BlitzBrowser vs. Browserless

Looking for a Browserless alternative? While Browserless is a pioneer in headless browsers, their complex "unit-based" pricing and expensive proxy can quickly drain a budget.

BlitzBrowser was built for the AI Agent stack with persistent sessions and performant headful browsers at a fraction of the cost.

Comparison

Cost Efficiency

With Browserless you pay per unit. A unit represents 30 seconds of browser time, 6 units is 1 MB of proxy and 10 units is 1 captcha solved.

With BlitzBrowser you pay per use. You pay only for the duration of the connection to the browser and a flat price of 2$/GB for the premium residential proxy.

Example

Let's see the price difference between Browserless and BlitzBrowser with an example. If you connect 10 000 times per month with an average duration of 35 seconds per connection and an average of 2 MB per connection

• 10 000 connections per month.
• Average duration per connection of 35 seconds.
• Average residential proxy usage of 2 MB per connection.

On Browserless, you will pay 200$/month for the Starter plan. 35 seconds per connection is 2 units, which is 20 000 units for 10 000 connections. 2 MB per connection is 12 units, which is 120 000 units for 10 000 connections.

On BlitzBrowser, you will pay 48.75$/month. 35 seconds per connection is a total of 97.2 hours for 10 000 connections, which is 8.75$. 2 MB per connection is a total of 20 GB for 10 000 connections, which is 40$.

The cost difference between Browserless and BlitzBrowser is big. For the same requirements, you can reduce your monthly bill by 75% by migrating to BlitzBrowser.

How to migrate to BlitzBrowser

Migrating your code from Browserless to BlitzBrowser is super easy. You just have to change the Chrome DevTools Protocol endpoint. It is 1 line of code for Puppeteer and Playwright.

// Playwright
import { chromium } from 'playwright';

const browser = await chromium.connectOverCDP(
    `wss://chrome.browserless.io?token=YOUR_TOKEN`
);

// Puppeteer
import puppeteer from 'puppeteer';

const browser = await puppeteer.connect({
    browserWSEndpoint: `wss://chrome.browserless.io?token=YOUR_TOKEN`
});

// Playwright
import { chromium } from 'playwright';

const browser = await chromium.connectOverCDP(
    `wss://cdp.blitzbrowser.com?accessKey=${process.env.BLITZBROWSER_ACCESS_KEY}`
);

// Puppeteer
import puppeteer from 'puppeteer';

const browser = await puppeteer.connect({
    browserWSEndpoint: `wss://cdp.blitzbrowser.com?accessKey=${process.env.BLITZBROWSER_ACCESS_KEY}`
});

Conclusion

75% monthly bill reduction by migrating from Browserless to BlitzBrowser with a single line of code changed.