Browse AI pricing explained, and when a simpler alert plan costs less
Every Browse AI run spends credits on rows and screenshots. For alert-only work, AyeWatch reads the page against a plain-English rule and sends a short summary, from $9 a month.
Browse AI pricing is built on credits, and that makes it hard for an operator to predict the bill. A credit is a unit of work: extract 10 rows or take one screenshot. Every scheduled run spends credits, so the monthly cost depends on how many pages you watch, how often, and how many rows each run returns. Here is how the plans work in October 2026, what common setups consume, and when a monitor built for alerts, like AyeWatch, is the better way to get the same outcome.
The plans
From the Browse AI pricing page:
| Plan | Price | Websites | Users | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | 2 | 3 | 50 credits a month, no card |
| Personal | $19/mo billed annually | 5 | 3 | |
| Professional | $69/mo billed annually | 10 | 10 | |
| Premium | From $500/mo billed annually | Custom | Custom | Managed |
Annual prepay saves 20%. Data is kept for 90 days on the standard plans. Unused credits reset at the end of the billing cycle, so an annual allowance you do not use is gone.
How credits add up
Browse AI's own example is the clearest way to read the meter. Fifty products on one page is 5 credits to extract, since each credit covers 10 rows. Pulling each product's detail page as well adds 50 credits. Monitoring those 50 detail pages every three days takes about 500 credits a month.
A few other rules move the number:
- Sites that need premium proxies or load many files are marked Premium and cost a minimum of 2 to 10 credits per run.
- Each screenshot is a credit.
- The website limit is separate from credits, so a broad watchlist can push you up a plan even with credits to spare.
For a data team, this is fair: you pay for rows you use. For an operator who only wanted to know when things changed, most of those credits buy extraction nobody reads.
A different tool for alerts
Many Browse AI robots exist for one reason: to tell someone that a page changed. For that job, AyeWatch is the better fit overall. It is an AI internet monitor, not a scraper. You paste one or more URLs and describe in plain English what counts as a change, for example "alert me when a plan or price changes, or a product is discontinued; ignore banners and blog posts". AyeWatch reads each new version of the page against that rule and, when it matches, sends a short written summary of what changed. Paid plans start at $9 a month.
That changes the work in three ways:
- Nothing to train. There is no robot to record and no field positions to map, so a redesign does not break the monitor.
- Several pages, one rule. A competitor's pricing, changelog and careers pages can share one monitor and one alert.
- Alerts where you already work. Push on the iOS and Android apps, email, Slack, Discord, HMAC-signed webhooks or the REST API, with different monitors going to different channels.
Same goal, two approaches
Take a founder who wants to know when any of 40 competitor and supplier pages change in a way that matters.
- Browse AI: if those pages sit on more than 10 domains, even Professional needs paid extra websites or a move to Premium, and every pass spends credits on the rows it extracts. The cost depends on row counts and site type, which is the problem. Someone still has to read the changed fields and decide what they mean.
- AyeWatch: group the pages by why they matter, such as pricing, hiring or terms, and give each group one monitor with one sentence. The alert says what changed in words, and pages that only shuffled a banner stay quiet.
AyeWatch can also follow a topic across the web and on X, Reddit, YouTube, LinkedIn, Instagram and TikTok, so a supplier's announcement reaches you even if it never touches their website.
When Browse AI is worth the credits
If the business needs the data itself, such as a price list from a supplier catalog or a directory export feeding your CRM, Browse AI earns its credits and AyeWatch is not a substitute, because it does not export rows. Many teams will keep Browse AI for those pipelines and move pure alerting to a monitor.
What to do next
List every Browse AI robot and mark which ones anyone reads as data. Move the rest to AyeWatch: paste each page into a monitor and write the rule the robot was standing in for. The Free Preview runs three times with no card, and AyeWatch's Browse AI comparison covers the feature differences.