Verified reference, May 14, 2026
CloudCruise pricing changes after May 8, 2026, diffed against the Wayback Machine.
You typed this query because you are doing a vendor re-evaluation and want to know whether CloudCruise has touched its pricing page since your last look. The short answer is below in a callout. The rest of this page is the underlying evidence: dated snapshots of the pricing page going back to August 2025, the verbatim numbers for each tier in each window, and a note about why most other comparison articles on the open web are quoting old numbers.
Direct answer, verified May 14, 2026
Yes, CloudCruise changed the pricing page after May 8, 2026, but the changes were tier-feature adds, not price hikes.
- Starter ($60/month) went from 10 Workflows to Unlimited Workflows and now lists a Business Associate Agreement that used to be Scale-tier-only. The $60 base price, the 20 included browser hours, and the $3/hour overage rate are unchanged.
- Scale (Custom) added Single Sign-On as a listed feature and reworded the data-retention line from “Zero Data Retention” to “Custom data retention”. The VPC and on-prem deployment line that was on the page in January and March 2026 is no longer listed.
- The Free tier ($0, 3 workflows, 2 browser hours) is unchanged. It has not moved since at least August 2025.
- The bigger change happened earlier in 2026. Sometime between Nov 12, 2025 and Jan 20, 2026, CloudCruise removed the $700 Growth and $1500 Pro tiers entirely and dropped the Starter overage rate window from 30 hours at $2/h to 20 hours at $3/h. That is the change most third-party comparison pages have not yet noticed.
Sources: live cloudcruise.com/pricing on May 14, 2026, plus Wayback Machine snapshots from Aug 2025, Nov 2025, Jan 2026, and Mar 2026.
Snapshot one
The pricing-page diff, snapshot by snapshot.
CloudCruise publishes no changelog for its pricing page. The table below reconstructs one from the public archive. Each row is a real Wayback Machine snapshot of the exact page at cloudcruise.com/pricing, with the verbatim tier copy at that moment. The most recent row is the live page on May 14, 2026.
| Snapshot date | Free | Starter | Middle tiers | Top tier |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 6, 2025 | $0, 3 Browser Agents, 2 Browser Hours | $60, 10 Browser Agents, 30 hours included, then $2/hour | Growth $700: 25 Browser Agents, 470 hours included, then $1.5/hour. Pro $1500: 50 Browser Agents, 1500 hours included, then $1/hour. | Enterprise: Custom, Unlimited |
| Nov 12, 2025 | $0, 3 Workflows, 2 Browser Hours | $60, 10 Workflows, 30 hours included, then $2/hour | Growth $700: 25 Workflows, 470 hours, $1.5/hour overage. Pro $1500: 50 Workflows, 1500 hours, $1/hour overage. (Terminology shifted from Browser Agents to Workflows.) | Enterprise: Custom |
| Jan 20, 2026 | $0, 3 Workflows, 2 Browser Hours | $60, 10 Workflows, 20 hours included, then $3/hour | Removed. The page no longer lists Growth or Pro. | Scale: Custom (renamed from Enterprise) |
| Mar 14, 2026 | $0, 3 Workflows, 2 Browser Hours | $60, 10 Workflows, 20 hours, then $3/hour | Still removed. | Scale: Custom |
| May 14, 2026 (live) | $0, 3 workflows, 2 Browser hours per month | $60, Unlimited Workflows, 20 Browser Hours then $3/h, now includes BAA | Still removed. | Scale: Custom, gained Single Sign-On and 'Custom data retention' (previously 'Zero Data Retention') |
Two patterns are obvious from the table. First, the big restructure (five tiers to three, hourly rate up, included hours down) happened in a single window between Nov 12, 2025 and Jan 20, 2026, not gradually. Second, every change since January 2026 has been a feature shuffle inside the existing three tiers, not a base-price change. If you are renewing in mid-2026, this is good news: CloudCruise has been generous (Unlimited Workflows on Starter, BAA on Starter) without adjusting the SKU price.
