[cdpfleet](https://cdpfleet.com/) / Community vs paid Community → paid # Outgrowing *free*? Here is what changes. Community is for trying cdpfleet and small projects. A paid plan starts at $7.50 a month and removes the limits you hit first: more threads, more minutes, longer sessions, priority over free traffic, and the features Community leaves out. [Upgrade in the dashboard](https://cdpfleet.com/app#subscriptions)[All prices](https://cdpfleet.com/pricing) - **5+**threads (Community 2) - **8×**the daily minutes per thread, or unlimited - **24 h**sessions (Community 15 min) - **$7.50**a month to start ## At a glance | | Community (free) | Shared (from $7.50/month) | Dedicated ($8.50/thread/month) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Threads at once | 2 | 5–1,000 | 5–10,000, custom above | | Browser-minutes | 60 per thread a day (120 in all) | 60 / 120 / 240 / 480 per thread a day, pooled across threads | Unlimited, 24/7 | | Session length | Up to 15 minutes | Up to 24 hours | Up to 24 hours | | Idle timeout | Up to 5 minutes | Up to 10 minutes | Up to 24 hours | | Capacity | Lowest priority, one cap shared by all free users; gives way first | Priority over Community; 15-minute leases | Reserved — never reclaimed | | Per session | 50 pages, 2 GB memory | 50 pages, 4 GB memory | 50 pages, 6 GB memory | | Proxies | Included Community proxy (shared, slower at peak) or your own | Your own at full speed, residential, or the Community proxy | Your own at full speed, residential, or the Community proxy | | [Recordings](https://cdpfleet.com/recordings) | No | Yes; HD recording plans to add | Yes; HD recording plans to add | | [Persistent profiles](https://cdpfleet.com/profiles) | No | 20 per thread (at least 100) | 30 per thread (at least 100) | | [Kept downloads](https://cdpfleet.com/docs/downloads) | No | Yes, 2 days | Yes, 2 days | | [Functions](https://cdpfleet.com/docs/functions) | Pooled browser | Pooled, or your own browser and device | Pooled, or your own browser and device | | [Function jobs](https://cdpfleet.com/docs/jobs) — batch, crawl, map, watch, warmup | No | Yes | Yes | | [Monitors](https://cdpfleet.com/docs/monitors) — a page checked on a schedule | No | Yes, every 15 minutes or more | Yes, every 5 minutes or more | | `keep_alive` (reconnect) | No | No | Yes | | Your request data | May be used to learn which setups work ([Terms 4A](https://cdpfleet.com/terms)) | Private | Private | ## Why people upgrade ### More at once Community runs 2 headless browsers, or 1 headful. Paid plans start at 5 threads and go to thousands — a test suite or crawler stops queueing. ### More minutes 60 minutes per thread a day goes fast. Shared plans give 60, 120, 240, 480 minutes per thread a day; dedicated threads run around the clock. ### Long sessions Community ends every session after 15 minutes. Paid sessions last up to 24 hours, with longer idle timeouts for human-in-the-loop work. ### No "busy, retry" Free capacity is shared and gives way to paid traffic first, so peaks bring `503 community_capacity_full`. Paid plans get priority; dedicated capacity is reserved for you. ### Recordings and profiles Watch any session back as video, and keep logins, cookies and storage across sessions with persistent profiles — both included in every paid plan. [Learn more →](https://cdpfleet.com/profiles) ### Jobs and monitors Crawl a whole site, run thousands of URLs as a batch, watch a page live or get told when it changes — Function jobs and monitors run on paid plans only. [Learn more →](https://cdpfleet.com/docs/jobs) ### Privacy and speed Paid sessions are private, and your own proxies run at full speed instead of through the shared free proxy. ## Which plan to pick - **Just more than Community:** Shared 60 with 5 threads — $7.50 a month, 300 browser-minutes a day. - **Daily jobs and CI:** a bigger Shared plan; minutes pool across threads, and up to 25% of the day's pool can go in any hour. - **Always-on or long-running work:** Dedicated threads at $8.50 each — unlimited minutes, reserved capacity and `keep_alive`. Every price and size is on the [pricing page](https://cdpfleet.com/pricing); the [threads page](https://cdpfleet.com/threads) explains how threads and minutes are counted. ## How to switch 1. Open the dashboard and go to **Subscriptions**. 