AdsPower vs Dolphin Anty: Profiles, Team Seats and Price

Running solo or with one other person, on fewer than 60 profiles, and you want the bill to be small and predictable? Dolphin Anty's published Starter tier is $10 a month for up to 60 profiles, and nothing else in this category comes close at that profile count.

Running a team where more than one human needs to touch profiles? Read the seat surcharge section before you buy anything. That single line moves the Dolphin Anty bill more than the plan choice does, and it is the reason a lot of small agencies end up on a tier three steps above where their profile count says they should be.

Need a configurator, a currency of your choice and a quote for a few thousand profiles? That is AdsPower's shape. You will have to price it yourself in their Cost Center, because the dollar amounts do not render in the page source we read today.

Neither is a strict upgrade over the other. The rest of this piece says where each one loses.

Both products do the same job: they run many browser profiles side by side with separated storage, cookies and fingerprint surfaces, so that a set of accounts does not collapse into one identity. Both ship a desktop client for Windows, macOS and Linux. Both let you attach a different proxy to each profile, and both expect you to supply those proxies yourself.

The differences that matter to a buyer sit around the edges of that shared core.

Dolphin Anty publishes a static pricing table with six rows, an explicit per-additional-user price on each row, a request-per-minute ceiling on each row, and a discount ladder for longer commitments. Its own site describes sharing "profiles, proxies, and cookies with your team", granting "access to individual profiles", and setting "limits on profile creation for users", which is a governance model aimed at teams from the start.

AdsPower publishes a tier structure rather than a price list. As read today, the page shows a permanently free tier of 2 profiles with 0 team members, a Professional tier where you configure the profile count at 10, 20, 50 or 100, a Business tier marked as the popular option, and an Enterprise tier at "5000+" profiles with "Price upon request". Every paid tier is described as including 1 super-administrator and 2 free profiles. The dollar amounts are placeholders in the page source and load through the configurator, so there is no AdsPower figure in this article. We are not going to reconstruct one from memory or from a third-party summary, and neither should any comparison you read.

That difference is itself a procurement fact, not a complaint. If your finance process needs a number before a trial, one of these two gives you one today.

Dolphin Anty's tariff page, read 23 September 2026.

AdsPower's pricing page, read the same day, in the form it actually appears.

Both paid AdsPower tiers are listed as including 1 super-administrator and 2 free profiles.

Here is the line that decides this comparison for most buyers, and it is one row of a pricing table that nobody reads carefully.

On Dolphin Anty's Free and Starter plans, additional users cannot be purchased at all. Not expensive. Not available. If a second person needs their own login, Starter is not an option regardless of how few profiles you run.

So a two-person operation with 30 profiles does not pay $10 a month. It pays $89 for Base plus $10 for the second seat, which is $99. That is a 9.9x jump driven entirely by headcount, on a workload whose profile count fits inside the cheapest tier six times over.

It gets sharper as the team grows, because the per-seat price rises with the tier instead of falling.

Read the per-seat column again: $10 on Base, $20 on Team, $25 on Enterprise. Seats get more expensive as you scale, which is the reverse of how volume pricing usually works. The practical effect is that headcount growth, not profile growth, is what breaks a Dolphin Anty budget.

AdsPower charges for team members above its included super-administrator too, and its free tier includes zero of them, which means you cannot evaluate a multi-operator workflow on AdsPower without paying first. Dolphin Anty's free tier has the same limitation in a different form: one user, no API access.

If you are sizing an antidetect budget from scratch, count operators before you count profiles. Our roundup of antidetect browser pricing applies the same lens across the wider market.

Every comparison article in this category ranks tools on cost per profile. Run the arithmetic on published Dolphin Anty rates and you can see why that metric misleads.

Starter is $10 for up to 60 profiles, which is about $0.17 per profile. Base is $89 for up to 100, which is $0.89 per profile. Moving from Starter to Base buys 1.67x the profiles for 8.9x the price, so cost per profile rises by roughly 5x at the very first upgrade. Team then brings it back down to $0.53 per profile at 300, and Enterprise at $299 is unbounded, so its per-profile cost falls the more you use.

The curve is not a curve. It is a step, and the step exists because Starter and Base are not really the same product sold in two sizes. Starter is a single-operator tool. Base is the entry point to the multi-user product. You are not paying 8.9x for 40 more profiles. You are paying it for the ability to add a colleague, an API you can use in production, and the governance controls that come with a shared workspace.

Which is why the honest metric is cost per operator-month at your real profile count, not cost per profile. Compute it that way and the ranking of the tiers changes for most small teams.

Dolphin Anty's page states that subscriptions of 6 to 11 months receive a 20% discount and 12-month subscriptions receive 40%. Applied to the published list prices, that produces an effect worth checking before you pick a tier.

These are the published list prices with the published discount percentages applied, nothing more. Look at what falls out.

A 12-month Team commitment works out at $95.40 a month. Month-to-month Base is $89. For $6.40 a month more, you get 300 profiles instead of 100 and a tier whose extra seats you may or may not want at $20 rather than $10. Anyone who expects to be running this for a year and is anywhere near the 100-profile ceiling should price Team on annual against Base on monthly, because the gap is smaller than the tier names suggest.

