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BrowserAct: Buy vs Skip (Agency Scraping Retainers)

IF your agency already sells lead generation, competitor monitoring, or e-commerce research retainers and needs scrapers that survive CAPTCHA walls and selector drift, THEN start on Basic at $16/month (10,000 credits, 10 simultaneous tasks, up to 5 static proxies) and only move to Advanced at $96/month (100,000 credits, 40 simultaneous tasks, up to 50 static proxies) once concurrent client jobs exceed what 10 tasks can carry. IF you need a white-label portal or a documented agency tier, DEFER, because BrowserAct publishes neither and every client-facing artifact has to be built and branded by your own delivery team.

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BrowserAct: Buy vs Skip (Agency Scraping Retainers)

“IF your agency already sells lead generation, competitor monitoring, or e-commerce research retainers and needs scrapers that survive CAPTCHA walls and selector drift, THEN start on Basic at $16/month (10,000 credits, 10 simultaneous tasks, up to 5 static proxies) and only move to Advanced at $96/month (100,000 credits, 40 simultaneous tasks, up to 50 static proxies) once concurrent client jobs exceed what 10 tasks can carry. IF you need a white-label portal or a documented agency tier, DEFER, because BrowserAct publishes neither and every client-facing artifact has to be built and branded by your own delivery team.”

When is it the right choice?
  • Your delivery model already includes recurring data pulls (directory lead lists, competitor price checks, product catalog monitoring) that currently eat engineering hours on scraper maintenance.
  • You run client automation in Make, n8n, or Zapier and want scrapers to drop into those workflows without custom API work.
  • Concurrent scraping jobs stay under 10 at a time, so the Basic plan's 10 simultaneous tasks and 5 static proxies cover the book of work at $16/month.
  • You want to prototype before committing: 200 free credits and 2 free agent builds on the Free plan let you validate a client use case before paying anything.
  • Multi-client volume justifies the Advanced plan's 100,000 credits and 40 simultaneous tasks at $96/month, and you can absorb the credit burn across retainers.
When should you skip it?
  • Clients expect a branded portal or white-label dashboard; BrowserAct has no documented agency tier or white-label program, so presentation work lands on your team.
  • Your pipeline needs more than 50 static proxies or more than 40 simultaneous tasks, since those are the published ceilings on the Advanced plan.
  • Prospects want fixed-fee scraping quotes with predictable margins, and credit-based consumption on the Advanced plan makes per-client cost hard to lock down.
  • The engagement is a one-off data pull rather than a retainer; a $1,800 productized build like the Local Lead Scraper only pays back when the scraper is reused across months.
  • Your team has no one to own prompt design and output validation, because natural language scraper builds still need a human to confirm the structured data matches client expectations.
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