Antidetect Browser Pricing FAQ: 14 Questions Buyers Ask in 2026

A buyer forwarded me a spreadsheet last month with one cell highlighted yellow: $1,847. That was his annual antidetect browser spend. The problem wasn't the number — it was that he couldn't explain it. Two overlapping subscriptions, one seat he'd forgotten to cancel, and a residential proxy bill that had quietly grown larger than every browser license combined.

He thought he'd been comparing antidetect browser pricing. He'd been comparing pricing pages, which is a different thing.

I'd like to say I spotted that instantly. I didn't. I ran the same forgotten-seat mistake on my own card for four months once, and the only reason I caught it was a failed payment email.

So: the 14 questions that actually come up when someone's about to spend money here. Where our own pricing is the honest answer I'll say so. Where it isn't, I'll say that too.

1. What does an antidetect browser actually cost in 2026?

Entry tiers run roughly $9 to $99/month. Larger plans in the same table climb to $159 and $199.

Per JustBrowser's own homepage comparison table (verified May 2026 — go check each vendor's page before you budget, because these move): AdsPower starts around $9/mo and climbs to about $50/mo on larger plans, GoLogin starts near $19/mo and reaches around $159/mo, and Multilogin enters at roughly $99/mo with larger plans near $199/mo.

JustBrowser is $9.99/mo flat for unlimited profiles, or $99.99/year. One plan, no tiers, and a 7-day trial instead of a free plan.

The spread is wide because these tools are sold to two completely different buyers — a solo affiliate running 8 accounts and an agency running 400 — using the same pricing page.

2. Is the free tier real, or is it a demo?

Depends entirely on what the vendor gates.

Some tools gate fingerprint quality. You get a stripped identity engine on free, upgrade, and only then find out whether the thing passes detection. That's a demo dressed as a plan.

This one bugs me. Charging people to find out whether the fingerprinting works isn't a trial — it's a coin flip you paid for.

We went the other way and don't run a free tier at all. JustBrowser is one plan with a 7-day trial that gates nothing: full 40+ parameter identity management, proxy support (HTTP / HTTPS / SOCKS5), WebRTC protection, cookie warm-up, profile aging, cloud sync, the REST API, all of it. The trade is that we take a card at checkout — the seven days cost nothing, the first charge lands when they're up, and cancelling inside the week means you're never billed. I'd rather ask for a card than hand someone a stripped engine and call it a plan.

Test this yourself rather than believing anyone's marketing, ours included. Make one profile, run it through CreepJS and Pixelscan, read the output. Ten minutes. If a vendor's free tier can't survive that, their paid tier is a gamble.

3. Why is antidetect browser pricing per profile on some tools and flat on others?

Per-profile pricing exists because it's easy to sell — small number on the page, expansion revenue baked in. It's also the model that punishes you exactly when the tool is working.

Flat pricing shifts that risk to the vendor. JustBrowser is $9.99/mo whether you run 12 profiles or 900. We don't price per profile at all. Same reasoning behind JustEmails being $49/year flat for unlimited domains — we don't much like usage meters on our own invoices either.

The honest tradeoff used to be that flat pricing costs more at the low end. At $9.99 that argument has mostly evaporated — a capped $9/mo entry tier elsewhere is a rounding error away from an uncapped one here. What you're still paying for, if you genuinely run six profiles forever, is headroom you never use.

Strong opinion, though: per-profile pricing on a tool whose entire value is running more accounts is a design choice, not an accident, and every vendor using it knows precisely which direction the invoice moves.

4. What's the difference between a seat and a profile on my invoice?

This one confuses almost everyone, and it's the source of most surprise bills.

Profiles are browser identities — fingerprint, cookies, proxy, session. Seats are humans who log into the dashboard.

On JustBrowser you get unlimited profiles regardless of seat count, and seats are free — there's no per-seat line on the invoice at all. One operator managing 600 profiles pays $9.99/mo. Four operators managing 40 profiles pay $9.99/mo. That's the entire bill, and the flat number is the point.

There is a boundary, and it isn't a concurrency cap: a free seat can run the profiles its team shares with it, but it can't create or cloud-sync profiles of its own, and it can't touch the REST API or API tokens. Anyone who needs their own profiles needs their own subscription. Worth knowing before you plan an agency around shared seats.

