BrowserStack Automate vs Surfsky Cloud Browser
BrowserStack Automate
browserstack.comSurfsky Cloud Browser
surfsky.ioSide by side
| Figure | BrowserStack Automate | Surfsky Cloud Browser |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $59/mo | $29/mo |
| Free plan | — | Yes |
| Free trial | Yes | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | — |
| Windows | Yes | — |
| macOS | Yes | — |
| iOS | Yes | — |
| Android | Yes | — |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 4 | 5 |
| Spec score · Headless Browser APIs | 8.5 (#7) | 7.6 (#22) |
| Purpose | Automate provides a fully managed automation grid for testing across physical desktop, iOS, and Android devices. | Surfsky describes itself as a cloud browser for production web scraping and browser automation on sites with advanced bot protection. |
Plans
BrowserStack Automate
- Chrome$59 a month
- Desktop & Mobile$175 a month
- Desktop & Mobile$175 a month
- Desktop & Mobile Pro$225 a month
Surfsky Cloud Browser
- Pay as you goFree
- Starter$29 a month
- Base$99 a month
- Advanced$199 a month
- Custom$399 a month
In their own words
BrowserStack Automate
BrowserStack Automate provides a managed automation grid for testing websites and apps across physical desktop, iOS and Android devices. It supports more than 3,500 real desktop and mobile browser combinations and lists Selenium, Playwright, Puppeteer, Cypress and JavaScript framework support. Tests can run in parallel across hundreds or thousands of browsers, although the listed plans show one parallel test by default. BrowserStack Local securely connects internal staging environments to BrowserStack Cloud. Reports can include video, screenshots, framework logs, CI console logs, network logs and AI-driven failure analysis. Other listed capabilities include microphone audio injection, network simulation, Apple Pay workflows, localization settings, physical SIM testing and camera image injection. Integrations include Jenkins, Jira, Slack, Appium and multiple CI/CD tools. Deployment options are cloud and self-hosted. There is a free trial but no free plan; the Chrome plan costs $59 a month, billed annually. BrowserStack says its platform is SOC 2 Type 2 compliant and its privacy policy complies with GDPR.
Surfsky Cloud Browser
Surfsky Cloud Browser has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.