DICloak Alternatives: What a Free Tier Really Permits

Every free antidetect browser plan resolves to four quantities. Get all four and you can predict whether the plan will carry your work. Get only the first and you will migrate twice.

One: how many profiles. The marketing number. It sets the size of your library, not the size of your working set, and those are different things.

Two: how many seats. A seat count of one means the plan cannot be operated by two people, cannot be handed over, and cannot survive you going on holiday. Several vendors print zero here, which is their way of saying the account holder is the only human allowed.

Three: whether automation works. Local API, HTTP API, Selenium or Puppeteer hooks. This is the line that separates a plan you click through from a plan a script can drive. Vendors put it in very different places, and the gap between the cheapest plan and the cheapest plan with an API is often larger than the gap between free and paid.

Four: what happens to the profiles when you stop paying. Locked, deleted, frozen for a stated period, or sitting on your own disk where nobody can reach them. This is the number that decides how much the plan costs you in the worst case, and it is the one almost nobody publishes.

The first three are a budgeting exercise. The fourth is a risk position, and you take it on the day you create the profile, not on the day you cancel. If you are shopping the category broadly rather than reading one vendor closely, our survey of free antidetect browsers and what their free tiers actually give you covers the field; this post is the narrower job of reading a single free tier properly and then applying the same reading to its competitors.

Read from dicloak.com/pricing and the DICloak help centre on 9 October 2026. All figures USD.

DICloak's pricing page prints four tiers. The free tier lists exactly three quantities: Members: 1, Profiles: 5, Daily open times: 15. The paid ladder runs Base at $8/month, Plus at $28.80/month, and Share+ at $138/month, with roughly 40% off on annual billing, which brings those to $4.80, $17.28 and $82.80 per month equivalent ($57.60, $207.36 and $993.60 billed annually).

Against the four numbers:

• Profiles on free: 5. Small, and honest about being small.
• Seats on free: 1. One member. No collaboration.
• API on free: no. "Open API" first appears on the Plus plan at $28.80/month. Neither the free tier nor Base at $8/month lists it. The automation floor is therefore $28.80/month at monthly billing, or $207.36 paid up front.
• Exit terms: not documented. More on this below.

Two further restrictions matter and neither is visible on the pricing page. The DICloak help centre states that "the free plan does not support global settings. You will need to upgrade to any paid plan to use this feature." Global Settings is where DICloak's Data Sync controls live, and Data Sync is the mechanism that pushes cookies, saved passwords, bookmarks, local storage, IndexedDB and extension data to DICloak's cloud. So the free tier is not just capped at five profiles; it also cannot be configured to sync them.

The second restriction is on moving profiles around. DICloak's help centre says cloning a profile "requires upgrading to a paid plan", and that profile sharing "requires a Plus plan subscription to use". Cloning replicates browser version, OS, user agent, fingerprint detail, proxy information, platform account data and cloud-stored cookies. On free you cannot do it. If your workflow is "build one good profile, then stamp out twenty variants", DICloak's free tier structurally cannot run it, regardless of the profile cap.

DICloak's homepage claims "6,800+ teams in 135+ countries trust DICloak to prevent account bans." That is the vendor's own figure and we have not verified it; treat it as marketing, not evidence. The same applies to every ban-prevention claim in this category, DICloak's included. No antidetect browser vendor publishes a measured ban rate, because nobody can measure one on someone else's platform.

Credit where it is due on one point: DICloak documents inbound migration properly. The help centre describes batch import of profiles from four named competitors, AdsPower and GoLogin among them, plus an Open API path that takes another vendor's API token and pulls profile configuration across. Getting in is easy and well explained.

DICloak's "Daily open times" field is the most interesting number on its pricing page, and no competitor prints anything comparable on a free tier. It caps how many times you may open a profile in a day, across the whole account.

Divide it by the profile count and you get a figure that tells you whether the plan can run a working set rather than store an archive. Call it launch density: daily opens divided by profiles.

