Browse AI Review 2026: Free Plan Includes the API

Browse AI is a no-code web scraping and monitoring platform from Browse AI Inc., registered in British Columbia, Canada, priced from $19 a month billed annually at $228 a year or $48 a month billed monthly, with a genuinely free tier of 50 credits a month, no credit card, and residential proxies and the REST API included. It is the best-reviewed tool on this site where the sample is large — 4.8 out of 5 from 61 reviews on G2, 57 five-star and none below four — and its annual discount is bigger than its own badge admits: 60.4%.

What Browse AI is in 2026

Browse AI is a no-code web scraping and monitoring platform built by Browse AI Inc., described in its own Terms of Service as “our registered corporation in British Columbia, Canada”. You record yourself clicking through a page, the robot learns the pattern, and it repeats the job once, on a schedule, or inside a workflow — pushing the result into Google Sheets, Airtable, Make, Zapier, Pabbly, Amazon S3, or your own application through a REST API. It has been running since 2021 and the site now puts it at 770,000+ users.

Around that core sits a stack of shipped capability: prebuilt robots for 250+ named sites, bulk runs up to 500,000 pages, deep scraping that follows list pages into detail pages, change detection on a page or a region of one, formula columns, residential proxies, anti-bot and CAPTCHA handling, and an API with webhooks and eight SDKs.

How that is priced matters more than the feature list, and it leans in the buyer’s favour. The free plan gives 50 credits a month, forever, with no credit card — and the vendor’s own comparison table ticks residential proxies, workflows, bulk runs, deep scraping, anti-bot handling and the REST API for it. Gating the API and the proxies behind a paid tier is the norm in this category; Browse AI does not. Paid plans start at $19 a month billed annually, $228 for the year, and the annual discount is larger than the badge on the page admits: the button says “Save 20%”, the real figure is 60.4%.

Everything below was read first-hand on 29 September 2026: the pricing page in both billing modes, its pricing FAQ, the help centre articles on refunds, credits, premium sites and plan changes, the Terms of Service, and the G2 profile. No Browse AI account was created and no robot was run, so nothing here is a claim about how extraction performs on live sites. Where a number comes from a dated page read, the date is given.

What Browse AI costs

The pricing page carries a Monthly / Annual segmented control above four cards — Free, Personal, Professional and the managed Premium — plus an add-ons card. Read on 29 September 2026, the two modes are:

Plan, 29 Sep 2026	Monthly	Annual	Credits	Domains	Users
Free	$0	$0	50 / month	2	3
Personal	$48	$19/mo — $228 a year	2,000 / month, or 12,000 / year	5	3
Professional	$87	$69/mo — $828 a year	5,000 / month, or 60,000 / year	10	10
Professional 120k	—	$129/mo — $1,548 a year	120,000 / year	10	10
Professional 240k	—	$239/mo — $2,868 a year	240,000 / year	10	10
Professional 360k	—	$319/mo — $3,828 a year	360,000 / year	10	10
Premium	—	from $500/mo	Custom	Custom	Custom

Annual actually saves 60.4%, and the page writes it up as less

Personal is $48 a month billed monthly and $228 a year billed annually. $48 × 12 = $576, $576 − $228 = $348, which is 60.4%. This is the one place on the page where the vendor undersells itself: the Annual button is labelled “Save 20%”, and the Personal card’s monthly view carries the footnote “Billed monthly. Annual saves $120 a year at the same volume.”

That footnote is not wrong everywhere, which is the interesting part. On the Professional card the same line reads “Annual saves $216 a year at the same volume” — and $87 × 12 = $1,044, minus $828 is $216, or 20.7%. So the badge is accurate for the tier nobody starts on and impossible for the one everybody starts on, while the footnote is accurate on Professional and wrong on Personal.

For a buyer there is exactly one conclusion, and it is a good one: ignore the badge and multiply out the tier you are actually buying — the real discount on the entry tier is three times what the badge claims. The annual prices themselves are internally consistent and reproducible: $228, $828, $1,548, $2,868 and $3,828 are the published monthly rate × 12 at the entry tiers, and the Professional ladder lets credits grow faster than price.

Annual and monthly cost the same per credit — the difference is volume

The second finding is the one that decides what you pay, and it hides inside two cards that look like the same product at two prices.

Personal, annual: 12,000 credits for the year, all upfront, $228. Personal, monthly: 2,000 credits a month, $576 across the year.

Both modes cost $0.019 per credit — that is the figure the comparison table publishes for Personal, and $228 ÷ 12,000 confirms it. So annual is not selling cheaper credits; it is selling six times the credits for the same money, and an annual customer can spend the whole year’s allowance in January if the work arrives that way. Professional repeats the shape with a bigger multiple: annual gives 60,000 credits upfront for $828, while monthly gives 5,000 credits a month for $1,044 a year — a twelfth of the per-period allowance for 26% more money.

