Browser Use vs Scrapeless
Both rent you a stealth cloud browser with residential proxies and CAPTCHA solving. Browser Use adds a hosted agent you send tasks to and sessions of up to four hours, while Scrapeless adds ready-made scrapers and short sessions meant to last minutes.
The companies and products
Browser Use
Browser Use makes the popular open-source browser-agent library and runs Browser Use Cloud, a service of managed browsers and a hosted agent that uses them.
Browser Use Cloud is a different kind of product from bochka: you get a hardened Chromium browser in their cloud that you drive over CDP with Playwright or Puppeteer, or a hosted agent that you send tasks to through an API. It comes with stealth fingerprints, CAPTCHA solving and residential proxies, and you pay per browser-hour. It is built for teams that need many browsers that get past anti-bot checks, not a machine to run their own code on.
Scrapeless
Scrapeless is a web scraping company that sells Agent Browser, a managed cloud browser, along with AI scrapers, a web unlocker and proxies.
Scrapeless Agent Browser is a different kind of product from bochka: you get a Chromium browser in their cloud that you reach over a CDP WebSocket with Puppeteer or Playwright, an MCP server or their agent-browser CLI. Each session gets a random fingerprint, CAPTCHA solving and a residential proxy, and you pay per browser-hour plus proxy traffic. It is built for teams that scrape or automate many websites, not a machine to run their own code on.
Which use cases each one fits
For each use case, Battleships prices every sandbox provider on the same workload and sorts them from the cheapest monthly bill up. “3rd cheapest of 367” means 2 of the other 366 providers run that workload, with every feature it needs, for less. “With limits” means the provider runs it but misses something, so it is listed after every full match. Open a use case for its whole ranking and what each provider misses.
| Use case and its workload | Browser Use: price rank | Scrapeless: price rank | bochka: price rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Software factory 100 at once · 4 vCPU / 8 GB · 2,200 sessions of 8 h a month A software factory needs a shell, Docker and a place to build and test, which neither managed browser gives you. | 48th of 367, with limits $301 a month | 96th of 367, with limits $868 a month | 3rd cheapest of 367 $634 a month |
| Always-on AI employees 50 machines 24/7 · 2 vCPU / 4 GB An assistant that runs all month needs a machine that keeps going; Browser Use agent browsers stop after four hours and Scrapeless sessions are meant to last minutes. | 63rd of 366, with limits $750 a month | 224th of 366, with limits $2,628 a month | 5th cheapest of 366 $657 a month |
| Code interpreter bursts 100 at once · 1 vCPU / 2 GB · 200,000 sessions of 1 min a month | 216th of 345, with limits $71 a month | 246th of 345, with limits $249 a month | 186th of 345, with limits $2,000 a month |
| Sandboxes for your users 300 at once · 2 vCPU / 4 GB · 30,000 sessions of 23 min a month Giving each of your users a sandbox means a machine they can run code on, which neither Browser Use nor Scrapeless sells. | 199th of 361, with limits $270 a month | 354th of 361, with limits $741 a month | Cheapest of 361 $209 a month |
| RL rollouts 1,000 at once · 2 vCPU / 4 GB · 1,000,000 sessions of 3 min a month | 227th of 360, with limits $1,010 a month | 249th of 360, with limits $3,580 a month | 34th of 360, with limits $2,000 a month |
| Agent evals 250 at once · 4 vCPU / 8 GB · 15,000 sessions of 20 min a month | 226th of 364, with limits $90 a month | 347th of 364, with limits $399 a month | 10th cheapest of 364 $200 a month |
| CI runners 40 at once · 8 vCPU / 16 GB · 6,000 sessions of 12 min a month | 219th of 377, with limits $64 a month | 229th of 377, with limits $97 a month | 4th cheapest of 377 $86 a month |
| 24/7 dev boxes 1 machine 24/7 · 4 vCPU / 8 GB | 212th of 368, with limits $25 a month | 234th of 368, with limits $59 a month | 18th cheapest of 368 $26 a month |
| Computer-use agents 50 at once · 4 vCPU / 8 GB · 20,000 sessions of 15 min a month Computer-use agents that work outside the browser need a real desktop; bochka streams a full Linux desktop at 60fps, while Browser Use and Scrapeless show only the browser. | 83rd of 369, with limits $133 a month | 122nd of 369, with limits $274 a month | 6th cheapest of 369 $200 a month |
