Browserless

browserless.io · 2 records in Compute, Crawling · JSON

Records 2

caveatBrowserless (Compute)
Computefree tieridentity emailno cardlimit retention-clampedevidence documentedstale on 2026-12-05
caveatBrowserless (Crawling)
Crawlingfree tieridentity emailno cardlimit retention-clampedevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-22

Browserless (Compute)

Compute

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Free allowance: Free plan at USD 0 a month, no card required: 1,000 units a month, 2 max concurrent browsers, 2-minute max session time, 1 day of persisted sessions and replays, consumer-connection proxies at 6 units per MB and datacenter at 2 units per MB, automatic human-verification handling, and Chrome...
Verdict: caveatusable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path
Cost: free tier
Identity: emailno card, no phone
Binding limit: retention-clamped2-minute maximum session time on Free; session reconnects bill a fresh unit
Evidence: documented4 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
Freshness: stale on 2026-12-05checked 2026-11-04 (live); stale on 2026-12-05

Free tier	Free plan at USD 0 a month, no card required: 1,000 units a month, 2 max concurrent browsers, 2-minute max session time, 1 day of persisted sessions and replays, consumer-connection proxies at 6 units per MB and datacenter at 2 units per MB, automatic human-verification handling, and Chrome, WebKit and Firefox on San Francisco, London and Amsterdam endpoints. One unit is a block of browser time of up to 30 seconds per browser connection unit mixed; metered on wall-clock; 1,000 units at up to 30 s each is 8.3 browser hours a month, and the 2-minute session cap forces a new connection per 2 minutes. Paid plans are Prototyping USD 25, Starter USD 140 and a USD 350 tier above those
Price	none stated
Limits	request-rate 2 concurrent browsers on Free, 10 on Prototyping, 40 on Starter source retention-clamped (binding) 2-minute maximum session time on Free; session reconnects bill a fresh unit source per-object-cap consumer-connection proxy is 6 units per MB and datacenter 2 units per MB, drawn from the same 1,000-unit pool source the entry paid plan is USD 350 a month, and the free plan is not a trial: it renews monthly with no card
Binding	retention-clamped the 2-minute session cap and the unit-per-reconnect rule bind before the 1,000-unit pool does, because a crawl that needs a longer session pays twice for the same page
Identity	email the free plan needs an email signup and no card; a paid plan needs a payment method
Egress	no general data-transfer allowance or per-GB price published; only proxy traffic is metered, at 6 units per MB (residential) and 2 units per MB (datacenter) from the same unit pool, with units over the pool at USD 0.0020 on Prototyping
Interface	rest a REST API of single-action HTTP endpoints, plus Playwright and Puppeteer over a CDP WebSocket
Tooling	Playwright and Puppeteer over CDP; a REST API
Composes with	none at this price: a crawl that can use a USD 19 plan should
Reliability	no reliability event recorded
Notes	The USD 350 tier is above Prototyping and Starter, not below them. The row is a small free allowance rather than a paid-only row.
Parsed numbers	has-free-tier 1

Evidence 4

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-22	www.browserless.io/pricing	a Free plan at USD 0/month, 'No card required', 1k units/month, 2 max concurrent browsers, 2 min max session time; 'A Unit is a block of browser time of up to 30 seconds per browser connection'
2026-11-03	www.browserless.io/pricing	proxy traffic is metered in units per MB; no other transfer allowance is listed
2026-11-03	docs.browserless.io/rest-apis/intro	a REST API exists
2026-11-03	www.browserless.io/pricing	Playwright and Puppeteer connect by changing the endpoint

More fields 7

shape	`{"vcpu": null,"ram_gib": null,"disk_gib": null,"gpu_class": null,"gpu_count": null}`
billing model	wall-clock
session cap	`{"wall_clock_min": 2,"idle_reap_s": null,"restart_required": true,"note": "2 min maximum session on Free; a reconnect bills a fresh unit"}`
network out	`{"allow_outbound": true,"allow_inbound_listen": "no","ports": null,"static_ip": false,"ipv6": null,"per_session_bytes": "consumer-connection proxy 6 units per MB"}`
free tier kind	allowance
reclassified from	paid-only
burst x	1.0

Unknown values 2

per object cap stated: the field does not apply to this kind of offer
reliability note: nothing of this kind was observed

Corrections

2026-10-22 Corrected on 2026-10-22: compute/browserless

Browserless (Crawling)

Crawling

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Free allowance: 1,000 units a month, no card, 2 concurrent browsers, 2 minutes maximum session
Verdict: caveatusable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path
Cost: free tier
Identity: emailno card, no phone
Binding limit: retention-clampeda unit is 30 seconds of browser connection and a Free session ends at 2 minutes, so it is the session length and not the request count that caps the work
Evidence: documented1 source; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
Freshness: stale on 2026-11-22checked 2026-10-22 (live); stale on 2026-11-22

Free tier	1,000 units a month, no card, 2 concurrent browsers, 2 minutes maximum session unit requests; metered on request-count
Price	none stated
Limits	request-rate 1 unit per 30 seconds of browser connection; 1,000 units is about 8.3 hours a month source request-rate 2 concurrent browsers and a 2 minute maximum session on Free source per-object-cap a consumer-connection proxy costs 6 units a megabyte, a datacenter proxy 2, handling one human-verification step 10 source retention-clamped (binding) a unit is 30 seconds of browser connection and a Free session ends at 2 minutes, so it is the session length and not the request count that caps the work source the 30-second unit and the 2-minute maximum session bind first: 1,000 units is about 8.3 browser-hours a month and no single session may run past 2 minutes
Identity	email no card required, stated on the Free plan
Egress	1 day of persisted sessions and replays on Free
Per-object cap	not applicable: the unit is browser time
Retention	unit is 30 seconds of browser connection; longer runs bill another unit
Interface	rest REST and WebSocket; BrowserQL; crawls are a job plus a poll
Tooling	not stated
Composes with	Reserve lane behind Browser Rendering; the only third-party browser with a recurring monthly grant and no card
Reliability	no reliability event recorded
Notes	The unit is time, not pages, so a fast page is cheap and a slow one is not. 1,000 units is 8.3 hours of browser time a month, which is more than it reads as.
Evidence note	documented pricing page read; the 1,000 units a month figure is stated on the page
Parsed numbers	has-free-tier 1 request-rate 8.3 hours / month request-rate 2 minute retention-clamped 2 minutes

Evidence 1

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-22	www.browserless.io/pricing	Free USD 0 a month, no card, 1k units, 2 max concurrent browsers, 2 min max session; a unit is up to 30 seconds of browser connection; 6 units per MB consumer-connection proxy, 10 units per human-verification step handled

Unknown values 2

reliability note: nothing of this kind was observed
tooling: a source was read and is silent on this field