Two practical conclusions follow, and both point the same way:

Choosing a billing mode off the card price is the most expensive decision available on the pricing page. The “$19” and “$48” figures describe allowances six times apart. The right comparison is not $19 against $48, but $228 for 12,000 upfront against $576 for 2,000 a month across a year — and if your volume can be planned, annual wins that comparison outright.

Annual is also the only mode that can top up credits. The add-ons card reads “Buy more credits mid-term. 1,000 credit minimum. Annual plans only”, and the monthly view of that panel reads simply “Not available”. That only bites if you misjudge your volume, which is why estimating volume up front matters more here than on most tools: a monthly customer who under-buys has to change plan, and changing plan charges the new plan in full immediately and resets the billing date.

Current pricing is on the Browse AI site; the table above is a dated snapshot.

What a credit buys, and where a budget actually grows

Browse AI bills in credits, and the help centre defines them far more precisely than the marketing does. On a standard site: ten rows of data is one credit, one page is one credit, one screenshot is one credit, and you pay whichever is higher, with a minimum of one credit per task. Set a list limit higher than the list turns out to be and the unused credits come back automatically — “Browse AI automatically refunds unused credits if your limit was higher than the actual number of items.”

The vendor’s own worked example is the most useful thing on the page, because it shows where a list turns into a bill:

If you extract a list of 100 product links and then visit each product page: List extraction: 100 rows × 0.1 credit = 10 credits. Detail page extraction: 100 pages × 1 credit = 100 credits. Total: 110 credits.

Once you follow a product into its detail page it is 1.1 credits per product — at Personal’s $0.019 per credit, a weekly run of that job costs under $11 a year. The one place a budget really grows is Premium sites, at 2 to 10 credits per run, and Browse AI publishes the list: Amazon (.com / .ca / .co.uk), Walmart, Costco, Home Depot, Instacart, Tmall, Gymshark, Falabella, Ripley, The Bay, Seattle Coffee Gear, LinkedIn, Instagram, X, Google, Google Scholar, Realtor.ca, OpenSea, Idealista, Angel.co, Optimizely and about twenty more. If your workload sits on those, budget between a fifth and a tenth of the headline credit count — being able to price your own URLs against a published list before you buy is the most valuable disclosure on the page.

On cost per credit, the comparison table gives Personal $0.019, Professional $0.014 to $0.011 and Premium custom, against add-on rates of $0.024 and $0.017 to $0.013. Two practical conclusions:

• Within a tier, scale does lower the unit cost. Professional falls from $0.0138 to $0.011 between 60,000 and 360,000 credits. There is no such effect between the Personal and Professional entry prices, so do not jump tiers for the unit rate alone.
• Top-up credits cost more than the plan’s own and are annual-only. $0.024 against $0.019 on Personal. Adding credits to the plan you already have is the worse way to buy them — and a monthly customer cannot buy them at all.

What it does well

The free plan is not a trial, and it gives more than this category usually does. 50 credits a month, forever, no credit card — with residential proxies, workflows, bulk runs, deep scraping, anti-bot and CAPTCHA handling, formula columns and the REST API all ticked by the vendor’s own table, and robots unlimited. There is no 14-day or 7-day clock anywhere. Proving setup completes on the free plan is the lowest-risk way to start with this product.

The prebuilt robots and integrations are what make “record it once” real. 250+ prebuilt robots for named sites (Amazon, LinkedIn, Instagram, Google and more) plus 130+ ready integrations (Google Sheets, Airtable, Notion, Make, Zapier, Pabbly, Amazon S3, webhooks) means most “scrape it and put it somewhere” jobs run the same day, with nobody maintaining selectors and no code to edit.

It states the costs that matter. Premium sites are named rather than discovered after purchase; the credit definitions are precise enough to budget against; the dashboard quotes the cost of a run before it goes; and credits reserved above the real list length come back automatically.

The paid credentials are concrete. The managed Premium tier publishes a 98% data-accuracy SLA and volume pricing “from $0.010 a credit”, with a dedicated account manager, migration and monthly performance reports. The self-serve tiers carry SOC 2 Type II, GDPR and CCPA badges, a public trust centre at trust.browse.ai, AWS US datacentres, TLS 1.2, and recorded passwords encrypted with AES-256 that support can never read in the clear.

Its limits are stated too, which is a feature for a buyer. A recorded robot needs re-recording when a target site is redesigned, and logins with two-factor authentication can break in practice — exactly what G2’s own summary names as “complex setup” and integration problems. Knowing where the edge is is how you decide whether you are the right user.

