--- title: "Browse AI Alternative: Scrape.ly vs Browse AI (2026)" description: "Browse AI alternative: 500+ ready-made scrapers you fill in like a form, scheduled with alerts, priced per result. Compared with Browse AI credits." url: https://scrape.ly/compare/browse-ai markdown: https://scrape.ly/compare/browse-ai.md --- Browse AI alternative # A Browse AI alternative with ready-made scrapers and schedules Browse AI bills credits: a page costs 1, and the Personal plan’s 2,000 credits cost $48 a month. Scrape.ly runs ready-made scrapers you fill in like a form, on schedules you set, priced per result: Amazon product pages from $0.75 per 1,000. [Start free](https://my.scrape.ly/register) [Compare the cost](https://scrape.ly/compare/browse-ai.md#calculator) - 1,000 product pages Scrape.ly (Starter): $0.75. Browse AI (Personal): $24. At 1 credit a standard page. Browse AI lists Amazon among its premium sites, which take more credits a page. Even Professional billed annually works out at $13.80 per 1,000 credits. Scrape.ly Starter and up: Amazon Product Scraper $0.75 per 1,000, platform usage included · 28 Oct 2026 · Browse AI Personal: $48/mo for 2,000 credits, billed monthly; 1 credit a page = $24 per 1,000 · 27 Oct 2026 · [source](https://www.browse.ai/pricing) - 5,000 product pages a month Scrape.ly (Starter): $3.75. Browse AI (Professional): $87. Personal stops at 2,000 credits, and monthly plans can’t buy top-ups, so 5,000 pages takes Professional. Scrape.ly Starter and up: 5,000 × $0.75 per 1,000 = $3.75 · 28 Oct 2026 · Browse AI Professional: $87/mo for 5,000 credits, billed monthly · 27 Oct 2026 · [source](https://www.browse.ai/pricing) - Robot to train Scrape.ly: Not needed. Browse AI: One per site. For sites the Store covers, you fill in a form instead. Browse AI prices as listed on 26 Oct 2026 · [source](https://www.browse.ai/pricing) The short answer ## Why teams pick Scrape.ly over Browse AI - Pay per result, not per credit: Amazon product pages from $0.75 per 1,000, against $17 to $24 per 1,000 on Browse AI’s monthly plans. - Ready-made scrapers for Google Maps, Amazon, LinkedIn, Zillow and hundreds more, filled in like a form. - Save an input as a task, put it on a schedule, and get the results by email, Slack, Google Sheets or webhook. - The same runs from the API, or from Claude and Cursor over MCP. Price calculator ## What product pages cost at your volume Slide to the product pages you need a month. Scrape.ly’s side is the Amazon Product Scraper’s from-price, on Starter and up. Browse AI’s is the smaller monthly plan with enough credits, at 1 credit per page. product pages a month: 2,000 Scrape.ly Starter and up, Amazon Product Scraper $1.50 a month Browse AI, monthly billing $48 a month, Personal At 2,000 product pages, Scrape.ly costs 97% less than Browse AI’s cheapest option. | Option | How it is priced | A month | | ------------ | -------------------------- | ------- | | Personal | $48 a month, 2,000 credits | $48 | | Professional | $87 a month, 5,000 credits | $87 | From-price: the Starter, Scale and Business price per product, platform usage included. No credits to budget. Annual billing costs less and loads the year’s credits upfront ($19 and $69 a month). A page costs 1 credit, 10 rows of a list cost 1 credit. Free allowances are left out on both sides. Browse AI prices as listed on 26 Oct 2026 · [source](https://www.browse.ai/pricing) Real run ## No robot to train: a form and a run One Amazon search for mechanical keyboards, asked for in plain words through the Scrape.ly MCP server on 26 Oct 2026. Save the same input as a task and it runs on your schedule. You ask your AI agent “Search Amazon for mechanical keyboards and give me the first page of results with price, rating and review count.” [Run this input yourself →](https://my.scrape.ly/store/shelfbright~amazon-product-scraper?intent=signup) { } The Actor input it runs ``` { "categoryOrProductUrls": [ { "url": "https://www.amazon.com/s?k=mechanical+keyboard" } ], "maxItemsPerStartUrl": 20, "maxSearchPagesPerStartUrl": 1 } ``` Amazon Product Scraper Mechanical keyboards on Amazon, one search page 1. \#1 AULA F75 Pro Wireless Mechanical Keyboard,75% Hot Swappable Custom Keyboard with Knob,RGB Backlit,Pre-lubed R… $64.99 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 1,877 B0D14N2QZF 2. \#2 