Browserbase

Browserbase is a cloud infrastructure provider built for browser automation at scale. It positions itself as the backend layer for developers and companies building web scraping tools, AI agents, and automated testing pipelines that need to run headless or headful browsers in production.

Pricing

Browserbase offers four pricing tiers, from a $0/month Free plan up to a custom-priced Scale plan, with named plans in between at $20/month (Developer) and $99/month (Startup). All fixed-price tiers are subject to usage-based overage charges — for browser hours, Search/Fetch API calls, and proxy bandwidth — once each tier's included quotas are exceeded; the itemized breakdown is in the table below.

SOC 2 Status

Browserbase is SOC 2 certified. That matters for teams routing customer data, credentials, or session information through third-party browser infrastructure, where a vendor's compliance posture is a prerequisite before it gets anywhere near production systems handling sensitive data.

API Availability

Browserbase is consumed primarily through its API. There's no graphical control panel serving as the main interface — the platform is built around programmatic access, so developers spin up browser sessions, manage fleets, and wire automation directly into existing codebases, CI/CD pipelines, or agent workflows.

Features

The feature set is centered on running and managing browsers remotely instead of on a local machine:

• Fleet browser automation infrastructure — provisioning and orchestration of multiple browser instances for parallel or large-scale automation workloads.
• Browserbase Functions runtime — a runtime environment for executing custom logic alongside browser sessions.
• Auto captcha solving — built-in handling of captcha challenges encountered during automated browsing, cutting the need for a separate captcha-solving service.
• Search API & Fetch API — dedicated endpoints for retrieving search results and fetching page content, billed per call as noted above.
• Model Gateway access — a routing layer connecting browser sessions to AI models, relevant for agent-based use cases.
• Stealth Mode — techniques aimed at reducing detection of automated browser sessions by anti-bot systems.
• Custom proxy integration — support for routing browser traffic through proxies, billed per gigabyte as described above.
• Session recording & observability — tooling for reviewing and debugging browser sessions after the fact, useful for diagnosing failures in automation pipelines.

Target User

Browserbase targets developers and engineering teams building products that depend on programmatic web access at scale — web scraping services, QA and testing automation, and AI agents that need to browse and interact with live websites. Between the API-first design, per-hour and per-call metered pricing, and features like captcha solving, stealth mode, and proxy support, the intended user is technical, cost-conscious about scaling usage, and treating automation as a core product capability rather than an internal one-off script. SOC 2 certification also puts it in play for teams operating in regulated environments or handling customer data through automated browser sessions, where vendor compliance isn't optional.