Is Browse AI worth it in 2026?
What the $19 Personal plan really costs, how credits are counted per page and per row, and when monitoring burns through a year’s allowance.
The quick answer
Browse AI is worth it for marketers and researchers who need to monitor a handful of sites or run a one-off scrape without writing code. The $19 a month Personal price means $228 paid upfront for 12,000 credits a year; month to month it is $48 for 2,000 credits. Daily checks on 20 standard pages fit the annual plan; hourly checks or Amazon-type sites do not. Robots can break silently when a site changes, so audit runs.
Short answer: Browse AI is worth $19 a month for no-code scraping only if you pay for a year: the $19 rate is $228 billed annually for 12,000 credits, while monthly billing is $48 for 2,000 credits a month, per Browse AI’s plans and pricing guide. Paid upfront, the year suits monitoring a few sites or one large project.
Browse AI lets you train a “robot” by clicking through a website in your browser, then runs it in the cloud to pull lists, detail pages or screenshots into Google Sheets, Airtable, an API or a webhook. It can also monitor pages on a schedule and alert you when something changes. That makes it a fit for competitor price tracking, job and property listings, and research datasets.
Browse AI plans in US dollars, as of October 29, 2026
Annual plans give all credits upfront. Larger Professional credit tiers are also sold. Cost per credit is the pricing page’s own figure for annual plans.
| Feature | Free | Personal | Professional |
|---|---|---|---|
| Billed annually | $0 | $19/month ($228/year) | $69/month ($828/year) |
| Credits on annual plan | 50 a month | 12,000 a year | 60,000 a year |
| Billed monthly | $0 | $48/month | $87/month |
| Credits on monthly plan | 50 a month | 2,000 a month | 5,000 a month |
| Domains included | 2 | 5 | 10 |
| Team members | 3 | 3 | 10 |
| Cost per credit, annual | n/a | $0.019 | $0.014 to $0.011 |
| Credit top-ups | No | Annual plans only, $0.024 each | Annual plans only, $0.017 to $0.013 each |
What you get
- ✓No code: train a robot by clicking through a site, then schedule it in the cloud.
- ✓Cheaper than in 2025: Professional fell from $99 to $69 a month billed annually.
- ✓Annual credits upfront: 12,000 credits on day one suits a one-off project.
- ✓Clear credit rules: 1 credit per page or per 10 rows, whichever is more.
- ✓Real refund policy: 30 days for new annual plans that never worked, 60 days for forgotten renewals with no use.
The trade-offs
- ✕Monthly billing is steep: $48 for 2,000 credits versus $19 a month on annual.
- ✕Silent failures: a changed layout can return empty results with no alert.
- ✕Premium sites cost more: a 2 to 10 credit minimum per task on Amazon, LinkedIn or Google.
- ✕Domain caps: 5 on Personal, with extras at $4 a month each.
- ✕Top-ups are annual-only: monthly users must upgrade to get more credits.
Worth it if…
- →A marketer monitoring competitor prices or listings on a few standard sites, daily rather than hourly.
- →A researcher who needs one large dataset and can buy a year of credits, then cancel.
- →A non-technical team that wants scraped data in Google Sheets or Airtable without code.
Skip it if…
- →You need hourly checks across many pages; the credit count outgrows self-serve plans.
- →Your targets are mostly premium sites like Amazon or LinkedIn on a small budget.
- →You can write a scraper yourself or already run n8n.
- →You need data kept longer than 90 days inside the tool.
How has Browse AI’s price changed?
The entry price stayed at $19, but the plans were rebuilt in 2025. In the June 4, 2024 and March 11, 2025 snapshots, the ladder was Starter at $19 a month billed annually with 10,000 credits a year and a 10-robot cap, Professional at $99 with 60,000 credits and 20 robots, and Team at $249. The March 2025 page put monthly billing at $48.75, $123.75 and $311.25.
By the October 24, 2025 snapshot, Starter had become Personal with 12,000 credits a year, Professional had dropped from $99 to $69 a month billed annually with the same 60,000 credits, and Team was gone. Robot caps were replaced by unlimited robots with a cap on websites (now called domains). Those figures are unchanged on today’s pricing page. For Professional, that is a 30% price cut (our arithmetic).
How credits are counted
Browse AI’s credit guide sets the rules: every task costs at least 1 credit, and every 10 rows of data cost 1 credit, so you pay whichever is more. A list page with 50 products costs 5 credits; 20 separate product pages cost 20. A screenshot on its own is 1 credit. Building a robot with AI costs 20 credits once you pass your plan’s AI training allowance; training one by hand is free.
Premium sites cost more. Amazon, Walmart, LinkedIn, Instagram, X and Google are on Browse AI’s premium site list, with a minimum of 2 to 10 credits per task instead of 1. Monitoring is where budgets go: every check is a new task.
