Antidetect browsers for AI agents in 2026, compared with sources

Search for the best antidetect browser and every result on the first page is a vendor's blog putting itself at number one. This is one of those. We make AntiBrow.

So here is the deal: every competitor figure below is from their own site, captured 2026-08-01, with a link. We are not ranking them 1 to 5, because a ranking is where a vendor hides its thumb. Instead each section says who should pick that product, and several of those sections are not us.

What actually matters when an agent drives

Most roundups compare feature checklists. For agent work, four things decide the outcome:

1. Does the identity persist? An agent that logs in Monday and acts Thursday needs to still be the same machine. A fresh randomised fingerprint each launch is worse than useless for holding an account.
2. Can it be driven without a proprietary SDK? Standard Playwright means your existing scripts, assertions, traces and selectors keep working.
3. Where do the cookies live? Session cookies for real accounts are the most sensitive thing in the system.
4. What is the billing unit? Profiles, seats, browser hours and concurrency produce wildly different bills for the same work.

Browserbase, if the work is stateless

Pricing: Free $0 (3 concurrent, 1 browser hour), Developer $20/mo (25 concurrent, 100 hours then $0.12/hr), Startup $99/mo (100 concurrent, 500 hours then $0.10/hr). Proxies billed separately.

Cloud browsers rented by the hour, with no machine for you to run. For bursty scraping and one-shot agent tasks this is the right shape, and provisioning it yourself is a poor use of your time. It is not built around durable identities, and it does not need to be.

Pick it if: your agent does a job and forgets. Skip it if: the agent has to come back as the same person.

ixBrowser, if budget is the constraint

Pricing: Free with unlimited profiles (10 created, 100 opens per day), Professional $3.99/mo, Business $9.99/mo, Enterprise $19.99/mo, plus a Basic Developer tier at $9.99 per year.

Unlimited profiles on the free tier and the lowest paid entry point in this list by a wide margin. Its tiers meter daily creations and launches rather than profile count.

Pick it if: price per month decides it. That is a legitimate way to decide.

Multilogin, if you need a team workspace

Pricing: Free 5 profiles, Pro 10 at $11/mo ($7.08 annual), Pro 50 at $29/mo, Pro 100 at $40/mo, Business from $57.08/mo annual for 300 profiles up to 10,000 with unlimited seats.

Mature, cloud-first, and the Business tier's unlimited seats is a real answer to a real problem. The ladder is denominated in profiles, so your bill scales with how many identities exist rather than how much work you do.

Pick it if: a distributed team shares identities across machines nobody controls.

GoLogin, similar model, different numbers

Pricing: Free 3 profiles, Professional $24/mo for 100, Business $49/mo for 300, Enterprise $99/mo for 1,000, Custom $149/mo for 2,000+. Team members show as 1 on every listed tier.

Also cloud-first and also priced per profile.

Pick it if: you are already on it and it works. A warm account is worth more than a lower bill.

AdsPower, with an asterisk we cannot remove

Pricing: free tier is 2 profiles, paid tiers offer 10, 20, 50 or 100 profiles, Enterprise at 5000+ priced on request.

We could not get the paid monthly prices off that page on 2026-08-01. They render only after selecting a currency in an interactive table. So this roundup does not quote one. If another roundup quotes an AdsPower price, ask where it came from.

Pick it if: you need its mature feature surface, which is genuinely large.

AntiBrow, if the agent has to hold an account

Ours. Pricing: unlimited local profiles free forever, paid from $9.9/mo, and the meter is concurrency (1 free, then 5, 20, 100 simultaneous browsers) rather than identity count.

The design bets on three things. Profiles are directories on your own disk, so cookies and passkeys are your files and cloud sync is opt-in per profile. Each profile carries its own virtual authenticator, so passkeys enrolled on a site are captured and replayed at the next sign-in. And automation is standard Playwright plus a one-line MCP server, so nothing proprietary sits between your agent and the page.

Skip it if: budget decides (ixBrowser is cheaper), you want a cloud workspace (Multilogin), you want nothing to run locally (Browserbase), or you never automate anything, in which case you are paying for a surface you will not touch.

The claim none of us can make

No browser on this list stops you being flagged. Proxy quality, behaviour, and the history of the account you bring decide most outcomes, and no product here controls any of them. Any roundup that promises otherwise, including a future version of this one, is selling.

Test before you pay

Same proxy, same target, in each candidate: whoer.net, then CreepJS, then the actual anti-bot wall your work has to clear. Most of these have a free tier that makes that comparison cost nothing but an afternoon.

Ours is unlimited local profiles with no card, which is enough to decide we are wrong for you. Download it or drive it from code.