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Legba vs Hyperbrowser

A Hyperbrowser alternative built to leave no trail.

Hyperbrowser is built for scale: many headless browsers running at once for scraping and crawling. Legba is built for the opposite job.

Legba is one disposable browser. Real headful Chromium, a fresh residential IP, destroyed the moment the session closes. It is for credentialed, risky, agent work that cannot leave a trail.

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Side by side.

Burn-on-close isolation and residential exits, against a pooled fleet built for concurrency.

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Legba
Hyperbrowser
Built for
Credentialed, risky, agent work that must leave no trail
High-concurrency scraping and crawling
Session model
Disposable, burned on close
Pooled, scaled for throughput
IP type
Fresh residential IP per session
Proxy options, datacenter and residential
Rendering
Real headful Chromium
Headless-first browser fleet
What you buy
Isolation: credentials destroyed with the session
Scale: many browsers running at once
After a run
Nothing persists, the trace is gone
Session data and caches retained for reuse
Agent access
First-class MCP server, API, and SDK
Scrape and crawl APIs, agent tooling
Pricing
Free to $5,000/mo, plus custom
Usage-based, concurrency tiers

Last verified 2026-06-12 · reviewed by the Legba engineering team

When Hyperbrowser is the better pick

Hyperbrowser is the better pick when the job is high-volume scraping or crawling and you need many browsers running in parallel. If concurrency and throughput are the constraint, and credentials and isolation are not, its fleet model is a real advantage.

Questions people ask.

Is Legba a drop-in replacement for Hyperbrowser?
It depends on the job. For agent and automation work, Legba exposes an MCP server, an API, and a Playwright-compatible interface, so most orchestration redirects with minimal change. For raw high-concurrency scraping, Hyperbrowser is purpose-built and Legba is not the same shape.
What is the difference in one sentence?
Hyperbrowser optimizes for running many browsers at once. Legba optimizes for one throwaway browser that leaves no trail. One is scale, the other is isolation.
What happens to credentials and cookies after a run?
They live inside the session container and are destroyed when the session ends. Nothing persists unless you ask for an encrypted state blob under your key. A leaked token or a prompt injection has nowhere to go after close.
Why do residential IPs and headful rendering matter?
A fresh residential exit reads as a real person on a real network, so credentialed sites are less likely to block or challenge it. Real headful Chromium shows a vision model the page the way a human sees it, where headless can drop or reflow content.

Access anything.
Expose nothing.

Legba is a disposable real browser: it spawns a clean session, does the work, and destroys itself on close.

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chromium / real fingerprint · residential ip · burn on close

Real browser. Real IP. Real page. Spawn a session. Do the work. Destroy it. Off your device. Off your stack. Gone on close.