| Browser-use agents 50 at once · 2 vCPU / 4 GB · 30,000 sessions of 10 min a month Both fit browser-use agents fully: Browser Use ranks 3rd, bochka ranks 7th and Scrapeless ranks 14th, with bochka the pick when the agent also needs a shell, files or code. | 3rd cheapest of 367 $140 a month | 14th cheapest of 367 $274 a month | 7th cheapest of 367 $200 a month |
| Scraping & bots (startup scale) 50 at once · 1 vCPU / 2 GB · 100,000 sessions of 3 min a month For startup-scale scraping and bots, bochka ranks 6th by giving each bot a whole machine with a disk that keeps its files, ahead of Browser Use and Scrapeless. | 14th cheapest of 346 $198 a month | 33rd cheapest of 346 $370 a month | 6th cheapest of 346 $90 a month |
| Mass scraping & bots (undetectable) 1,000 at once · 1 vCPU / 2 GB · 3,000,000 sessions of 2 min a month For mass scraping of sites with strong bot checks, Browser Use ranks 1st and Scrapeless ranks 6th, since both include residential proxies, fingerprints and CAPTCHA solving, which bochka does not. | Cheapest of 338 $2,950 a month | 6th of 338, with limits $7,020 a month | 71st of 338, with limits $1,800 a month |
| Parallel red teaming 200 at once · 2 vCPU / 4 GB · 5,000 sessions of 30 min a month Red-team agents need their own tools and a shell; Browser Use and Scrapeless give them a browser only. | 50th of 360, with limits $68 a month | 200th of 360, with limits $199 a month | 2nd cheapest of 360 $200 a month |
| GPU eval jobs 10 at once · 8 vCPU / 32 GB · 500 sessions of 30 min a month | Can't run it | Can't run it | Can't run it |
| macOS agents 5 at once · 4 vCPU / 8 GB · 1,000 sessions of 20 min a month | Can't run it | Can't run it | Can't run it |
Key features
| Feature | Browser Use | Scrapeless | bochka |
|---|---|---|---|
| What you get | A managed Chromium browser you reach over CDP, or a hosted agent you send tasks to | A managed Chromium browser you reach over a CDP WebSocket, plus scraping tools | A full Linux VM with its own kernel and root, on dedicated AMD Ryzen 9 9950X hosts |
| Shell, code and Docker | No shell access to the machine running the browser | No shell on the machine running the browser | Yes: SSH, any language, Docker, systemd and nested virtualization |
| Session length | Agent browsers stop after 4 hours; idle ones are cleaned up after about 20 minutes | 3 minutes by default, 15 minutes recommended at most, longer allowed | No cap on paid plans; you set the time to live |
| State between sessions | Browser profiles keep cookies and logins; workspaces sync up to 950 MiB of files | Browser profiles keep cookies, storage, cache and logins, saved when the session closes | The whole disk is saved every minute and on stop; a stopped sandbox costs nothing |
| Fork | No fork | No fork; several sessions can load one profile, and only the last to close is saved | Fork a running sandbox into many |
| Desktop and live view | Live view of the browser you can embed for review or takeover, plus a recording | Live URL to watch and control the browser, plus optional session recording | A full Linux desktop streamed at 60fps, or Chrome alone; embed it, record it |
| Stealth and CAPTCHAs | Hardened Chromium fork, randomized fingerprints and automatic CAPTCHA solving (off in the EU) | Random fingerprint per session, CAPTCHA solving included at no extra charge | Chromium on datacenter IPs; no fingerprint rotation or CAPTCHA solving |
| Proxies | Residential proxies in 195+ countries, on by default, or bring your own | Over 70 million residential IPs in 195 countries, down to state and city; your own proxy on paid plans | None managed; you can run your own proxy client inside the VM |
| Agents | Their own hosted browser agent with a choice of models, a session queue and an events API | A CLI skill and an MCP server so an agent on your own machine can drive the cloud browser | Seven coding agents preinstalled, with a prompt, steer and events API |
| Keeping secrets from the agent | Secrets typed into the page by alias; the model never sees them, but the value reaches the browser | Credential store and 1Password link that fill website logins into the browser | Credentials proxy: real keys never enter the sandbox, for any HTTPS API |
| Hosting | No way to serve your own ports | No way to serve your own ports | HTTPS URLs for up to 50 ports, token-protected by default; raw TCP |
| Ready-made scrapers | None listed; you send tasks to the hosted agent | AI Scraper tasks for ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and more, plus crawl and search tools over MCP | None; you write or run your own |
