Browser Use Cloud alternative: Browserberg compared
Both run Chromium for agents. They differ on where your session data is processed, whether the product helps you evade bot detection, and what happens to your credentials.
Browserberg and Browser Use Cloud, side by side
Competitor figures come from Browser Use Cloud's published pricing and documentation on the date below. Where a figure is a vendor's own claim rather than an independent measurement, it says so.
| Browserberg | Browser Use Cloud | |
|---|---|---|
| Where sessions run | EU bare metal (OVHcloud) | US-operated |
| Bot posture | Authenticated-first, no stealth | Agent-first |
| Price per browser hour | EUR 0.08–0.09/hr | USD 0.02/hr, 1-minute minimum |
| Free tier | 5 hours | Free tier |
| Credential vault | Yes — encrypted, site-scoped, never in model context | Profiles |
| Human takeover | Yes — live view with single-writer lease | Limited |
As of 2026-08-30 · Competitor details come from each vendor's published pricing page on that date.
Questions people actually ask
Does the one-minute minimum matter for my workload?
It matters if your sessions are short. A run that takes twelve seconds is billed as a minute, so a workload of many brief sessions costs roughly five times the headline rate. For long sessions it makes no difference.
You use their open-source code. Is that a conflict?
We port parts of their perception work under its MIT licence and say so in our NOTICE file. It is not a conflict; it is why we can be specific about what their agent does well.
Their benchmark says 84.8%. What is yours?
We have not published one yet, and we will not quote a number we produced privately. The plan is a reproducible DACH benchmark with a public harness that competitors can rerun — which is the only kind of number worth arguing about.
Where Browserberg is the better fit
The benchmark is theirs
84.8% is a vendor-reported number on a vendor-designed suite. That is not an accusation — it is the norm in this category — but it is not the same as an independently reproducible result.
One-minute minimum billing
At USD 0.02 an hour the headline is unbeatable, but a workload of many short sessions is billed at a minute each, which changes the arithmetic considerably.
No sovereignty or compliance surface
US-operated, with no DPA-and-residency story for an EU buyer.
Where Browser Use Cloud is the better fit
A comparison page that never recommends the competitor is an advert, not a comparison.
- Browser Use Cloud
- Their open-source agent is excellent and we say so in our own NOTICE file — parts of our perception design are ported from it under its MIT licence. If price per hour dominates your decision and residency does not, they win on price and we would not argue.
Migrating from Browser Use Cloud
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Measure your session length distribution
The one-minute minimum only bites on short runs. Get the histogram before you model the cost.
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Keep using their agent if it works
It is MIT-licensed and it drives CDP. Running their agent against our sessions is a supported combination, not a compromise.
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Re-run your own tasks, not their suite
Their 84.8% was measured on tasks they chose. Yours are the only ones that predict your result.
Other comparisons
- Browserbase Browserbase is the category leader and the most complete managed offering: Stagehand as an MIT-licensed SDK, contexts, replays, an MCP server, SOC 2 and HIPAA, and a founding seat on Cloudflare's Signed Agents programme.
- Browserless Browserless is the mature headless-browser service in the category: Puppeteer, Playwright and Selenium support, a REST API, BrowserQL, an MCP server, a self-hostable Docker image, and SOC 2, HIPAA and GDPR compliance.
- Steel Steel is the open-source answer to Browserbase: Apache-2.
- Hyperbrowser Hyperbrowser leads with stealth.
- Kernel Kernel is the cheapest serious option and the most infrastructure-shaped: unikernel and microVM isolation, sessions that can run for 72 hours, browser pools, per-second billing and ISO 27001.
- Anchor Browser Anchor is our closest strategic neighbour and the comparison we take most seriously.
Settle it with your own script
Five browser hours free, no card. Point an existing Playwright or Puppeteer script at our endpoint and compare the result yourself.