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About
Bardeen is an AI browser-automation and workflow-agent platform aimed squarely at go-to-market (GTM) teams — sales development reps, account executives, customer-success managers, and revenue-operations roles. It runs both as a Chrome extension (automations execute locally in the browser) and in the cloud (for large-scale jobs), letting non-technical users build “Bardeen Agents” with natural language to scrape websites, search the web, enrich records, and push data into CRMs and spreadsheets. Founded in 2020 by Artem Harutyunyan and Pascal Weinberger, Bardeen raised an oversubscribed $15.3M Series A led by Insight Partners in June 2022 (with 468 Capital and FirstMark), bringing total funding to $18.8M, and launched its “business-ready AI Agent” in August 2024.
The product positions itself as a replacement for stitched-together stacks of data-entry, lead-generation, reporting, and outreach tools — “add AI to your services, automate lead sourcing and enrichment, and reclaim your team’s time.” It carries SOC 2 Type II compliance plus GDPR and CASA Tier 2 and 3 certifications, and spans SMBs to enterprise.
This blueprint covers Bardeen’s current credit-based structure as captured from bardeen.ai/pricing on 2026-06-10 — and one of the wildest pricing histories in the corpus: a product that went from a $10 Pro plan to a $1,500/month enterprise floor and back to $10, all inside two years. For the most current rates, visit Bardeen’s pricing page.
Pricing summary : a flat subscription that bundles a monthly credit pool
Bardeen runs a credit-included subscription: you pay a flat fee per tier, and each tier bundles a fixed number of monthly credits that you spend running automations. There is no published per-seat line item and no published overage rate — the lever that scales with usage is the credit allotment that comes with your plan.
The pricing has three dimensions:
- Plan fee — Basic is $10/month (billed monthly), Premium is $50/month or $480/year billed annually (a 20% saving), and Enterprise is Contact-Sales, billed annually.
- Bundled credits — Basic includes +100 credits/month, Premium includes +1,000 credits/month (12,000/year on the annual plan), and Enterprise includes “custom bulk credits.” Both self-serve cards carry a dropdown for larger credit bundles (Basic up to +500/month, Premium up to +10,000/month), priced at checkout.
- Credit consumption — credits meter output rows: a standard action row (scraper, web search, AI tools) costs 1 credit, an enrichment row costs 3 credits, and importing data, using utilities, and exporting to CSV are free.
A monthly/annual switch labeled “Annual (Save 20%)” swaps the Premium card to the discounted annual rate; the Basic card stays billed monthly. Every account — paid or not — also receives 100 free credits each month, and unused credits expire at the end of each billing period (they do not roll over).
What makes this different: Bardeen meters the output of automation (created and enriched rows), not the inputs (web searches, imports, utilities, exports), so the bill tracks the data a workflow actually produces rather than how much work it does to get there.
Pricing by product
Bardeen Agents (self-serve plans)
| Tier | Price | Included | Key mechanics |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free allowance | $0 | 100 credits / month on every account | Always-on; unused credits expire each billing period |
| Basic | $10 / month | +100 credits / month; build-your-own scrapers, premium scrapers, enrichment, Teams | Billed monthly; larger credit bundles via dropdown (to +500) |
| Premium | $50 / month (or $480 / year) | +1,000 credits / month (12,000 / year on annual); all Basic features | Annual saves 20%; bundle dropdown scales to +10,000 credits/mo |
Bardeen Agents (Enterprise)
| Tier | Price | Included | Key mechanics |
|---|---|---|---|
| Enterprise | Contact Sales | Custom bulk credits; everything from Premium; Bardeen builds and maintains custom scrapers; Premium Support | Sales-led, billed annually; managed-scraper service |
Credit consumption rates (the usage meter)
| Action type | Credit cost | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Scraper | 1 credit/row | Web Scraper actions |
| Web Search | 1 credit/row | Search-result extraction |
| AI Tools | 1 credit/row | AI-driven actions (e.g. qualify with AI) |
| Enrichment | 3 credits/row | The premium meter — 3x a standard row |
| Utilities | Free | No credits charged |
| Import / Export (CSV) | Free | Importing data and downloading results cost nothing |
Sales motions across products: self-serve for the free allowance, Basic, and Premium plans (sign up and pay online); sales-led for the Enterprise tier with custom bulk credits and managed custom scrapers.
Hidden costs : What Bardeen users actually pay
The flat plan fee is a reliable floor — there is no overage billing to surprise you — but the real constraint is how fast workflows burn the credit pool. Bardeen’s own worked example on the pricing page (scrape 10 profile links, extract contact details, validate emails, qualify with AI, export 4 qualified leads to a Google Sheet) consumes 64 credits in one run, because the email-validation step is an enrichment action billed at 3 credits per row (10 rows = 30 credits).
| Line item | Monthly cost |
|---|---|
| Premium base plan | $50 |
| 1,000 bundled credits + 100 free credits | $0 (included) |
| Effective capacity at the example’s burn rate (~64 credits/run) | ~17 runs/month |
| Larger credit bundle (dropdown, up to +10,000 credits/mo) | priced at checkout |
| Estimated total (GTM team running daily enrichment workflows) | $50 + bundle upsell |
Things to budget for: enrichment is the 3x meter — lead-enrichment workflows (Bardeen’s core GTM use case) consume credits three times faster than plain scraping; credits expire monthly with no rollover, so unused capacity is lost; and there is no published price between Premium’s $50 and a sales conversation — teams that outgrow 1,000-credit months must either pick a larger bundle from the dropdown or call sales for bulk credits.
