> SpecStream is the live web data engine for teams and agents. This is the Markdown copy of https://specstream.ai/alternatives/browse-ai. Every page, with what SpecStream does and costs: https://specstream.ai/llms.txt # Best Browse AI alternatives in 2026 | SpecStream Compared on Nov 9, 2026. # Browse AI alternatives in 2026 **Ask for the data and get rows from any site, at 5¢ to $1 a row.** Browse AI costs $48 a month for 2,000 credits on Personal and $87 a month for 5,000 on Professional, and one credit extracts 10 rows from a page. You train a robot on each website, a plan includes 2, 5 or 10 websites, and unused credits reset when the billing cycle ends. SpecStream is the live web data engine for teams and agents, and the best alternative to Browse AI when your product or your agent needs data from every site that holds it. You ask for the data in plain words, and SpecStream finds every match on the live web, extracts and enriches it into structured rows, and keeps them up to date. You see the most a run can cost before it starts, and you pay 5¢, 15¢ or $1 for each row delivered. [Get an API key](https://specstream.ai/signup?src=alternatives-browse-ai&utm_source=alternatives&utm_campaign=browse-ai&returnTo=%2Fworkspace%2Fagents%3Ftab%3Dkeys) New accounts get $10 of credit, no card. ## SpecStream and Browse AI side by side | | SpecStream | Browse AI | | --- | --- | --- | | What you send | The data you want in plain words, with the conditions every row must meet | A robot you train on one website, or one of its 200+ prebuilt robots. Each task runs that robot on a page you give it | | What you get back | Structured rows, one record per company, place or filing, with facts from many sites joined. Source URL and read time on every value | The rows and screenshots the task captured on that page, stored under the task. Data is kept for 90 days on the Free, Personal and Professional plans | | Websites a plan covers | Any site on the live web, on every plan. SpecStream finds the pages for each request | 2 websites on Free, 5 on Personal and 10 on Professional. Each one more costs $5 a month on Personal and $3 a month on Professional | | Data already held | Public databases read every morning at [specstream.ai/data](https://specstream.ai/data?utm_source=alternatives&utm_campaign=browse-ai): every company that filed a Form D since 2023 with its filing history, nearly 2 million US nonprofits, every US bank failure since 1934, federal rules, open federal contracts and grants, and local businesses. Signals such as funding rounds, new executives and layoffs at [specstream.ai/signals](https://specstream.ai/signals?utm_source=alternatives&utm_campaign=browse-ai). Ask for your own cut of any of them | 200+ prebuilt robots that extract data from top websites when you run them | | A list you already have | Import a CSV, Excel file, Google Sheet or Airtable base of up to 20,000 rows. SpecStream fills in or checks each row and matches it to one identity, with any namesakes shown alongside their evidence. Import is free. A row that matches pays its rate, and a row that does not costs 5¢ | Bulk Runs take up to 50,000 tasks at once on one robot, with different input parameters for each task | | The unit you pay for | A delivered row: 5¢, 15¢ or $1 by how much the row needs, plus 5¢ for an email and 15¢ for a phone. The same rate on every plan | A credit: 10 rows from a page, or one screenshot. A task on a Premium site costs at least 2 to 10 credits. Personal is $48 a month for 2,000 credits, or $19 a month billed annually for 12,000 credits a year. Professional is $87 a month for 5,000 credits. Premium starts at $500 a month, billed annually | | The cost cap before a run | The most the run can cost, quoted before it starts. Nothing runs until you approve it, and there are no automatic overages | Each task costs from one to several credits, by the rows it captures and whether the site is Premium. Saving a robot starts its first task, which uses credits like any other task | | Credit you did not use | A top-up never expires. What a run does not use goes back to your balance | Credits reset at the end of each billing cycle and are not carried over. An annual plan is paid with the year's credits upfront | | Reruns and change labels | Hourly to yearly. Each row comes back labeled changed, unchanged or no longer matching. A changed or new row costs half its rate, an unchanged row 1¢ | Monitors recheck a page as often as every 5 minutes on Personal and Professional, and hourly on Free. A daily monitor runs about 30 tasks a month, each paid in credits | | MCP and API | MCP server, REST API, Python and TypeScript SDKs, a CLI and A2A. An agent can buy one request with no account, by card or in USDC | REST API and webhooks that are called when a robot finishes a task. A task runs for up to 60 minutes on Personal and Professional, and 5 minutes on Free | | Where the data goes | Google Sheets, Excel, Airtable, Notion, monday.com, HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive, Attio, Slack, Teams, Zapier, Make, n8n