COMPARISON
Browserbase vs Hyperbrowser.
Both rent your agents cloud browsers at about ten to twelve cents an hour. Browserbase is the larger platform, built around its Stagehand framework and strong session replays. Hyperbrowser bundles ready-made computer-use agents and gives you more browsers at once for the money. When the task needs more than a browser, there’s a third option.
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At a glance
| Browserbase | Hyperbrowser | ibara | |
|---|---|---|---|
| What the agent gets | A cloud browser | A cloud browser, with optional built-in agents | A whole desktop on a computer you own, browser included |
| Free start | 1 browser hour, 3 at once | 5,000 credits, 1 at once | Free software |
| Entry paid plan | Developer: $20 a month, 100 hours included, 25 at once | Startup: $30 a month, 25 at once | No plan; you supply the hardware |
| Next plan | Startup: $99 a month, 500 hours, 100 at once | Scale: $100 a month, 100 at once | Add another computer |
| Browser hour | $0.12 after included hours ($0.10 on Startup) | $0.10 | No hourly charge |
| Proxy traffic | $12 a GB after the included amount | $10 a GB | Your own connection |
| Source | Proprietary service; Stagehand is MIT | Proprietary service; HyperAgent is open source | MIT core and plugin |
From each vendor’s own pages, checked 15 October 2026. Prices change; check before you buy.
What each one is
Browserbase runs browsers in the cloud for AI agents and automation, with search, fetch, functions and sandboxes alongside. It maintains Stagehand, an open-source framework for browser agents, and says it serves 35 million browser sessions a month across 10,000 customers.
Hyperbrowser runs cloud browsers for agents and scrapers, and offers agents that use them: Claude, OpenAI and Gemini computer use, Browser Use, and its own open-source HyperAgent. It says browsers are ready in under 500 milliseconds.
Pricing
Browserbase’s Developer plan is $20 a month with 100 browser hours, then $0.12 an hour, up to 25 browsers at once. Startup is $99 a month with 500 hours, then $0.10 an hour, up to 100 at once.
Hyperbrowser’s free plan has 5,000 credits and one browser at a time. Startup is $30 a month for 25 at once and Scale is $100 a month for 100 at once, with browser time at $0.10 an hour and proxies at $10 a GB.
The plans line up closely: the same concurrency at each tier for similar fees. Browserbase includes hours in the fee; Hyperbrowser’s hourly rate is lower on its entry plan.
Agents included
This is the clearest difference. Hyperbrowser will run a computer-use agent for you inside its browsers: pick Claude, OpenAI or Gemini computer use, Browser Use or HyperAgent, and hand it a task. Browserbase expects you to bring the agent, and makes that easy with Stagehand and integrations for OpenAI’s and Anthropic’s agents, Google’s ADK and Browser Use.
Sessions and features
Both keep logins in saved profiles, solve captchas, offer proxies, show a live view and record sessions, and both have an MCP server. Browserbase adds MP4 recordings, Verified agent identity and several regions. Hyperbrowser adds sandboxes with snapshots.
Which to choose
- Choose Browserbase if you’re building your own agent and want Stagehand, mature replays and the biggest ecosystem.
- Choose Hyperbrowser if you want to call a ready-made computer-use agent, or the lower hourly rate on the entry plan.
- Choose either for many short-lived browsers started in seconds.
A third option: beyond the browser
Both stop at the browser. ibara is computer use built for Omarchy: it gives the agent you already use (Claude Code, Codex or any agent that can use MCP tools) the whole desktop of a computer you own: a real browser, plus the apps and files on that computer.
- Tasks can leave the browser. Download a report, open it in a desktop app, check the interface the agent built.
- Your connection. Websites see your home or office connection, not a data center address.
- No hourly bill. The software is free and open source; a spare mini PC is enough.
- You choose who’s driving. Watch, take control and hand it back.
ibara is built for Omarchy, with one agent driving each computer at a time, so you scale by adding computers. For bursts of hundreds of browsers, Browserbase or Hyperbrowser is the better fit. Real computers vs cloud covers the trade.
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Sources
All checked 15 October 2026. ibara.app publishes this page; ibara is the third option.
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