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Browserbase vs ScrapeGraphAI

Browserbase is a Proxy & data infrastructure, while ScrapeGraphAI is an AI extraction API. Browserbase fits best for: Teams building AI agents that need to log in, click and navigate real browsers reliably in the cloud. ScrapeGraphAI fits best for: Developers who want prompt-based structured extraction with the option to self-host the open-source library.

BrowserbaseScrapeGraphAI
TypeProxy & data infrastructureAI extraction API
Starting price$20/mo$20/mo
Free tier1 browser hour, 3 concurrent browsers500 one-time credits, 10 req/min
Pricing modelbrowser hours plus proxy GBcredits
AI extraction
Structured JSON
JS rendering
Proxies / anti-bot
API
No-code UI
Open source
MCP server
Best forTeams building AI agents that need to log in, click and navigate real browsers reliably in the cloud.Developers who want prompt-based structured extraction with the option to self-host the open-source library.
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Why choose Browserbase

  • Serverless headless Chrome sessions at scale
  • Stagehand open-source SDK for natural-language actions and extraction
  • Session replay and debugging
  • Stealth, proxies and persistent auth contexts

Watch out for

  • Infrastructure, not a turnkey scraper: you write the automation
  • Billing by browser hours can add up for slow pages
  • Proxy bandwidth billed separately

Why choose ScrapeGraphAI

  • Describe what you want in natural language, get JSON
  • Open-source Python library (MIT) with graph-based pipelines
  • Hosted API v2 with extract, crawl and search
  • Official MCP server (mcp.scrapegraphai.com)

Watch out for

  • Free credits are one-time, not monthly
  • Extraction costs 5 credits per call
  • Smaller company than Firecrawl/Apify; anti-bot depth less proven
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