Comparisons
Outgrowing the tool you started on.Three migrations, one table.
Multilogin, Octo Browser and AdsPower are competent products with the same ceiling: none of them will run on machines you own. This is the row-by-row comparison, read from their own documentation, including the rows where they are ahead of us.
Every claim about another platform carries the page it came from and the date it was read.
- Platforms compared
- 3
- Rows per platform
- 31
- Vendor pages read
- 18
- Read on
- 2026-07-27
01The ceiling
Why teams move
The wall is the same shape every time
- Execution
The browsers are not on your machines
3 of 3 offer no customer-operated fleet at any price. Profiles run on operator desktops or on the vendor's own infrastructure, so the fleet sits wherever they keep it and your capacity is whatever they sell. - Automation
The API is an upgrade, not a feature
3 of 3 gate API access behind a paid plan, and not one of their cheapest plans carries both an API and a second seat. Driving the browser with code you already have becomes a question about your subscription. - Teams
A second person costs an upgrade or a fee
3 of 3 include no team seat at all on their cheapest plan. Two of them withhold seats until a mid-range plan and the third bills members one at a time, so a colleague is a purchase rather than an invitation. - Custody
Nobody publishes where the data sits
Customer control over data location could not be verified for 3 of 3: no page on any of their sites names a storage region you can choose. When a security review asks, there is nothing to point at.
One thing that is not a reason to move: deriving timezone, locale, language list and geolocation from the exit IP. It is table stakes in this category, and no page on this site will sell it to you as a difference.
02Full table
Row by row
31 rows, four platforms
| What is compared | VeilBrowserOurs | Multilogin | Octo Browser | AdsPower |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Where it runsWhich machines execute the browser, and whose infrastructure holds the data. | ||||
| Browser execution locationThe machine the Chromium process actually runs on. | The customer's own machine, or a customer-operated worker fleet. Only the local API spawns browser processes. | Browser profiles launch in the Multilogin desktop app on the user's machine. Cloud Phones run on Multilogin's infrastructure. | Profiles run in the Octo Browser desktop app on the user's machine; the local client API is served from that app. | Profiles run in the AdsPower desktop app on the user's machine, and the Local API is served by that app on port 50325. |
| Self-hostable control planeCan the management plane run on customer infrastructure at all. | Yes | No | No | No |
| Self-hostable browser fleetCan a pool of browser workers be operated by the customer. | Yes | No | No | No |
| Where profile data lives | Partial Sessions, fleet state and profile bundles stay on customer disks in per-host SQLite. Accounts, organisations and cloud profile configuration currently live in the vendor-hosted PostgreSQL, and workers fetch profile config from it at launch. | Profile metadata always on AWS. Profile data such as cookies and extensions either on AWS or on the operator's device, chosen per profile. | Profile data is encrypted in Octo's cloud storage and can be accessed from multiple devices. | Passwords, LocalStorage, IndexedDB and extension data are stored on the local device by default. Cloud sync is opt-in and described as end-to-end encrypted. |
| Platforms and mobileWhat a profile can present itself as, and whether mobile means a real device. | ||||
| Profile OS targetsThe operating systems a profile can present, not the OSes the app installs on. | win, mac, linux, android | Windows, macOS and Linux for browser profiles; Android for cloud phones. | Windows, macOS Intel, macOS ARM and Android. | Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS user-agent bases, on Chromium or Firefox kernels. |
| Android profiles | Partial Android is a profile fingerprint target with real device models resolved from installed profile bundles. It is not a hosted Android device. | Yes | Partial Android mobile fingerprints, added in version 2.7, present the profile as a phone or tablet using real device models. Mobile profiles support neither browser extensions nor screen resolution changes. | Partial Android user-agent and fingerprint bases only. No hosted Android device or cloud phone. |
| iOS profiles | No | No | No | Not summarised |
| Real devices or emulationWhether mobile support is hosted hardware or a spoofed fingerprint. | Emulation only, on worker-hosted Chromium. | Multilogin states Cloud Phones are not an emulator and run Android on real smartphone hardware.Their claim | Emulation. Octo's own release note says the browser “can fully emulate an Android mobile device”. | Emulation only. No hosted device fleet is offered. |
| Automation surfaceHow code drives the browser, and what a subscription gates. | ||||
| Chrome DevTools Protocol access | Yes | Partial The launcher returns an automation port after you declare an automation_type of selenium, puppeteer or playwright. A raw CDP endpoint is not documented as a separate surface. | Yes | Yes |
| Puppeteer | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Playwright | Yes | Yes | Yes | Partial Not named in AdsPower's API documentation, which covers Selenium and Puppeteer. The returned CDP WebSocket endpoint is what Playwright's connectOverCDP consumes, so it should work, but it is undocumented. |
