Browserless alternative
A Browserless alternative with the residential exit in the price.
Browserless bills browser time in short units with residential traffic on top. Scrappy prices a session by the minute with the residential exit included, and adds saved logins on a fixed IP.
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Side by side
Scrappy and Browserless, feature by feature.
A dash means we did not find the feature in Browserless's public docs on 1 October 2026, not that it cannot do it.
| Feature | Scrappy | Browserless |
|---|---|---|
| Saved logins across sessions | ✓ | ✓ |
| Live view with takeover | ✓ | ✓ |
| Session recording | ✓ | ✓ |
| MCP server | ✓ | ✓ |
| Works with Claude's tools | ✓ | ✓ |
| A fixed IP per saved login | ✓ | — |
| Automatic CAPTCHA solving | ✓ | ✓ |
| Approval before a risky step | ✓ | — |
| Takeover from a phone | ✓ | — |
| Residential proxy in the price | ✓ | — |
| Lead pipeline on the same account | ✓ | — |
What an hour costs
| One browser hour | Scrappy | Browserless |
|---|---|---|
| Browser time | $0.86–$1.17 | $0.24 |
| Residential proxy, per GB | Included | $12.00 |
| An hour moving 100 MB of residential traffic | $0.86–$1.17 | $1.44 |
Scrappy's range is the published packs, best to smallest; Browserless's figures are its Prototyping plan ($25 a month before usage), read from its pricing page on 1 October 2026. On our largest pack, Scrappy costs less once a session moves more than about 51 MB of residential traffic in an hour; below that, Browserless's bare hour is cheaper. Signed-in browsing measured on our own machines averaged about 144 MB an hour.
What you get that is easy to miss
Every session runs headful Chrome on a residential connection, and that connection is part of the per-minute price rather than a separate bill per gigabyte.
- Saved logins replay from the same exit IP they were captured on, so a site sees the same visitor from the same place.
- The live viewer works from a phone: one finger is the mouse, two pan and zoom, and a keyboard button types into the page.
- Claude can drive the session through its own browser tool, with clicks, typing or navigation held for a person to approve.
- A lead pipeline — scraping, email verification and sending — runs on the same account and the same browser.
When Browserless is the better pick
If you run large volumes of short, anonymous jobs such as rendering or PDFs, unit-priced browser time without a residential exit will cost less.
If you need to self-host, Browserless offers that and we do not.
Questions
- Can I try it before paying?
- Yes. A new account gets 100 credits, enough for a few sessions of real use. A session costs 5 credits to start and 1 per minute after that.
- How current is this comparison?
- Prices and features were read from each vendor's own site and docs on the date shown in the table. A dash means we did not find a feature in their public docs, not that they cannot do it. Tell us if a cell is out of date and we will fix it.
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Try it on the site you need this week. The first 100 credits are free.
Enough for ten scrapes or a first hour in the cloud browser. No card, no call, no minimum.