BrowserGateway vs ScoutLayer

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BrowserGateway compared with ScoutLayer
Detail	BrowserGateway	ScoutLayer
What it does	The open router for cloud browsers	Website contact finder that extracts emails, phones and social profiles from any domain
Stage	Not given	Not given
Founded	Not given	Not given
Based in	Not given	Not given
Pricing model	Freemium	Freemium
Pricing	Free: up to 10,000 BYOK sessions per month, unlimited bandwidth, all routing strategies, multi-provider failover, up to 100 saved profiles, 60-day session log retention. Paid: from $5 top-up, everything in Free plus BYOK sessions above 10k/mo at $0.0005 each, session recording (video) at $0.007 per	Free: single-domain lookups in the Playground, no signup required. Starter: $19 one time for 2,500 credits. Pro: $49 one time for 10,000 credits. Scale: $199 one time for 50,000 credits. Pricing starts from $3.98 per 1,000 contacts found. No charge when a domain has no valid contact. Every new accou
Key features	Automatic failover across browser providers with zero downtime Persistent encrypted profiles with cookies, localStorage, and IndexedDB MCP server with 8 browser tools for AI agents Five routing strategies including priority chain and load balancing Request queue for connections when all providers are busy Session reconnect to preserve state after connection drops Web dashboard to manage providers, view sessions, and monitor health Webhooks for provider health notifications Self-hosted open source option with MIT license	Free single-domain contact lookup in Playground Bulk domain extraction and export Public website email discovery Phone number extraction Official social profile discovery Company profile extraction Source-linked structured results REST API access MCP-compatible agent tool CSV and JSON export
What makes it different	Drop-in compatible with Puppeteer and Playwright requiring only a one-line URL change Routes across any browser provider with automatic failover and no code changes Free tier with 10,000 sessions per month and full routing features Works with AI agents through MCP server with zero configuration Full session persistence across provider failures with encrypted profile storage	Live website lookup with cross-page matching and LLM-assisted clustering Built for newly launched and long-tail websites not in traditional databases No charge when no valid contact is found Same result schema across Web, API and MCP Source URLs and confidence attached to every result
Community votes	0	0
DR (Domain Rating by Ahrefs)	1 no change since last check	3 −1 (down) since last check
Trust Flow (Majestic)	3	0
Citation Flow (Majestic)	31	19
Referring domains (Majestic)	22	33

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