| Selenium | Partial Works through the same debug port via Selenium's debuggerAddress, but there is no Selenium-specific code path or worked example in the repository yet. | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| REST API | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| First-party typed SDKA vendor-maintained, typed client library, not community samples. | Yes | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
| API needs a paid plan | Not summarised | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Published API rate limits | Base 50/min and 500/hour, Team 100/min and 1,500/hour, Advanced 200/min and 3,000/hour. | 50 requests/minute at Pro 50, 100 at Pro 100, 100 with custom limits available on Business. | Base 50/minute and 500/hour, Team 100/minute and 1,500/hour, Advanced 200/minute and 3,000/hour, expandable to 1,000/minute and 50,000/hour. Custom is unlimited. | Scaled by profile count: 2 requests/second up to 200 profiles, 5 from 200 to 5,000, and 10 above 5,000. Several list endpoints are fixed at 1 request/second. |
| Proxies and identity coherenceProtocol coverage, per-profile assignment, and whether the identity follows the exit IP. | ||||
| Proxy protocols | http, https, socks5, socks5h | HTTP, HTTPS and SOCKS5 for custom proxies. Built-in Multilogin proxies can be created as HTTP or SOCKS5. | HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5 and SSH. The API additionally accepts a socks value for SOCKS4. IPv6 is supported in the hostname field. | HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5 and SSH, over IPv4 or IPv6, plus a no-proxy direct mode. |
| Per-profile proxy assignment | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Timezone, locale and geolocation from the exit IPWhether the profile derives IP-dependent values automatically. | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Proxies sold in-product | No | Yes | Partial A Proxy Shop sells proxies inside the app with volume discounts, but no proxy traffic is included in a subscription. | Unknown |
| Rotation / change-IP URL | No | Partial Proxy lists can be consumed sequentially or randomly across profiles, but no per-proxy change-IP URL is documented for custom proxies. | Yes | Yes |
| Teams and access controlSeats, permission granularity and what an operator can audit. | ||||
| Team seats | 1, 2, 5, 15 and 50 seats from Lite through Advanced. | None on Free, Pro 10 and Pro 50. Two on Pro 100. Unlimited on Business. | None on Lite, Starter and Base. Team includes 3 seats and allows up to 6. Advanced includes 8 with unlimited additional seats. | One super-administrator on every plan and no members on Free. Members are purchased separately at $5 each, up to 100 per order. |
| Permission granularity | Three organisation roles: owner, admin, member. The self-hosted cluster manager has its own admin, operator and viewer roles. | Advanced team management, profile sharing and profile transfer are listed as Business features. | Yes | Yes |
| Activity / audit log | Partial The self-hosted cluster manager records fleet operations. The cloud side has an auditLogs plan flag but no audit log model or endpoint. | Partial Workspace activity logs are listed on the pricing page as coming soon. | Yes | Yes |
| Two-factor authentication | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| SAML / OIDC single sign-on | No | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
| Compliance and trustOnly certifications and statements the vendor publishes themselves. | ||||
| SOC 2 | No | Unknown | Unknown | Yes |
| ISO 27001 / 27701 | No | Unknown | Unknown | Yes |
| Published GDPR position | Unknown | Not summarised | Unknown | Partial AdsPower describes ISO 27701 as ensuring GDPR-aligned data handling, but publishes no standalone GDPR compliance statement. |
| Customer control over data location | Partial A self-hosted deployment keeps fleet state, sessions and profile bundles on customer infrastructure in a chosen location. Account and cloud profile records still sit in the vendor database, so this is not yet full residency control. | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
| Publishes comparison pages | No | Yes | Partial Blog-style alternatives round-ups rather than dedicated compare pages. Their AdsPower alternatives post names Multilogin, Dolphin Anty, GoLogin and others. | Yes |
Reading the table
- Yes
- Documented and available.
- Partial
- Available with a documented limit, named in the cell.
- No
- Documented as absent, or absent from every page we read.
- Unknown
- Not verifiable from their own pages. Not the same as absent.
- Not summarised
- Their published pages do not agree, so we do not characterise it.
Values only here. The note behind each cell and the page it was read from are on the three migration pages below. Our own column is read from our codebase and from the browser build's own CLI reference, and where a behaviour belongs to the build rather than to the platform API the cell says so.
03Where they win
Conceded
What we do not have, and what they do better
What VeilBrowser does not have
- All three competitors have years of published detection track record, large user bases and 24/7 support organisations. VeilBrowser has none of that yet.
- Multilogin's Android Cloud Phones and Octo's in-app proxy shop solve problems VeilBrowser does not attempt: VeilBrowser has no hosted mobile devices and sells no proxy traffic.
- AdsPower holds SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001 and ISO 27701 attestations. VeilBrowser holds none.
- AdsPower's no-code RPA builder and window synchroniser let non-programmers automate. VeilBrowser assumes you write code.
- Octo's per-action permission matrix and action log are more granular than VeilBrowser's three organisation roles.
