Hyperbrowser alternatives: 6 options compared on published price
Cloud browsers, sandboxes, a Fetch/Search web API and agent runners on a shared credit balance. Looking for something different? These are the vendors in our data closest to Hyperbrowser by product type and shared price metrics, compared on published prices checked . Prices only, not quality.
full verification from $30/mo MCP: Yes · Hyperbrowser full pricing page
What to weigh about Hyperbrowser first
Drawn from the Hyperbrowser record on this site: its published watch-outs and the figures we could not verify.
Watch-outs
- Proxy data at $10/GB bills on top of browser time.
- Uniform unit rates mean plans mainly add concurrency/retention.
Could not verify
- +5 credits/page; shown in unit notes but not normalized separately.
Alternatives at a glance
How these were chosen: a fixed rule counts the price metrics both vendors publish plus category overlap. The order is by that score. It is not by price, popularity or commercial relationship; FetchIndex has an affiliate relationship with Firecrawl only (disclosure).
| Alternative | Category | Shared price metrics | Free tier | MCP / agent support | Verification | Head-to-head |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Browserbase alternatives to Browserbase | Browser infrastructure | Basic page fetch, AI/agent search query, Remote browser hour | Free plan: 1 browser hour, 3 concurrent browsers, 1,000 search and 1,000 fetch calls, $5 in model tokens. | Yes | full verification | Hyperbrowser vs Browserbase |
| Bright Data alternatives to Bright Data | Proxies & unblockers | Basic page fetch, Protected / anti-bot page | Unlocker and SERP APIs: 5K requests/month free, no card (as stated on their pricing pages). Browser API page lists a 1 GB monthly free tier. | Yes | full verification | no head-to-head page |
| Scrapfly alternatives to Scrapfly | Scraping APIs | Basic page fetch, Protected / anti-bot page | 1,000 credits on signup, no card, no time limit (one-time allotment). | Yes | full verification | no head-to-head page |
| ZenRows alternatives to ZenRows | Scraping APIs | Basic page fetch, Protected / anti-bot page | 5,000 credits/month, no card, every primitive except standalone residential proxies. | Yes | partial verification | no head-to-head page |
| Firecrawl alternatives to Firecrawl | Scraping APIs | Basic page fetch, AI/agent search query | 1,000 credits/month, no card (about 1,000 pages or 500 searches), 2 concurrent requests. | Yes | full verification | no head-to-head page |
| ScraperAPI alternatives to ScraperAPI | Scraping APIs | Basic page fetch, Protected / anti-bot page | 1,000 free credits/month (max 5 concurrent) per the FAQ; 7-day trial with 5,000 credits. | Yes | partial verification | no head-to-head page |
Price comparison by use case
Basic page fetch
| Vendor | Lowest published price | Plan / rate | Monthly spend needed | Compared with Hyperbrowser |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scrapfly | $0.0909 per 1,000 | Enterprise | $500/mo | 11.0x cheaper |
| ZenRows | $0.0916 per 1,000 | Scale | $458/mo | 10.9x cheaper |
| ScraperAPI | $0.095 per 1,000 | Scaling | $475/mo | 10.5x cheaper |
| Browserbase | $0.50 per 1,000 | Startup (Fetch API) | $99/mo | 2.0x cheaper |
| Firecrawl | $0.599 per 1,000 | Scale | $599/mo | 1.7x cheaper |
| Bright Data | $0.9995 per 1,000 | Crawl API $1,999 | $1999/mo | about the same price |
| Hyperbrowser | $1.00 per 1,000 | All plans (Fetch) | none | this vendor |
Protected / anti-bot page
| Vendor | Lowest published price | Plan / rate | Monthly spend needed | Compared with Hyperbrowser |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ScraperAPI | $1.04 per 1,000 | Scaling | $475/mo | 9.6x cheaper |
| Bright Data | $1.30 per 1,000 | Unlocker Scale ($499) | $499/mo | 7.7x cheaper |
| Scrapfly | $2.27 per 1,000 | Enterprise | $500/mo | 4.4x cheaper |
| ZenRows | $2.29 per 1,000 | Scale | $458/mo | 4.4x cheaper |
| Hyperbrowser | $10.00 per 1,000 | All plans (Fetch + ultra stealth) | none | this vendor |
AI/agent search query
| Vendor | Lowest published price | Plan / rate | Monthly spend needed | Compared with Hyperbrowser |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Browserbase | $1.00 per 1,000 | Parallel Fast | $20/mo | 5.0x cheaper |
| Firecrawl | $1.66 per 1,000 | Standard | $83/mo | 3.0x cheaper |
| Hyperbrowser | $5.00 per 1,000 | All plans | none | this vendor |
Remote browser hour
| Vendor | Lowest published price | Plan / rate | Monthly spend needed | Compared with Hyperbrowser |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hyperbrowser | $0.10 per hour | All plans | none | this vendor |
| Browserbase | $0.198 per hour | Startup (included hours) | $99/mo | 2.0x more expensive |
Estimated monthly cost at example volumes
Basic page fetch, using the cost calculator model: cheapest published plan that covers each volume, including published overage rates. Free tiers are not subtracted. Open the calculator with these inputs.
