Browserbase vs Hyperbrowser
Both rent cloud Chrome with proxies and CAPTCHA solving for agents that browse. Browserbase stays a browser platform with Stagehand, saved logins and replays, while Hyperbrowser also sells Firecracker sandboxes that run code for up to 24 hours.
The companies and products
Browserbase
Browserbase calls itself the complete platform to build and deploy agents that browse and interact with the web like humans: browsers, search, fetch, functions, model access and identity behind one API key.
Its core product is a headless Chrome session you drive over CDP with Playwright, Puppeteer or its open source Stagehand SDK, with proxies, CAPTCHA solving, saved browser profiles (Contexts), live view and session replays. Around it sit Search and Fetch APIs, short TypeScript Functions that run next to the browser, a Model Gateway and hosted Agents that work from a plain language goal. It is a browser platform, not a general sandbox: you get a browser, not a shell or root on the machine, so this page compares where the two overlap, which is agents that browse.
Hyperbrowser
Hyperbrowser calls itself the AI agents' gateway to the internet: cloud browsers, sandboxes, web data APIs and browser agents behind one API and one credit balance.
Its main product is a cloud Chrome session you drive with Playwright or Puppeteer, with stealth mode, residential proxies, CAPTCHA solving, saved profiles and recordings. Next to it Hyperbrowser sells Sandboxes, Firecracker VMs on Ubuntu 24.04 that live up to 24 hours, with memory snapshots, volumes and outbound rules, plus Fetch, Scrape and Search APIs and hosted browser agents. It is a browser and web data platform more than a general sandbox, so this page compares where it overlaps with bochka: agents that browse, and agents that run code.
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. “24th cheapest of 367” means 23 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 | Browserbase: price rank | Hyperbrowser: price rank | bochka: price rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Software factory 100 at once · 4 vCPU / 8 GB · 2,200 sessions of 8 h a month A coding agent needs a shell, Docker and a disk: Browserbase gives a browser only, Hyperbrowser sandboxes give a shell but no documented Docker and no disk after a stop, so builds fit bochka. | 140th of 367, with limits $1,255 a month | 136th of 367, with limits $1,206 a month | 3rd cheapest of 367 $634 a month |
| Always-on AI employees 50 machines 24/7 · 2 vCPU / 4 GB An assistant that lives on its machine all month hits Browserbase's 6-hour session cap or Hyperbrowser's 24-hour sandbox lifetime; bochka has no session cap on paid plans. | 259th of 366, with limits $3,699 a month | 255th of 366, with limits $3,650 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 Hyperbrowser fits short code runs better than Browserbase, since its sandboxes run code and can start from a warm memory snapshot. | 270th of 345, with limits $382 a month | 244th of 345, with limits $246 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 | 250th of 361, with limits $1,099 a month | 245th of 361, with limits $1,029 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 | 264th of 360, with limits $5,049 a month | 262nd of 360, with limits $4,972 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 | 349th of 364, with limits $449 a month | 253rd of 364, with limits $400 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 | 244th of 377, with limits $152 a month | 238th of 377, with limits $120 a month | 4th cheapest of 377 $86 a month |
| 24/7 dev boxes 1 machine 24/7 · 4 vCPU / 8 GB A dev box has to keep its files and processes, and neither keeps a disk after a session ends, so this fits bochka. | 251st of 368, with limits $96 a month | 240th of 368, with limits $73 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 Hyperbrowser runs computer-use models inside its browser and Browserbase acts on pages through Stagehand, while bochka streams a 60fps Linux desktop where an agent can use any app. | 159th of 369, with limits $416 a month | 144th of 369, with limits $360 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 agents well: Browserbase brings Stagehand, Contexts and replays, Hyperbrowser brings stealth modes and hosted agents, and bochka adds Chromium on a full VM where the same agent can run code. | 24th cheapest of 367 $449 a month | 20th cheapest of 367 $360 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 