“The Starter overage rate moved from $2 per browser hour to $3 per browser hour between Nov 12, 2025 and Jan 20, 2026, while included hours dropped from 30 to 20. That is the change a buyer staring at a 2025 comparison sheet is most likely to miss.”
cloudcruise.com/pricing, diffed against Wayback Machine snapshots
What it means
Starter today vs Starter on May 8, by what a buyer cares about.
Most of the change since May 8 lands on Starter. The toggle below shows Starter on May 8, 2026 (which still matched the March 14 snapshot) next to Starter on May 14, 2026. Same $60 base, same overage rate, different envelope.
Starter tier, before vs after the May 2026 pricing-page update
Starter at $60/month. 10 Workflows hard cap. 20 included browser hours per month, $3 per browser hour after. Versioning and rollbacks, maintenance agent, workspaces and teams. Business Associate Agreement was NOT on Starter, it lived on the Scale tier and required a custom contract.
- 10-workflow cap
- No BAA on Starter, had to escalate to Scale
- Same $60/month base price
- Same 20 hours included, $3/h overage
For an existing Starter customer running close to the 10 workflow cap, this is meaningfully better at the same price. For a healthcare buyer who needed a BAA, this also moves the entry point down from Scale to Starter, which is a real change in how procurement scopes a pilot. Both adds are usage caps and contract paperwork, not metered consumption: nothing on the page suggests $0.75-per-minute or similar metering is on the roadmap.
What is on cloudcruise.com/pricing right now
Free tier vs paid tiers, verbatim from the live page on May 14, 2026. Use this as a starting point and contact CloudCruise to confirm anything on the Scale row before signing.
| Feature | Free tier | Paid tiers (Starter or Scale) |
|---|---|---|
| Monthly base price | $0 | $60 (Starter), Custom (Scale) |
| Workflows | 3 | Unlimited on Starter and Scale |
| Included browser hours | 2 hours per month | Starter: 20 hours. Scale: negotiated. |
| Overage rate | Cannot exceed 2 hours | $3 per browser hour on Starter, volume discount on Scale |
| Business Associate Agreement | Not offered | Starter and Scale (new on Starter as of May 2026) |
| Single Sign-On | Not offered | Scale only (new on the May 2026 pricing page) |
| Private browser instances | Not offered | Scale only |
| VPC / on-prem deployment | Not offered | No longer listed on the public pricing page |
Source: cloudcruise.com/pricing on May 14, 2026. Confirm pricing details before any procurement decision.
Third-party reviews
Why other comparison pages quote the wrong CloudCruise prices.
The reason CloudCruise pricing is confusing to research is not that the live page is hard to read. The live page is fine. The problem is that almost every off-site review was written against the older five-tier ladder and has not been updated since the January 2026 restructure. The audit below covers the three most-cited third-party pages for this query.
skyvern.com 'CloudCruise Reviews & Alternatives (Jan 2026)'
Still quotes the five-tier ladder ($60 Starter, $700 Growth, $1500 Pro). Has not been updated since the Growth and Pro tiers disappeared in January 2026.
www.skyvern.com/blog/cloudcruise-reviews-pricing-alternativesGeneric 'CloudCruise Review (2026)' aggregator pages
Several SEO-driven 'AI tools review' aggregators claim CloudCruise 'does not offer a free version' and that 'pricing details are available upon request'. Both statements are wrong, the Free tier and the $60 Starter tier have been publicly listed on cloudcruise.com/pricing since at least August 2025.
www.cloudcruise.com/pricingscrapfly.io 'Best Cloud Browser APIs in 2026'
Mentions CloudCruise without numbers. Useful as a category map, useless as a pricing reference.
scrapfly.io/blog/posts/best-cloud-browser-apisNone of the three pages reflect the May 2026 Starter changes (Unlimited Workflows, BAA on Starter, Single Sign-On on Scale). Some of them still show the $700 Growth and $1500 Pro tiers, which have been off the pricing page since January. If a procurement deck cites any of these as the current state of CloudCruise pricing, treat the deck as out of date and pull the numbers from cloudcruise.com/pricing instead.