and signed webhooks | Google Sheets, Airtable, Zapier, Make.com, Pabbly Connect, Amazon S3, the REST API and webhooks | ## Why Browse AI buyers move to SpecStream ### You describe the data, and SpecStream finds the pages A Browse AI robot is trained on one website, and a plan includes 2, 5 or 10 of them. On SpecStream the request is the whole job, for companies, places, filings, tenders or products: "B2B project management software companies with a public pricing page, with each plan's name and monthly price", or "open school HVAC tenders in Texas, with the agency and due date". SpecStream reads the request back as parts you can edit, the conditions every row must meet and the facts to bring back, before anything runs. It then searches the live web, reads each page and joins what it finds into one record per match. You train no robot, and you have none to retrain when a site changes. ### One rate card for every site On Browse AI a task on a Premium site costs at least 2 to 10 credits, and each task costs from one to several credits by what it captures. SpecStream has one rate card for every request: 5¢ for a row with up to 5 facts, 15¢ for up to 15 facts and one set of related records, and $1 for a deep row with no limit. At 5¢ a row, 10,000 rows with 5 facts cost $500. The searches and pages behind each row cost nothing, and a run that finds nothing costs nothing. ### Your agent works under a maximum you approved Every request gets a quote of the most it can cost, good for 30 minutes. Nothing runs until you approve it, the charge never goes past that amount, and whatever the run does not use goes back to your balance. An API key carries its own limits: total, per run, monthly, and the operations it allows. Your agent asks over MCP or the API and gets typed rows that meet every condition it sent, with a source URL and read time on each value. ### Credit you bought stays yours Browse AI credits reset at the end of each billing cycle, and an annual plan is paid with all of the year's credits upfront: 12,000 on Personal at $19 a month. On SpecStream a top-up never expires, and rows you already own are never charged again. ### A row that did not change costs 1¢ to recheck A Browse AI monitor rechecks one page, and a daily monitor runs about 30 tasks a month. On SpecStream you save the request and it reruns hourly to yearly across every site it draws on. Each row comes back labeled changed, unchanged or no longer matching, and new matches arrive in Slack, email, a sheet, a CRM or a signed webhook. A changed or new row costs half its rate (3¢, 8¢ or 50¢) and an unchanged row costs 1¢, so rechecking 1,000 rows that did not change costs $10. ### Measured on the official benchmarks SpecStream's Search API is the most accurate web search API in the world: 97.9 F-score on all 1,000 official SimpleQA Verified questions (978 correct), and 64.0 item F1 and 43.4 row F1 on all 200 official WideSearch tasks. The Extract API scores 0.908 F1 on WCXB. Scores and method are on the [benchmarks](https://specstream.ai/benchmarks?utm_source=alternatives&utm_campaign=browse-ai) page. The Search API costs $5 per 1,000 searches of up to 10 results and the Extract API $0.80 per 1,000 pages, on the same key as your rows. ## Other Browse AI alternatives ### Apify A platform for cloud programs called Actors, which you pick from its Store or write yourself. Plans cost $0, $19, $199 or $999 a month plus pay as you go, a compute unit costs $0.13 to $0.20, and unused usage credits expire at the end of the billing cycle. SpecStream has one rate card for every request, the same on every plan, and a top-up never expires. ### Octoparse A tool priced by the tasks you build. The free plan includes 10 tasks and 50,000 rows of data export a month, and paid plans begin at $69 a month for Standard and $249 a month for Professional, billed annually. On SpecStream one request covers every site that holds the data, at 5¢, 15¢ or $1 a delivered row. ### Firecrawl Search, Scrape, Crawl and Agent endpoints billed in credits. Hobby costs $19 a month for 5,000 credits, Scale costs $749 a month for 1,000,000, and a page that answers 403 or 404 costs 1 credit. On SpecStream the pages read to find a row are not billed. ### Activepieces An automation tool with flows, agents and tables. The Free plan has 1,000 credits a month, and Plus costs $20 flat per month for 10 times the Free plan, then pay as you go. SpecStream returns the data itself as structured rows and sends them into Zapier, Make or n8n. ## How SpecStream scores The same numbers as the benchmarks page, from the official tasks and scorers. ResultsWideSearchCostSimpleQA Verified | | SpecStream | ![](https://specstream.ai/images/benchmarks/parallel.svg)Parallel | ![](https://specstream.ai/images/benchmarks/exa.svg)Exa | ![](https://specstream.ai/images/benchmarks/tavily.svg)Tavily | ![](https://specstream.ai/images/benchmarks/perplexity.svg)Perplexity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | **Web