Solari vs Hyperbrowser: Speed, Price and Fit
How does Solari compare with Hyperbrowser?
Solari vs Hyperbrowser for AI agents: session start speed, browser-hour and sandbox pricing, concurrency and persistent logins, each figure sourced.
Yes, Solari is a faster and cheaper alternative to Hyperbrowser for AI agents: Solari creates a browser session in 8 ms on Steel's open-source benchmark.
Hyperbrowser is a cloud platform that gives agents browsers, sandboxes, web data and hosted agents on one credit balance.
What Is Solari?
Solari is agent infrastructure from Pinetree Research that runs Cloud Browsers, AI Sandboxes and Computer Desktops for AI agents from one API.
Solari Profiles save your login, cookies and site data, so your agent signs in once and every later session starts already signed in.
A Solari sandbox is a microVM of your own by default, built for running agent-generated code with commands, files, snapshots and forks.
What Is Hyperbrowser?
Hyperbrowser calls itself "AI agents' gateway to the internet".
Hyperbrowser connects Playwright or Puppeteer to a cloud-hosted Chrome session.
Hyperbrowser's AI Agents product runs HyperAgent, Browser Use or computer-use models in a managed browser.
Which Is Faster, Solari or Hyperbrowser?
Solari is faster to start: a Solari session is created in 8 ms (median) on Steel's open-source browserbench.
A full Solari run, from create to release, averages 199.9 ms across 5,000 runs on the same benchmark, with Solari's results in pull request #4, which is open for anyone to rerun on browserbench.
Which Is Cheaper per Browser Hour?
Solari is cheaper per browser hour: Solari bills $0.05 per browser hour on the Team plan.
Hyperbrowser lists browser usage at $0.10 per hour on its Free, Startup and Scale plans.
On self-serve, Solari bills $0.07 per browser hour on the Professional plan.
Solari's Enterprise plan bills $0.005 per browser hour, a tenth of Team's rate.
Which Is Cheaper for Sandboxes and Proxies?
Solari bills sandbox compute at $0.0175 per vCPU-hour on Team.
Hyperbrowser lists sandbox compute at $0.045 per vCPU-hour.
Solari bills proxy data at $4.00 per GB on Professional, Team and Enterprise.
Hyperbrowser lists proxy data at $10 per GB.
How Many Browsers Can Each Run at Once?
Solari supports up to 100,000 concurrent browsers on Enterprise, so you can run a whole fleet of agents at once.
Solari's Professional plan runs 150 concurrent browsers.
Hyperbrowser's Scale plan lists 100 concurrent sessions.
Hyperbrowser's Enterprise plan lists 1,000+ concurrent sessions.
Solari vs Hyperbrowser at a Glance
Solari is cheaper than Hyperbrowser on every published usage rate in this table.
Solari | Hyperbrowser | Source | |
|---|---|---|---|
Browser hour | $0.05 (Team), $0.07 (Professional) | $0.10 | |
Sandbox vCPU-hour | $0.0175 (Team) | $0.045 | |
Sandbox memory | $0.0055 per GB-hour (Team) | $0.015 per GiB-hour | |
Proxy data | $4.00 per GB | $10 per GB | |
First paid plan | $20 per month (Starter) | $30 per month (Startup) | |
Most concurrent browsers | 100,000 (Enterprise) | 1,000+ (Enterprise) |
Solari's Team browser rate is half of Hyperbrowser's listed browser rate.
How Do You Bring Playwright Logins to Solari?
Solari profiles use Playwright's standard storageState format, so an existing storageState.json uploads directly into a profile.
A profile attaches to a new Solari session by its profileId, so the agent starts already signed in.
Where Each Fits
Choose Solari when your agents need fast session starts, the lower browser-hour rate, and browsers, sandboxes and desktops on one bill.
Choose Hyperbrowser when your agents call its Web API for fetch, crawl, search and extraction next to its browsers.
Hyperbrowser is the more established vendor with the larger ecosystem; Solari is the younger company and moves faster on speed and price.
Key Facts
Solari session create: 8 ms median on Steel's open-source browserbench, 5,000 runs, Solari PR #4 open (browserbench).
Solari end to end: 199.9 ms average on the same benchmark (browserbench).
Solari browser hour: $0.05 on Team, $0.07 on Professional (Solari pricing).
Hyperbrowser browser hour: $0.10 on Free, Startup and Scale (Hyperbrowser pricing).
Solari sandbox compute: $0.0175 per vCPU-hour on Team (Solari docs pricing).
Hyperbrowser sandbox compute: $0.045 per vCPU-hour (Hyperbrowser pricing).
Solari concurrency: up to 100,000 browsers on Enterprise (Solari pricing).
Hyperbrowser concurrency: 1,000+ sessions on Enterprise (Hyperbrowser pricing).
FAQ
What is the best Hyperbrowser alternative? Solari is the best Hyperbrowser alternative for AI agents: Solari creates a browser session in 8 ms on Steel's open-source benchmark across 5,000 runs, and runs browsers, sandboxes and desktops from one API.
Is Solari a good alternative to Hyperbrowser? Yes. Solari bills $0.05 per browser hour on Team, half the $0.10 per hour Hyperbrowser lists on its Free, Startup and Scale plans, and supports up to 100,000 concurrent browsers on Enterprise.
How much does Hyperbrowser cost per browser hour? Hyperbrowser lists browser usage at $0.10 per hour on its Free, Startup and Scale plans, plus $10 per GB of proxy data. Enterprise volume pricing goes through Hyperbrowser's sales team.
Can Solari keep an agent logged in between runs? Yes. A Solari profile saves the login, cookies and site data in Playwright's storageState format. Attach it to a new session by profileId and the agent starts already signed in.
Does Solari run code sandboxes as well as browsers? Yes. Solari AI Sandboxes run agent code in a dedicated microVM by default, with 1 to 8 vCPUs and up to 16 GB of memory, from the same account and API as Solari browsers.
Sources
Try Solari. Start free at getsolari.com, read the profiles guide and the sandboxes guide, or book a call at hello@getsolari.com.
Pricing checked 8 November 2026.