Browse AI Credits Explained (2026): What Each Plan Actually Buys

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Browse AI charges 0.1 credit per row of extracted data — 10 rows cost 1 credit — with a 1-credit minimum per task, where a task is one robot run. Extracting 50 products from a page costs 5 credits, so the $19/month annual plan's 12,000 credits a year covers roughly 120,000 rows before you top up. The free plan is free forever: 50 credits a month, 2 websites and unlimited robots, which is enough to build a robot and see your own data on the screen before paying anything. Annual plans hand you the whole year's credits upfront instead of metering them month by month, you can buy more mid-year, and extra websites are $4/month. The one number to size for is premium sites — bot-protected targets bill a 2–10 credit minimum per task rather than the standard rate. Verified on Browse AI's pricing page and help center on Aug 5, 2026.

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Aug 5, 2026

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• The per-row rate, the 1-credit task minimum and the worked examples were read from Browse AI's 'How are credits calculated' help article, whose own last-modified date is Mar 13, 2026 — so the mechanics below have not moved since we first published them.
• Every plan price and credit figure was re-read from Browse AI's live pricing page on Aug 5, 2026, from the plan selector's own values rather than the marketing copy around it.
• That re-read corrected this page. It previously paired the annual price ($19/month) with the monthly plan's credit allowance (2,000), overstating what $19 buys by roughly 2x. Annual plans are quoted in credits per YEAR and monthly plans in credits per MONTH; the tables below now keep the two apart.

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• We quote Browse AI's own help-center wording and worked examples, and take plan figures from the pricing page's own selector values.
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The per-row math and the 1-credit floor

Browse AI bills 0.1 credit per extracted row, so 10 rows cost 1 credit. Every task has a 1-credit minimum, and a task is a single robot run — one visit to scrape, monitor, extract or screenshot.

Browse AI's help center defines the unit clearly: a task is "a single execution of your robot," and rows bill at 0.1 credit each. Its own worked example: "If you extract a list of 50 products from a single page, the credit calculation is 50 rows × 0.1 credit per row = 5 credits."

The floor is the detail that matters for small, frequent scrapes. Browse AI gives the example directly: "8 rows × 0.1 credit per row = 0.8 credits, since this is below the minimum, you'll use 1 credit." So a robot that returns just a handful of rows still costs a full credit per run — and 20 such runs cost 20 credits, not less. If you're monitoring many pages that each return a little data, the per-task minimum, not the per-row rate, drives your bill.

Premium sites: the one number to size for

Bot-protected sites bill a 2–10 credit minimum per task instead of the standard per-row rate. Browse AI publishes that band openly, so it is a number you can budget with — run one real task against your target and read the actual charge before you pick a plan.

Browse AI's pricing page states the rule in one line: "1 credit = 10 rows of data or 1 screenshot on standard sites. Premium sites require 2-10 credits minimum." Its help center gives the reason — "premium sites cost more to extract, scrape and monitor due to additional bot prevention tactics and site security." The clean 0.1-credit-per-row math holds everywhere else.

What that means in practice is worth knowing before you buy rather than after: the published band is wide, so the honest way to size a plan for a hard target is to point a robot at it on the free tier and read the real charge on a single run. That is exactly what the 50 free credits are for, and it takes a few minutes. For a standard site — most product listings, directories, job boards you already have access to — the base rate is the whole story and the sizing table below applies directly.

One more thing that works in your favour at volume: the cost per credit falls as you move up the plans, so heavy or protected-site workloads are cheaper per unit on a larger plan than the entry tier's rate suggests.

What each plan actually buys, and why the free tier is worth starting on

The free plan is free forever: 50 credits a month, 2 websites, unlimited robots — about 500 rows a month, enough to build a working robot and see your own data before paying. Paid plans start at $19/month billed annually, which grants 12,000 credits for the year upfront (≈120,000 rows) across 5 sites; $69/month annually grants 60,000 credits a year (≈600,000 rows) across 10. Month-to-month billing meters the same pools monthly instead: $48 for 2,000 credits a month, $87 for 5,000.

Start on the free tier, and not out of thrift — it is the only way to learn what your specific target site costs. $0 forever, 50 credits a month, 2 websites and unlimited robots against them, with full platform access. Point a robot at the page you actually care about, run it once, and the charge tells you which plan you need. That is a better sizing method than any table, including ours.

When you do upgrade, read the billing toggle carefully, because Browse AI quotes annual plans in credits per YEAR and monthly plans in credits per MONTH. At $19/month billed annually you get 12,000 credits for the year, all released upfront — not metered out monthly — so a heavy week in March can borrow against a quiet June. At $38/month annually that becomes 24,000 a year, and at $69/month, 60,000. Paying month to month instead costs $48 for 2,000 credits a month or $87 for 5,000 — the same volumes the $38 and $69 annual tiers carry, for about a quarter more.

Two smaller lines that decide whether a plan holds up: credits reset each year rather than banking forever, but any annual plan can buy more mid-cycle if a project overruns, and extra websites are $4/month on annual billing — so outgrowing the site limit is a small add-on, not a tier upgrade. For where Browse AI fits against code-first scrapers, our web scraping for AI agents ranking compares it to Apify and Firecrawl, and the Context.dev review covers the flat-rate alternative.

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