The browser-side scout: it scrapes, enriches and qualifies leads from the pages you already browse, then files the results for you.
Unbeatable for a founder whose growth is outbound and list-driven — the catch is row-based pricing that makes discipline about list size a monthly habit.
Setup: Minutes to install the extension and run a first playbook; an hour to build a custom scraper · Control: Acts + logs everything
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Bardeen lives where a solo founder's prospecting actually happens: in the browser. Instead of waiting for data to arrive through an API, it works on the pages in front of you — a LinkedIn search, a directory listing, a conference attendee page — scraping the visible results, enriching each person with contact details, verifying emails, and using AI to qualify who matches your customer profile before writing the survivors into your sheet or CRM. That one job — turning an afternoon of manual list-building into a ten-minute review — is the core of what founders automate with it, and its own pricing-page example prices it honestly: scraping ten profiles through extraction, verification and qualification costs 64 credits. Beyond prospecting, Bardeen's playbooks handle recurring chores like saving research into Notion, summarising pages, monitoring sites for changes, and moving data between web apps, and you can describe an automation in plain language and have its assistant assemble it. Pre-built scrapers cover 100-plus popular sites, and you can build your own for a niche source your competitors cannot easily copy. The model to understand is rows, not runs: every row an action creates costs credits, and enrichment rows cost triple, so a single ambitious scrape of a large list can consume a month of a small plan. It complements rather than replaces a general automator — it has no interest in your invoicing or fulfilment flows — but for outbound-led businesses it does the one job the API tools genuinely cannot.
Billed per credit, charged per row of output: scraper, web-search and AI-tool rows cost 1 credit each, enrichment rows cost 3 credits, utilities and CSV import/export are free. Every account always gets 100 free credits/month; unused credits expire each period.
| Plan | Published price |
|---|---|
| Free allowance | $0 — 100 credits/month, always free |
| Basic | $10/month billed monthly — build-your-own scrapers, premium scrapers, enrichment |
| Premium | $50/month billed monthly — 1,000 credits/month base ($480/year billed annually) |
| Enterprise | Custom — bulk credits, Bardeen-built scrapers, premium support |
Integrations we verified: Google Sheets, HubSpot, Salesforce, Notion, Slack, Airtable, LinkedIn and 100+ scrapable sites
The default connector for a one-person business — if two of your apps need to talk, Zapier almost certainly already speaks to both.
The safest first automation tool for a solo founder — the catch is watching the task meter, because multi-step and AI-heavy Zaps eat it fast.
The visual workshop for founders who outgrow simple recipes — branching, looping scenarios at a fraction of Zapier's step price.
Best value in the category for a founder willing to learn one visual canvas — the catch is that canvas itself, which scares off true beginners.
An AI-first builder for the jobs that need judgement — research, enrichment and drafting — not just moving rows between apps.
The pick when your bottleneck is thinking work, not data entry — the catch is variable per-run credit costs that reward a week of measurement before you commit.
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