# Cloud Scraping Browsers Comparison

> Feature and cost breakdown across cloud browser sandbox providers for scraping

A comparison framework evaluating five cloud browser providers for running high-volume, automated scraping fleets. It benchmarks boat.dev against Browserbase, Browser Use, Steel, and Hyperbrowser based on concurrency pricing, session limits, anti-bot capabilities, and infrastructure features like persistent storage and VM access.

## The framework

Per month: boat.dev $90, Browserbase $537, Browser Use $198, Steel $540, Hyperbrowser $366. 100 browsers at once from: $20 plan / $99 plan / by spend / $250 plan / $100 plan. Longest session: no limit / 6h / 4h / 24h / 12h. Robust to anti-bots: all ✓. Residential IPs: boat.dev –, others ✓. Headful Chrome on desktop: boat.dev ✓, others –. Pause a session, resume later: boat.dev ✓, others –. Fork a running session: boat.dev ✓, Hyperbrowser ✓. Computer-use API: all except Browserbase. Whole machine (SSH, Docker): boat.dev only. Files kept between runs: boat.dev ✓, Browser Use ✓. Regions: EU / US,EU,Asia / US,EU / US / US,EU,Asia.

## What it is for

- Choose a cost-effective cloud browser provider for large-scale web scraping
- Identify browser sandbox platforms that support session pausing, forking, or full VM access
- Estimate monthly cloud browser costs for running concurrent AI agent sessions

## Key points

- Pricing benchmarks calculated for 100k monthly sessions (3 minutes each, 50 concurrent)
- Concurrency entry tiers and pricing comparison across all 5 providers
- Feature comparison covering session durability, pause/resume, and session forking
- Infrastructure access checklist including headful Chrome, SSH, Docker, and persistent files
- Network feature breakdown comparing regional coverage and residential proxy availability

## Pricing

Free

## Details

- Type: Framework
- Category: [Development](https://xiry.app/topics/development.md)
- Topic: [Web Scraping](https://xiry.app/topics/development/web-scraping.md)
- Open source: no
- Platforms: Web
- For: Developers and data engineers building web scrapers and AI agent browser workflows
- Alternative to: Browserbase, Browser Use, Steel, Hyperbrowser
- Tags: web scraping, cloud browsers, browser automation, sandboxes, benchmarking

## Why it was saved

- [@AniC_dev, 4 October 2026](https://x.com/AniC_dev/status/2106602714490683853): Full transcription of the quoted chart — feature checklist and pricing baseline for choosing a scraping browser.

## Compare

- [Alternatives to browser-use](https://xiry.app/alternatives/browser-use.md)
- [Alternatives to Browserbase](https://xiry.app/alternatives/browserbase.md)

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- [Parse](https://xiry.app/resources/parse): Turn any website into a structured REST API using natural language (Web app, Freemium)
- [Apify](https://xiry.app/resources/apify): Cloud platform and marketplace for web scraping, automation, and AI data extraction. (Web app, Freemium)
- [ScrapeGraphAI](https://xiry.app/resources/scrapegraphai): Open-source Python library and API for prompt-based web scraping using LLMs (GitHub repo, Freemium)
- [Chat4Data](https://xiry.app/resources/chat4data): AI Chrome extension for scraping web data using natural language chat prompts. (Browser extension, Freemium)
- [Cloudflare /crawl Endpoint](https://xiry.app/resources/cloudflare-crawl-endpoint): Single API endpoint to crawl entire websites to Markdown, HTML, or JSON (Tip, Freemium)

Updated 11 October 2026. Page: https://xiry.app/resources/cloud-scraping-browsers-comparison

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