Pick Hyperbrowser if
teams that want one credit wallet across browsers, fetch, and hosted agents.
Read the Hyperbrowser pageHyperbrowser vs Playwright
Our take
Pick Hyperbrowser if teams that want one credit wallet across browsers, fetch, and hosted agents. Pick Playwright if teams who will stay on the OSS runner at $0 while they open a first Trace Viewer — then add their own CI, not Cypress Cloud Team $67 first unless they want Cypress’s hosted dashboard. Skip Hyperbrowser if people who only need a local Playwright driver (Stagehand) or a general agent workbench (Manus).
Hyperbrowser
**hosted browsers
Best for
Hyperbrowser Rent a stealth Chromium plus a fetch/search meter
Playwright A trace you start at a public $
Free plan
Hyperbrowser $0 · 5,000 credits; 1 concurrent session; 7-day retention
Playwright No free plan
Lowest paid
Hyperbrowser Startup $30/mo
Playwright Not published by the vendor
Next step up
Hyperbrowser Scale $100/mo
Playwright
Coding agent
Hyperbrowser Agents
Playwright
Runs where
Hyperbrowser Hosted
Playwright Hosted
Watch out
Hyperbrowser Free is 5,000 credits
Playwright No hosted cloud runner in core
Last checked
Hyperbrowser 2026-10-22 · hyperbrowser.ai/pricing
Playwright 2026-10-23 · playwright.dev
Which one, then?
Pick Playwright if
teams who will stay on the OSS runner at $0 while they open a first Trace Viewer — then add their own CI, not Cypress Cloud Team $67 first unless they want Cypress’s hosted dashboard.
Read the Playwright page