The short version
- Choose Hyperbrowser if your agent has to act in a browser — sign in, fill forms, work through dynamic flows — or you want stealth sessions and CAPTCHA solving at scale.
- Choose SarvCrawl if you need the content of whole sites and documents as clean markdown, chunked, embedded and searchable.
SarvCrawl and Hyperbrowser, side by side
| SarvCrawl | Hyperbrowser | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | Crawl-to-knowledge-base API | Cloud browsers, web APIs and hosted computer-use agents |
| Best for | Content you want to search — web pages and documents together | Agents that need a real browser, at concurrency |
| Output | Markdown, HTML, JSON, links, images | Markdown, HTML, links, screenshots, JSON from a prompt or schema |
| JavaScript rendering | Yes, where a page needs it | Yes, real Chromium sessions |
| Documents | PDF, Office, EPUB, images and audio; OCR for scans | Not a documented focus |
| Chunking, embeddings, search | Built in (search on paid plans) | Not offered; has a web search API |
| Anti-bot and proxies | Not the focus | Stealth modes, residential proxies, CAPTCHA solving on paid plans |
| Pricing | 1 billion free tokens, no card; paid plans | Free: 5,000 credits; Startup $30/mo for 30,000 credits |
| Hosting and licence | Hosted, or self-host: Apache-2.0 with an AGPL-3.0 engine | Hosted; the HyperAgent framework is AGPL-3.0 |
| Integrations | REST, Node, Python, CLI, n8n, 21 MCP tools | Python and Node SDKs, MCP server, LangChain, LlamaIndex |
Where they really differ
Hyperbrowser is browser infrastructure for agents: cloud Chromium sessions you drive over CDP with Playwright or Puppeteer, stealth and residential proxies, CAPTCHA solving, and hosted agents including HyperAgent, Browser Use and the computer-use models from Anthropic and OpenAI. When a task needs a logged-in session or a multi-step flow, that is the tool.
It also has scrape, crawl and extract endpoints that return markdown, HTML, links, screenshots or JSON. Pricing is credits — 1,000 to the dollar — with browser time at 100 credits an hour and proxy data billed per GB. What you collect is yours to store and index.
SarvCrawl handles the content side: a crawl that follows links across a public site, parses linked PDFs and Office files, and lands everything in a knowledge base an agent can search by keyword or meaning.
Using both
Use Hyperbrowser for the steps that need a browser session, and SarvCrawl as the agent's searchable memory of docs and reference sites, both available as MCP servers.
SarvCrawl vs Hyperbrowser: questions
Is SarvCrawl a Hyperbrowser alternative?
Only for reading public content. If your agent needs to sign in, click or fill forms, Hyperbrowser is the tool, and the two work well side by side.
Does Hyperbrowser crawl websites?
Yes, it has a crawl endpoint alongside its browser sessions. It returns pages; storing, chunking and searching them is up to you. SarvCrawl does those parts.
How is Hyperbrowser priced?
In credits, 1,000 per dollar: a free plan with 5,000, Startup at $30 a month for 30,000, and browser time at 100 credits an hour.
Can an agent use both through MCP?
Yes. Hyperbrowser has an MCP server for scraping, crawling and extraction, and SarvCrawl has 21 MCP tools for crawling and searching knowledge bases.