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Prolific
✓ verifiedPaid
Research participant marketplace that gives AI teams and academics fast access to verified, screened human data and feedback.
21M visits/mo
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Browserless
✓ verifiedFreemium
Managed headless-Chrome infrastructure that runs Puppeteer/Playwright scripts at scale with anti-bot bypass, so teams skip browser ops.
242K visits/mo
Pricing
No public pricing
No public pricing
Free: $0 (1k units/mo, 2 browsers)
Prototyping: $25/mo (20k units)
Starter: $140/mo (180k units)
Scale: $350/mo (500k units)
Core features
- ✦CSV to API conversion
- ✦Data parsing (CSV to JSON)
- ✦Filtering capabilities
- ✦300,000+ verified, screened participants
- ✦300+ audience targeting filters
- ✦Representative and quota-based sampling
- ✦API and no-code survey tool integrations
- ✦AI-powered participant quality monitoring (Protocol)
- ✦Managed services with dedicated project teams
- ✦Access to vetted domain experts
- ✦Managed headless browsers (browser-as-a-service)
- ✦Drop-in Puppeteer/Playwright support
- ✦Anti-bot bypass and CAPTCHA solving
- ✦Screenshot, PDF and download APIs
- ✦MCP server for AI agents
- ✦Self-hosted and cloud deployment
- ✦Live debugger and observability
Use cases
- →Sharing CSV data with a team via an API
- →Creating a public API from CSV data
- →Filtering and accessing specific data within a CSV file programmatically
- →Collecting human preference data for RLHF or model evaluation
- →Running academic behavioral or market research studies
- →Sourcing domain-expert data for specialized AI benchmarks
- →Run web scraping without infrastructure headaches
- →Automate browser workflows and tests
- →Give AI agents a reliable browser
- →Generate screenshots and PDFs via API
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