What real users report

Platform, 29 Sep 2026	Rating	Reviews	Distribution
G2	4.8 / 5	61	57 five-star, 4 four-star, none below four
Trustpilot	2.7 / 5	14	4 five-star, 1 three-star, 1 two-star, 8 one-star (57%)

G2 carries the strongest record of any tool this site has reviewed: 57 of 61 reviews are five-star and not one of the remaining four is below four. The negative tail simply does not exist. G2’s reviewers name ease of use as the single most-praised attribute, with 11 mentions, and “no-coding ease” with five more; “Training a robot takes just a few minutes” is representative. G2’s own generated summary also credits “responsive customer support” (6 mentions) and “excellent customer service” (5 mentions) — the strongest support signal in this review.

Trustpilot’s sample is a fourteenth of the size and the opposite shape: 57% one-star. The platform’s own operational note is part of the evidence — the company has not recently invited customers to review it, so this sample arrived unprompted. Two of those reviews are worth quoting: a 16 April 2026 one-star from the US says the product “is glitchy, has been lack of updates… Much of what this tool can do, AI tools like Claude can do much easier and quicker now”; an October 2025 one-star from Germany describes trying Reddit and Facebook from both the Chrome extension and the AI Studio page and getting “either the functionality didn’t work or it scraped complete gibberish”.

Read together, the two do not say one platform is lying. They say how well this product performs depends almost entirely on whether you use it the way it is built. The one independent production user in the corpus put it best:

Browse.ai — great for non-technical workflows, but not really built for programmatic use at scale. More of a no-code tool in practice.

That matches the product’s own architecture: the value is the recorder and the 250+ prebuilt robots, and the API is an endpoint onto a recorded robot rather than general extraction infrastructure. If your need is the former, this is the right tool; if it is the latter, it is not — and that judgement belongs before the purchase, not after it.

How Browse AI scores

Features — 4.5. The breadth is shipped, not promised: recorded robots, 250+ prebuilt robots for named sites, change detection, workflows, bulk runs to 500,000 pages, deep scraping into detail pages, formula columns, residential proxies, anti-bot and CAPTCHA handling, 130+ integrations, and an API with webhooks and eight SDKs that the comparison table ticks even on the free plan. Premium sites are named rather than hidden, and the managed tier publishes a 98% accuracy SLA. The ceiling is equally clear — this is a no-code tool with an API bolted onto a recorded robot, not scraping infrastructure — and its pricing and documentation are consistent with that position.

Ease of use — 4.5. G2’s reviewers name ease of use as the single most-praised attribute, with 11 mentions, and “no-coding ease” with five more; “Training a robot takes just a few minutes” is representative. That is the product’s core claim and the best-evidenced thing about it. The half-point comes off for the other side of the same coin, which G2’s own summary names: “complex setup” (2 mentions), “difficult learning curve” (1) and “insufficient information… particularly for beginners” (1), with integration problems specifically involving two-factor authentication — precisely where a recorded login breaks in practice. For a product sold on not needing code, that is a fair criticism, and it is why starting on the free plan is worth the afternoon.

Value for money — 3.5. It does the three things this category rarely manages: a free plan that genuinely gives (API and residential proxies included), a credit model documented well enough to budget against, and an annual discount larger than its own badge admits (60.4%). It loses points in two places, and both are about how to buy rather than whether it is worth it: the same headline rate delivers a sixth of the credits on monthly billing at an identical cost per credit, so the billing mode matters more than the tier; and top-up credits are annual-only and cost more than the plan’s own, leaving a monthly customer who under-buys no way to add volume.

Support — 3.5. There is real evidence in both directions and no way to average it honestly. G2’s summary credits “responsive customer support” (6 mentions) and “excellent customer service” (5 mentions), the strongest support signal in this review, backed by a distribution with no negative tail. Against it, Trustpilot records that the company has not replied to any of its negative reviews, and every one of the refund routes runs through “reported this to our Customer Support team without resolution” — so support is load-bearing not just for the product but for getting your money back. The vendor’s own affiliate page promises “a few hours or up to 2 business days”, the only published target we found.

Frequently asked questions

Is there a free plan, and is it a trial?

A real free plan, not a trial: 50 credits a month, free forever, no credit card. The comparison table ticks residential proxies, workflows, bulk runs, deep scraping, anti-bot handling, formula columns and the REST API for it, and robots are unlimited. There is no stated 14-day or 7-day clock.

So what does Browse AI actually cost?