Reproducing the diff yourself
How to re-verify any of this without taking our word for it.
Open cloudcruise.com/pricing in one tab. In a second tab, open a Wayback Machine snapshot of the same URL from before the window you care about. The Wayback timeline for this page currently includes captures on 2025-08-06, 2025-08-18, 2025-09-08, 2025-10-18, 2025-11-12, 2026-01-20, 2026-01-22, and 2026-03-14. Browse to one with the URL pattern https://web.archive.org/web/<timestamp>/https://www.cloudcruise.com/pricing. Compare tier by tier.
The pricing page is a Framer build, so the entire pricing grid renders client-side from a JSON blob. That makes the structure stable across snapshots and easy to scrape if you want to automate this. A small shell pipeline using curl plus python -c "import re; re.sub(...)" to strip tags is enough to reproduce the table on this page in under a minute, which is how the table was built.
The only thing the public archive cannot show you is the negotiated price on the Scale (Custom) tier. For that you have to talk to CloudCruise directly. If you are looking at Scale, ask specifically about VPC and on-prem deployment, which used to be a line item on the public Scale tier and is no longer listed in May 2026.
Where Mediar sits
Different SKU shape, different surface.
CloudCruise prices per browser hour because the heavy cost is a managed Chromium fleet. Mediar prices per minute of runtime ($0.75 per minute) plus a one-time $10,000 turn-key program fee that converts to credits, because the heavy cost is a Windows VM holding a desktop accessibility session open. Same broad category (workflow file plus selector cascade plus AI authoring) but different input surface and therefore different cost shape.
The clean test for which one fits is the surface the workflow actually lives on. If every step happens inside Chromium (a payer portal, a SaaS form fill, a vendor extranet download), CloudCruise drives that natively and the per-browser-hour model lines up. If the workflow opens a SAP GUI screen, an Epic Hyperspace window, an Oracle Forms session, or a Jack Henry green-screen, that step is not in the DOM. Mediar reads the Windows UI Automation accessibility tree, which exposes role, name, automation id, and bounds for every visible control across every running Windows process, and runs those steps from there.
Customers running both let the browser tool handle the browser steps and the desktop tool handle the desktop steps inside a single end-to-end flow. For most enterprise ops and finance workloads the desktop layer is the larger share of the surface area, but if your entire workflow is a Chromium tab and a webhook, CloudCruise is the more direct fit and this page is mostly useful as a pricing reference.
Already on CloudCruise and the workflow leaves the browser tab?
If half of the workflow is a payer portal and half is an Epic Hyperspace window or a SAP GUI screen, we run the desktop half. Book a 30-minute call and we will walk through whether the boundary in your stack lines up with the boundary in ours.
Frequently asked questions
Did CloudCruise raise prices after May 8, 2026?
No headline price went up. The published base prices on the Starter tier ($60/month) and the Free tier ($0) on May 14, 2026 match the prices on May 8 and on every Wayback snapshot back to January 2026. The Starter overage rate ($3 per browser hour) and the included browser hours (20 per month) also match. What did change in the window is that Starter went from a 10-workflow cap to Unlimited Workflows, Starter added a Business Associate Agreement, and the Scale tier added Single Sign-On. Those are net adds to the plan, not price hikes.
What is the most recent CloudCruise pricing change?
Between the Wayback Machine snapshot on March 14, 2026 and the live page on May 14, 2026, three things changed. One, the Starter tier's workflow cap went from 10 to Unlimited Workflows. Two, the Starter tier picked up a Business Associate Agreement (BAA), which used to be the first feature you had to escalate to the Scale tier for. Three, the Scale tier added Single Sign-On as a listed feature, and the prior 'Zero Data Retention' line was rewritten as 'Custom data retention'. None of these changes touched a dollar amount.
Wasn't CloudCruise pricing more granular than Free / Starter / Scale at some point?
