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A Scrapeless Agent Browser alternative

Scrapeless Agent Browser provides managed headless browsers for Puppeteer and Playwright. Its saved profiles can carry browser data between sessions. That solves a different part of an agent system from retaining installed Linux tools, system configuration and files across tasks.

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Reviewed 2026-10-18 · Published by the Sandbox0 team

When Scrapeless Agent Browser fits

Scrapeless fits teams seeking managed browser sessions, proxy options, live inspection and reusable browser profiles. Keeping it as a remote browser tool can be useful even when the surrounding agent runs elsewhere.

When to consider Sandbox0

Consider Sandbox0 when the agent needs its own compatible Linux environment, a whole writable RootFS that persists across successful checkpoints and expands online, and file operations while compute is paused. Browser management, site access and proxy behavior still need a suitable implementation.

Capabilities

Scrapeless Agent Browser and Sandbox0: what persists?

Feature comparison with documentation and verification status
Environment and runtime lifetimeScrapeless Agent BrowserNot established in this reviewSandbox0ttl and hard_ttl default to 0 (disabled). Configure idle pause and deletion policies for the same persistent sandbox identity; an idle running sandbox still accrues compute charges.Read documentation →
Persistent filesScrapeless Agent BrowserSaved browser-profile data is documented; a general-purpose durable disk contract is not established.View evidence ↗Sandbox0The writable RootFS survives successful checkpoints, including software, system configuration, dependencies, and user data.Read documentation →
Whole RootFSScrapeless Agent BrowserManaged headless-browser control does not establish retention of a whole writable Linux RootFS.View evidence ↗Sandbox0Persistence extends beyond /workspace to paths such as /usr/local, /etc, and /home. Runtime tmpfs and virtual filesystems are excluded.Read documentation →
Release compute, keep stateScrapeless Agent BrowserLive views and session recordings are not evidence of arbitrary-machine pause and restore.View evidence ↗Sandbox0Pause compute between tasks; resume on available capacity. Default resume starts fresh processes from the saved filesystem.Read documentation →
Memory and process stateScrapeless Agent BrowserRecorded browser activity does not establish a process-memory checkpoint.View evidence ↗Sandbox0Experimental memory checkpoints can preserve compatible process state. Use memory: true on both pause and resume on a compatible deployment. A filesystem checkpoint alone does not preserve running processes.Read documentation →

Online RootFS growth

On growth-enabled images, Sandbox0 automatically expands the writable RootFS as free space runs low, within a configured sparse logical ceiling up to 64 TiB. Agent processes keep running. Growth is enabled in the qualified Cloud region; confirm activation for other regions. Existing images and snapshots retain their captured storage geometry. The ceiling is logical capacity, not preallocated host disk.

Scrapeless profiles save selected browser state. The reviewed sources do not establish online growth of a complete customer-controlled Linux filesystem. Sandbox0 can retain the surrounding toolchain and artifacts while using a remote browser separately.

Files while compute is paused

Sandbox0's Files API reads persistent files without resuming compute. Filesystem-only pauses also permit edits; retained-memory pauses are read-only and reject mutations with 409. SSH, SFTP, file watching, and runtime-only mounts require running compute.

Scrapeless documents profile reuse and recorded-session inspection. Those do not establish a paused Linux Files API for reading or editing the agent’s complete persistent filesystem.

See paused file operations →

Profile persistence requires an explicit save policy

Profiles retain browser storage, cookies, cache and login state. The profilePersist option controls whether a session updates the stored profile. When several sessions write the same profile, the guide says the last session to close supplies the saved data. Separate identities or serialize updates where concurrent agents would otherwise overwrite one another.

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Browser control and recordings serve different needs

The service supports familiar browser-automation clients and a live view for inspecting or intervening in active sessions. Session Replay records browser activity for later inspection. A replay is an observation artifact; it does not establish that arbitrary Linux processes, memory or installed system packages can be restored.

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Prepaid usage needs a separate proxy budget

The public table labels its plans Monthly Prepaid Usage and quotes Browser/Crawl rates separately from proxy traffic. The FAQ describes plan funds being deposited into the usage balance and expiring monthly. Confirm the credit treatment in your account before treating the advertised monthly amount as an extra fee on top of consumed prepaid funds.

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Pricing

Compare billing models, then price your workload

CPU allocation, memory, billing minimums, disk, plan fees, and supported workload differ. These meters are not equal-performance machine quotes. Confirm region, resource units, and included allowances before estimating a total.

Scrapeless Agent Browser

Pricing reviewed 2026-10-18

Basic Browser/Crawl
From $0.090 per browser-hour
Consumption-based pricing; the public card lists 50 maximum concurrent sessions.
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Growth prepaid tier
$49/month; Browser/Crawl from $0.081/hour
10% usage discount and 100 maximum concurrency; verify how the prepaid balance is consumed.
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Basic residential proxies
$1.80 per GB
Proxy traffic has a separate meter; other proxy types have different rates.
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The quoted browser-hour amounts are advertised starting rates, not general Linux compute prices. Monthly package funds do not roll over according to the FAQ; renewal can also be triggered when a package is exhausted. Do not add a monthly amount twice or use AI Scraper per-URL rates as browser-session prices.

Check current Scrapeless Agent Browser pricing ↗

Sandbox0

$0.015/GiB-hour compute (billed by the second at approximately $0.000004167/GiB-second), plus $0.02/GiB-month of retained incremental RootFS and memory checkpoint data. Shared base images and platform recovery retention are excluded; paused sandboxes accrue storage charges only.

Compute / GiB-hour
$0.015
Retained data / GiB-month
$0.02
Paused compute
$0.00

A 4 GiB agent, 100 running hours

$6.00 compute

4 GiB × 100 hours, billed by the second. Keeping 20 GiB of billable incremental data for a full billing month adds $0.40. CPU is derived from memory by the platform; choose a tier that fits your workload.

Understand storage billing →

Before migrating from Scrapeless Agent Browser

  1. Inventory remote-browser settings, proxy traffic, saved profiles and simultaneous profile writers; export important outputs through supported interfaces.
  2. Move compatible agent code and Linux dependencies to a Sandbox0 template, retaining Scrapeless as a remote tool if its browser features are needed.
  3. Test login-state updates, artifact retention, RootFS growth, paused files and combined browser, proxy and runtime costs.

Common questions

Is Sandbox0 a drop-in Scrapeless Agent Browser replacement?

Evaluate API compatibility and product scope. These products serve different core workflows, so a change may require a different architecture.

Does keeping files also keep a running agent?

Filesystem state and volatile process state are separate. Sandbox0 requires explicit compatible memory checkpoints to preserve running processes; its default filesystem resume starts fresh processes.

Sources and review scope

The Boat team's Battleships directory is the discovery source. References below describe the product and plan discussed on this page. Check current availability, regional terms and billing units before migrating. Where the cited material does not establish a capability or price, the comparison identifies that uncertainty.

Battleships research record ↗docs.scrapeless.com/en/docs/browser-crawl/agent-browser/profiles/ ↗docs.scrapeless.com/en/docs/browser-crawl/agent-browser/introduction/ ↗docs.scrapeless.com/en/docs/browser-crawl/agent-browser/session-replay/ ↗www.scrapeless.com/en/pricing ↗Sandbox0 RootFS capacity →

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