Redragon Mechanical Gaming Keyboard Wired, 11 Programmable Backlit Modes, Hot-Swappable Red Switch, Anti-Ghos… $29.99 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 6,901 B0CF3VGQFL 3. \#3 Logitech G413 SE Full-Size Mechanical Gaming Keyboard - Black $69.60 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 1,676 B08Z6X4NK3 4. \#4 Logitech MX Mechanical Wireless Illuminated Keyboard Tactile - Graphite $149.99 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2,263 B09LK1P1RD 5. \#5 Redragon K521 Upgrade Rainbow LED Gaming Keyboard, 104 Keys Wired Mechanical Feeling Keyboard with Multimedia… $15.99 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 11,450 B0DRFGNWV1 - Products 16 - Run time 43 s - Proxies Included - Cost from $0.012 Real run on Oct 26, 2026 · 16 items in 43 s · from $0.012 at Oct 28, 2026 prices · run e484ec45c47948619 Schedules ## Ready-made scrapers on a schedule, or robots you train Both run on a schedule and send results where you work. The difference is how you set up the scraper. ### Scrape.ly - Pick a ready-made scraper in the Store and fill in its form. - Save the input as a task and give it a cron schedule. - Results go to Google Sheets, Slack, S3, email through n8n, or any webhook. - Pay per result from a prepaid balance, with no credit tiers to pick. ### Browse AI - Train a robot by clicking through the site in your browser. - Credits: 1 per page or per 10 rows; Personal 2,000 a month for $48, Professional 5,000 for $87, billed monthly. - Annual plans cost less and load the year’s credits upfront; top-ups are annual-only. - Every plan includes unlimited robots, a REST API, webhooks and integrations. Browse AI prices as listed on 26 Oct 2026 · [source](https://www.browse.ai/pricing) Features ## Feature by feature, with sources For getting data without code. Every Browse AI cell links to the page it was read on, on 26 Oct 2026. | Feature | Scrape.ly | Browse AI | | ------------------------------------- | --------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | Ready-made scrapers for popular sites | Store, 500+ | Robots you train [browse.ai/pricing](https://www.browse.ai/pricing "Read on 26 Oct 2026") | | Priced per result | Yes | Credits per page or 10 rows [browse.ai/pricing](https://www.browse.ai/pricing "Read on 26 Oct 2026") | | Schedules | Yes | Yes [browse.ai/pricing](https://www.browse.ai/pricing "Read on 26 Oct 2026") | | REST API and webhooks | Yes | Yes [browse.ai/pricing](https://www.browse.ai/pricing "Read on 26 Oct 2026") | | Run your own code | JavaScript or Python Actors | No [browse.ai/pricing](https://www.browse.ai/pricing "Read on 26 Oct 2026") | | Build and sell your own scrapers | Creators keep 80% | No [browse.ai/pricing](https://www.browse.ai/pricing "Read on 26 Oct 2026") | Fit ## When to choose which Browse AI is a good fit for: People who want to train a robot on a site by clicking through it in their browser. ### Choose Scrape.ly if - A ready-made scraper covers your site, and you want to fill in a form rather than train a robot. - You want to pay per result, with no credits to budget per page. - You want the same runs from an API, an AI agent over MCP, or a schedule. ### Choose Browse AI if - You want to train a robot yourself by clicking through a site in your browser. FAQ ## Scrape.ly vs Browse AI, answered Short answers to what people ask. The [quick start](https://scrape.ly/docs/quickstart.md) and [MCP docs](https://scrape.ly/docs/mcp.md) go deeper. ### How much does Browse AI cost? As listed on 26 Oct 2026: Personal $48 a month billed monthly (2,000 credits) or $19 billed annually (12,000 a year); Professional $87 monthly (5,000 credits) or $69 annually (60,000 a year); Premium from $500 a month billed annually. ### Is Browse AI free to use? Browse AI has a free plan with 50 credits a month: up to 50 pages or 500 rows. Scrape.ly’s free plan includes $5 of credit every month, about 5,000 Amazon products. ### Is Browse AI any good? It is a capable no-code tool if you want to train robots on sites yourself. If the site you need is in the Store, a ready-made scraper skips the training and costs less per page. ### Can I monitor a page for changes? Yes. Save a scraper’s input as a task, run it on a schedule, and compare runs or send each run’s results to Slack, Google Sheets or a webhook. ### What