# BrowserCloud

Official pricing: https://browsercloud.io/pricing  
Category: browser · Isolation: container

## Pricing regimes (raw)

- **Hobby plan browser-hours (120 h for $19)** (sizes): Hobby browser session ? vCPU/? GiB $0.1583/h
- **Startup plan browser-hours (1000 h for $99)** (sizes): Startup browser session ? vCPU/? GiB $0.099/h
- **Business plan browser-hours (3000 h for $249)** (sizes): Business browser session ? vCPU/? GiB $0.083/h
- **Unlimited plan: dedicated cluster, flat monthly per parallel sessions** (pool)

## Features

Yes: persistent disk, ≥24 h sessions, browser, browser automation API, anti-bot stealth, CAPTCHA solving, residential IPs, open internet, static egress IP, SOC 2, Python, Node.js

No: snapshots, memory snapshots, fork/clone, pause/resume, volumes, idle auto-stop, start from your own snapshot, your own Docker/OCI image, full VM (own kernel), Docker inside, nested virtualization, desktop GUI, computer-use API, desktop control API, browser + desktop control, preinstalled agents, SSH, public IPv4, HTTPS preview URLs, egress allowlist, self-hosting, BYOC, open source, HIPAA, SSO, GPU, arm64, Windows, macOS, HTTP method/path egress rules, wake on request, live resize, live fork (no pause), memory fork, EU data residency, MCP server, automatic snapshots, snapshots on demand, agent harness API, hosted agent API (their own agent), gVisor or VM (no shared kernel), inbound access rules, firewall inside (nftables), secret proxy, secret proxy for any API, extra volumes, shared volumes

Unknown: everything else. Evidence (source + quote) per feature: https://battleships.dev/data/providers/browsercloud.json → feature_evidence

## Caveats

- Browser-hour, bandwidth, residential-proxy and browser-agent charges all draw from one monthly credit pool. Displayed hours/GB are alternative uses of credits, not additive included pools. Dedicated-cluster/unlimited plans are a different regime.
- Overage and eight-hour session eligibility need detailed plan confirmation; cannot stack the hours and traffic equivalents.
- Not fully priceable in ENGINE_CARD: unknown USD resource rates or machine shape. Null is not zero; do not rank as a free provider.
- Browser-hour examples are explicitly not 4-vCPU/8-GiB general-compute equivalents. Browser CPU/RAM allocation is unspecified.
- Features set to null were not verified. No sandbox was purchased or tested; feature/performance statements are documentation claims. Null maximums are unknown unless a cited note explicitly states unlimited.
- A complete monthly bill requires known snapshot/egress/plan limits; do not silently treat missing ancillary charges as free.
- 2026-09-28 pricing page: Free 1 h / 1 concurrent / 15-min sessions; Hobby $19 120 h / 5; Startup $99 1,000 h / 50; Business $249 3,000 h / 100; Enterprise custom. No overage price and no browser CPU/RAM published. Hourly prices are plan fee / included hours; usage above the plan's hours is priced at the same rate (unverified: you may need a bigger plan).
- Credits do not roll over: 'Unused API credits are not transferred to the next subscription period.' Fee-as-credit therefore acts as a hard monthly minimum per plan.
- Overage is ON by default on paid plans ("overage fees are charged per credit at the specified overage rate"), but the per-credit overage rate is not published. Free hard-stops at its limit. No 8-hour session limit on official pages: paid plans are marketed as unlimited session time, Free is capped at 15 min, default session timeout 30 s (timeout param). Supersedes the "Overage and eight-hour session eligibility" caveat.
- CONFLICT between official pages: the pricing page says '1 hour of browser time 1,000 credits' and '1 MB Residential 80 credits', but docs/other/credits-cost says browser instance '1 credit / second' (= 3,600 credits/h) and 'Residential 110 credits / MB'. If the docs were right, Hobby's 120,000 credits would buy about 33 h, not 120 h (rates 3.6x the card's). The card follows the pricing page (newer, (c)2026 bundle; docs footer (c)2025).

## How this provider charges


As of 2026-09-28. Prices are USD unless explicitly labelled otherwise. Source type: official published list/promo or unknown, never a fabricated quote.

Browser-hour, bandwidth, residential-proxy and browser-agent charges all draw from one monthly credit pool. Displayed hours/GB are alternative uses of credits, not additive included pools. Dedicated-cluster/unlimited plans are a different regime.

| Regime | When it applies | How billed / numbers | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | 1 concurrent /15min | 1,000 credits;1h browser-time equivalent. | https://browsercloud.io/pricing |
| Hobby | 5 concurrent | $19/mo;120h browser-time equivalent. | https://browsercloud.io/pricing |
| Startup | 50 concurrent | $99/mo;1,000h browser-time equivalent. | https://browsercloud.io/pricing |
| Business | 100 concurrent | $249/mo;3,000h browser-time equivalent. | https://browsercloud.io/pricing |
| Dedicated clusters | 100–400+ concurrent | Separate unlimited-credit offer; quote required. | https://browsercloud.io/pricing |

## Gotchas

- Browser-hour, bandwidth, residential-proxy and browser-agent charges all draw from one monthly credit pool. Displayed hours/GB are alternative uses of credits, not additive included pools. Dedicated-cluster/unlimited plans are a different regime.
- Overage and eight-hour session eligibility need detailed plan confirmation; cannot stack the hours and traffic equivalents.
- Not fully priceable in ENGINE_CARD: unknown USD resource rates or machine shape. Null is not zero; do not rank as a free provider.
- Browser-hour examples are explicitly not 4-vCPU/8-GiB general-compute equivalents. Browser CPU/RAM allocation is unspecified.
- Features set to null were not verified. No sandbox was purchased or tested; feature/performance statements are documentation claims. Null maximums are unknown unless a cited note explicitly states unlimited.
- A complete monthly bill requires known snapshot/egress/plan limits; do not silently treat missing ancillary charges as free.

## Worked workload

4 vCPU / 8 GiB; 50 simultaneous instances × 8 h/day × 22 days = **8,800 instance-hours**, **35,200 vCPU-hours**, **70,400 GiB-hours**. At 30% observed CPU:10,560 active-vCPU-hours only where the meter actually uses utilization. Assume one start/instance/day:1,100starts. Retain50GiB snapshots for a month;100GiB outbound. Active disk capacity was not specified.

A numerical total is not defensible from the public evidence. Need an eligible4/8 machine rate, C50 and8h limits, snapshot retention/price and network tariff. Resource template:35,200×CPU_rate×(0.30 if active else1)+70,400×RAM_rate+plan+50×snapshot_rate+max(0,100−free_egress)×egress_rate. Unknown inputs stay unknown, not zero.

## Sources

- https://browsercloud.io/pricing