DICloak free: 15 opens across 5 profiles is 3.0 launches per profile per day. Every profile can be opened, worked, closed, and opened twice more. For one person keeping five accounts warm, that is a functioning plan rather than a demo.

Now apply the same arithmetic to the most generous free tier in the category. Nstbrowser's free plan prints 500 profiles and a Standard Profile Launch limit of 30 per day. That is 0.06 launches per profile per day, which is one launch per profile every 16 days or so. The 500 is real. The ability to use the 500 is not.

The derived numbers invert the headline. On raw profile count Nstbrowser's free tier beats DICloak's by a factor of 100. On launch density DICloak's beats Nstbrowser's by a factor of 50. Neither vendor publishes the ratio, and the ratio is what predicts whether the plan survives contact with daily account work.

"""Launch density for free antidetect tiers, from each vendor's own printed numbers.
Figures read from vendor pricing pages on 2026-10-09. None is a vendor-published ratio."""

PLANS = [
    # (vendor, free profiles, printed daily open/launch cap or None)
    ("DICloak free",    5,    15),
    ("Nstbrowser free", 500,  30),
    ("MoreLogin free",  2,    None),
    ("Hidemium free",   5,    None),
    ("Incogniton free (months 1-2)", 10, None),
    ("Incogniton free (month 3+)",   3,  None),
]


def density(profiles, daily_cap):
    """Launches available per profile per day, or None when no cap is printed."""
    if daily_cap is None:
        return None
    if profiles <= 0:
        return 0.0
    return daily_cap / profiles


for name, profiles, cap in PLANS:
    d = density(profiles, cap)
    if d is None:
        print(f"{name:32} {profiles:>5} profiles   no daily cap printed")
    else:
        print(f"{name:32} {profiles:>5} profiles   {d:>6.2f} launches/profile/day")

A plan with no printed daily cap is not automatically better. It means the vendor has not committed to a number, so the real ceiling is whatever rate limiting or anti-abuse logic they run, and you will discover it by hitting it. A printed 15 you can plan around beats an unprinted limit you cannot.

Here is the test. Go to any antidetect browser's pricing page and try to answer this: if I create 40 profiles today and cancel in four months, what happens to those 40 profiles?

We ran that test across seven vendors on 9 October 2026 and got one clear answer.

DICloak's pricing FAQ says you "can change your subscription plan at any time to meet your needs" and says nothing about profile retention on downgrade or lapse. The help centre has an article on renewing an expired subscription which explains how to renew and does not state what the profiles are doing in the meantime. Nstbrowser's pricing page does not address it. MoreLogin's does not. Incogniton's does not. GoLogin's does not. AdsPower's does not.

Undetectable.io answers it in writing. Its pricing FAQ states: "Access to local profiles will be suspended until the license is paid. Cloud profiles will be frozen and kept on our servers for six months." That is an unpleasant answer in part, since even disk-resident profiles get locked behind the licence, but it is a stated answer with a stated retention window, and you can plan against it. The same FAQ states that "a local profile is stored directly on your device and is unlimited on any paid plan."

Note the shape of the gap. Six of seven vendors document, often in detail, how to import profiles from a competitor. One of seven documents what happens to your profiles when you leave. The asymmetry is not accidental and it is not malicious either; inbound migration is a sales feature and outbound terms are not. But it means the fourth number is something you have to extract by asking, in writing, before you create the accounts.

DICloak does have an Export profile action in the Operation column of its Profiles page. We could not find help-centre documentation of what that export contains, what format it produces, or whether it includes cookies and local storage as opposed to only fingerprint configuration. Unverified: we are not asserting that DICloak's export is or is not a complete backup. Before you put accounts you cannot afford to lose on any plan, free or paid, export one throwaway profile, open the file, and confirm with your own eyes what is inside it. If the export is fingerprint settings without session data, it is a configuration backup, not an account backup, and those are not the same asset.

