X-Browser Alternatives: What to Use Instead

First, a disambiguation, because the name is crowded. Several unrelated products ship under some spelling of "X Browser", including lightweight mobile browsers on Android. This article is about the antidetect browser published by Smartproxy, which rebranded to Decodo. If you landed here looking for a mobile web browser, this is the wrong page.

X-Browser was Smartproxy's own antidetect browser, offered at no extra cost to customers with an active proxy subscription. There was no standalone plan and no separate licence. That bundling is the single most important fact about it, because it explains both why people used it and why replacing it costs money that was previously invisible.

Here is what we could verify directly, by request, on 31 August 2026.

A product page that collapses into the homepage, documentation that 404s, and an integrations directory that now points customers at 23 competing browsers are all consistent with a retired product. ScrapingBee's 2026 antidetect browser roundup states that Decodo ended support on 30 March 2026 and now directs users to third-party tools. We could not locate that announcement on Decodo's own site during this check, so treat the specific date as second-hand. The redirect chain is first-party and we ran it ourselves. If you have an active subscription and need the exact end-of-life terms, ask Decodo support in writing rather than trusting any blog, this one included.

What it actually did, with the sourcing flagged

Descriptions of X-Browser's feature set come almost entirely from vendors that sell competing browsers, which is a reason to read them carefully rather than a reason to ignore them.

GoLogin's review describes fingerprint control limited to operating system and screen resolution, availability on Windows and macOS only, a tab-grouping model rather than fully isolated profiles, no team collaboration features, and no automation API. Multilogin's write-up describes unlimited profile creation on a Chromium core with basic fingerprint controls, no emulation support, and no bulk profile management. Both vendors sell products they would rather you bought.

The two accounts disagree on details and agree on the shape: X-Browser was a light convenience layer bolted onto a proxy subscription, not a full antidetect suite. Treat any individual specification above as unconfirmed. The useful takeaway is not the feature list, it's the expectation you should carry into shopping. If you were happy with X-Browser, your requirements are probably modest, and you do not need the enterprise tier of anything.

Write down which of these X-Browser was doing for you before you look at a single pricing page. Most people find it was doing fewer of them than they assumed.

The row that stings is row three. A bundled browser made the cost of multi-account separation look like zero, and it never was. You were paying for it inside the proxy bill. Budget somewhere between $9 and $20 a month for the browser now, and treat the proxy line as an independent purchase you're free to re-tender.

Entry pricing below is as published in Proxyway's antidetect browser roundup, checked on 31 August 2026. Pricing in this category changes constantly and most vendors discount heavily on annual billing, so treat these as a starting range and confirm at the vendor's own checkout.

Note the OS column if you were on Windows or macOS with X-Browser, because several entries here add Linux and one adds Android, which the bundled browser never offered. Per-vendor detail for most of these lives in our antidetect browser roundup, and the two head-to-heads people ask for most often are broken down in Multilogin vs GoLogin and AdsPower vs Multilogin.

Four tools cover almost every X-Browser refugee. The rest of the market is real, but it solves problems you probably didn't have, or you would not have been running a bundled browser in the first place.

GoLogin, the closest like-for-like upgrade

Same price band as the cheapest paid tiers, considerably more fingerprint control than X-Browser reportedly offered, and the only mainstream option with a native Android client. If your workflow was a handful of accounts each pinned to its own IP, this is the smallest change with the biggest capability jump. One caveat: GoLogin publishes the most-cited X-Browser review on the web, so read their comparison as marketing.

AdsPower, if you want automation later

Local API, RPA templates, and a free tier of two profiles you can test on before paying. Worth choosing over GoLogin specifically if you can foresee scripting profile actions rather than clicking them, because retrofitting automation onto a tool that lacks an API means switching again.

Incogniton, for local-first storage

Profile data stored locally by default rather than in a vendor cloud, which matters if you handle client sessions and have a data protection conversation to survive. The free tier is unusually generous on evaluation length. It is also the most expensive of the four at entry.

Nstbrowser or Kameleo, if a script does the clicking

Both are built to be driven by code rather than by a person: real APIs, headless operation, Docker images. Kameleo's entry price is roughly six times the others, so pick it only when unlimited profiles and genuine automation are both requirements. Nstbrowser's free tier of 500 profiles is the most generous in the category and makes a serious evaluation possible without paying anything.

The option nobody sells you: no browser at all

If your accounts were only ever collecting public data rather than logging in, an antidetect browser is the wrong tool and always was. Scrapers have no identities. A crawler pulling two million pages a month has zero profiles, which is why per-profile pricing never fits that workload. Test the target with plain HTTP through a proxy first, and if it returns usable HTML, close the pricing tabs. The tradeoff between the browser layer and the network layer is laid out properly in antidetect browsers versus proxies.

This is the part every competing page skips, and it's the part that actually costs people accounts. A profile that has been stable for eight months and then appears on a new browser build, a new fingerprint, and a new IP on the same afternoon is a discontinuity the platform can see in a single query.

Move them in this order.