| Regions | US, plus an EU deployment in Frankfurt with a smaller feature set | No EU data residency listed | EU only (Germany, Finland, France) |
| Open source | The browser-use agent library is MIT and runs on your own machine | The MCP server is MIT; the browser service is not open source | No |
Every feature Battleships tracks (43)
| Feature | Browser Use | Scrapeless | bochka |
|---|---|---|---|
| Full VM (own kernel) | Not published | Not published | Yes |
| Docker inside | No | No | Yes |
| Nested virtualization | No | No | Yes |
| Root | Not published | Not published | Yes |
| Systemd | Not published | Not published | Yes |
| Desktop GUI | No | No | Yes |
| Browser | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Computer-use API | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| SSH | No | No | Yes |
| Persistent disk | Yes | No | Yes |
| Pause/resume | No | No | Yes |
| Automatic snapshots | No | No | Yes |
| Fork/clone | No | No | Yes |
| Live fork (no pause) | No | No | Yes |
| Memory fork | No | No | No |
| Custom image (Docker or snapshot) | Not published | Not published | Yes |
| ≥24 h sessions | No | No | Yes |
| Idle auto-stop | Yes | Yes | No |
| Wake on request | No | No | No |
| HTTPS preview URLs | No | No | Yes |
| Raw TCP inbound | Not published | Not published | Yes |
| Public IPv4 | No | No | No |
| Egress allowlist | Yes | No | No |
| Secret proxy | No | No | Yes |
| Secret proxy for any API | No | No | Yes |
| Preinstalled agents | No | No | Yes |
| Agent harness API | No | No | Yes |
| MCP server | Yes | Yes | No |
| GPU | No | No | No |
| Windows | No | No | No |
| Arm64 | No | No | No |
| Self-hosting | Yes | No | No |
| BYOC | No | No | No |
| Open source | Yes | No | No |
| Scoped API keys | Not published | Not published | Yes |
| Spend limits | Not published | Not published | Yes |
| Usage per sandbox (API) | No | No | Yes |
| Audit logs | Not published | Not published | No |
| SSO | No | Yes | No |
| SOC 2 | Yes | Yes | No |
| HIPAA | Yes | Yes | No |
| EU data residency | Yes | No | Yes |
| Zero data retention | Not published | Not published | Yes |
Performance
There is no comparable measurement for either. Browser Use and Scrapeless sell browser-hours and do not publish the CPU or memory behind each browser, and neither is in the CPU benchmark. bochka scored 26.69 runs per second on the hpc-sandbox-benchmarks Node.js test at 4 vCPU / 8 GB.
Node.js build-and-test loop at 4 vCPU / 8 GB, higher is better. Measured with the open hpc-sandbox-benchmarks suite. Browser Use and Scrapeless have no published run in this suite yet, so there is no like-for-like number to compare.
Pricing in five scenarios
Each bill is priced from the providers' public price lists by the open Battleships engine, with the cheapest plan that runs the scenario.
| Scenario | Browser Use, a month | Scrapeless, a month | bochka, a month |
|---|---|---|---|
| One coding agent, workdays 4 vCPU / 8 GB, 50 GB disk, 8 hours a day, 22 days a month, files kept between days | $7 · Pay as you go · with limits | $399 · Business · with limits | $20 · $20/mo |
| One agent that never stops 4 vCPU / 8 GB, 50 GB disk, running 24/7 all month | $25 · Pay as you go · with limits | $399 · Business · with limits | $26 · $20/mo |
| 50 agents in parallel 50 machines of 4 vCPU / 8 GB at once, 8-hour sessions, 1,100 sessions a month, Docker inside | $178 · Spend tier 50 · with limits | $570 · Business · with limits | $317 · $20/mo × 3 seats |
| Sandboxes for your users 2 vCPU / 4 GB, 30,000 sessions of 10 minutes a month, up to 300 at once | $150 · Spend tier 500 · with limits | $399 · Business · with limits | $200 · $100/mo × 2 seats |
| 1,000 short jobs at once 2 vCPU / 4 GB, 1,000 at once, 3 minutes each, 200,000 jobs a month | $210 · Spend tier 1000 · with limits | $716 · Business · with limits | $2,000 · $2000/mo · with limits |
Browser Use: Browser Use bills $0.02 per browser-hour, rounded up to whole minutes, from prepaid credits that never expire. Traffic is extra ($5 per GB through the residential proxy, on by default, or $0.20 per GB direct), and agent runs add model tokens plus a 20% fee.
Scrapeless: Scrapeless plans of $49, $199 or $399 a month are prepaid into your balance, and unused funds do not roll over. Browser time runs from $0.09 an hour down to $0.072 on larger plans, and residential proxy traffic is billed per GB on top, from $1.80 on the base plan.
Scrapeless: Plans start at $20 a month, and the whole fee is usage credit. You pay per second while a sandbox runs, and a stopped sandbox costs nothing and keeps its disk.