$0 on Free. $48 a month or $228 a year on Personal. $87 a month or $828 a year on Professional, with annual-only 120,000, 240,000 and 360,000-credit tiers at $129, $239 and $319 a month. From $500 a month for managed Premium. Extra domains are $4/mo (Personal) and $2.40/mo (Professional) on annual billing, or $5 and $3 on monthly.

How much does annual actually save, and why does the badge say “Save 20%”?

The entry tier saves 60.4%, more than the badge says. Personal is $48 × 12 = $576 billed monthly against $228 billed annually, a $348 difference. Professional’s “saves $216” footnote is also correct ($1,044 − $828, or 20.7%). The badge and the footnote are each right on one tier and wrong on the other — do the arithmetic on your own tier.

Is annual cheaper per credit?

No. It is $0.019 per credit on Personal in both modes, and $0.0138 on Professional. Annual is better value because it delivers 12,000 credits for $228 where monthly delivers 2,000 credits a month for $576 a year. You are buying volume and upfront delivery, not a unit discount.

What does a credit actually buy?

Ten rows of data, or one page, or one screenshot — whichever is higher, minimum one credit per task. Following 100 products from a list page into their detail pages costs 110 credits (10 + 100), or 1.1 credits per product, by the vendor’s own worked example. Premium sites cost 2 to 10 credits per run and Browse AI publishes the list: Amazon, Walmart, Costco, Home Depot, Instacart, Tmall, LinkedIn, Instagram, X, Google, Google Scholar, Realtor.ca, OpenSea and about twenty more.

Do unused credits roll over?

No. “Credits reflect your usage limit within your billing period (either monthly or annual)… Unused credits will also be reset and will not be carried over.” The one exception is an upgrade mid-cycle, when the remaining credits are added to the new plan’s allowance. Credits reserved but unused within a single run are a different matter and come back automatically.

How does the 60-day refund guarantee actually work?

A conditional guarantee, not a 60-day no-questions window: renewals within 60 days only if you have used no credits since; a new annual subscription within 30 days if you reported it broken to support and they could not resolve it; a new monthly subscription within 14 days on the same test. Cancellation takes effect immediately and unused time is not prorated.

Should I choose monthly or annual?

Take annual if you can plan a year of volume. Annual is $228 for 12,000 credits where monthly costs $576 for the same annual volume — and annual credits are spendable at any time, and annual is the only mode that can top up. If you cannot estimate volume, monthly still works — but understand that monthly cannot buy extra credits, so under-buying means changing plan, which charges the new plan in full and resets the billing date.

Should I buy it for programmatic scraping at scale?

No. The one independent production user in the corpus summarised it as “great for non-technical workflows, but not really built for programmatic use at scale. More of a no-code tool in practice”, and the architecture supports that: the API exposes a recorded robot. If your workload is headless, high-concurrency and code-owned, price a scraping API instead. If your workload is mostly Amazon, Walmart or LinkedIn, do the Premium-site arithmetic before choosing any tier.

The bottom line

Browse AI is worth buying, and the reasons can all be checked before you pay. The free plan gives 50 credits a month with no card, and residential proxies, bulk runs, deep scraping, formula columns and the REST API are all inside it — a combination this category usually reserves for paid tiers. What you get after paying is equally concrete: 250+ prebuilt robots, 130+ integrations, a named Premium-site list, a published 98% accuracy SLA on the managed tier, and the strongest review record of any tool on this site: 4.8 from 61 reviews on G2, 57 of them five-star and none below four (the site itself claims 770,000+ users).

Its imperfections fall into one category: how to buy it, not whether it is any good. The annual discount is understated on the page (badge 20%, reality 60.4%); annual and monthly deliver a six-fold difference in credits at an identical unit price, so the billing mode matters more than the tier; and top-ups are annual-only and dearer than the plan’s own credits. The refund policy is conditional, credits do not roll over, and the usage ceiling is not published as a number — all things to know before ordering, none of them reasons to avoid the product.

So do three things before you buy:

• Take annual if you can plan a year of volume. $228 buys 12,000 credits upfront against $576 across twelve months — a 60.4% saving; Professional is $828 against $1,044. Credits arrive all at once and can be spent whenever the work does.
• Price your own URLs against the Premium site list first, because Amazon, Walmart, LinkedIn and the like run at 2–10 credits a time, a different order of magnitude from standard sites.
• Start on the free plan, then decide. 50 credits a month, no card and the API included is enough to prove setup completes on your target sites — the lowest-risk way to begin.

Current pricing and the current credit definitions are on the Browse AI site. If your workload is high-concurrency programmatic extraction, compare against the other tools we have reviewed first — our Nightwatch review is the closest case to this one: a real product, built for a different shape of workload.