Want to estimate your own Bardeen bill? Use the Bardeen pricing calculator to model your costs based on usage patterns.
Pricing evolution : Bardeen pricing history and changes
Cadence
| Period | Price changes | Product / SKU additions | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 0 | — | Free product; “PRO coming soon” placeholder |
| 2023 | Launch of paid | Pro $10/mo (500 credits) | Per-integration credit menu (2–30 credits per unit) |
| 2024 H1 | 0 | Business $15; $990 team flat fee | Demo-led Business tier for teams under 100 |
| 2024 H2 | Pro $10 → $60 | ”Pricing 2.0” (Dec 1) | Every action = 1 credit; unlimited seats; $200/hr consulting |
| 2025 H1 | Entry $60 → $129 | Starter / Teams / Enterprise (Mar) | GTM “AIgency” pivot; annual credit pools; Enterprise from $1,500/mo |
| 2025 H2 | Entry $129 → $10 | Basic / Premium (by Dec) | Full self-serve reset; row-based credit meter |
| 2026 H1 | 0 | 0 | Structure stable through the 2026-06-10 capture |
Tracked range: 2022–present via Wayback Machine snapshots (2022-08, 2023-02, 2024-06, 2024-12, 2025-03, 2025-10, 2025-12, 2026-01) and a live 2026-06-10 capture.
Notable changes
- 2022-08 — Pricing page lists the product as free (150+ automations, 26 integrations) with a “PRO — coming soon” placeholder; FAQ promises “the basics of Bardeen will always be for free.”
- 2023-02 — First paid plan: Pro at $10/month with 500 premium actions, plus pay-as-you-go top-ups of 100 actions. By March the unit is renamed credits (500 credits/month, annual toggle at 33% off), priced per integration: Clearbit enrichment 25 credits/email, OpenAI 2 credits/1,000 words, image extraction 30 credits.
- 2024-06 — Business tier at $15 (teams under 100 people, demo-led) joins Free/Pro/Enterprise; limited-time $990 flat fee for teams of five or fewer.
- 2024-12-01 — “Pricing 2.0”: every action costs 1 credit, unlimited seats on all plans, free unlimited testing of automations while building. Pro reprices to $60/month (or $30/month annually at 50% off) with a 1,000–8,000 monthly credit selector; Business and Enterprise go custom; automation consulting sold at $200/hour (or 5 hours/month bundled + $150/additional hour). Early adopters got double credits + 50% off for two years.
- 2025-03 — GTM/“AIgency” pivot (observed 2025-03-12): Starter $129/month monthly or $99/month billed annually (15K credits/year), Teams $500/month billed annually (120K credits/year, 2 custom-built AI playbooks), Enterprise from $1,500/month (500K+ credits/year, dedicated GTM consultant, SSO). Free tier becomes 100 credits/month “to build and test.”
- 2025-12 — Self-serve reset (between 2025-11-12 and 2025-12-05 snapshots): the $99–$1,500 lineup is replaced by Basic $10 / Premium $50 with the row-based credit meter (1 credit/row, 3 for enrichment) that remains current.
- 2026-06-10 — Live capture confirms the structure is unchanged.
What’s unique : Bardeen’s distinctive pricing mechanics
1. Output-row metering. Bardeen charges for the rows a workflow produces — 1 credit per created row, 3 per enriched row — while inputs (imports, utilities) and offboarding (CSV export) are free. That aligns the meter with the deliverable a GTM buyer actually values (a list of leads), not with compute or runs, and the free-export rule removes the classic data-ransom complaint.
2. A full round-trip on price positioning. Within roughly nine months Bardeen’s entry price went $60 → $129 → $10, and its top published price went $1,500/month → $50/month. The 2025 “AIgency” era sold annual credit pools with white-glove playbook building — an outcome-flavored services bet — while the December 2025 reset abandoned published up-market pricing entirely and pushed Enterprise behind Contact Sales. Few companies in the corpus have executed — or needed — a repricing this violent.
3. The free allowance equals the entry plan’s grant. Every account gets 100 free credits/month, identical to Basic’s +100. The $10 plan therefore doesn’t sell volume at all — it sells capability unlocks (premium scrapers, enrichment, Teams), making Basic a feature gate dressed as a credit tier.