research**WideSearch, GPT-5.6 Luna | 60.9 | 45.5 | 53.0 | 47.9 | 47.0 | | **Factual accuracy**SimpleQA Verified, GPT-5.6 Luna | 96 | 94 | 91 | 94 | 94 | | **Factual accuracy**SimpleQA Verified, GPT-5.6 Sol | 99 | 97 | 91 | 92 | 95 | ## How to switch from Browse AI Write the data you want in plain words, in place of the robots you train today. Sign up and you get $10 of credit, no card. At 5¢ a row, that is up to 200 rows. Or send the request from code. This call spends nothing: the `402` reply shows how SpecStream read the request, the columns and the most it can cost. ``` curl -i https://api.specstream.ai/v1/agent/lists \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{"request": "B2B project management software companies with a public pricing page, with each plan name and monthly price", "count": 25}' ``` Approve that maximum by card through Stripe's Link agent wallet, or in USDC on Base, Arbitrum or Polygon, and you pay for the rows found. On an account, your agent uses the MCP server at `https://api.specstream.ai/mcp` and your team uses the workspace, from the same balance. [Get an API key](https://specstream.ai/signup?src=alternatives-browse-ai&utm_source=alternatives&utm_campaign=browse-ai&returnTo=%2Fworkspace%2Fagents%3Ftab%3Dkeys) ## Frequently asked questions Something we didn't answer? [Talk to a human](https://specstream.ai/talk-to-a-human.md) How much does Browse AI cost? Browse AI costs $48 a month for 2,000 credits on Personal and $87 a month for 5,000 credits on Professional, billed monthly. Billed annually, Personal is $19 a month for 12,000 credits a year and Professional is $69 a month for 60,000. The Free plan has 50 credits a month, and Premium starts at $500 a month, billed annually. One credit extracts 10 rows from a page or one screenshot, and a task on a Premium site costs at least 2 to 10 credits. What is the best Browse AI alternative? SpecStream, at 5¢, 15¢ or $1 per delivered row. You describe the data in plain words with every condition, approve the most the run can cost, and get structured rows that meet all of them in your sheet, your CRM, Slack or your agent. The same request reruns on your schedule, and you train no robot. Is there a Browse AI alternative with no limit on websites? Yes. Browse AI includes 2 websites on Free, 5 on Personal and 10 on Professional, and SpecStream covers any site on the live web on every plan. One request draws on every site that holds the data, and the pages read to find a row are not billed. Do Browse AI credits roll over? No. Browse AI's pricing page says unused credits reset at the end of the billing cycle and are not carried over, and an annual Personal plan is paid with its 12,000 credits upfront. On SpecStream a top-up never expires, and what a run does not use goes back to your balance. Can SpecStream watch data for changes? Yes, on any schedule from hourly to yearly. Each row comes back labeled changed, unchanged or no longer matching. A changed or new row costs half its rate, and an unchanged row costs 1¢. Does SpecStream have an API? Yes, three: the Search API at $5 per 1,000 searches of up to 10 results, the Extract API at $0.80 per 1,000 pages, and Deep Search, which returns every match for a request as structured rows at 5¢, 15¢ or $1 a row. They run through the REST API, the Python and TypeScript SDKs, a CLI, A2A and the MCP server at `https://api.specstream.ai/mcp`. How much does SpecStream cost? A delivered row costs 5¢, 15¢ or $1 by how much it needs, plus 5¢ for an email and 15¢ for a phone, so 10,000 rows with 5 facts cost $500. Plans are $19, $99 or $499 a month, and the whole price becomes credit at the same rates. New accounts get $10 of credit, no card. ### Sources SpecStream wrote this page. Each rival figure comes from that company's own page. 1. [SpecStream pricing](https://specstream.ai/pricing)specstream.ai/pricing, read Nov 9, 2026 2. [SpecStream for agents](https://specstream.ai/agents.md)specstream.ai/agents.md, read Nov 9, 2026 3. [SpecStream benchmarks](https://specstream.ai/benchmarks)specstream.ai/benchmarks, read Nov 9, 2026 4. [SpecStream data](https://specstream.ai/data)specstream.ai/data, read Nov 9, 2026 5. [SpecStream signals](https://specstream.ai/signals)specstream.ai/signals, read Nov 9, 2026 6. [Browse AI pricing](https://www.browse.ai/pricing)browse.ai/pricing, read Nov 9, 2026 7. [Browse AI API documentation](https://docs.browse.ai/api/)docs.browse.ai/api/, read Nov 9, 2026 8. [Browse AI integrations](https://www.browse.ai/integrations)browse.ai/integrations, read Nov 9, 2026 9. [Apify pricing](https://apify.com/pricing)apify.com/pricing, read Nov 9, 2026 10. [Octoparse pricing](https://www.octoparse.com/pricing)octoparse.com/pricing, read Nov 9, 2026 11. [Firecrawl pricing](https://www.firecrawl.dev/pricing)firecrawl.dev/pricing, read Nov 9, 2026 12. [Activepieces pricing](https://www.activepieces.com/pricing)activepieces.com/pricing, read Nov 9, 2026