Limits in those scenarios
No scenario fits Browser Use or Scrapeless as written, because each asks for a general machine and both sell a browser session with no shell, of a size they do not publish. Browser Use agent browsers stop after four hours and Scrapeless sessions are built to last minutes with no saved disk, which rules out the workday and always-on agents. Concurrency works differently: Browser Use unlocks 50 to 1,000 sessions by lifetime payments ($200 for 50, $25,000 for 1,000), while Scrapeless allows 50 to 400 by monthly plan, so 1,000 short jobs need a custom plan. bochka fits four scenarios; at 1,000 short jobs at once its $2,000 plan queues the starts.
| Scenario | Browser Use | Scrapeless | bochka |
|---|---|---|---|
| One coding agent, workdays |
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| None that bite |
| One agent that never stops |
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| None that bite |
| 50 agents in parallel |
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| None that bite |
| Sandboxes for your users |
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| None that bite |
| 1,000 short jobs at once |
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Which one should you use?
Use Browser Use when
you want a hosted agent to do browser tasks for you, sessions that can run for hours, or an open-source agent you can also run yourself.
- A browser agent as a service. For teams that want to send a task in plain words and get a result, with a hosted agent and a choice of models.
- Sessions that last hours. For browser jobs longer than a few minutes: agent browsers run up to four hours, with a 950 MiB file workspace between runs.
- Open source and an EU region. Its agent library is MIT and runs on your own machine, and the cloud runs in the US and in Frankfurt.
Use Scrapeless when
you mostly need data from websites, with ready-made scrapers, short sessions and residential IPs you can pin to a state or city.
- A full scraping toolkit. For teams that want data, not browsers: ready-made AI scrapers, crawls and search tools behind one API key.
- Finer proxy targeting. For scraping by location: over 70 million residential IPs in 195 countries, which you can pin to a state or city.
- Short sessions, no setup. For many short browser tasks: sessions start in under 2 seconds, and the free tier gives 1 browser-hour a month without a card.
Where bochka fits
Browser Use and Scrapeless both sell a stealth browser, not a computer. If what you are really running is agents that browse and then also write code, keep files, run Docker or serve an app, bochka gives each one a whole Linux machine with Chromium and a desktop inside. Keep Browser Use or Scrapeless for the sites with strong bot checks; an agent on bochka can still connect to either over CDP.
A whole machine around the browser
With Browser Use or Scrapeless, the browser lives in their cloud and the code runs on a second machine you manage. Every page, file and result has to cross between the two. On bochka they sit on one VM with root and Docker.
Long jobs that keep their files
Browser Use stops agent browsers after four hours and Scrapeless defaults to three minutes, and both keep little more than a browser profile. A day-long job has to be split up and rebuilt. bochka saves the whole disk every minute and can fork a running sandbox.
Agents inside, driven from outside, keys kept out
Browser Use types secrets into the page, and Scrapeless leaves the agent and its model keys on your own machine. bochka preinstalls seven coding agents you drive from outside, and its credentials proxy keeps real keys out of the sandbox.
Use bochka when your agent does more than browse: it needs a shell, files, Docker, a desktop or a server next to the browser, and it has to keep working for hours or days. Compare it one to one: bochka vs Browser Use and bochka vs Scrapeless.
Questions people ask
Is Browser Use cheaper than Scrapeless?
In all five scenarios we priced, yes: one agent that never stops comes to $25 on Browser Use and $399 a month on Scrapeless, and 50 agents in parallel come to $178 against $570. Neither fits those scenarios as a general machine, and proxy traffic is billed on top of both.
Which is faster, Browser Use or Scrapeless?
There is no comparable measurement, since neither publishes the CPU or memory behind its browsers. Scrapeless says its sessions start in under 2 seconds. bochka scored 26.69 runs per second on the hpc-sandbox-benchmarks Node.js test at 4 vCPU / 8 GB.
Can Browser Use or Scrapeless run Docker?
No. Both give you a managed browser with no shell on the machine underneath. bochka gives you a whole Linux VM with root, Docker, systemd and nested virtualization, with Chromium and a desktop inside.
How long can a session run on each?
Browser Use agent browsers have a four-hour hard timeout, and idle ones are cleaned up after about 20 minutes. Scrapeless sessions close after 3 minutes by default, with 15 minutes as the recommended maximum, though longer values can be set. A bochka sandbox has no session cap on paid plans.
Which is better at getting past bot checks?
Both are built for it, with random fingerprints, CAPTCHA solving and residential proxies in 195 countries. Browser Use runs its own hardened Chromium fork but turns CAPTCHA solving off in the EU, while Scrapeless includes CAPTCHA solving at no extra charge and lets you pin IPs to a state or city.
Can I use Browser Use or Scrapeless from a bochka sandbox?
Yes. Both are reached over CDP, so an agent on bochka can connect with Puppeteer or Playwright when it needs a stealth browser. The browser-use library is MIT, so you can also run it on bochka with your own model keys behind bochka's credentials proxy.
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