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Scrapeless alternatives

One API is cheaper than Scrapeless for 200 browser hours a month: Browser Use Cloud costs $4.00, $14.00 a month less than Scrapeless's $18.00.

Prices read on each vendor's own pricing page; dates on every row. How we check prices

The lowest bills for 200 browser hours a month

The whole job priced the way each vendor sells it.

  1. Browser Use Cloud $4.00 a month saves $14.00 a month · Pay As You Go plan · checked Oct 8, 2026 Check Browser Use Cloud's pricing
  2. Lightpanda Cloud $19.00 a month $1.00 more a month · Builder plan · checked Oct 9, 2026 Check Lightpanda Cloud's pricing
  3. AgentQL $22.80 a month $4.80 more a month · Starter — remote browser plan · checked Oct 9, 2026 Check AgentQL's pricing
  4. TinyFish $24.00 a month $6.00 more a month · Browser · checked Oct 9, 2026 Check TinyFish's pricing
  5. Hyperbrowser $30.00 a month $12.00 more a month · Startup plan · checked Oct 5, 2026 Check Hyperbrowser's pricing

Pay as you go, no plan to outgrow

Nothing unused at the end of the month, and no cliff at a plan boundary.

  1. TinyFish $24.00 at this volume $6.00 more a month · Browser · checked Oct 9, 2026 Check TinyFish's pricing

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Why teams leave Scrapeless

Scrapeless Scraping Browser has an additive bill: browser session time and residential-proxy bandwidth are separate meters. A long idle session spends time, while a media-heavy or navigation-heavy session can add substantial traffic even if it finishes quickly. There is no honest universal price per completed page because pages and browser flows use different amounts of both resources. Teams leave when their accounting system requires a request or completed-task unit rather than measured infrastructure. (Scrapeless billing mode, checked 2026-07-27.)

The public procurement record also leaves important limits open. The free-trial value and Scraping Browser concurrency are not published on the reviewed billing page. Scrapeless also offers a Universal Scraping API, but its public per-request price is not present there. A buyer that needs to compare the browser and request paths before signup cannot close that calculation from the public page alone. (Scrapeless billing mode, checked 2026-07-27; Scrapeless Universal Scraping API introduction, checked 2026-07-26.)

Alternatives worth considering

  • Browserless: Consider it when browser time, proxy traffic, and CAPTCHA attempts should draw from one documented unit balance. Browser time rounds by started interval, so many short sessions can consume more than the same aggregate time in longer sessions. The switch is to a visible shared-unit formula, not to a completed-page guarantee. (Browserless pricing, checked 2026-07-26; Browserless unit consumption, checked 2026-07-26.)

  • Hyperbrowser: Look here when per-second browser billing and adjacent Fetch, Search, extraction, and agent operations are useful. Browser time, proxy bandwidth, and those APIs consume credits under separate published billing rules. Directly purchased credits have a stated expiry, while failure billing for sessions and Fetch is not public. (Hyperbrowser pricing documentation, checked 2026-07-26.)

  • Browserbase: Consider it when the same application needs sessions, Search, Fetch, Extract, Agent usage, proxy traffic, and retained debugging data under one platform. Browser time and the adjacent services are separate allowances or meters, and keep-alive sessions continue billing until release or timeout. (Browserbase pricing, checked 2026-07-26; Browserbase cost optimization, checked 2026-07-26.)

  • ZenRows Scraping Browser: Look here when a browser-time and bandwidth route needs to coexist with a request-style Universal Scraper. ZenRows keeps those formulas distinct, while its request API publishes selected mode rates and success treatment. Monthly balance does not roll over. (ZenRows pricing documentation, checked 2026-07-26.)

  • Bright Data Browser API: Consider it when interactive browser sessions need Bright Data’s proxy and browser environment and bandwidth is an acceptable primary meter. It is not a request-priced substitute, and the required network traffic must be included in the estimate. (Bright Data Browser API, checked 2026-07-26.)

Who should stay with Scrapeless

Stay when the application already controls Scrapeless through its Scraping Browser interface, residential traffic is part of the intended workload, and the team can measure both session seconds and transferred bytes. Staying also makes sense when the same vendor’s Universal Scraping API or other Scrapeless services reduce integration overhead and the account has confirmed concurrency and request pricing that the public page omits. A measured two-resource bill is more honest than forcing interactive work into a fictional per-page rate. (Scrapeless Scraping Browser quick start, checked 2026-07-26; Scrapeless billing mode, checked 2026-07-27.)

What the alternatives do not replace

No browser-hour row proves equivalent sessions. Browserless rounds time into its own units, Hyperbrowser meters several adjacent APIs, Browserbase separates product allowances, ZenRows splits browser and request products, and Bright Data emphasizes its own browser and network stack. None automatically preserves Scrapeless authentication, session lifecycle, proxy behavior, browser controls, Universal Scraping API, or account limits. Replay representative short, long, idle, and bandwidth-heavy sessions and compare released-session behavior, proxy bytes, concurrency, and required request APIs before moving. (Scrapeless Scraping Browser quick start, checked 2026-07-26; Browserless unit consumption, checked 2026-07-26; Browserbase cost optimization, checked 2026-07-26.)