counts as a credit on Browse AI? One page, or 10 rows of a list, per Browse AI’s pricing page. Scrape.ly Store Actors charge per result instead, at a Store price set for each plan. ### Can I scrape Google Maps without training a robot? Yes. The Google Maps Scraper takes a search term and a city and returns places with ratings, phones and websites, from $1.27 per 1,000. [Google Maps scrapers →](https://scrape.ly/scrapers/google-maps.md) ### Can I send results to Google Sheets? Yes. Results can go to Google Sheets, Slack, S3 or any webhook when a run finishes, or you can download them as CSV, Excel or JSON. ### Can AI agents run these scrapers? Yes. Through the hosted MCP server, Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor can find a scraper, run it and read the results. ### Who operates Scrape.ly? Scrape.ly is operated by TeraShift GmbH, a Swiss company. Sources ## Sources and method Every Browse AI price on this page carries the date it was read on Browse AI’s own pages; Scrape.ly prices come from the Store when the page is built. The real run was started on 26 Oct 2026; its cost is shown at Store list price, without any plan discount. Spotted something out of date? [Tell us](mailto:hello@scrape.ly?subject=Correction%3A%20Scrape.ly%20vs%20Browse%20AI\&body=I%27d%20like%20to%20suggest%20a%20correction%20to%20the%20Scrape.ly%20vs%20Browse%20AI%20comparison.) and we will fix it. ### Browse AI - [browse.ai/pricing](https://www.browse.ai/pricing) · read 26 Oct 2026 ### Scrape.ly - [Proxy groups and per-GB prices](https://scrape.ly/docs/proxy.md#groups-and-countries) - [Plans, prepaid credits, and billing](https://scrape.ly/docs/account.md#plans-and-credits) - [Creator earnings (80%) and payouts](https://scrape.ly/docs/publishing.md#earnings) - [Maximum charge per run](https://scrape.ly/docs/run-actors.md#run-options) - [JavaScript SDK (API-compatible with the Apify SDK)](https://scrape.ly/docs/sdk-node.md) - [Python SDK](https://scrape.ly/docs/sdk-python.md) - [Migrating from apify-client (JavaScript)](https://scrape.ly/docs/client-js.md#migrating-from-apify-client) - [Migrating from apify-client (Python)](https://scrape.ly/docs/client-python.md#migrating-from-apify-client) - [Scrape.ly browser](https://scrape.ly/docs/browser.md) - [MCP server](https://scrape.ly/docs/mcp.md) - [CLI reference](https://scrape.ly/docs/cli.md) - [Store](https://scrape.ly/docs/store.md) - [Pricing](https://scrape.ly/pricing.md) Disclosure: Scrape.ly and Evomi are sister companies. If you only need proxies, Evomi sells residential proxies from $0.49 per GB on its 100 GB plan. [Evomi pricing](https://evomi.com/pricing) Browse AI is a trademark of its owner, used here only to identify their product. Scrape.ly is not affiliated with Browse AI. More comparisons ## Compare Scrape.ly with other tools See every comparison on the [compare page](https://scrape.ly/compare.md), or explore the [Store](https://scrape.ly/store.md), [proxies](https://scrape.ly/proxies.md), and [anti-blocking](https://scrape.ly/anti-blocking.md). - [No-code tool](https://scrape.ly/compare/octoparse.md) ### [Scrape.ly vs Octoparse](https://scrape.ly/compare/octoparse.md) [No-code, point-and-click web scraping desktop app with cloud extraction, templates, and an AI assistant that builds tasks.](https://scrape.ly/compare/octoparse.md) [Read the comparison](https://scrape.ly/compare/octoparse.md) - [No-code tool](https://scrape.ly/compare/webscraper-io.md) ### [Scrape.ly vs Web Scraper](https://scrape.ly/compare/webscraper-io.md) [Point-and-click browser extension for building scrapers (sitemaps), with a paid Web Scraper Cloud for scheduled, managed runs, a marketplace of maintained sitemaps, and an API.](https://scrape.ly/compare/webscraper-io.md) [Read the comparison](https://scrape.ly/compare/webscraper-io.md) - [No-code tool](https://scrape.ly/compare/phantombuster.md) ### [Scrape.ly vs PhantomBuster](https://scrape.ly/compare/phantombuster.md) [Cloud automation and data extraction tool for sales and growth teams, with prebuilt automations ('Phantoms') for LinkedIn, Sales Navigator, and other platforms, plus CRM syncing.](https://scrape.ly/compare/phantombuster.md) [Read the comparison](https://scrape.ly/compare/phantombuster.md) ## The internet is full of data. 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