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HeadlessFleet vs Browser Use

Browser Use sells residential proxy data at $5 per GB, with none included. HeadlessFleet sells US mobile data at $1 per GB, and Starter and Growth include 5 or 25 GB a month.

As of 2026-10-05.

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US mobile IPs
Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile
Billed per second
Playwright over CDP

At a glance

$1 vs $5
Per GB, Starter overage vs Browser Use. Ours is US mobile; theirs is residential.
Sources: HeadlessFleet, Browser Use 1 2
$50 vs $102
Worked example A, 100 browser-hours and 20 GB at up to 10 concurrent.
Sources: HeadlessFleet, Browser Use
6 h vs 4 h
Longest session, Starter vs Browser Use.
Sources: HeadlessFleet, Browser Use

Figures as of 2026-10-05. Worked examples are our arithmetic.

Choose HeadlessFleet if

Your workload is data-heavy, as in worked examples A and B. Our US mobile data costs $1 per GB.
You need US mobile-carrier IPs. Browser Use’s managed proxies are residential.
Your sessions run longer than 4 hours. Starter allows 6 and Growth 12.
You need 50 concurrent browsers from the start. Browser Use raises concurrency with lifetime spend.

As of 2026-10-05, with sources in the tables below.

What a month costs

Our arithmetic from list prices as of 2026-10-05. How we calculate

Monthly cost of three workloads at each vendor’s list prices, as of 2026-10-05. Our arithmetic.
Monthly usage	HeadlessFleet	Browser Use
A 100 browser-hours, 20 GB, up to 10 concurrent	$50Starter	$102Prepaid usage
B 200 browser-hours, 25 GB, up to 50 concurrent	$99Growth	$129Prepaid usage¹
C 300 browser-hours, 5 GB, up to 10 concurrent	$55Starter	$31Prepaid usage
Sources	source	sources 1 2

¹ Browser Use allows 50 concurrent browsers after $200 of lifetime spend. Its docs say $100. sources 1 2

Feature by feature

Published list prices and documented features, as of 2026-10-05. Browser Use’s managed proxy data is residential; ours is US mobile. “Not published” means the vendor’s public pages didn’t state it on 2026-10-05. Self-serve plans unless noted.
Feature	HeadlessFleet	Browser Use
Plans and price
Free plan	$0, no card: 20 browser-h and 10 GB mobile data a month; 5 concurrent; 6 h sessions source	One-time $1 credit; 10 concurrent source
Paid plans (concurrent browsers)	Starter $29 (10) · Growth $99 (50) · Scale custom source	No plans: prepaid usage; concurrency rises from 10 to 1,000 with lifetime spend source
Included usage	Starter 40 h + 5 GB · Growth 200 h + 25 GB source	None; $5 minimum top-up source
Browser time	$0.10/h (Free, Starter) · $0.09/h (Growth) source	$0.02/h source
How time is counted	Per second from ready to stop; queue and boot time free; idle billed (closes after 120 s idle by default) sources 1 2	Per minute, 1-minute minimum; requested timeout reserved up front, unused part refunded source
Network
Managed proxy type	US mobile carrier (Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile), on every session source	Residential source
Managed proxy data	Included: 10 GB (Free), 5 GB (Starter), 25 GB (Growth). Then $1/GB on every plan source	$5/GB source
Managed mobile-carrier IPs	Yes, on all plans source	Not published source
Bring your own proxy	No	All accounts; $0.20/GB egress sources 1 2
Exit locations	US only: by state; by city where available; by carrier where the provider reports it sources 1 2	195+ countries, country level source
Platform
Isolation	Own Firecracker microVM per session; destroyed when it stops; never reused source	Firecracker microVM per session source
Where browsers run	One location: US central	US (region not published) and EU (Frankfurt) source
Max session length	6 h (Free, Starter) · 12 h (Growth) · 24 h (Scale) source	4 h source
CAPTCHA solving	None	Included, on by default source
Fingerprint management	None	On by default; fingerprints randomized per session source
Live view	Yes, on headful sessions	Yes source
Session recording	None (CDP traffic and live view aren’t recorded) source	MP4, off by default source
Frameworks	Playwright over CDP · no Selenium	Playwright, Puppeteer, any CDP client; no Selenium source
Official SDKs	Not yet published source	Python, TypeScript source

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