2. Pick a plan and size and pay with Stripe. The paid plan replaces Community at once — your API keys, proxies and settings stay as they are. 3. Changed your mind later? A paid plan can move back to Community at the end of its billing period. ## Related Cases, recipes, posts and comparisons about this — updated as new ones are published. ### Reference docs The details, options and errors. - [Plans & pricing](https://cdpfleet.com/docs/pricing)Every plan, limit and price in the reference docs. - [Errors & limits](https://cdpfleet.com/docs/errors)The limit errors Community users see, and what each means. ### Cases 2 Real problems solved end to end, run on production in five languages. - [Case 80: How many tabs fit in one session, by plan, browser and "memory"](https://cdpfleet.com/docs/cases/tabs-and-memory-by-plan)A long Wikipedia article opened in one new tab after another until the session ends: on Community (2 GB), a shared plan (4 GB) and a dedicated thread (6 GB), in…[Code on GitHub](https://github.com/cdpfleet/cdpfleet/tree/main/cases/80-tabs-and-memory-by-plan) - [Case 47: A first free scrape on the Community plan: no proxy to bring, country and sticky exits included](https://cdpfleet.com/docs/cases/community-first-scrape)On the free Community plan a launch without a proxy goes out through the plan's own shared proxy. Scrape a catalogue page, then pick a country and keep the same exit…[Code on GitHub](https://github.com/cdpfleet/cdpfleet/tree/main/cases/47-community-first-scrape) ### Recipes 1 Complete programs for one setup each. - [Community plan: the included proxy, US and sticky](https://cdpfleet.com/docs/examples#community-quickstart)On the free [Community plan](https://cdpfleet.com/docs/pricing#community) the proxy is included: leave `proxy` out, or send a `cdpfleet-plan` token like this one for a US exit that…[Code on GitHub](https://github.com/cdpfleet/cdpfleet/tree/main/examples/recipes/community-quickstart) ### Updates 2 Product news and browser releases. - [Sign-ups are open: start free on Community, upgrade from $7.50 a month](https://cdpfleet.com/docs/updates/signups-open)Anyone can now create a cdpfleet account — no waitlist, no invite. Start on the free Community plan (a card check, never charged), and move to a paid plan from $7.50… - [The free Community plan: what's in it and how to get an invite](https://cdpfleet.com/docs/updates/community-plan)Two threads with 60 browser-minutes each per day, every browser on the fleet and a proxy included — free, with no trial expiry. Invite-only while we open up. ### Compared with other services 18 Prices, limits and features. - [cdpfleet vs Browserbase](https://cdpfleet.com/docs/compare/cdpfleet-vs-browserbase)Twelve real browsers over Playwright or CDP with your own proxies, or Chromium over CDP with built-in proxies, Stagehand and captcha solving. Prices, limits and… - [cdpfleet vs Browserless](https://cdpfleet.com/docs/compare/cdpfleet-vs-browserless)The longest-running headless-browser service against a browser fleet: 30-second "units" with 2–60-minute session caps and proxies by the megabyte, or threads metered… - [cdpfleet vs Steel](https://cdpfleet.com/docs/compare/cdpfleet-vs-steel)The open-source browser API for agents against a browser fleet: per-minute Chromium with proxies, captcha solves and a 15-minute-to-24-hour session cap by plan, or… - [cdpfleet vs Browser Use Cloud](https://cdpfleet.com/docs/compare/cdpfleet-vs-browser-use)The cheapest per-hour cloud browser for AI agents against a fleet of real browsers: one stealth Chromium over CDP at $0.02/hour plus traffic fees, or twelve browsers… - [cdpfleet vs Hyperbrowser](https://cdpfleet.com/docs/compare/cdpfleet-vs-hyperbrowser)A credits-based cloud Chrome with stealth, captcha solving and AI agents against a fleet of twelve real browsers: $0.10/hour plus $10/GB for its proxies (your own… - [cdpfleet vs Cloudflare Browser Run (Browser Rendering)](https://cdpfleet.com/docs/compare/cdpfleet-vs-cloudflare-browser-run)Cloudflare's serverless headless Chromium — formerly Browser Rendering — against a fleet of twelve real browsers: $0.09/hour beyond 10 free hours plus concurrency… - [cdpfleet vs Anchor Browser](https://cdpfleet.com/docs/compare/cdpfleet-vs-anchor-browser)An agent-focused cloud Chromium with captcha solving, managed logins and US hosting against a fleet of twelve real browsers: per-browser and per-hour fees plus… - [cdpfleet vs Kernel](https://cdpfleet.com/docs/compare/cdpfleet-vs-kernel)A sandboxed cloud Chromium for agents, billed per second with free standby, against a fleet of twelve real browsers on flat threads: $0.06/hour headless but… [All compared with other services →](https://cdpfleet.com/docs/compare) 18 match this topic ## Read next [Community plan →](https://cdpfleet.com/community)[Pricing →](https://cdpfleet.com/pricing)[Shared threads →](https://cdpfleet.com/shared-threads)[Dedicated threads →](https://cdpfleet.com/dedicated-threads) --- Source: https://cdpfleet.com/upgrade · Markdown: https://cdpfleet.com/upgrade.md · All docs for AI tools: https://cdpfleet.com/llms.txt