Both fit at startup scale and both sell fetch and search APIs; Hyperbrowser's flat $0.10 browser hour comes out lower in this table. | 55th cheapest of 346 $537 a month | 32nd cheapest of 346 $366 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 Both are built for sites that block bots, with residential proxies and CAPTCHA solving, while bochka uses datacenter IPs and solves no CAPTCHAs. | 13th of 338, with limits $9,799 a month | 11th of 338, with limits $9,750 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 | 229th of 360, with limits $291 a month | 33rd of 360, with limits $356 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 | Browserbase | Hyperbrowser | bochka |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kind of product | Managed headless Chrome, plus search, fetch, functions and hosted browser agents | Cloud browser sessions, plus Firecracker sandboxes and web data APIs | A full Linux VM per sandbox, with a desktop and Chromium inside |
| Isolation | 1 browser per VM in its own subnet; the VM is destroyed after each session | Firecracker VM per sandbox; browser session isolation technology not published | Full VM with its own kernel on dedicated AMD Ryzen 9 9950X hosts |
| Session length | 6 hours on Developer and Startup, 15 minutes on Free | Browsers up to 12 hours; sandboxes up to 24 hours from VM start | No cap on paid plans; you set the time to live |
| Running code | Browser over CDP only; Functions and hosted Agents run in a short TypeScript runtime (Functions up to 900 seconds) | Sandboxes with exec, process and PTY terminal APIs and a sudo user; no SSH | SSH and root on every machine, any package, any process |
| Docker and nested virtualization | Not offered | Docker builds images on your machine; Docker or /dev/kvm inside a sandbox is not documented | Docker, systemd and /dev/kvm on every machine |
| Files after a session | Only the browser profile carries over, through a Context | Sandbox disk is gone on stop; files survive on a mounted volume or in a memory snapshot | The disk persists, with snapshots every minute and on stop; a stopped sandbox costs nothing |
| Snapshots and fork | No fork; a new session starts fresh or loads a saved Context | Memory snapshot of a running sandbox, then start many new sandboxes from it | Fork a running sandbox with its disk; no memory snapshots |
| Machine size | Not published for a browser session | Sandboxes 1 to 32 vCPU and up to 256 GiB RAM, disk up to 32 GiB; browser size not published | 4 vCPU / 8 GB by default, up to 16 vCPU / 32 GB by plan |
| Bot detection | Residential proxies in 200+ countries, CAPTCHA solving on paid plans, Verified browsers on Scale | Stealth mode, residential proxies and CAPTCHA solving on paid plans; ultra stealth on Enterprise | Datacenter IPs and Chromium; no CAPTCHA solving |
| Browser tooling | Open source Stagehand SDK, live view, session replay and logs, saved logins in Contexts | Chrome over CDP with live view and recordings; hosted HyperAgent, Browser Use and computer-use models | 60fps desktop and Chromium, computer use on any app, embeddable stream |
| Reaching the machine | CDP connect URL and live view links only; no ports to host on | HTTPS URL per exposed sandbox port through a shared regional proxy; no raw TCP or own IP | HTTPS URLs for up to 50 ports, token-protected; raw TCP; own IP |
| Outbound rules | Experimental allowed domains list for top-level page navigation | Default-deny, or allow and deny by domain, IP or CIDR, changeable while the VM runs | Open internet, no provider-side allowlist |
| Keeping keys out of the sandbox | Model Gateway reaches OpenAI, Anthropic and Google with your Browserbase key | Keys are passed in as environment variables to the process | AI credentials proxy for model providers and any HTTPS API you register |
| Regions | Oregon, Virginia, Frankfurt and Singapore | us-central, us-east, us-west and europe-west; asia-south on Enterprise and Select | EU only (Germany, Finland and France) |
Every feature Battleships tracks (43)
| Feature | Browserbase | Hyperbrowser | bochka |
|---|---|---|---|
| Full VM (own kernel) | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Docker inside | No | No | Yes |
| Nested virtualization | No | No | Yes |
| Root | No | Yes | Yes |
| Systemd | No | No | Yes |
| Desktop GUI | No | No | Yes |
| Browser | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Computer-use API | No | Yes | Yes |
