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The Hyperbrowser alternative that avoids bot detection on every plan

Hyperbrowser limits its strongest stealth mode to Enterprise plans and puts proxies and CAPTCHA solving behind a paid plan. Browserless includes stealth, proxies, and CAPTCHA solving on the free tier.

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Browserless

Browser infrastructure for web scraping, browser automation, and AI agents, with stealth, residential proxies, and CAPTCHA solving available from the free plan. Self-hosted deployment is available when compliance with data regulations requires it.

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Hyperbrowser

A cloud browser platform built around AI agents, with HyperAgent, an official MCP server, and scrape, crawl, and extract APIs. Ultra Stealth Mode is reserved for Enterprise, while proxies and CAPTCHA solving are only available if you pay.

Browserless vs. Hyperbrowser: how they compare

Both platforms connect Puppeteer or Playwright to a remote browser. Here's where they differ once you start encountering serious bot detection on the pages you want to crawl.

Stealth mode
Browserless
Stealth routes available from the free plan
Hyperbrowser
Ultra Stealth Mode is Enterprise-only, while standard stealth is a session flag
CAPTCHA solving
Browserless
Available on the free plan, 10 units per successful solve
Hyperbrowser
Paid plans only
Proxies
Browserless
Residential and datacenter proxies on the free plan, billed per MB in units
Hyperbrowser
Paid plans only, with proxy data billed at $10/GB
Bring your own proxy
Browserless
External proxies from the Prototyping plan ($25/mo billed annually)
Hyperbrowser
Enterprise plan only
Compatible with Playwright and Puppeteer
Browserless
Yes
Hyperbrowser
Yes
Official MCP server
Browserless
Yes
Hyperbrowser
Yes
Declarative automation layer
Browserless
BrowserQL, plus BAP's TypeScript and Python SDKs on top
Hyperbrowser
AI-driven page actions through HyperAgent, but no declarative query language like BrowserQL
Browser engines
Browserless
Chromium and Chrome (Puppeteer or Playwright), plus Firefox, WebKit, and Edge through Playwright
Hyperbrowser
Chrome sessions over CDP, but no Firefox or WebKit documented
Browserless
Open-source Docker image plus licensed Enterprise self-hosting
Hyperbrowser
Managed cloud only
Compliance
Browserless
SOC 2 Type II and GDPR; HIPAA-compatible Enterprise deployments with a BAA, plus a DPA for deployments Browserless operates
Hyperbrowser
HIPAA and SOC 2 listed under Enterprise only

Hyperbrowser details reflect its published documentation and pricing as of September 2026. Check Hyperbrowser's current pages before deciding.

Where Browserless goes further

Hyperbrowser is built around AI agents. Browserless runs the same browser workloads, AI agents included, and keeps its core anti-bot features on every plan, including free. Upgrading adds units, concurrency, and session length, plus extras like bring-your-own proxies.

Handle bot detection without a plan upgrade
Stealth routes, residential proxies, and CAPTCHA solving are available from the free plan, so the setup you test is the setup you run at scale. Hyperbrowser reserves Ultra Stealth Mode for Enterprise.
Automate with the Browser Automation Protocol
The Browser Automation Protocol (BAP) wraps BrowserQL in typed TypeScript and Python SDKs: TypeScript uses Puppeteer's method names; Python uses Playwright's. Stealth, residential proxies, and CAPTCHA solving are built in – from the free plan.
Bring your own proxies earlier
Connect external proxies with the externalProxyServer parameter from the Prototyping plan. Hyperbrowser limits custom proxy servers to Enterprise.
Deploy self-hosted when you need to
Run the licensed Enterprise image in your own VPC, on-prem, or air-gapped network, with stealth and CAPTCHA solving included. Or let Browserless run it for you on dedicated VMs with Private Deployment.
Test across five browsers
Run crawling, scraping, and testing on Chromium, Chrome, Firefox, WebKit, and Edge. Chromium and Chrome work with Puppeteer or Playwright, while Firefox, WebKit, and Edge connect through Playwright. The free plan includes Chrome, Firefox, and WebKit.
Meet compliance requirements
Browserless holds organization-wide SOC 2 Type II and supports GDPR. For HIPAA workloads, Enterprise customers can run a Private Deployment or self-host and sign a BAA. A DPA is available on Enterprise for deployments Browserless operates.

Connect Browserless with your AI agents

Hyperbrowser ships its own agent layer. Browserless gives your agents a managed browser, including a stateful browser agent through MCP, and works with the agent framework you already use.

Official MCP server
The Browserless MCP server gives Claude, Cursor, VS Code, or any MCP-compatible client a stateful browser agent and tools for smart scraping, crawling, screenshots, PDFs, and custom Puppeteer code.
Authenticated profiles
Capture a login once with authenticated profiles and reuse it across many parallel browser sessions, each with its own working copy.
Framework integrations
Documented guides for Browser Use, Vercel AI SDK, LangChain, n8n, Make, and Zapier.

Moving from Hyperbrowser to Browserless

If you're already writing code against Hyperbrowser's SDK, moving to Browserless is a change of connection, not a change of approach.

1

Swap the session call for a URL

Hyperbrowser creates a session through its SDK and returns a wsEndpoint. Browserless connects straight to a WebSocket URL.

2

Move the flags into the URL

Session flags such as useStealth, useProxy, and solveCaptchas become route and query parameters: /stealth, proxy=residential, and solveCaptchas=true.

3

Test on the free tier

Run your migrated script on the free plan and compare results side by side before you commit to a paid plan.

Both snippets open a stealth session through a US residential proxy with CAPTCHA solving on, load a page, and print its title. The Hyperbrowser version needs a paid plan for the proxy and CAPTCHA flags, while the Browserless version runs on the free plan.

BeforeHyperbrowser (settings as session flags)

import { connect } from "puppeteer-core";
import { Hyperbrowser } from "@hyperbrowser/sdk";

const client = new Hyperbrowser({ apiKey: process.env.HYPERBROWSER_API_KEY });
const session = await client.sessions.create({
  useStealth: true,
  useProxy: true,
  proxyCountry: "US",
  solveCaptchas: true,
});

try {
  const browser = await connect({ browserWSEndpoint: session.wsEndpoint, defaultViewport: null });
  const [page] = await browser.pages();
  await page.goto("https://example.com");
  console.log(await page.title());
  await browser.close();
} finally {
  await client.sessions.stop(session.id);
}

AfterBrowserless (same settings in the connection URL)

import puppeteer from "puppeteer-core";

const TOKEN = process.env.BROWSERLESS_TOKEN;
const browser = await puppeteer.connect({
  browserWSEndpoint: `wss://production-sfo.browserless.io/stealth?token=${TOKEN}&solveCaptchas=true&proxy=residential&proxyCountry=us`,
});

try {
  const page = await browser.newPage();
  await page.goto("https://example.com");
  console.log(await page.title());
} finally {
  await browser.close();
}

If you use Hyperbrowser's scrape, crawl, or extract APIs, Browserless's REST API covers similar ground: /smart-scrape returns HTML, Markdown, or links from one call, /crawl walks a site and returns Markdown by default, and /screenshot and /pdf handle captures. Use /content or /scrape when you want rendered HTML or selector-based structured data.

Why teams trust Browserless at scale

175M+ Docker pullsIn production since 201799.9% uptimeSOC 2 Type II

Hyperbrowser

Founded in 2021 and Y Combinator-backed, with concurrency that scales to 1,000+ browsers on Enterprise plans.

Browserless

Open-source core with 13K+ GitHub stars, and an Enterprise Docker image for running Browserless on your own infrastructure.

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