Yes. Between launch and at least November 12, 2025, CloudCruise published five tiers: Free, Starter $60, Growth $700, Pro $1500, and Enterprise. Growth gave you 25 workflows, 470 included browser hours, and a $1.5/hour overage rate. Pro gave you 50 workflows, 1500 included hours, and a $1/hour overage. Both tiers disappeared from the pricing page sometime between Nov 12, 2025 and the January 20, 2026 snapshot. The simplified ladder is Free, Starter, Scale (Custom). Buyers who originally signed up at the Growth or Pro tier would have been moved onto custom Scale contracts.
Did the Starter overage rate change?
Yes, earlier. From August 2025 through November 12, 2025, Starter included 30 browser hours per month and charged $2 per additional browser hour. By January 20, 2026, the same tier included 20 browser hours per month and charged $3 per additional hour. That is a meaningful change for anyone running a workload between 20 and 30 hours per month: the same usage that was free in 2025 now costs $30 a month, and the marginal cost above 20 hours rose 50 percent. This change predates May 8, 2026 but is the relevant context for anyone re-evaluating CloudCruise now.
Why do third-party CloudCruise pricing reviews still list the $700 and $1500 tiers?
Most of them were written in late 2025 or early 2026 against the older five-tier ladder, and they have not been updated since. The Skyvern comparison page tagged 'January 2026', for example, still describes the Growth and Pro tiers as current pricing. Other reviews (notably aichief.com) describe CloudCruise as having no free tier and 'request only' pricing, which has never matched what cloudcruise.com/pricing actually publishes. If you are running procurement against an old comparison sheet, recheck the live pricing page before locking in your assumptions.
How do I verify any of this myself?
Compare two pages side by side. One, the live pricing page at cloudcruise.com/pricing. Two, any Wayback Machine snapshot of the same URL from before the date you care about, accessed through the URL format web.archive.org/web/<timestamp>/https://www.cloudcruise.com/pricing. Wayback maintains snapshots dated 2025-08-06, 2025-11-12, 2026-01-20, and 2026-03-14, among others. Diffing the snapshots against the live page is the only auditable way to track CloudCruise pricing history, because the site itself ships no changelog.
Does CloudCruise have a public pricing changelog?
No. The marketing site has no /changelog page, no version stamp on the pricing page, and no announcement blog post for any of the changes above. The pricing page is a Framer site and the public diff history is whatever the Wayback Machine and other archives have captured. A buyer reproducing CloudCruise pricing history in 2026 is, in practice, reading archive.org snapshots.
What happened to the VPC and on-prem deployment line?
Wayback snapshots from January through March 2026 list VPC and on-prem deployments as a Scale tier feature. The live page on May 14, 2026 does not. It is possible the line was moved into a more general 'Custom SLAs' bullet, or it is possible CloudCruise is no longer leading with on-prem as a public selling point at the pricing level. Either way, treat VPC and on-prem as 'ask sales' rather than 'on the pricing page' for any post-May 2026 evaluation.
Is the Free tier going away?
Not as of May 14, 2026. The Free tier ($0, 3 workflows, 2 browser hours per month, versioning and rollbacks, maintenance agent) has been on the pricing page in identical wording across every Wayback snapshot back to August 2025. Of every CloudCruise tier this is the most stable one. The two-hour cap is tight, but for testing whether the BADGER graph model fits your workflow at all, it is a perfectly reasonable bench.
How does this compare to Mediar's pricing?
Different shape. CloudCruise prices per browser hour because the heavy resource is the managed Chromium fleet. Mediar prices per minute of runtime on the Windows desktop ($0.75 per minute) because the heavy resource is the Windows VM and the accessibility-API session. Plus a one-time $10K turn-key program fee that converts to credits with a bonus. There is no per-seat licensing on either side. The two products are not interchangeable at the platform level (CloudCruise is browser-only, Mediar is the Windows desktop layer including legacy thick-client apps that don't run in Chromium), so the right comparison is per-workflow total cost in the surface the workflow actually lives on, not the sticker price of the SKU.
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