The practical mechanics of moving a profile library between vendors, including what survives and what does not, are covered in our guide to migrating antidetect browser profiles.

Selected by how completely and honestly the vendor answers the four questions, not by profile count. All figures read from each vendor's own pricing page or docs on 9 October 2026, USD.

Two of these free tiers carry an API. One of them publishes an exit policy. None does both. That is the real state of the category, and it is why the selection below is a set of trade-offs rather than a ranking.

For the full paid ladder across the category rather than just the free rung, see our antidetect browser pricing comparison.

Nstbrowser's free plan is the most generous in the category on paper and the most misread. Its pricing page prints 500 browser profiles, 3 team members, a Standard Profile Launch limit of 30 per day, and API access, all at $0/month. The cheapest paid tier, Starter, is $29.90/month, with 10% off quarterly and 40% off annual billing.

Take the three answerable numbers in order. Profile count: 500, far beyond what free tiers normally offer. Seats: 3, which is the highest free seat count we found and genuinely useful, because it means a second person can take over a profile without password sharing. Automation: the free column lists API, which puts Nstbrowser in a very small group.

Then the fourth. Nothing published on retention, lapse or downgrade.

The 30-launch daily cap is the thing to design around. It does not limit how long a session runs, only how many times a profile is opened, so the plan suits work where you open a profile and stay in it: a long research session, a scrape that runs for hours, a listing job you work through in one sitting. It does not suit account warming, where the value comes from touching many accounts briefly and often. Thirty launches spread across 500 profiles cannot warm 500 accounts, and if that is the job, the free tier is the wrong tool no matter how large the profile number looks.

Nstbrowser also sells proxies and CAPTCHA solving as metered add-ons, with residential traffic priced per gigabyte and CAPTCHA priced per thousand requests, so the $0 plan has a per-gigabyte tail attached if you use the bundled network. Price that separately from the browser. Metered residential traffic on a scraping workload is where antidetect budgets usually go wrong, and the economics of bundled versus separate IPs are worth modelling before you commit either way.

Pick Nstbrowser's free tier if you need a large profile library with a small daily working set, want three seats at zero, and want to script against an API without paying first. Do not build an account-warming operation on it.

MoreLogin's free plan is the inverse trade. Its pricing page prints Profiles 2 and Users 2, free forever with no credit card, and the free column of its feature comparison lists Local API alongside batch profile creation and batch proxy import. Browser automation via Selenium or Puppeteer is part of the same free feature set. The cheapest paid tier, Pro, lists at $9/month, discounted to $5.40/month on the 40% promotion running today.

Two profiles will not run a business. That is not the point of this entry. What MoreLogin does is put the automation boundary at zero instead of putting it three tiers up, and that changes what the free tier is for. You can write the integration, run it against two real profiles, confirm that your orchestration code opens a profile, drives it, closes it and reads the right state back, and only then decide whether to pay. On DICloak the same validation costs $28.80 before you learn whether the API does what your code needs. On GoLogin it costs more, as the next section shows.

Two seats is the other quiet advantage. It means the free tier is not structurally single-operator, so a handover is possible without credential sharing. Most free plans in this category print 0 or 1 here.

MoreLogin publishes nothing about profile retention after a lapse, so the fourth number is unanswered. With a two-profile free tier the exposure is small by construction, which is a real if accidental form of safety: you cannot strand 400 accounts on a plan that only holds two.

Pick MoreLogin's free tier if your first question is "will my script work", not "how many accounts can I store". It is the cheapest honest API validation in the category, because it is free.

Undetectable.io earns its place here on the fourth number alone, and it is the only vendor in this comparison that does.

Its free plan prints 5 cloud profiles (expandable at $10 per additional 10), unlimited local profiles, 10 browser configurations (additional ones at $2.50 each), and 1 user. No API on free; the Local API arrives with the paid plans, which start at Base, $34/month or $412/year, then Professional at $69/month or $832/year with 2 users included and $20 per additional user, then a Custom tier at $139/month.

