Software for agents is moving from seats to meters. Deloitte expects subscriptions and seat licenses to give way to usage- and outcome-based pricing as agents take on more of the work, and browser infrastructure already bills that way. Every hour a browser stays open, every gigabyte of proxy traffic and every captcha your agent meets ends up on the invoice.
Hyperbrowser charges a monthly plan fee that comes back as credits, then draws those credits down at one flat set of rates for browsers, proxies, sandboxes, web data and agent steps. Solari also returns its plan fee as credits, but its browser rate falls at each plan step, and browsers, sandboxes and desktops all draw from one credit balance. This guide prices each line on both, so you can see what your agents will cost before the invoice arrives.
Why Does Pricing Matter More for Agents?
A person using a browser runs one session at a time. An agent fleet runs hundreds, each one a headless browser that opens, works and closes on its own schedule. Under a software-as-a-service seat license that volume cost nothing extra; under a meter, the volume is the bill.
That turns cost into an engineering decision. How long a session stays open, how much page weight crosses a proxy and how many captchas a target site throws all change what a job costs. The engineer who sets those options now sets the budget too, so the rate card is worth reading line by line.
What Does a Hyperbrowser Plan Include?
The figure sets the two vendors side by side on the lines that move a bill most. The sections below walk through each one.
Hyperbrowser sells four plans, and the plan sets your concurrency ceiling before any usage is metered. Hyperbrowser says its Free plan is $0 with 5,000 credits, 1 concurrent session and 7 days of data retention, where 1,000 credits equal $1 of usage; Startup returns its fee as usage with 25 concurrent sessions and 30 days of retention; Scale is $100 a month with $100 of usage and 100 concurrent sessions; and Enterprise is custom with 180+ days of retention.
The larger plans buy concurrency more than credits. A team that outgrows Startup's concurrency moves to Scale before it runs a single extra job.
Features follow the plan as well. Automatic CAPTCHA solving and basic stealth mode start at Startup, and ultra stealth mode is Enterprise only.
What Do You Pay for on Hyperbrowser?
On Hyperbrowser, credits drain at unit rates that are the same on Free, Startup and Scale. Beyond the browser, proxy and vCPU rates in the figure, Hyperbrowser's rate card bills sandbox memory at $0.015 per GiB-hour, fetch at $0.001 per page, search at $0.005 per query, and HyperAgent and Browser Use steps at $0.02 each, charged in addition to browser time and proxy data. These are the lines that make up the bill:
Browser time costs the same flat hourly rate on every self-serve plan. A fleet that doubles its hours doubles its browser line, whichever plan it sits on.
Proxy data bills per gigabyte. Pages heavy in images and video move the most data, so the sites your agent visits decide this line more than the number of sessions.
Sandboxes bill both vCPU and memory while the VM runs. A sandbox left running between tasks keeps paying for its memory as well as its CPUs.
Agent steps stack on top of the browser hour. An agent that takes many steps per session pays for every one of them, so step count drives this line.
Plan credits reset at renewal and unused credits do not roll over, and credits bought separately also expire. A quiet month does not bank credit for a busy one.
What Does the Same Work Cost on Solari?
Solari keeps the credit model but sets the rate by plan, so the hourly price falls as your fleet grows. Here is what Solari does for you on each line:
Your browser rate gets cheaper as you grow. Solari bills a browser per hour while its session is open, at $0.15 on Free, $0.10 on Starter and $0.05 on Team, with Professional at the rate in the figure. Enterprise runs at a tenth of Team's rate, so every step up the plans lowers the cost of the same session.
Your bill stops at your balance. The Free plan includes $3 of credits a month, and Professional's $200 fee returns as the same amount in credits. Credits refill each month and don't roll over, credit you top up yourself doesn't expire, and at a zero balance there is no end-of-month overage charge.
You can trim proxy spend. Solari charges $6.00 per GB of proxy data on Starter, with Professional at the figure's rate. Set blockHeavy when you create a session and the browser refuses video and large images, so they never cross the proxy and never reach the bill.
Captchas bill per solve. Solari solves reCAPTCHA, hCaptcha and Cloudflare Turnstile in the background for $0.01 a solve on Starter and $0.005 on Professional, with stealth turned on. Hyperbrowser includes automatic solving in its paid plans, so a fleet that meets many captchas should price that line on its own.
You can run wide. Solari's Professional plan runs 150 concurrent browsers, 50 of them in stealth, the mode that proxies and captcha solving need. Enterprise reaches the concurrency in the figure for standard sessions, so you can run a whole target list in one pass.
Sandboxes sit on the same account. Solari sandboxes bill by size at the Professional vCPU rate in the figure plus $0.0077 per GB-hour, from the same credits as your browsers. Your agent can run code and operate the web without a second vendor or a second invoice.
Sessions start fast. Solari browsers are ready in 8 ms, so your agents spend their billed hours on pages rather than waiting for a browser.
Where Is Agent Infrastructure Pricing Going Next?
Pricing in this category is still settling. Over the next year it moves in four ways:
Rates fall with volume. As fleets grow from dozens of sessions to thousands, vendors will compete on the hourly rate at the top of the range, not on the entry plan.
Infrastructure and agents get billed apart. Teams increasingly bring their own model and agent framework, so they will want the environment billed by the hour and the model billed by its provider, with no step charge in between.
Cost per job becomes a metric. Engineers will track what a completed task costs next to how long it took, and tune session length and page weight to bring it down.
Spend controls move into the API. Balances, caps and alerts will sit in the same API that launches sessions, so an agent fleet cannot outspend its budget overnight.
What stays human is the budget itself: which jobs are worth running, what each result is worth, and when a person checks the output before it ships.
Which Should You Choose?
Choose Hyperbrowser when you want web data, search and hosted agents billed together from one set of credits. Choose Solari when you bring your own agent, run long, busy browser sessions beside sandboxes and desktops, and want your hourly rate to fall as the fleet grows.
Hyperbrowser is the more established vendor, with web data and hosted agents in the same credits; Solari is the younger company and moves faster on speed and price.
Get Started With Solari
Start with last month's Hyperbrowser usage: price its browser hours and proxy gigabytes at the rates above, then rerun one real job on Solari to compare. Solari is the fastest and cheapest way to run cloud browsers and VMs for browser agents. Get started with a free account and start running your agents today.
