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Browse AI vs Simplescraper (2026): which should you pick?

As of Nov 13, 2026, Browse AI and Simplescraper share a 2.2 GPA, both have a free plan, and Browse AI starts cheaper, at $19 a month against $39 a month.

Checked Oct 5, 2026 and Nov 13, 2026 · graded Oct 10, 2026 and Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA

They get the same grade on all five counts.

Price, platforms and features side by side. The table says where each price was read and when.

Browse AI

No-code web scraping and website change monitoring

Free plan · from $19/mo
Full detailsbrowse.ai

Simplescraper

Point-and-click web scraper that sends data to sheets and APIs

Free plan · from $39/mo
Full detailssimplescraper.io

Which one is for you

Pick Browse AI if

  • Fits if you want a competitor's prices tracked without checking the site yourself
  • Works for people who need a website's data in Google Sheets or Airtable and can't code

Look elsewhere if

  • Pricey if you won't commit to a year, because monthly billing is $48 against $19
  • Tight if you're staying free, with 50 credits a month, 2 websites and checks no more than hourly
  • Skip it if you watch lots of sites, since plans cap them at 2, 5 and 10 and extras cost more
  • Watch out: annual Personal gives 12,000 credits a year, half what twelve months on the $48 plan give
  • Watch out: unused credits reset each cycle, and Premium sites cost at least 2 to 10 credits a run

Pick Simplescraper if

  • Fits if you collect prices, listings or leads from web pages without code
  • Works for people who send scraped data to a spreadsheet on a schedule

Look elsewhere if

  • Tight if you scrape at volume on Free, since only 5-page browser runs are free
  • Skip it if you need the API on a cheap plan, as the APIs start on Pro at $70 a month
  • Watch out: credits meter longer runs and cloud scraping, and the page does not say whether prices are monthly or annual rates

How we grade them

2.2GPABrowse AIFair2.2GPASimplescraperFair
Value for money
CPersonal is $19 a month on annual billing, which is the middle of this category, and that buys 12,000 credits for the year and 5 websites. Pay month to month and it's $48. Professional, for 10 websites, is $69. Extra websites are a paid add-on on both.
CPlus is $39 a month, between the cheapest quarter ($13.49) and the dearer quarter ($50) of automation tools. The listing does not say whether that is a monthly or annual rate.
Free plan and trial
CFree gives you 50 credits a month, which is 500 rows, across 2 websites, with monitoring no more often than hourly. Credits don't carry over. It's enough to watch one page, and you'll feel the edges on the first real job.
CA free tier covers browser runs of up to 5 pages, with 100 starting credits for longer runs and cloud scraping, so you will hit the cap.
Features
CIt covers web data: AI that proposes the columns, robots you train by recording clicks, deep scraping into detail pages, change monitoring and 250+ ready-made robots. That's a narrower job than the platforms here, and sites needing special proxies cost 2 to 10 credits a run.
CPoint-and-click scrapers, bulk scraping, AI extraction, scheduling and change monitoring. The scrape, screenshot and AI extraction APIs only start on Pro.
Ease of use
CNo store rating on record. Pasting an address and letting the AI propose columns takes little setup, but there's an extension to install for recorded robots, and credits to work out, where one covers 10 rows or a screenshot.
CNo store rating on record. You build each scraper on a page, and credits need watching.
Platforms and integrations
BA web app plus a browser extension for recording robots. Results sync to Google Sheets or Airtable, flow through Zapier, Make, Pabbly Connect and webhooks, land in Amazon S3, or come out of a REST API.
BWeb app plus a Chrome extension, with Google Sheets, Airtable and Zapier listed. No desktop or phone app.
Best forwatching websites and pulling their data into a sheetpoint-and-click scraping into sheets and APIs

The GPA is the average of the five grades: an A is 4 points, an F is none. The full reasons are on each tool's page: Browse AI and Simplescraper. How we grade

Price against what you get

Browse AI starts at $19 a month and scores 2.3 out of 4 on features, ease of use and platforms. Simplescraper starts at $39 a month and scores 2.3.

They score the same, and Browse AI starts $20 a month lower. Of the other automation tools on the chart, 8 score higher than Browse AI for less, and 15 score higher than Simplescraper for less.

Features, ease of use and platforms, averaged

D1.0C2.0B3.0A4.0Free$1$2$5$10$20$50$100$200$500$1k$2k$5kMore for lessCosts more, scores moreCosts less, scores lessCosts more, scores lessBrowse AISimplescraper

What paid plans start at, a month (each step along is roughly double) →

  • The best score at each price
  • Has a free plan
  • No free plan
The full chart of automation tools, and the best at every price

Where they differ

    In commonFree planWebBrowser extensionPublic APIAI featuresWorkflow automationNo-code

    At a glance

    Browse AISimplescraper
    PricingFree planFree plan
    Starts at$19 / month, billed annually, for 12,000 credits a year; $48 billed monthly$39 per month, billing term not shown
    Free plan50 credits a month, 2 websites, 3 users and unlimited robots, with monitoring no more often than hourly. One credit extracts 10 rows or captures a screenshot.Browser runs of up to 5 pages are free, with 100 starting credits for longer runs and cloud scraping.
    Free trialNone listedNone listed
    Web
    Browser extension
    Made byBrowse AI Inc.Simplescraper
    Price read frombrowse.aisimplescraper.io
    CheckedOct 5, 2026Nov 13, 2026

    Worth knowing

    Browse AI

    • The Free plan has 50 credits a month. Unused credits reset at the end of each billing cycle and do not carry over.
    • Annual Personal includes 12,000 credits a year, half of what the $48 monthly plan provides over twelve months.
    • Sites marked Premium, which need special proxies, cost a minimum of 2 to 10 credits per run.
    • Plans cap the number of websites at 2, 5 and 10; extra websites are a paid add-on on Personal and Professional.