That is a markedly more expensive ladder than DICloak's, and on the first three numbers the free tier is unremarkable: one seat, no automation, five cloud slots. The reason it is in this post is the written answer: "Access to local profiles will be suspended until the license is paid. Cloud profiles will be frozen and kept on our servers for six months."

Read it carefully, because it cuts both ways. "Suspended until the license is paid" means local profiles on your own disk still require a live licence to open, so disk residency is not the same as independence. The bytes are yours, the key is not. But "frozen and kept on our servers for six months" is a commitment with a number in it, and six months is long enough to lapse a card, notice, and recover. Compare that to five vendors who told us nothing, where the honest planning assumption has to be the worst case.

The architectural point behind the unlimited local profiles is covered in more depth in our comparison of cloud antidetect browsers and the trade-off is consistent: local storage removes the vendor from your data path and puts the entire recovery burden on your backup discipline. One disk failure and the accounts are gone, licence or not.

Pick Undetectable.io if the fourth number is the one that keeps you awake and you would rather pay more to have it in writing. Do not pick it expecting free-tier automation; that is a paid feature here.

Incogniton's free plan gives 10 profiles for the first two months, then drops to 3. Zero team seats. No API on free. The paid ladder lists Starter Plus at $19.99/month, Entrepreneur at $29.99/month, Professional at $79.99/month and a Custom package from $149.99/month, with 30% off on six-month billing and 40% off annually, bringing those to $13.99, $20.99, $55.99 and $104.99 per month equivalent.

The automation boundary is worth noting precisely: Selenium and Puppeteer integration plus REST API access first appear on Entrepreneur at $29.99/month, not on the $19.99 entry tier. Paying the entry price does not buy you a scriptable browser here either.

Incogniton is in this selection for a different reason. It is the only vendor besides Undetectable.io that tells you where your data physically sits and how to get a copy. Its documentation describes a Cloud saving setting under My Account, with a choice of method and server location, and a local path: from Home, "Open Incogniton data directory" opens a file explorer window on a folder named Config. The docs also state the honest downside, that with local storage "browser profiles are only accessible from one device, and if data is lost or corrupted, your Incogniton browser profiles may no longer be available", and they recommend cloud saving instead.

That is not an exit policy. Incogniton publishes nothing about what happens to cloud-saved profiles after a lapse. But a documented directory you can copy is a partial answer to the fourth question, and it is one you can act on this afternoon: turn cloud saving off or on deliberately rather than by default, and if you keep data local, put that Config folder into whatever backs up the rest of your machine. Incogniton also documents cookie export separately, which is the other half of a usable account backup.

The two-month step down from 10 profiles to 3 is the trap on this free tier, and it is a quiet one. Build nine profiles in week one and seven of them become unreachable in week nine. Plan the free period as an evaluation with a known end date, not as a starting position.

Pick Incogniton's free tier if you want two months of real evaluation room and you care about controlling where profile data lives. Decide before day 60 what happens to profiles 4 through 10.

Hidemium's free plan is the closest structural twin to DICloak's that we found, which makes it the most direct swap if you like DICloak's size but want the daily open counter gone.

Its pricing page prints the free tier at $0.00/month with "Create 5 profiles", "Team member: 0", "Limit device: 1", multiple folder support, fingerprint configuration drawn from a library the page describes as 10,000 real-user based configs, and Chrome support across Windows, Linux and macOS. The free column does not list browser automation, Puppeteer, Synchronize or API Development.

Same profile count as DICloak. One fewer seat, since Hidemium prints 0 where DICloak prints 1. No printed daily open cap, which removes DICloak's 15-launch ceiling but replaces a known number with an unknown one. Added in its place is a device limit of 1, which DICloak's free tier does not print, so the constraint moves rather than disappearing: DICloak limits how often you open profiles, Hidemium limits how many machines you open them from.

