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HeadlessFleet vs Browserless

Browserless sells residential or datacenter proxies and caps sessions at 30 minutes on Starter. HeadlessFleet sends every session through a US mobile carrier and runs sessions up to 6 hours on Starter.

As of 2026-10-11.

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

At a glance

6 h vs 2 min
Longest session, Free vs Free.
Sources: HeadlessFleet, Browserless
$99 vs $500
Worked example B, 200 browser-hours and 25 GB at up to 50 concurrent. Growth vs Scale, billed monthly.
Sources: HeadlessFleet, Browserless
$55 vs $200
Worked example C, 300 browser-hours and 5 GB at up to 10 concurrent. Starter vs Starter, billed monthly.
Sources: HeadlessFleet, Browserless

Figures as of 2026-10-11. Worked examples are our arithmetic.

Choose HeadlessFleet if

You need US mobile-carrier IPs. Browserless offers datacenter and residential proxies only.
Your sessions run longer than an hour. Starter allows 6 hours and Growth 12; Browserless needs Enterprise past 60 minutes.
You want a lower monthly bill. We cost less in all three worked examples, $50 against $200, $99 against $500 and $55 against $200, billed monthly.
You want per-second billing. Browserless bills in 30-second increments and charges a new unit for each reconnect.

As of 2026-10-11, with sources in the tables below.

What a month costs

Our arithmetic from list prices as of 2026-10-11. How we calculate

Monthly cost of three workloads at each vendor’s list prices, as of 2026-10-11. Our arithmetic.
Monthly usage	HeadlessFleet	Browserless
A 100 browser-hours, 20 GB, up to 10 concurrent	$50Starter	$200Starter¹
B 200 browser-hours, 25 GB, up to 50 concurrent	$99Growth	$500Scale¹
C 300 browser-hours, 5 GB, up to 10 concurrent	$55Starter	$200Starter¹
Sources	source	sources 1 2

¹ Billed annually, Browserless costs $140 in A, $350 in B and $117 in C, on Starter, Scale and Prototyping. We count 120 units per browser-hour and 6,000 units per GB of residential data, taking 1 GB as 1,000 MB. sources 1 2

Feature by feature

Published list prices and documented features, as of 2026-10-11. Browserless’s managed proxy data is residential or datacenter; ours is US mobile. “Not published” means the vendor’s public pages didn’t state it on 2026-10-11. Self-serve plans unless noted.
Feature	HeadlessFleet	Browserless
Plans and price
Free plan	$0, no card: 20 browser-h and 10 GB mobile data a month; 5 concurrent; 6 h sessions source	$0, no card: 1,000 units a month; 2 concurrent; 2-min sessions; managed proxies metered in units sources 1 2
Paid plans (concurrent browsers)	Starter $29 (10) · Growth $99 (50) · Scale custom source	Prototyping $35 (5) · Starter $200 (30) · Scale $500 (80) · Enterprise custom; billed annually, $25 (10), $140 (40) and $350 (100) a month sources 1 2
Included usage	Starter 40 h + 5 GB · Growth 200 h + 25 GB source	Units a month: 20,000 (Prototyping) · 180,000 (Starter) · 500,000 (Scale); browser time, proxies and CAPTCHAs share them sources 1 2
Browser time	$0.10/h (Free, Starter) · $0.09/h (Growth) source	1 unit per 30 seconds; overage $0.0020 (Prototyping) · $0.0017 (Starter) · $0.0015 (Scale) per unit 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	30-second increments, rounded up; idle billed; each reconnect bills a new unit sources 1 2
Network
Managed proxy type	US mobile carrier (Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile), on every session source	Residential or datacenter source
Managed proxy data	Included: 10 GB (Free), 5 GB (Starter), 25 GB (Growth). Then $1/GB on every plan source	6 units per MB residential · 2 per MB datacenter, from the monthly units sources 1 2
Managed mobile-carrier IPs	Yes, on all plans source	No; datacenter and residential only sources 1 2
Bring your own proxy	No	HTTP/HTTPS, Prototyping and up; SOCKS5 through a Chrome launch flag; no proxy units charged sources 1 2 3
Exit locations	US only: by state; by city where available; by carrier where the provider reports it sources 1 2	“Over 180 countries”; state and city on Scale sources 1 2
Platform
Isolation	Own Firecracker microVM per session; destroyed when it stops; never reused source	“Isolated environments”, containerized; per-session isolation not published; “isolated VMs” on Enterprise Private Deployment sources 1 2
Where browsers run	One location: US central	San Francisco, London, Amsterdam; New York on Enterprise Private Deployment sources 1 2 3
Max session length	6 h (Free, Starter) · 12 h (Growth) · 24 h (Scale) source	2 min (Free) · 15 min (Prototyping) · 30 min (Starter) · 60 min (Scale) · custom (Enterprise) sources 1 2
CAPTCHA solving	None	Automatic, all plans; 10 units per successful solve sources 1 2
Fingerprint management	None	Stealth routes with fingerprint mitigations, opt-in over CDP and built into BrowserQL; Linux by default, Windows, macOS or Android through OS emulation sources 1 2 3
Live view	Yes, on headful sessions	Yes, on all plans sources 1 2
Session recording	None (CDP traffic and live view aren’t recorded) source	rrweb replay and WebM video, both off by default sources 1 2
Frameworks	Playwright over CDP · no Selenium	Playwright, Puppeteer, other CDP clients, BrowserQL; no Selenium sources 1 2
Official SDKs	Not yet published source	TypeScript, Python source

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