Run Puppeteer or Playwright without keeping a browser alive on your own server. Browserless runs headless browsers for you. You point existing Puppeteer or Playwright code at its endpoint, or call REST APIs for screenshots, PDFs and scraping, or use the BrowserQL language. The Free plan costs nothing, needs no credit card and gives 1,000 units a month, 2 concurrent browsers and 2 minute sessions. A unit is up to 30 seconds of browser time per connection, so 1,000 units is at most about 500 minutes. Paid plans are Prototyping at $25 a month billed annually for 20,000 units, Starter at $140 for 180,000 and Scale at $350 for 500,000. G2 shows 4.6 from 6 reviews. Self-hosting needs a commercial license.
Free tier quotas
Plan
Free, $0 a month, no credit card
Units
1,000 a month; one unit is up to 30 seconds of browser time per connection
Concurrency
2 concurrent browsers
Session length
2 minutes maximum
Browsers
Chrome, WebKit and Firefox
Languages and editor
BrowserQL language and editor
Captcha
Automatic solving, 10 units per successful solve
Proxies
Residential at 6 units per MB, datacenter at 2 units per MB
Storage
1 day of persisted sessions and replays, 8 hour log search
Regions
San Francisco, London and Amsterdam endpoints
Last sniffed Oct 6, 2026. Always confirm on the official pricing page.
👍 Good boy
+Existing Puppeteer or Playwright scripts connect by changing the endpoint, so you can try the hosted browser without rewriting automation code.
+The Free plan includes captcha solving, Chrome extensions, Chrome, WebKit and Firefox, and the BrowserQL editor, which is more than a bare test allowance.
+REST APIs for screenshots, PDFs and downloads cover common tasks without writing a browser script, and a hosted MCP server exists for AI agents.
+Pricing is a published unit price: overages are $0.0020, $0.0017 and $0.0015 per unit on Prototyping, Starter and Scale, so you can model cost from session length.
+Compliance is stated on the Enterprise tier: SOC 2 Type II, GDPR, HIPAA with a BAA available, and a licensed self-hosted option for private networks.
+The company has a public GitHub repository with about 14,000 stars, and its operator answers questions in Hacker News threads.
+G2 shows 4.6 from 6 reviews, with 83% rating it 5 stars and 16% 4 stars.
👎 Watch out
−Units are a time-based measure. Every connection costs at least one unit and each extra 30 seconds costs another, and reconnects count as new connections, so short, chatty sessions use units quickly.
−Free sessions end at 2 minutes and allow only 2 concurrent browsers, which rules out long crawls and parallel test suites.
−Residential proxy traffic is expensive in units: 6 units per MB means 1,000 free units cover only about 160 MB. Captcha solves cost 10 units each.
−The prices on the page are annual-billing figures. Monthly prices are not shown in the page text I read, so confirm them at checkout.
−Only 6 reviews are on G2, and I found no Capterra or Trustpilot evidence. Reddit comparisons with Browserbase exist, but I read only a search excerpt.
−Self-hosting needs a commercial license, according to the pricing page, so the public repository is not a free replacement for the hosted service.
The catch
The Free plan gives 1,000 units a month, 2 concurrent browsers and 2 minute sessions, with no credit card. A unit is a block of browser time up to 30 seconds per connection, so the free allowance is at most about 500 minutes and less if your sessions are short. Residential proxy traffic costs 6 units per MB, datacenter proxies 2 units per MB and a successful captcha solve 10 units.
Paid prices on the page are billed annually: Prototyping $25 (20,000 units, 10 concurrent browsers, 15 minute sessions), Starter $140 (180,000 units, 40 concurrent, 30 minutes) and Scale $350 (500,000 units, 100 concurrent, 60 minutes). Overage is $0.0020, $0.0017 and $0.0015 per unit. Monthly billing prices are not in the page text I read.
The page does not state whether the Free plan allows commercial use, so that field is unknown. Self-hosting requires a commercial license on the Enterprise tier. Review evidence is limited to 6 G2 reviews at 4.6.
What’s included
✓Hosted Chrome, Firefox and WebKit
✓Puppeteer and Playwright support
✓BrowserQL language and editor
✓Screenshot, PDF and download REST APIs
✓Automatic captcha solving
✓Residential and datacenter proxies
✓Session reconnects
✓Persisted sessions and replays
✓Chrome extensions
✓MCP server
✓Self-hosted option under commercial license
✓SOC 2 Type II and HIPAA BAA on Enterprise
Free tier value
Generosity
B
Estimated value
1,000 units a month; paid from $25 a month billed annually
Feature parity
Free has the same browsers and most features. Paid raises units, concurrency and session time.
Screenshots
Browserless homepageBrowserless pricing page
Paid plans
Prototyping, $25 per month billed annually
20,000 units, 10 concurrent browsers, 15 minute sessions, 7 days of persisted sessions, screen recording and basic email and chat support. Overage $0.0020 per unit.
Starter, $140 per month billed annually
180,000 units, 40 concurrent browsers, 30 minute sessions, 30 days of persisted sessions and email, chat and video support. Overage $0.0017 per unit.
Scale, $350 per month billed annually
500,000 units, 100 concurrent browsers, 60 minute sessions and 90 days of persisted sessions. Overage $0.0015 per unit.
Enterprise, custom
Private deployments or licensed self-hosting, SSO, dedicated technical account manager, private Slack support and GPU infrastructure.
Common questions
Is Browserless free?
There is a Free plan with 1,000 units a month and no credit card, limited to 2 concurrent browsers and 2 minute sessions.
What is a unit?
Up to 30 seconds of browser time per connection. Longer sessions use an extra unit for each 30 seconds, and reconnects count as new connections.
Does it work with my Puppeteer or Playwright code?
Yes. The pricing page says a quick endpoint change connects existing scripts.
Can I self-host it?
The Enterprise plan lists a commercial license for self-hosting. The page also links a guide for Docker and Kubernetes deployments.
What compliance does it list?
SOC 2 Type II, GDPR, and HIPAA with a BAA available, plus a DPA, on its Trust Center and Enterprise tier.
Change history
Checked October 22, 2026
Pricing page shows Free at 1,000 units, Prototyping $25, Starter $140 and Scale $350 billed annually. G2 shows 4.6 from 6 reviews.