| SSH | No | No | Yes |
| Persistent disk | No | No | Yes |
| Pause/resume | No | No | Yes |
| Automatic snapshots | No | No | Yes |
| Fork/clone | No | Yes | Yes |
| Live fork (no pause) | No | Yes | Yes |
| Memory fork | No | Yes | No |
| Custom image (Docker or snapshot) | No | Yes | Yes |
| ≥24 h sessions | No | Yes | Yes |
| Idle auto-stop | Yes | Yes | No |
| Wake on request | No | No | No |
| HTTPS preview URLs | No | Yes | Yes |
| Raw TCP inbound | No | No | Yes |
| Public IPv4 | No | No | No |
| Egress allowlist | Yes | Yes | No |
| Secret proxy | Yes | No | Yes |
| Secret proxy for any API | No | No | Yes |
| Preinstalled agents | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Agent harness API | No | No | Yes |
| MCP server | Yes | Yes | No |
| GPU | No | No | No |
| Windows | No | No | No |
| Arm64 | No | Not published | No |
| Self-hosting | No | No | No |
| BYOC | No | No | No |
| Open source | No | No | No |
| Scoped API keys | Not published | Not published | Yes |
| Spend limits | Not published | Not published | Yes |
| Usage per sandbox (API) | Not published | Yes | Yes |
| Audit logs | Not published | Not published | No |
| SSO | Yes | No | No |
| SOC 2 | Yes | No | No |
| HIPAA | Yes | Not published | No |
| EU data residency | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Zero data retention | Yes | Not published | Yes |
Performance
There is no comparable measurement for either. Neither Browserbase nor Hyperbrowser was in StarSling's public CPU benchmark, and neither publishes the vCPU or RAM behind a browser session, so there is no number to set against bochka's 26.69 runs per second at 4 vCPU / 8 GB. Hyperbrowser publishes start times of under 50 ms for sandboxes and under 500 ms for a ready browser.
Node.js build-and-test loop at 4 vCPU / 8 GB, higher is better. Measured with the open hpc-sandbox-benchmarks suite. Browserbase and Hyperbrowser 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 | Browserbase, a month | Hyperbrowser, 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 | $99 · Startup · with limits | $16 · Free · with limits | $20 · $20/mo |
| One agent that never stops 4 vCPU / 8 GB, 50 GB disk, running 24/7 all month | $122 · Startup · with limits | $73 · Free · 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 | $841 · Startup · with limits | $792 · Scale · 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 | $499 · Startup · with limits | $450 · Scale · 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 | $1,049 · Startup · with limits | $994 · Scale · with limits | $2,000 · $2000/mo · with limits |
Browserbase: Plans include browser hours: 100 on Developer ($20) and 500 on Startup ($99), then $0.12 or $0.10 per browser hour, billed by the minute with a one-minute minimum. Proxy data is extra after 1 GB or 5 GB ($12 or $10 per GB), and Free has 1 browser hour with no pay-as-you-go.
Hyperbrowser: Everything spends one credit balance at $0.001 a credit: browsers cost $0.10 a browser hour plus $10 per GB of proxy data, and sandboxes $0.045 per vCPU-hour plus $0.015 per GiB-hour. Startup ($30) and Scale ($100) turn their fee into monthly credits, and extra credits are bought by hand or by auto-reload.
Hyperbrowser: You pick a monthly plan from $20, and all of it becomes usage credit spent per second on running sandboxes. A stopped sandbox costs nothing and keeps its disk.
Limits in those scenarios
The Browserbase and Hyperbrowser prices in the table are for browser sessions with no published size and no disk that stays, so none of them is a 4 vCPU / 8 GB machine. Browserbase's 6-hour cap rules out the workday and always-on agents, and Hyperbrowser's sessions keep no disk between days. Both stop at 100 at once on their listed plans (Startup and Scale), so 300 sandboxes for your users and 1,000 short jobs need Browserbase Scale or Hyperbrowser Enterprise. On bochka the 1,000-job burst does not fit either: bursts above 90 starts a minute are queued, and it needs more starts per day than the top plan allows.
| Scenario | Browserbase | Hyperbrowser | 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 Browserbase when
your agent only needs the web and you want a polished browser stack: Stagehand, saved logins, session replays, Verified browsers for hard bot walls, or a region in Singapore.
- A browser stack that is ready to use. For teams that live in the browser: open source Stagehand, saved logins in Contexts, live view and a replay of every session.