| Requests / month | Hyperbrowser | Browserbase | Bright Data | Scrapfly | ZenRows | Firecrawl |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10,000 | $10.00 All plans (Fetch) | $29.00 Developer (Fetch API) | $15.00 Crawl API PAYG | $30.00 Discovery | $16.00 Build (annual billing) | $41.00 Hobby (annual billing) |
| 100,000 | $100 All plans (Fetch) | $119 Developer (Fetch API) | $150 Crawl API PAYG | $30.00 Discovery | $58.00 Launch (annual billing) | $83.00 Standard (annual billing) |
| 1,000,000 | $1,000 All plans (Fetch) | $594 Startup (Fetch API) | $1,500 Crawl API PAYG | $100 Pro | $166 Growth (annual billing) | $599 Scale (annual billing) |
Which alternative fits which job
- Browserbase: Cloud headless browsers for agents, with Fetch and Search APIs. Tends to fit: Agents that must click, log in and fill forms. Watch-out: Pay for browser time, not pages: slow pages cost more.
- Bright Data: Large proxy networks plus Web Unlocker, SERP, Crawl and Browser APIs, datasets and scrapers. Tends to fit: Hard anti-bot targets at scale. Watch-out: Many products with separate pricing pages; check which one you need.
- Scrapfly: Scraping, screenshot, extraction and cloud-browser APIs on one key and one credit pool. Tends to fit: Anti-bot-heavy scraping with transparent credit multipliers. Watch-out: Residential/Unblocker requests burn 5-25x the base credits.
- ZenRows: Fetch, extract, crawl, batch and browser primitives on one credit balance. Tends to fit: Protected sites where you want a single credit meter. Watch-out: Monthly-billed and annual-billed rates differ by about 17%; check which one you compare against.
- Firecrawl: Scrape, crawl, map and search the web into LLM-ready markdown/JSON. Tends to fit: RAG ingestion of whole sites. Watch-out: Credits are shared across endpoints, so JSON-format extraction (+4 credits) can quintuple the per-page cost.
- ScraperAPI: Proxy-rotating scraping API billed in API credits, with per-domain credit costs. Tends to fit: Simple 'send URL, get HTML' scraping at modest volume. Watch-out: Credit cost varies by domain: Google SERP = 25 credits, bot-protected sites 11+.
When Hyperbrowser is still the better choice
- Cheap browser hours and a built-in Fetch API
- Agents using HyperAgent/Browser Use
Frequently asked questions
What is the cheapest alternative to Hyperbrowser?
For basic page fetch, Scrapfly has the lowest published price among the alternatives listed: $0.0909 per 1,000 (Enterprise) versus $1.00 for Hyperbrowser (All plans (Fetch)). That is price only: check reliability on your own targets, and note the cheapest plan can require a larger monthly spend.
Is there a free alternative to Hyperbrowser?
Alternatives with a recurring free tier in our data: Bright Data (Unlocker and SERP APIs: 5K requests/month free, no card (as stated on their pricing pages). Browser API page lists a 1 GB monthly free tier); ZenRows (5,000 credits/month, no card, every primitive except standalone residential proxies); Firecrawl (1,000 credits/month, no card (about 1,000 pages or 500 searches), 2 concurrent requests); ScraperAPI (1,000 free credits/month (max 5 concurrent) per the FAQ; 7-day trial with 5,000 credits). Free-tier limits change often; check the vendor page.
Which Hyperbrowser alternatives support MCP?
Hyperbrowser: yes. Alternatives with a documented MCP server in our data: Browserbase, Bright Data, Scrapfly, ZenRows, Firecrawl, ScraperAPI.
Keep exploring
Use-case guides
- RAG and LLM ingestion
- Ecommerce price monitoring
- SERP data
- JavaScript-heavy sites
- Anti-bot protected sites
Corrections welcome: [email protected]. Each vendor page lists the official sources used.