Pick Browserbase if
teams that need a fleet of headless browsers and will pay for concurrent sessions.
Read the Browserbase pageBrowserbase vs Tavily
Our take
Pick Browserbase if teams that need a fleet of headless browsers and will pay for concurrent sessions. Pick Tavily if agent builders who want hosted web search without running a crawler. Skip Browserbase if people who only want URL → markdown (Firecrawl) or a search-credit API (Tavily). Skip Tavily if teams that need a neural search index with contents in one call (Exa) or a scrape-to-markdown playground (Firecrawl).
Best for
Browserbase Spin a remote Playwright/Puppeteer session
Tavily One credit-metered call that returns LLM-ready results
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
Tavily $0 · 1,000 credits/month. No card
Lowest paid
Browserbase Developer $20/mo
Tavily Pay as you go $0.008
Next step up
Browserbase Startup $99/mo
Tavily Project $30
Coding agent
Browserbase Identity
Tavily Codex
Runs where
Browserbase Hosted
Tavily
Watch out
Browserbase Free is 1 browser hour
Tavily Credits reset monthly
Last checked
Browserbase 2026-10-21 · browserbase.com/pricing
Tavily 2026-10-21 · tavily.com/pricing
Which one, then?
Pick Tavily if
agent builders who want hosted web search without running a crawler.
Read the Tavily page