Browserbase review
By Jan Suski, six years working in digital. How the scoring works.
Browserbase runs headless browsers as a service. It ships infrastructure and expects the automation code to arrive with you: you bring the script, it supplies the session, the identity handling and the fetch and search endpoints behind one API key (docs.browserbase.com).
Developer is $20 a month with 100 browser hours and 25 concurrent sessions, overage at $0.12 an hour. Startup is $99 for 500 hours and 100 concurrent, overage at $0.10. The free tier is one browser hour, three concurrent sessions and a 15-minute cap per session.
Search calls bill at $7 per 1,000 & fetch at $1 per 1,000, rising to $4 per 1,000 with proxies (browserbase.com/pricing). A session can run up to six hours, set through the timeout parameter, with a one-minute minimum billed on every run. Exceeding a concurrency tier returns a 429 instead of queueing.
Search runs on a third-party index. The company states it partnered with Exa, "which has built one of the best search APIs designed specifically for AI agents" (browserbase.com/blog/search). Cold start runs 5 to 10 seconds, an overhead that compounds across a multi-step workflow against a per-step agent platform.
Buy it if you already have Playwright code and want somebody else running the browsers. Skip it if you wanted the agent logic supplied too; see the TinyFish review.
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