    Simplescraper

    • The pricing section does not say whether the monthly prices assume monthly or annual billing.
    • Scraping is metered in credits, and longer runs and cloud scraping use them.
    • The scrape, screenshot and AI extraction APIs start on the Pro plan.
    • The pricing shown sits on the homepage; no separate detailed pricing page was readable.

    Key features

    Browse AI

    AI web scraper
    Paste the address of a page and the AI reads it, extracts the data and proposes the columns. You review them, and can add a field by describing it in plain language.
    Recorded robots
    With the browser extension you record a task once: open a page, log in, click, fill in forms, extract data or take screenshots. The robot then repeats it with inputs you can change per run.
    Website monitoring
    A robot can re-check pages on a schedule and flag content or visual changes. The shortest interval is hourly on the Free plan and 5 minutes on Personal and Professional.
    Deep scraping
    A robot can extract a list and then visit each item's detail page for more fields, so one run covers many pages.
    Prebuilt robots
    More than 250 ready-made robots extract data from popular websites without recording anything or installing the extension.
    Spreadsheets, integrations and API
    Results sync to Google Sheets or Airtable, flow through Zapier, Make, Pabbly Connect and webhooks, land in Amazon S3, or are served through a REST API.

    Simplescraper

    Point-and-click scrapers
    Click the data you want on a page and it becomes a scraper, used through the Chrome extension or the dashboard.
    Bulk scraping
    Run a scraper over a list of links, such as a thousand product pages at once, and collect the rows into one dataset.
    AI extraction
    Describe the data you want in plain language and the page is returned as a table, Markdown or JSON.
    Scheduling and delivery
    Scrapers run on a schedule and send results to Google Sheets, Airtable, Zapier, webhooks or an AI agent over MCP.
    Change monitoring
    Website change monitoring is listed on the Plus plan and above and flags what changed since the last run.

    Plans

    Browse AI

    • Free$0

      50 credits a month, 2 websites, 3 users, unlimited robots and basic email support.

    • Personal$19

      per month, billed annually, with 12,000 credits a year

      5 websites, 3 users and basic email support. 24,000 credits a year is $38 a month. Billed monthly it is $48 with 2,000 credits a month.

    • Professional$69

      per month, billed annually, with 60,000 credits a year

      10 websites, 10 users and priority email support. Billed monthly it is $87 with 5,000 credits a month. Larger credit tiers cost more.

    • PremiumFrom $500

      per month, billed annually

      600,000+ credits a year with custom limits, managed onboarding and setup, data transformations and a dedicated account manager.

    Simplescraper

    • Free$0

      Browser runs of up to 5 pages, plus 100 starting credits for longer runs and cloud scraping.

    • Plus$39

      per month, billing term not shown

      6,000 credits, unlimited scrapers, scheduling, bulk scraping, change monitoring and Sheets, Airtable, Zapier and webhook delivery.

    • Pro$70

      per month, billing term not shown

      15,000 credits and the scrape, screenshot and AI extraction APIs, on top of Plus.

    • Premium$150

      per month, billing term not shown

      40,000 credits for broader scraping and monitoring, on top of Pro.

    • Scale$249

      per month, billing term not shown

      100,000 credits, a scraper setup service and priority support.

    Ways to pay less

    Browse AI

    • Annual discount

      20% discount for paying annually

      Browse AI's pricing FAQ gives a 20% discount for pre-paying a year, with the year's credits granted upfront. Compare credit allowances, as they differ from monthly plans.

    • Startups

      Startup program: extra 20% off annual plans

      Startups that apply and are approved get an additional 20% off Browse AI's annual plans.

    • Nonprofit

      Nonprofit and education discounts on request

      The pricing FAQ says additional discounts exist for nonprofits and educational institutions, arranged by contacting Browse AI.

    Simplescraper

    No public discounts listed.

    Common questions

    Which is cheaper, Browse AI or Simplescraper?

    As of Nov 13, 2026, Browse AI is cheaper to start with: $19 a month, against $39 a month for Simplescraper. Browse AI starts at $19 / month, billed annually, for 12,000 credits a year; $48 billed monthly, and Simplescraper starts at $39 per month, billing term not shown.

    Which has a free plan, Browse AI or Simplescraper?

    As of Nov 13, 2026, both Browse AI and Simplescraper have a free plan.

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    How this page was made

    • The verdict at the top follows a fixed rule. When both tools are in the same category and either is in our top three for it, the verdict follows that ranking: the higher-placed tool is our pick. The top three weigh who each tool suits as well as its grades, so a pick can go against the GPA. Otherwise the page does not pick one and says which grades higher: the higher GPA first; on a tie, the one with a free plan, then the one that starts cheaper in dollars a month, counted the same way for both; if they are still level, what the choice depends on.
    • The grades are our own, from each tool’s review or report card. The GPA is their average.
    • Prices, plans and platforms come from each tool’s listing. The table above says where each price was read and when.
    • The differences and the answers to the questions are worked out from those listings.
    How we review and grade