Three scenarios in dollars
Marketer tracking competitor prices. 20 standard product pages checked once a day is 20 credits a check, about 600 a month and 7,200 a year (our arithmetic). That fits Personal’s 12,000 annual credits for $228, as long as the pages sit on 5 domains or fewer. Check the same 20 pages every hour and it becomes 14,400 credits a month, about 172,800 a year, which needs the 240,000-credit Professional tier at $2,868 a year.
Same job on Amazon. At a premium minimum of, say, 5 credits per task, 20 pages a day is 3,000 credits a month or 36,000 a year. That needs Professional’s 60,000 credits at $828 a year. Our arithmetic, with the actual minimum set per site by Browse AI.
Researcher’s one-off dataset. Scraping a list of 5,000 listings is 500 credits; visiting each detail page adds 5,000, so about 5,500 credits in total, the same math as the guide’s deep-scraping example. Monthly Personal’s 2,000 credits would take three months ($144). Annual Personal gives 12,000 upfront for $228, and Browse AI itself recommends that route for one-off projects: buy the year, then cancel before renewal.
What do users say about Browse AI?
The main complaint is reliability when sites change. A SyncGTM review (published April 19, 2026, updated September 30, 2026) says that when a page layout changes, “the robot returns empty results without alerting you to the failure,” and recommends running a two-week test on the free plan before paying. That matters most for monitoring, where a silent failure looks exactly like “no change.”
Browse AI’s pricing FAQ says every run shows its credit cost in the dashboard before it goes, which makes the free plan a fair test of both reliability and burn rate. Whatever the plan, budget a little time each month to spot-check runs.
Refunds, limits and the fine print
Browse AI’s refund policy is more generous than most. A new annual subscriber who could not get the software working and reported it to support within 30 days gets a full refund; new monthly subscribers get 14 days. Forgot to cancel? If a plan renewed in the last 60 days and you used no credits since, those renewals are refunded in full. Heavy successful use can turn a refund into a prorated one.
Plan credits do not roll over. Top-up credits (minimum 1,000) do roll over at renewal but are lost if the workspace drops to Free, and they are sold only on annual plans. Extra domains cost $4 a month on annual Personal and $2.40 on annual Professional. Data is kept for 90 days on self-serve plans, so export what you need.
Academy data: of the 3 market-research and competitor-analysis prompt packs in our library, none names Browse AI. The Claude competitor analysis prompts (30 prompts) help turn a scraped price table into findings, which Browse AI does not do.
Browse AI or build it yourself?
Octoparse has a free plan with 10 tasks and 50,000 rows of monthly export, and paid plans from $69 a month billed annually; it suits people happy to configure selectors in a desktop app. Gumloop Pro starts at $37 a month for AI workflow automation. n8n’s self-hosted Community Edition is on GitHub for anyone who can run a server and write the scraping logic.
Browse AI’s advantage is that a non-technical marketer can train a robot by clicking and get monitoring, proxies and integrations without touching code. If you can write a script, building it yourself is cheaper; if you cannot, $228 a year is a fair price for a few monitored sites.
The verdict
Browse AI is worth $228 a year for a marketer or researcher who wants a few sites monitored daily or one big dataset scraped without code; 12,000 credits cover about 20 standard pages checked every day. Skip monthly billing unless you need under 2,000 credits and only for a month or two.
It is poor value for hourly monitoring or premium sites, where Professional at $828 a year is the realistic floor. What would change the verdict: alerts when a robot returns empty data, or monthly plans priced closer to the annual rate.
Better alternatives?
If it is not the right fit, these are worth a look.
Gumloop
AI workflow builder; Pro starts at $37 a month.
Zapier
Moves scraped data into other apps; Browse AI lists it as an integration.
n8n
Self-hosted Community Edition for people who can write the scraper.
Octoparse
Selector-based desktop scraper with a free plan and paid plans from $69 a month billed annually.
Frequently asked questions
How much does Browse AI cost in 2026?▾
As of October 29, 2026, Personal is $19 a month billed annually ($228 for 12,000 credits) or $48 a month for 2,000 credits. Professional is $69 a month billed annually ($828 for 60,000 credits) or $87 a month for 5,000.
Is the Browse AI free plan enough?▾
For testing. Free gives 50 credits a month and 2 domains, enough for about 500 rows from list pages or 50 single pages. It is a good way to see whether a robot holds up on your target site.
How many credits does Browse AI use?▾
At least 1 credit per task, or 1 credit per 10 rows if that is more. Premium sites such as Amazon and LinkedIn cost 2 to 10 credits per task. Each monitoring check is a new task.
Does Browse AI offer refunds?▾
Yes, with conditions. New annual subscribers who could not get it working and contacted support within 30 days get a full refund; monthly subscribers get 14 days. Unused renewals in the last 60 days are refunded.
Do Browse AI credits roll over?▾
Plan credits do not; they reset each billing period. Top-up credits, sold only on annual plans with a 1,000-credit minimum, roll over at renewal but are lost if you drop to the Free plan.