive the browser yourself	Yes. Puppeteer, Playwright or BrowserQL over a hosted endpoint	The same	No
Output you get back	Whatever your script extracts, plus REST endpoints for screenshots, PDFs and page content	The same	Clean markdown or typed JSON against your own schema
Crawling a whole site	You write the link discovery, the queue and the deduplication	The same	Yes. Seed URL, scope and limit in one request
Free tier	1,000 units a month, 2 concurrent browsers, 2 minute sessions	The same	No free plan
Best for	Logged-in, multi-step or defended browser work you script yourself	The same work at a steady volume you can commit to for a year	Reading public pages into markdown or typed JSON without running a browser

Why ClawEngine

One API that crawls, renders and extracts

Not a raw HTML dump, not a headless browser fleet to run, and not a brittle parser to maintain. One call crawls a public page, renders its JavaScript and returns clean markdown or typed JSON, built for RAG pipelines and AI agents.

LLM-ready output

Clean markdown or typed JSON with the boilerplate stripped, so the data drops straight into a vector store, a prompt or an agent without a cleanup step.

JavaScript rendered

Each page loads in a real browser environment before extraction, so single-page apps and client-rendered content come back complete, not as an empty shell.

Compliance-first

ClawEngine works on public, permitted data only. It respects robots.txt and site Terms of Service and honors crawl-delay, so responsible scraping is the default.

Code examples

Reading a site without paying for browser seconds

On Browserless, reading a site means a Puppeteer or Playwright script that opens a connection, walks the links, waits for each page and parses the DOM, with every 30 seconds of that billed as a unit. Here the crawl, the rendering and the cleanup are one request, billed as one page of allowance per page returned.

curl Crawl a product catalog and return markdown (POST /v1/crawl)

curl https://clawengine.ai/v1/crawl \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $CLAWENGINE_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "url": "https://example.com/catalog",
    "limit": 100,
    "render": true,
    "format": "markdown"
  }'

# One page of plan allowance per page returned.
# No connection to hold open, no 30-second rounding, no proxy units.

Browserless pricing: the questions buyers ask

How much does Browserless cost?

Browserless has a free plan with 1,000 units a month, then Prototyping at $35 a month for 20,000 units, Starter at $200 for 180,000 and Scale at $500 for 500,000. Billed yearly those plans cost $25, $140 and $350 a month, a 30% saving. Enterprise pricing is custom. Overage runs $0.0020, $0.0017 and $0.0015 per unit on the three paid plans.

What is a unit in Browserless?

A unit is a block of up to 30 seconds of browser time on one browser connection. A session that runs longer uses one more unit for every further 30 seconds, and reconnecting to a session counts as a new connection with a fresh unit charge. Proxy bandwidth and captcha solving are also billed in units, at 6 per MB residential, 2 per MB datacenter and 10 per solved captcha.

How many units does a Browserless request use?

A short request, such as one screenshot or one page read on its own connection, uses 1 unit as long as it finishes within 30 seconds. A 75 second session uses 3 units. Add 6 units for every MB sent through a residential proxy and 10 for each solved captcha, so a heavy page on a residential proxy can use 10 or more units by itself.

Does Browserless have a free tier?

Yes. The free plan includes 1,000 units a month, 2 concurrent browsers and a 2 minute maximum session, with no card required. It does not bill overage: once the 1,000 units are used, Browserless rejects new requests until the month resets. For a business workload it is an evaluation budget of roughly 1,000 short page loads rather than a production tier.

What happens if I go over my Browserless plan?

On a paid plan the requests keep running and each extra unit is billed at the overage rate: $0.0020 on Prototyping, $0.0017 on Starter and $0.0015 on Scale. Overage is invoiced whenever it reaches the price of your subscription, when you change plans, or at the end of the month. Browserless emails you when overage starts accumulating, at most once an hour.

How much do Browserless proxies cost?

Residential proxy traffic costs 6 units per MB and datacenter proxy traffic 2 units per MB, drawn from the same allowance as browser time. At Starter monthly rates that is about $6.67 per GB residential and $2.22 per GB datacenter, and at Prototyping rates about $10.50 and $3.50. Past your allowance the overage rate applies, which makes residential about $12 per GB on Prototyping.

How much does Browserless charge for captcha solving?

Each successful captcha solve costs 10 units. That is about $0.0175 per solve on Prototyping at the monthly rate, $0.011 on Starter and $0.01 on Scale, or $17.50, $11.11 and $10 per 1,000 solves. Browserless bills only successful solves. On a target that challenges every page, captchas can cost ten times more than the browser time itself.

Is Browserless cheaper than Browserbase?

Per browser hour, usually yes. A Browserless unit is 30 seconds, so an hour is 120 units: about $0.21 on Prototyping, $0.13 on Starter and $0.12 on Scale at monthly rates. Browserbase Startup is $99 for 500 hours, about $0.20 an hour, billed by the minute with a one-minute minimum per session. Browserless rounds to 30 seconds per connection, which favors short jobs.

Can I self-host Browserless?

Yes. Browserless offers self-hosted options, including its open-source Docker image and a private Docker version sold as a license to run in your own cloud or on premises. Self-hosting removes the unit meter but not the cost: you run the Chromium fleet, its memory and its upgrades. Check the license terms before using the open-source image commercially.

Is Browserless worth it for web scraping?

It is worth it when scraping needs a real browser you control: logins, clicks, multi-step flows, captchas and proxies. It is expensive when the browser only renders a page so your code can read it, because you pay for browser time and still write the parsing. For read-only jobs, a crawl API that returns markdown or JSON per page is usually cheaper and less code.

Good questions

Questions about Browserless pricing

It depends on how you use the browser. With a fresh connection per page, Browserless costs $1.11 per 1,000 pages on Starter against $0.40 on our Startup plan and $0.27 on Scale. With several fast pages read inside one long connection, Browserless can come in cheaper per page, but you write and host the Puppeteer or Playwright code, the crawl loop and the parsing yourself.

Buy on concurrency and session length first, units second. Prototyping allows 5 concurrent browsers on monthly billing and 15 minute sessions, Starter 30 and 30 minutes, Scale 80 and 60 minutes, with more concurrency on yearly billing. If your jobs are long agent sessions, the session cap decides the plan before the unit count does.

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