Pick Browserbase if
teams that need a fleet of headless browsers and will pay for concurrent sessions.
Read the Browserbase pageBrowserbase vs Stagehand
Our take
Pick Browserbase if teams that need a fleet of headless browsers and will pay for concurrent sessions. Pick Stagehand if developers who already write Playwright and want self-healing prompts on top. Skip Browserbase if people who only want URL → markdown (Firecrawl) or a search-credit API (Tavily). Skip Stagehand if people who want a hosted no-code agent (Manus) or a scrape-to-markdown API (Firecrawl).
Stagehand
open-source AI browser SDK
Best for
Browserbase Spin a remote Playwright/Puppeteer session
Stagehand Drive a page with natural-language primitives
Free plan
Browserbase $0 · /mo. 3 concurrent browsers; 1 browser hour; 3 Agent runs; 1,000 Search; 1,000 Fetch; 15 minutes/session; $5 in model tokens
Stagehand $0 · mIT. You bring a model key and Chrome
Lowest paid
Browserbase Developer $20/mo
Stagehand Developer $20/mo
Next step up
Browserbase Startup $99/mo
Stagehand Startup $99/mo
Coding agent
Browserbase Identity
Stagehand
Runs where
Browserbase Hosted
Stagehand
Watch out
Browserbase Free is 1 browser hour
Stagehand Local is free
Last checked
Browserbase 2026-10-21 · browserbase.com/pricing
Stagehand 2026-10-22 · browserbase.com/pricing
Which one, then?
Pick Stagehand if
developers who already write Playwright and want self-healing prompts on top.
Read the Stagehand page