1. Export what you can while the old tool still launches. Cookies and localStorage at minimum. If the export path is gone, log in to each account manually and capture the session from a running profile before you uninstall anything.
2. Record the exit IP each profile has been using. This is the most valuable thing you can carry across, and it's the one people forget, because the bundled browser managed proxies for them. Write down the address, or at minimum the country, city, and ASN.
3. Rebuild one profile first, not all of them. Pick the account you can most afford to lose. Import its cookies into the new browser, bind it to the same exit, and use it normally for two or three days before touching anything else.
4. Change one variable at a time. New browser and the same IP is survivable. New browser plus new IP plus a new fingerprint plus a burst of activity is the combination that triggers re-verification.
5. Match timezone and locale to the exit country in the new profile. A profile reporting Europe/Vilnius while exiting through an Ohio address is a cheaper contradiction for a risk engine to test than any fingerprint entropy, and it fails instantly. Check it inside the profile's own console.
6. Stagger the rest over days, not hours. Fifty profiles that all migrate in one sitting and then behave identically link themselves to each other regardless of how different their fingerprints are.
7. Keep a migration log. Which profile, which proxy, which date, which browser build. When something gets flagged in three weeks you'll want to know what it had in common with the others.

Step 4 is the one worth arguing about internally. The temptation during a forced migration is to fix everything at once because you're in there anyway. Resist it.

The bundle is over, which means the two purchases have come apart and you can price them independently for the first time. That is worth ten minutes even if you end up staying where you are.

Every antidetect browser listed above expects you to bring your own exits. None of them change your IP address. This is the most common way a subscription gets wasted: a perfectly configured profile routed through an address the target has been blocking for a year, so the JavaScript that would read your careful fingerprint never runs.

SparkProxy runs a single gateway host with three ports.

Verify an exit before you attach it to an account that matters.

# Sticky exit, the one you want bound to a long-lived profile
curl -s --proxy http://USER:PASS@gateway.sparkproxy.io:11002 https://ipinfo.io/json

# SOCKS5 for tools that prefer it
curl -s --proxy socks5h://USER:PASS@gateway.sparkproxy.io:13000 https://ipinfo.io/json

Now the part that costs us the sale. We sell datacenter proxies. For consumer social platforms that score IP class aggressively, datacenter exits are the wrong tool and residential or mobile addresses will do better, whoever you buy them from. Datacenter is the right choice for search results, retail catalogues, travel and pricing pages, ad verification, localisation QA, and the large set of targets that check address reputation rather than address class. Our trial runs 24 hours, which is enough to answer the only question that matters: does this exit get a 200 from your target?

If the job turns out to be data collection rather than identity management, the whole stack collapses into a single call. The SparkProxy Scraping API turns rendering, geo selection, and stealth into parameters instead of infrastructure you maintain.

import requests

r = requests.post(
    "https://scrape.sparkproxy.io/api/v1",
    headers={"X-API-Key": "YOUR_API_KEY", "Content-Type": "application/json"},
    json={
        "url": "https://target.example/catalog",
        "render_js": True,
        "stealth": True,
        "country_code": "de",
        "extract_rules": {"title": "h1", "price": ".product-price"},
        "format": "json",
        "tag": "catalog-de",
    },
    timeout=90,
)
print(r.json())

An antidetect browser controls what JavaScript reads about your device. Several checks have already run and reached a verdict before any of that executes.

TLS fingerprinting in particular catches automation that looks flawless in the DOM, because the ClientHello of an HTTP client does not resemble the browser it claims to be no matter what navigator.platform reports.

The practical consequence for a migrating X-Browser user: if accounts were already getting flagged before the product went away, changing browsers may fix nothing. Look at the proxy layer and the behaviour layer first, in that order. They're cheaper to test and they sit upstream of everything a browser controls.

Run this against any shortlist. It has killed more bad purchases for us than any feature table ever has.

1. Test the target with plain HTTP through a real proxy. Ten minutes. A 200 with real HTML means you have no fingerprint problem for that target and you can stop shopping.

curl -s -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}\n" \
  --proxy http://USER:PASS@gateway.sparkproxy.io:11000 \
  https://target.example/product/123

1. Create three profiles on the free tier and diff them against each other, not against your laptop. Load a fingerprinting test page in each. Any value identical across all three is a value that will link them.
2. Confirm timezone and locale follow the proxy exit rather than the host machine, using Intl.DateTimeFormat().resolvedOptions().timeZone in the profile's own console.
3. Import one real cookie set and check the account stays logged in across a restart. Session persistence across relaunch is where cheap tools fail.
4. Ask where profile data is stored and under whose jurisdiction, if you hold anyone's sessions but your own.
5. Price the whole stack. Browser subscription plus proxy spend plus any hosting. The browser licence is usually the smaller number, which is exactly why the bundled version felt free.

Step 1 disqualifies more shopping trips than anything else on the list, and it takes about ninety seconds to set up.

You had five to twenty accounts and clicked them by hand. GoLogin or AdsPower at the $9 tier. Bind one sticky exit per account, migrate on the schedule above, and don't buy annual until a month has passed.

You manage client accounts as an agency. Incogniton for local storage, or Multilogin if you need profile sync across a team. Budget for the seat count honestly. This is the tier where cloud sync stops being optional.

A script does the clicking. Nstbrowser or Kameleo. Both expose real APIs and run headless, and Nstbrowser's free tier is large enough for a genuine trial. Verify the automation interface during the trial rather than after, by attaching Playwright to a live profile and driving one page.

You were only collecting public data. No antidetect browser. Proxies plus your existing scraper, or a Scraping API if you would rather not maintain the rendering layer. This is a bigger share of X-Browser's old audience than any vendor page will admit, because the browser was free and people used it for jobs that never needed it.

You are not sure yet. Start on a free tier, keep the proxies you already have, and migrate three profiles. Decide in a fortnight with data instead of today with a comparison table.