- Verified browsers and wide proxy reach. For hard bot walls: residential proxies in 200+ countries, CAPTCHA solving, and Verified browsers with real fingerprints on Scale.
- A region in Singapore on every plan. For users or target sites in Asia: Browserbase picks Singapore per session, where Hyperbrowser keeps Asia to Enterprise and Select plans.
Use Hyperbrowser when
your agent needs stealth browsing and also short code runs: browsers up to 12 hours, Firecracker sandboxes from memory snapshots, default-deny outbound rules and one credit balance.
- Browsers and code sandboxes on one balance. For agents that browse and run short scripts: Firecracker sandboxes up to 32 vCPU sit next to the browsers, on one credit balance.
- Longer sessions and warm starts. For longer jobs: browsers run up to 12 hours, and sandboxes up to 24 hours, starting from a saved memory snapshot.
- The same browser hour on every plan. For bursty use: every browser hour is $0.10 in credits on every plan, and Startup and Scale fees turn into credits.
Where bochka fits
If what you are really running is agents that browse and then do work, such as cloning a repo, running containers or serving an app, both Browserbase and Hyperbrowser leave gaps. bochka gives each agent a full Linux VM with Chromium on a 60fps desktop, root, Docker and a disk that stays, with no session cap on paid plans. You can still call either browser from a bochka sandbox for sites that block bots.
A full VM with Docker and /dev/kvm
Browserbase gives a browser and a short TypeScript runtime, and Hyperbrowser sandboxes give a shell with no documented Docker or /dev/kvm. An agent that runs docker compose or an emulator stops at the first step on both.
A disk that stays and no session cap
Browserbase ends a session after 6 hours and keeps only the browser profile. Hyperbrowser sandboxes end after 24 hours and lose their disk unless you mount a volume or take a snapshot, so long agents are rebuilt every day.
Coding agents driven from outside, keys kept outside
bochka ships Claude Code, Codex and OpenCode with a prompt, steer and events API, and a credentials proxy for any HTTPS API. On Browserbase or Hyperbrowser you write the harness yourself and keys sit in your code or environment variables.
Use bochka when your agent browses and also works: installs, builds, Docker and dev servers on a full VM that keeps its disk and runs as long as the task takes, with coding agents and a key proxy built in. Compare it one to one: bochka vs Browserbase and bochka vs Hyperbrowser.
Questions people ask
Is Browserbase cheaper than Hyperbrowser?
In this table Hyperbrowser is lower in every scenario: 50 agents in parallel come to $792 against $841 on Browserbase, and sandboxes for your users to $450 against $499. Hyperbrowser charges $0.10 a browser hour on every plan, while Browserbase charges $0.12 on Developer and $0.10 on Startup after the included hours.
Which is faster, Browserbase or Hyperbrowser?
There is no comparable CPU measurement for either, and neither publishes the size of a browser session. Hyperbrowser publishes start times of under 50 ms for sandboxes and under 500 ms for a ready browser.
Can Browserbase or Hyperbrowser run Docker?
Browserbase gives you Chrome over CDP, not a shell on the VM, and offers no Docker. Hyperbrowser uses Docker on your own machine to build a sandbox image, and its docs do not describe running Docker inside a sandbox. Every bochka sandbox runs Docker, systemd and /dev/kvm.
How long can a session run on each?
Browserbase sessions run up to 6 hours on Developer and Startup and 15 minutes on Free. Hyperbrowser browser sessions run up to 12 hours and sandboxes up to 24 hours from VM start. bochka has no session cap on paid plans and keeps the disk when you stop.
Do both have residential proxies and CAPTCHA solving?
Yes, on paid plans. Browserbase adds proxies in 200+ countries and Verified browsers on Scale, and Hyperbrowser adds stealth modes, with ultra stealth on Enterprise. bochka runs Chromium on datacenter IPs and does not solve CAPTCHAs.
Can I use bochka with Browserbase or Hyperbrowser?
Yes. An agent on a bochka sandbox can open a Browserbase or Hyperbrowser session over CDP, or call their fetch APIs, and keep its code, files and tools on the bochka VM. That puts protected browsing on the browser service and the rest of the work on a machine that keeps its disk.
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