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Liminal vs Octo Browser
Facts about Octo Browser checked: September 2026
The short version
- Octo has no free plan: the cheapest tier is €10 a month for 3 profiles, and every tier is priced by how many profiles it holds.
- Octo is the stronger toolkit: a local API on port 58888 with Playwright, Puppeteer, Selenium and CDP, profile export to a file, and Android profiles.
- Liminal gives unlimited profiles free and a current Chromium core, and has no automation API at all. That one line decides most of the choices.
At a glance
| Liminal | Octo Browser | |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | Unlimited profiles, no card, no clock | None — the cheapest tier is €10 a month for 3 profilessource · 2026-09-26 |
| What the price scales with | Features — profiles are never counted | Number of profiles: 3 / 30 / 200 / 600 / 100 000source · 2026-09-26 |
| Local automation API | None | Port 58888, with Playwright, Puppeteer, Selenium and CDPsource · 2026-09-26 |
| Cookies in and out | Import only (JSON, Netscape) | Import and export (Netscape, JSON)source · 2026-09-26 |
| Platforms | macOS (Apple Silicon), Windows (ARM64) | Windows, macOS, Androidsource · 2026-09-26 |
| Moving a profile out | Not built yet — cookies by hand | Export to a file with fingerprint, cookies and proxy; extensions not includedsource · 2026-09-26 |
What Octo does that we do not
Their toolkit is wider than ours, and it is worth saying where.
- An API their docs build a whole workflow on
- A local API on port 58888 launches profiles for Playwright, Puppeteer, Selenium and CDP, and a cloud API sits beside it for profiles, proxies, tags, folders and team rights. Liminal has neither.source · 2026-09-26
- A profile that leaves as a file
- Octo exports a profile to a file with its fingerprint, cookies and proxy, and transfers profiles between accounts from the Base plan up — their docs note that extensions are not saved with it. Nothing in Liminal exports a profile at all.source · 2026-09-26
- Android profiles
- Octo runs on Windows, macOS and Android, and its API knows device models for Android profiles. Liminal is a desktop browser on two platforms and has no mobile profile of any kind.source · 2026-09-26
Where Liminal is ahead
Fewer lines than theirs, and all of them are in the build you can download.
- The free plan has no profile cap
- Unlimited profiles, generated fingerprints, full isolation and proxy binding cost nothing, with no card and no trial clock. Our paid plans sell manual fingerprint control, sync, sharing and roles — never a higher number of profiles.
- Real Chromium, kept current
- The core is Chromium itself, not a stripped or aged engine: the TLS fingerprint, the web APIs and extension support are Chrome’s. The version each release is built on is in our changelog, and you can look it up on Chromium’s own dashboard.
- Fingerprints that agree with the proxy
- User-Agent, platform, screen, WebGL, Canvas, Audio, fonts, timezone and language are generated to match one another and the profile’s proxy, and a built-in validator flags a combination that does not add up.
- One window, no restarts
- Profiles launch and switch inside a single window without restarting the app, and several run at once. It is a small thing until you do it forty times a day.
Where Liminal is behind, without softening it
Both products beat us on these, and no wording changes that.
- No local automation API
- Liminal has no local API, no CLI and no MCP server, and nothing can drive a profile from Selenium, Puppeteer or Playwright. If your work is scripted, this is the line that decides it, and it decides against us.
- Sync carries the catalog, not the browser
- Profiles with their fingerprint settings, workspaces, folders, proxies, account cards and app settings travel between your machines. History, saved passwords, open tabs, cache and installed extensions never do.
- Cookies come in, not out
- You can import cookies into an account card as JSON or Netscape. Taking them back out of Liminal is not built yet, so a profile you build here cannot be lifted out the way it can be lifted out of the other two.
- Two platforms, and entry by invite
- macOS on Apple Silicon and Windows on ARM64 — no Linux build, no Intel Mac build, no mobile profiles. And Liminal is in closed beta: you leave an email and wait for an invite code, while both of them are a sign-up away.
What each side costs
Their tiers are on their page as text, so here they are, with the date we read them.
- Octo: paid from the first day, priced by profiles
- There is no free plan. Lite starts at €10 a month for 3 profiles; team members appear only from the Team tier, which holds 6. All of it excludes VAT, and their page also shows discounts for three, six and twelve months.source · 2026-09-26
- Liminal: no figure typed into this page
- Our prices are not written into the site — the pricing page reads the plan catalog when it loads. What matters next to the table above: the free plan has no profile cap, and no paid plan raises one, because we do not count profiles.
Their plans, as their own page shows them
| Plan | Monthly | Yearly, per month | Profiles | Members |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lite | €10 | €7 | 3 | — |
| Starter | €29 | €21 | 30 | — |
| Base | €79 | €56 | 200 | — |
| Team | €169 | €119 | 600 | 6 |
| Advanced | €329 | €231 | 100 000 | ∞ |
Prices as shown on their pricing page on 2026-09-26, excluding VAT. They change; open the page. source · 2026-09-26
Who should pick which
Two honest answers, and one of them is not us.
- Take Octo
- If you automate with Playwright, Puppeteer or Selenium, if you need Android profiles, if a profile has to be exportable as a file, or if you hand profiles to other accounts as part of the work.
- Take Liminal
- If you are not ready to pay per profile from day one, if unlimited profiles on a free plan is the thing that unblocks you, and if the work is done by hand rather than by script.
Every claim about Octo Browser on this page links to the page it was read from, with the date. If one of them is out of date, or wrong, tell us and we fix it: [email protected]. What you can check about Liminal without us is on the trust page.