Drive a browser
Browserbase
Cloud browser service that runs headless Chrome sessions for agents, controlled over CDP, with proxies, CAPTCHA solving and session replay.
Billing
- Pricing model
- Monthly plan with an included allocation of browser hours; pay-as-you-go overage beyond it2
- Free tier
- Free plan: 1 browser hour, 3 concurrent sessions, 15 minutes per session2
- Card required for free tier
- No2
- Minimum spend
- Free plan is $0; paid plans start at $20 a month (Developer)1
- Billing period
- Monthly subscription; usage beyond the allocation billed on a separate usage invoice3
Prices
Overage rates are as listed in the docs. If the included hours are fully used, the average cost per browser-hour of the plan itself is $20 / 100 = $0.20 (Developer) and $99 / 500 = $0.198 (Startup).
| Plan | Monthly fee | Browser hours included | Price per browser-hour beyond included |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | 1 | Not available |
| Developer | $20 | 100 | $0.12 |
| Startup | $99 | 500 | $0.10 |
| Scale | Custom | Flexible | Custom |
Source2Plans & pricing (docs)
Plans
| Plan | Concurrent sessions | Max session length | Session creations a minute | Proxy included | Proxy overage | Data retention |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | 3 | 15 minutes | 5 | 0 GB | Not available | 7 days |
| Developer | 25 | 6 hours | 25 | 1 GB | $12/GB | 7 days |
| Startup | 100 | 6 hours | 50 | 5 GB | $10/GB | 30 days |
| Scale | 250+ | 6+ hours | 150+ | Usage-based | Custom | 30+ days |
Source2Plans & pricing (docs)
Other charges
- Fetch API overage
- $1 per 1,000 calls (Developer); $0.5 per 1,000 calls (Startup); $4 per 1,000 with proxies1
- Search API overage
- $7 per 1,000 calls2
- Search API overage (other page)
- $1 to $12 per 1,000 searches by provider; $5 per 1,000 by default1
- Agent runs included
- Free 3, Developer 15, Startup 50 a month1
- Model Gateway
- Market price, pay as you go; $5 in tokens included on paid-plan cards1
Read from Browserbase, Inc.’s own pages on 2026-11-04. Every number links to the page a value came from. For agents, the same facts as markdown: /tools/drive-a-browser/browserbase.md