Browserbase 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.
What Browserbase is
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.
Browserberg and Browserbase, side by side
Competitor figures come from Browserbase'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 | Browserbase | |
|---|---|---|
| Where sessions run | EU bare metal (OVHcloud) | US-managed cloud |
| Bot posture | Authenticated-first, no stealth | Stealth available, gated by plan |
| Price per browser hour | EUR 0.08–0.09/hr | USD 0.10–0.12/hr |
| Free tier | 5 hours | 1 hour |
| Credential vault | Yes — encrypted, site-scoped, never in model context | Contexts, not a credential vault |
| Human takeover | Yes — live view with single-writer lease | Session replays |
As of 2026-08-30 · Competitor details come from each vendor's published pricing page on that date.
Where Browserberg is the better fit
EU data residency is not on the menu
Browserbase is managed-only and US-operated. For a buyer whose procurement asks where session data is processed, that is the end of the evaluation rather than a configuration question.
Reliability on complex SPAs is measurable
Browserbase scored 70.3% on Browser Use's antibot suite and 50% on AImultiple's 160-task suite. Those are published third-party numbers, and they are the reason we invested in perception rather than in stealth.
Credentials, not contexts
Contexts persist a browser profile. They are not a credential vault: there is no site-scoped release, no placeholder indirection keeping secrets out of the model's context, and no TOTP resolution.
Questions people actually ask
Is Stagehand usable with Browserberg?
Stagehand is MIT-licensed and drives a browser over CDP, so nothing stops you pointing it at our endpoint. We do not ship a compatibility shim for the Browserbase API itself, and we would rather you knew that than discovered it mid-migration.
Browserbase has SOC 2 and HIPAA. Do you?
Not yet. An ISO 27001 programme is scoped and BSI C5 is a later objective. If your procurement needs an attestation on the desk this quarter, Browserbase has one and we do not.
What does the 70.3% figure actually measure?
It is Browserbase's score on Browser Use's published antibot suite. A second independent suite from AImultiple put them at 50% across 160 tasks. Both measure adversarial public sites rather than authenticated portals, so treat them as evidence about the category, not a verdict on your workload.
Migrating from Browserbase
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Swap connectOverCDP for our endpoint
If you drive sessions with Playwright or Stagehand, this is the only line that changes.
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Rebuild contexts as profiles
A Browserbase context maps onto a Browserberg profile. Both persist cookies and storage; ours is encrypted per tenant and restored at session start.
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Move any stealth-dependent job elsewhere
If part of your suite relies on stealth, that part does not port. Identify it before you migrate rather than after.
Where Browserbase is the better fit
A comparison page that never recommends the competitor is an advert, not a comparison.
- Browserbase
- If you need stealth against adversarial public sites, SOC 2 and HIPAA attestations today, or the breadth of an established platform with a large integration surface, Browserbase is the stronger choice and we would tell you so.
Other comparisons
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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.
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Steel
Steel is the open-source answer to Browserbase: Apache-2.
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Hyperbrowser
Hyperbrowser leads with stealth.
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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.
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Anchor Browser
Anchor is our closest strategic neighbour and the comparison we take most seriously.
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Browser Use Cloud
Browser Use is the benchmark leader and the cheapest per hour in the category: 84.
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.