Paid billing is the awkward part. Hidemium's paid tiers on the page today are quoted annually: Basic at $153 for the year against a $180 list price, rising through Advanced, Premium and Business. There is no monthly option printed next to the entry tier, so the step up from free is a year of commitment rather than a month of trial.

Unverified: we could not reliably establish from Hidemium's pricing page which paid tier is the first to include API Development. Two reads of the page today returned different answers on that row, so we are not quoting a figure. If automation matters to you, ask Hidemium to confirm in writing which plan carries the API before you buy an annual term, because an annual commitment to the wrong rung is the expensive mistake in this category.

Pick Hidemium's free tier if DICloak's five profiles suit you but the 15 daily opens do not, and you work from one machine. Check the API tier and the billing term before paying.

If you intend to script the browser, the number that matters is not the cheapest plan. It is the cheapest plan with an API. Those are frequently different plans, and the spread is wide.

All list prices at monthly billing, read from each vendor's own pricing page on 9 October 2026, USD. Annual discounts apply to both columns and do not change the ratios.

GoLogin is the sharpest illustration and the reason it sits in this table rather than in the selection above. Its free plan is 3 profiles with no API and no proxies, and its entry paid plan, Professional 10, lists at $9/month. But API and SDK access first appear on Professional 100 at $39/month. You can pay GoLogin for four months before you reach a plan your code can drive. DICloak's ratio is similar in shape: $8 gets you a browser, $28.80 gets you a browser a script can open.

AdsPower prints the opposite kind of detail. Its free tier is 2 profiles with 0 team members and a single super-administrator, and its paid tiers advertise Local API rate limits directly, 300, 900 and 1500 requests per minute as you move up. Useful transparency on throughput. We are not quoting AdsPower's prices here because the figures did not render on its pricing page when we read it today, and a price from a third-party blog is not a price.

The practical rule: decide whether you need an API before you compare prices at all. It reorders the entire table. On a click-driven workflow DICloak at $8 is one of the cheapest real plans in the category. On a scripted workflow its floor is $28.80 and MoreLogin's is zero.

Multilogin, Kameleo and Dolphin Anty all sit in this market too and all have their advocates; they are not in this selection because the axis here is free-tier honesty, and on the four numbers above they did not out-score the five vendors covered. If you want the field assessed on different criteria, our guide to choosing an antidetect browser sets out the other axes.

Free tiers are evaluated casually and then quietly promoted to production, which is how people end up with 60 accounts on a plan whose terms they never read. Send these questions to support, in writing, before the accounts matter. Keep the reply.

1. If my subscription lapses, what happens to my profiles, and for how long? Ask for a retention period in days or months. "They are kept safe" is not an answer. Undetectable.io's "six months" is.
2. If I downgrade from 100 profiles to 10, which 90 become inaccessible, and are they deleted or held? Vendors handle this differently and almost none document it.
3. What exactly does the export function produce? Fingerprint configuration only, or cookies, local storage and session state as well? Ask for a sample file, or make one yourself from a throwaway profile.
4. Is profile data on my disk, on your servers, or both, and can I point the storage path somewhere I control? DICloak lets you change the cache file path. Incogniton documents its data directory. Several vendors say nothing.
5. Does the API work on the plan I am about to buy? Name the plan in the question. Do not accept "yes, we have an API".
6. If a team member leaves, can I reassign their profiles without the password? On a one-seat plan the answer is structurally no.

On a free tier specifically, assume the plan can disappear with 30 days notice, because free tiers change more often than paid ones and you have no contract. The mitigation is the same whatever the vendor says: your own export, taken on a schedule, stored somewhere that is not the vendor.

And keep the identity layer separate from the browser. Every vendor in this post sells, bundles or recommends proxies, and every bundled pool is a dependency that leaves when the subscription does. If the IPs come from the same invoice as the profiles, a billing lapse takes both at once. Our note on why antidetect browsers need proxies explains why the browser alone never finishes the job, and choosing proxies for antidetect browsers covers what to look for in the pool itself.