Multilogin
Multilogin in full- Cloud Phones are a real product VeilBrowser has no answer to: hosted Android environments across many countries, able to run native apps.
- Built-in residential and mobile proxy traffic is included in every paid plan, so a customer never has to source proxies separately.
- Two browser engines, a Chromium build and a Firefox build, give fingerprint diversity VeilBrowser does not offer.
- Their entry pricing is below ours: a permanent free plan with five profiles, and a paid plan from $7.08 a month on annual billing.
- Ten years in market, 24/7 support in five languages, and an established detection track record.
Octo Browser
Octo Browser in full- Octo's team permission model is more granular than VeilBrowser's: per-action flags for profiles, proxies, templates, extensions and tasks, plus folder or tag scoped profile visibility.
- An action log is a shipped feature with its own permission, where VeilBrowser only has a plan flag on the cloud side.
- Their local client API is well documented, including pinned debug ports for parallel runs and one-time profiles that self-delete after a session.
- SSH tunnels, SOCKS4 and IPv6 proxies are supported; VeilBrowser supports none of those.
- A per-proxy change-IP URL is a first-class field, which matters for mobile proxy workflows VeilBrowser cannot serve today.
AdsPower
AdsPower in full- SOC 2 Type II with an unqualified opinion over a twelve-month period, plus ISO 27001 and ISO 27701. VeilBrowser has no attestations at all.
- Sensitive data including passwords, LocalStorage, IndexedDB and extension data is stored locally by default, which is a genuinely conservative default.
- A visual no-code RPA builder and a multi-window synchroniser let non-programmers automate work that VeilBrowser expects you to script.
- Account security depth VeilBrowser lacks: login IP allowlists, remote-login and failed-attempt alerts, two-factor authentication, session controls and operation logs.
- A permanent free plan, two browser engines including a Firefox build, and headless CLI operation with per-member API keys across multiple devices.
None of it is hedged and none of it is ranked. Published certifications, hosted mobile devices and a finer permission model are real product differences, and no amount of infrastructure argument makes them go away.
04Price
The low end
What it costs before two people can share it
| Platform | Cheapest plan | With a seat and an API |
|---|---|---|
| Multilogin | FreeFree | $26.67Pro 100, annual billing |
| Octo Browser | €10Lite, billed monthly | €169Team, billed monthly |
| AdsPower | FreeFree | UnpublishedSeat allowances are not shown on their pricing page |
VeilBrowser
Our plans scale by profiles, seats and API volume, and seats are part of the plan rather than a separate purchase. The amounts live on the pricing page, which reads the live plan records instead of a marketing table.
Enterprise starts at $5,000 and covers the self-hosted deployment, the fleet size you need and the support around it. No billing period is quoted on that number because the scope decides it.
05Migrations
One page each
Three pages, one for each
- Outgrowing MultiloginMultilogin is the strongest mobile story in the category and the weakest infrastructure story: cloud phones you cannot host, and profile metadata that always sits in their AWS account.5 rows unverified
- Outgrowing Octo BrowserOcto is the closest competitor on automation ergonomics and the furthest from you on custody: excellent CDP access to a browser whose profile data lives encrypted in Octo's cloud.6 rows unverified
- Outgrowing AdsPowerAdsPower is the most certified vendor in the category and still a closed hosted product: SOC 2 Type II and two ISO certificates covering infrastructure you cannot run, inspect or relocate.4 rows unverified
06Method
Sourcing
How this was made, and where it is thin
- Rule 01
Every claim links its source
Each cell about another platform carries the page it came from and the date it was read. A claim with no source does not go on the page. - Rule 02
Unverified is printed, not hidden
15 cells across these platforms could not be settled from their own pages. Each says so in the table, in the row where the answer would have been. Dropping those rows would have made this comparison look more complete than it is. - Rule 03
Their claims stay their claims
A vendor statement we cannot independently check is marked as their claim rather than restated as fact. One cell here carries that marker. - Rule 04
Where their own pages disagree, we stop
2 cells are left unsummarised because the vendor's own published pages do not agree with each other. Deciding between them would be a guess with a legal opinion attached, so the cell says that and nothing more. - Rule 05
First-party sources only
Nothing here comes from a review site, a forum, an affiliate round-up or a competitor's comparison page. If a vendor does not publish it themselves, it is not in the table, even when somebody else says otherwise.
Every page read
Multilogin, 5 pages
Octo Browser, 6 pages
Bring the platform you are outgrowing.
The useful first call is the one where you describe the ceiling you hit and we tell you whether this clears it. If it does not, that is a shorter call and a better outcome for both of us.
- Entry
- Pick a plan, or enterprise from $5,000
- Sourced
- Every competitor claim read on 2026-07-27
- Conceded
- Certifications, hosted mobile devices, a finer permission model
This table will be out of date eventually. When you find the part that is wrong, tell us and it gets corrected.