The obvious counterweight: a 40% discount is a bet that your accounts, your target platforms and your business model all still look the same in twelve months. In multi-account work, that is a real bet. Take the 20% ladder at six months if you are unsure, and treat the 40% as something you earn in year two.

One number is identical on every paid Dolphin Anty tier: 1500 RPM. Starter, Base, Team, Enterprise, all the same. The free plan has no request access at all.

Two consequences follow, and neither is on any comparison chart.

You cannot test your automation before paying. The free tier gives you five profiles to click around in, and zero API calls, so any decision about whether your scripts will actually drive the tool has to be made after money changes hands. Budget the cheapest paid month as an evaluation cost rather than expecting a free trial to answer it.

Upgrading buys profiles and seats, not throughput. If your bottleneck is API call rate, and at 1500 requests per minute it eventually will be for a large automation fleet, moving from Base to Enterprise changes nothing about it. Design around the ceiling instead of paying to raise it.

AdsPower's automation surface is a documented Local API, published at localapi-doc-en.adspower.com, covering browser open, close and status checks, proxy add and update, group operations, extension management and the full profile lifecycle. Local is the operative word. The client has to be running on the machine that issues the calls, which means every parallel automation lane needs a host. That host cost belongs in the comparison and is missing from every one we have read. The automation section of our AdsPower vs Multilogin piece goes deeper on what a loopback-bound API changes about your architecture.

Neither plan table read today lists a bundled traffic allowance. Dolphin Anty's tiers are sold on profiles, users and request rate. AdsPower's are sold on profiles and team members. Whatever proxies your profiles use are a separate purchase from a separate vendor, and that line will often be larger than the browser subscription.

That is a good thing for a buyer, and worth saying plainly because tools that bundle gigabytes tend to bundle them at a price you would not accept if it were itemised. It also means the comparison between these two tools is genuinely about the tool, with no hidden proxy value on either side.

What it does not mean is that the proxy choice is easy. Antidetect profiles that hold long-lived logins need addresses that stay stable and look ordinary to the target platform. That is usually residential or ISP territory rather than datacenter. SparkProxy sells rotating datacenter proxies, and for the specific job of parking a social account behind a fixed address, a datacenter IP is often the wrong tool no matter how good the browser is. We have written that argument out in antidetect browsers vs proxies and in why antidetect browsers need proxies.

Where a datacenter plan does fit alongside either browser is the research half of the work: pulling public pages, checking availability, collecting data at volume in parallel with the profile fleet rather than through it. SparkProxy's sticky session port holds one exit address for the length of a session, which is the shape that suits per-profile work:

gateway.sparkproxy.io:11000   rotating, new exit per request
gateway.sparkproxy.io:11002   sticky session, exit held
gateway.sparkproxy.io:13000   SOCKS5

Both browsers accept HTTP, HTTPS and SOCKS5 upstreams per profile, so either port shape drops straight into a profile's proxy field.

Dolphin Anty loses when

Your team is small but not a single person. The Starter-to-Base cliff is the harshest price step in this comparison, and it is triggered by a second human rather than by any technical need.

Your automation is API-heavy. 1500 RPM is the ceiling on every paid tier, and no amount of money moves it.

You want to prove the automation works before paying. No API on the free tier means no proof.

AdsPower loses when

You need a number for a budget line before a trial. The prices exist, but they load through a configurator rather than a table, so a procurement process that starts with a written quote starts with an email instead.

You are running parallel automation across many lanes. A Local API means a machine per lane, and those machines are real money that never appears in a pricing comparison.

You want to evaluate team workflows for free. The free tier is 2 profiles and 0 team members, so the multi-operator behaviour you are buying the product for is the one thing the free tier cannot show you.

Three hours, in this order, before you commit to either.

Count operators, then profiles. Write down how many humans need their own login in six months. That number, not your profile count, picks your tier on Dolphin Anty and drives most of the AdsPower quote. Teams that skip this step buy the wrong tier roughly every time.

Price the twelve-month version of both. For Dolphin Anty, apply the published 40% annual discount to each tier and compare the annual Team figure against the monthly Base figure, because they land within a few dollars of each other. For AdsPower, run the configurator at your real profile and seat counts in your own currency, and screenshot the result with the date on it.

Run one profile end to end on your real target. Create a profile, attach a proxy, log in to the platform you actually care about, leave the session idle for a day, then come back and use it. Most antidetect failures show up on the second session, not the first. A fingerprint that survives a fresh login and dies on return is the failure mode that matters, and no feature table predicts it.

Then test the automation path. For Dolphin Anty this costs one month of Starter or Base, because the free tier has no request access. For AdsPower, confirm that your runner can reach the Local API from wherever your scripts actually execute. If your scripts live in CI or on a server and the browser lives on a laptop, that is an architecture problem you want to discover now.

For a wider view before you narrow to these two, best antidetect browsers for Windows and the twelve-tool roundup cover the field.

Two tools, one real question. Count your operators, price the twelve-month version, and let the fingerprint marketing be the tiebreaker rather than the decision. If neither fits, AdsPower alternatives and Dolphin Anty alternatives list what else is on the market.