Get this backwards and your comparison spreadsheet is worthless. Full arithmetic in our per-seat vs flat pricing breakdown.

5. Is annual billing worth it?

Here's my contrarian take, and it argues against our own discount: don't buy annual in your first quarter.

JustBrowser annual is $99.99/year against $9.99/mo month to month — about 17% off twelve monthly payments, and I'd take it in month four. But I've watched this pattern too many times to shrug at it. Someone buys an antidetect browser for a campaign, the campaign ends, the subscription doesn't. A 17% discount on a tool you stopped opening in week six is not a saving; it's a $99.99 receipt. I don't have churn data for this category and neither does anyone quoting a number at you — this is just what I keep seeing. One practical guard if you're stacking several subscriptions on one card: give each its own capped virtual card — VeloCards is ours — so a forgotten one surfaces as a declined charge instead of a line you stop reading.

Run monthly. Prove the workflow. Then lock the year in.

6. What's the single biggest cost that isn't on any pricing page?

Proxies. Not close.

Almost every antidetect browser is bring-your-own-proxy, and JustBrowser doesn't bundle bandwidth in the $9.99 either — you can bring your own or buy residential, mobile, datacenter or ISP proxies from the in-app marketplace, billed separately. Residential proxies are typically billed per gigabyte, and for anyone running sustained sessions across dozens of profiles, that bill routinely lands above the browser license. Sometimes several times above.

That's the line item that ambushed the guy with the yellow cell in his spreadsheet. He'd budgeted the browser licences and treated bandwidth as rounding error. It wasn't.

7. And the second biggest?

Your time during migration.

Exporting profiles, re-authenticating accounts, re-warming cookies, discovering that half your saved sessions didn't survive the transfer. Nobody prices this and everybody pays it.

I budgeted a weekend for a move like this once. It took nine days, three of them spent re-doing 2FA on accounts I'd sworn were already migrated. Stage it. Don't move the accounts that make you money first.

8. Do I have to pay extra for API access?

Depends on the vendor. Some sell API as an add-on, some gate it to higher tiers, some don't offer it at all.

On JustBrowser it's included at no extra charge — REST API, CDP endpoint for Playwright / Puppeteer / Selenium, headless launch, OpenAPI docs at /api/v1/docs. All of it live during the 7-day trial as well, so a developer can wire up a script and watch it run before the first charge.

Most antidetect pricing content ignores this lane completely. Which is odd, because for a scraping team the API is the product. We wrote up the developer-API angle separately.

9. Is cloud sync a separate line item?

On JustBrowser, no — cloud sync is unlimited and included, along with profile backup and restore and multi-window sync, at the same $9.99. There's no storage cap to run into and no second line item.

Elsewhere, ask directly. "Cloud profiles" sometimes means synced storage and sometimes means the browser runs on the vendor's infrastructure, which is a very different security posture and a very different bill.

10. Does paying more get me better detection results?

No. And this is where a lot of budget dies.

Price in this category tracks brand, sales motion, and enterprise onboarding — not canvas fidelity. A $99/mo tool isn't inherently harder to detect than a $9.99/mo one. What matters is architecture: whether the identity patches sit in the browser engine itself or get bolted on top of stock Chromium through an extension layer that detection scripts can see.

JustBrowser runs a native C++ Chromium engine, patched at the canvas / WebGL / audio / font / screen layer. We publish the checker results we've recorded — CreepJS (0% stealth / 0% headless), Whoer (90-100%), Iphey (Trust Good), Bot Sannysoft (all OK), BrowserLeaks WebRTC (no leak) — precisely so you can rerun them instead of inferring quality from price.

11. What happens to my profiles if I cancel?

Ask this before you pay. Seriously.

Cloud-only tools can leave your profiles stranded behind a paywall. On JustBrowser the profiles sit on your machine and encrypted profile export is built in, so your identities aren't hostage to a billing state. If you stop paying, your profiles stay on your machine and keep launching. You can keep up to five local profiles; cloud sync, team sharing and the API pause until you resubscribe. Take an encrypted export anyway before a long break.

If a vendor can't answer this in one sentence, that's your answer.

12. Should I start cheap and upgrade later?

Usually yes, with one exception.

Start on whatever costs least to evaluate — a free tier elsewhere, our seven days — build 3-5 real profiles and run your actual workflow, not a demo. A week is enough to find out whether accounts survive first contact. If a $9/mo entry tier covers you forever after that, take it.

