BrowserCat
Give developers (and, increasingly, AI agents) easy programmatic access to the web by routing browser automation across managed headless-browser backends through a single API, removing the need to run and scale browser infrastructure themselves.
At a Glance
- Developers
- AI agents / AI application builders
- Web scraping and automation teams
- QA / testing teams
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BrowserCat
Cloud Browser Automation API
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Cloud headless-browser API. Point Playwright, Puppeteer, or any CDP client at wss://api.browsercat.com/connect with one API key; BrowserCat runs headless Chromium on the global edge with no warm pools, scaling, or patching to manage. Used for web scraping, workflow automation, image/PDF generation, giving AI agents web access, and testing web apps.
Market Position
Positions itself as the 'OpenRouter for browsers' - a vendor-neutral router that lets developers write browser automation once and run it across multiple managed backends with one API and one key, avoiding both DIY infrastructure management and single-provider lock-in, on transparent usage-based pricing with no minimums.
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Leadership
Founders
Mike Stop Continues
Full-stack developer and solopreneur who previously built and retired the startup SiteArcade, where he worked extensively with headless browsers for Amazon crawling, dynamic asset/logo/PDF generation, and end-to-end testing. Founded BrowserCat after ~6 months evaluating startup ideas suited to a solopreneur in a proven market.
Executive Team
Mike Stop Continues
Founder
Full-stack developer; previously founded SiteArcade. Runs BrowserCat as a bootstrapped solopreneur venture.
Founding Story
After retiring his previous startup SiteArcade, Mike Stop Continues spent roughly six months looking for a project the 'right size for a solopreneur' in a proven market with no dominant player. Drawing on his prior experience running headless browsers for scraping, asset generation, and testing, and anticipating that both developers and AI agents would increasingly need programmatic web access, he launched BrowserCat (publicly launched January 10, 2024). The company is bootstrapped and run lean, with infrastructure distributed across Vercel, Fly.io, AWS, and Supabase. In 2026 it repositioned as the 'OpenRouter for browsers,' routing each session to the best-suited backend (currently proxied to Cloudflare Browser Rendering).
Business Model
Revenue Model
Usage-based / subscription API billed in credits (roughly 1 credit per 30 seconds of browser activity for the WebSocket API; 1 credit per successful Utility API request). Free tier plus paid subscriptions, one-time credit packs, and custom enterprise plans.
Pricing Tiers
1,000 credits/month included; overage $0.0025/credit. 1,000 concurrent requests, Playwright/Puppeteer/CDP support, global fleet, basic email support.
10k-1M credits/month (adjustable slider); overage $0.00175/credit. 1,000 concurrent requests, Playwright/Puppeteer/CDP support, global fleet, priority email support.
Contact sales. 1,000 concurrent requests, Playwright/Puppeteer/CDP support, global fleet, dedicated support.
Starter $20 / 10,000 credits; Growth $87.50 / 50,000 credits; Scale $300 / 200,000 credits.
Target Markets
- Developers
- AI agents / AI application builders
- Web scraping and automation teams
- QA / testing teams
- Web scraping of dynamic sites
- Browser automation and workflow automation
- Image and PDF generation
- Giving AI agents web access
- Automated end-to-end web app testing