Before you pin a profile to a country, check what the exit actually presents. A fingerprint set to Berlin behind an IP that geolocates to Frankfurt is survivable; one behind an IP that geolocates to Singapore is not. This is cheap to check and almost nobody does it before creating the profile.

SparkProxy's Scraping API will do the lookup for a credit. The base URL is https://scrape.sparkproxy.io/api/v1 and authentication is the X-API-Key header. New accounts get 1,000 free credits, so the whole exercise below costs nothing.

Two parameter details decide the cost. render_js defaults to true and costs 5 credits; a plain fetch needs render_js=false and costs 1. And json_response=true is the only thing that returns the envelope with job_id, status_code, duration_ms, credits_used and body. The body in that envelope is base64, so it has to be decoded before you look at it. Getting that wrong produces a script that silently matches nothing.

curl -s "https://scrape.sparkproxy.io/api/v1?url=https%3A%2F%2Fipinfo.io%2Fjson&render_js=false&json_response=true&proxy_type=premium" \
  -H "X-API-Key: $SPARKPROXY_API_KEY"

That returns the envelope. Decode body and you have the exit's own view of itself:

"""Check what country and ASN an exit presents before pinning a browser profile to it."""

import base64
import json
import os

import requests

API = "https://scrape.sparkproxy.io/api/v1"
KEY = os.environ["SPARKPROXY_API_KEY"]


def exit_identity(country_code=None):
    """Fetch the exit IP's self-report. 1 credit, plus 5 if country_code is set."""
    params = {
        "url": "https://ipinfo.io/json",
        "render_js": "false",      # plain fetch, 1 credit
        "json_response": "true",   # the envelope lives here, not in format=json
        "proxy_type": "premium",
    }
    if country_code:
        params["country_code"] = country_code  # +5 credits

    r = requests.get(API, params=params, headers={"X-API-Key": KEY}, timeout=60)
    r.raise_for_status()
    envelope = r.json()

    # The envelope body is base64. Decode before reading anything out of it.
    decoded = base64.b64decode(envelope["body"]).decode("utf-8", "replace")

    return {
        "status": envelope.get("status_code"),
        "ms": envelope.get("duration_ms"),
        "credits": envelope.get("credits_used"),
        "exit": json.loads(decoded),
    }


if __name__ == "__main__":
    for cc in ("de", "gb", "us"):
        result = exit_identity(cc)
        info = result["exit"]
        print(
            f"{cc}: {info.get('ip')} "
            f"country={info.get('country')} "
            f"region={info.get('region')} "
            f"org={info.get('org')} "
            f"[{result['credits']} credits, {result['ms']} ms]"
        )

Run that against the three countries you plan to operate in and you will know, before creating a single profile, whether the region and ASN line up with the persona you are about to build. The org field is the one to read twice: a residential persona behind a hosting ASN is the mismatch that platforms catch first, and it is invisible from inside the browser.

A note on the economics, because it is the line item that free browser tiers do not cover. SparkProxy's residential plans start from $75/month and are sold as packs rather than per gigabyte, with unlimited bandwidth included, so the billing unit is the plan and its concurrency rather than the traffic you consume. The pool is 1M+ premium IPs across 80+ countries, with random rotation and 5-minute auto-rotation, over HTTP, HTTPS and SOCKS5, authenticated by IP whitelist or user:pass, on a 1 Gbps port. There is a 24-hour free trial with no card required, and term discounts of 5% at three months, 10% at six and 15% at twelve.

The reason that matters to a free-tier decision is simple arithmetic. Five free profiles with no IPs is five profiles sharing your home address. Whichever browser you land on, the IP budget is the one you cannot zero out, and for team-operated accounts the stability requirements are different again, which we cover in ISP proxies for multi-account management.