The exception: don't start cheap if you're migrating an existing book of accounts. Cheap tiers cap profiles, and hitting the ceiling mid-migration means you're re-doing work under time pressure with live accounts at stake. Buy the tier that fits the end state, not the one that fits today. (Ask me how I know.)

13. How do I budget when my account count is unpredictable?

Flat pricing is the answer to unpredictability. That's the whole pitch, and it's the one place I think our model is straightforwardly better than the alternatives.

If your profile count swings between 30 and 300 depending on campaign season, per-profile tiers turn budgeting into guesswork. Flat rate means your browser line is fixed and your only variable is proxy bandwidth. For operators tracking campaign-level cost, we mapped a full year of this in the true cost of ownership for a five-person team.

14. What should I ask a vendor before I pay?

Five questions. In this order:

1. Is pricing per profile, per seat, or flat — and what changes when I add a person?
2. What exactly does the free tier or trial gate: quality, or scale?
3. Are proxies included? They almost never are — ask anyway, because how they answer tells you more than the answer does.
4. What happens to my profiles if I stop paying?
5. Which detection suites are you verified against — and can I test it myself before the first charge?

Any vendor who gets cagey on #4 or #5 has told you something.

A few smaller questions that keep coming up

"Is there a lifetime deal?" Occasionally, on smaller tools. Be careful — a lifetime license on a browser that needs continuous Chromium engine updates is a bet on the vendor still shipping in three years.

"Do I need a separate license per machine?" On JustBrowser, no — one subscription covers you on both builds we ship, Windows x64 and macOS on Apple Silicon. There's no Linux version, before you ask.

"Is there a mobile app?" No. Desktop only, and I'd be skeptical of anyone claiming full fingerprint control from a phone.

"Can I resell access to clients?" Different question from pricing, but it comes up constantly on agency calls. Check terms before you build a business model on top of someone's seat structure.

Quick verdict

Solo, under 6 profiles? A free tier somewhere else may genuinely be enough — we don't run one, and I'm not going to dress $9.99 up as free. Running 40+ profiles or any automation, flat pricing wins the moment your count stops being predictable. And a team should model seats before profiles, because on most tools in this category that's where the invoice actually grows.

Whatever you pick, budget proxies as a real line item and compare on the total, not the headline. If you're running paid traffic alongside those accounts, ClickzProtect covers traffic quality and JustAnalytics the measurement — but the browser is one line in a bigger spreadsheet.

Go look at yours. That's the whole advice.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is there a genuinely free antidetect browser, or are free tiers just demos?

Genuinely free tiers do exist, but some vendors gate fingerprint quality behind the paid plan, which makes the free tier a demo rather than a tool. JustBrowser took the other route: no free tier, one plan at $9.99/month or $99.99/year, and a 7-day trial that withholds nothing — the full identity engine across 40+ parameters, proxy support, cloud sync and the REST API included. A card is taken at checkout and cancelling inside the seven days costs you nothing. Before you trust any free tier or trial, run a profile through CreepJS and Pixelscan and read the result yourself.

What does an antidetect browser cost per month in 2026?

Entry pricing across the category runs roughly $9 to $99/month, with larger plans in that table climbing to $159 and $199. Per JustBrowser's homepage comparison table, verified May 2026: AdsPower starts around $9/mo, GoLogin around $19/mo, Multilogin around $99/mo. JustBrowser is $9.99/mo flat for unlimited profiles, or $99.99/year. Check each vendor's own pricing page before budgeting — these numbers move.

What are the hidden costs of running an antidetect browser?

Proxies are the big one and they are almost never included. Most antidetect browsers don't bundle proxies, and JustBrowser doesn't either — bring your own or buy from the in-app marketplace, billed separately — and residential bandwidth billed per gigabyte routinely costs more per month than the browser license. After that: seat fees when your team grows, migration time when you switch vendors, and the hardware to run many profiles at once.

Should I pay annually to get the discount?

Not in your first quarter. Annual billing on JustBrowser is $99.99/year against $9.99/mo month to month — about 17% off twelve monthly payments, and worth taking once you know the tool fits your workflow. But most people I talk to buy an antidetect browser for one campaign and stop opening it when that campaign ends — and 17% off software you never load is not a saving. Run monthly first, commit annually second.

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