Strengths & weaknesses
| Strengths | Weaknesses |
|---|---|
| Meter maps to buyer value (rows of leads, not compute) | Three pricing regimes in two years erode buyer trust |
| No overage billing — flat fee is a hard spend ceiling | Credits expire monthly with no rollover |
| Free import/export removes data lock-in anxiety | Enrichment’s 3x multiplier makes core GTM workflows the priciest |
| Transparent on-page credit table + worked 64-credit example | Big gap between $50 Premium and opaque Contact-Sales Enterprise |
| 100 free credits/month forever, no card required | Larger credit bundles in the dropdown aren’t price-labeled on the page |
Billing UX : how Bardeen exposes the credit meter to buyers
- Monthly / Annual switch — an “Annual (Save 20%)” control swaps the Premium card to its discounted annual rate ($480/year, 12,000 credits/year); the Basic card remains billed monthly.
- Per-action credit table (“About Credits”) — Bardeen publishes the exact meter on the pricing page: Scraper, Web Search, and AI Tools at 1 credit/row; Enrichment at 3 credits/row; Utilities and Import/Export marked free.
- Worked credit example — the pricing page includes a live example workflow (“Scrape 10 profile links, extract contact details, verify emails, and add 4 qualified leads to a Google Sheet”) that totals 64 credits, letting buyers self-estimate burn before signing up.
- Credit-bundle dropdowns — both self-serve cards carry a selector for bigger monthly credit bundles (Basic +100 to +500; Premium +1,000 to +10,000), so expansion is self-service rather than overage-driven.
- Free-credit allowance disclosure — the page states “You will always get 100 credits for free” and explicitly warns that “unused credits expire at the end of each billing period,” so the non-rollover rule is surfaced at the point of decision.
- Contact Sales path for bulk credits — Enterprise buyers route to a dedicated demo/contact flow rather than a self-serve checkout, where custom bulk-credit volumes and managed scraper services are quoted.
Strategic wins : Why Bardeen’s pricing decisions worked
1. Flattening the credit menu
Bardeen’s 2023 meter was a per-integration menu — 25 credits for a Clearbit enrichment, 2 credits per 1,000 OpenAI words, 30 for an image extraction — that made cost prediction nearly impossible. “Pricing 2.0” (December 2024) collapsed it to “every action costs 1 credit,” and the current model keeps that simplicity with exactly one premium multiplier (enrichment at 3x). Each simplification made the worked example on the pricing page possible. See choosing the right usage metric.
2. Metering output rows instead of runs
Charging per row created — with free imports, free utilities, and free CSV export — ties spend to the artifact GTM buyers actually budget for (enriched lead lists) and removes the fear of paying for failed or exploratory runs. Bardeen reinforced this in Pricing 2.0 by making automation testing free until the workflow “works exactly as you expect.” Related: how AI companies structure pricing.
3. Keeping seats free through every regime
From Pricing 2.0 onward, every Bardeen plan — through the $1,500/month AIgency era and back to today’s $10 Basic — has included unlimited team members. Whatever else whipsawed, Bardeen never taxed collaboration, which keeps the wall-to-wall rollout story intact for a product that spreads through GTM teams. See usage-based pricing strategy.
Areas to improve : Gaps in Bardeen’s pricing approach
1. Pricing whiplash
Three regimes in 24 months — $10 Pro, $60 Pro, $129–$1,500 GTM tiers, then a $10/$50 reset — is a trust tax. A buyer who signed a $500/month annual Teams contract in mid-2025 watched the published lineup collapse to $50/month within months. Frequent, large re-anchors make budget owners hesitant to commit annually. See bill shock and cost unpredictability.
2. Expiring credits with no rollover
Unused credits vanish at the end of every billing period, including the free allowance. For a meter built on bursty GTM work (list-building sprints before a campaign), monthly expiry punishes exactly the usage pattern the product serves. Even a one-month rollover would soften the penalty without breaking the model.
3. The unpriced middle
The page shows $10, $50, and “Contact Sales.” The credit-bundle dropdowns scale Premium to +10,000 credits/month, but those bundle prices aren’t displayed on the page — so a team forecasting 5,000 credits/month can’t compute its bill without starting checkout or talking to sales. Publishing bundle prices would close the gap.
Key takeaways
- Meter the deliverable, not the machinery. Bardeen charges per output row — the lead list its GTM buyers actually value — and gives away imports, utilities, and exports.
- Simple meters beat precise ones. The per-integration credit menu (2–30 credits per unit) died for a reason; “1 row = 1 credit, enrichment = 3” fits in a buyer’s head.
- Re-anchoring down is possible but costly. Bardeen walked its entry price from $129 back to $10 in under a year — regaining self-serve motion at the price of pricing credibility.
- A free allowance equal to the paid grant turns the entry tier into a feature gate. Basic’s $10 buys capabilities, not credits — a clean way to monetize power users without shrinking the funnel.
- Unlimited seats are a strategic constant. Through every repricing, Bardeen never charged for team members — protecting viral spread inside GTM orgs.
UBP implications
- Output-based credit meters are emerging as the GTM-automation default. Charging per enriched row (with a premium multiplier for third-party data) maps spend to pipeline value better than per-run or per-task pricing.
- Credit expiry policies are a hidden pricing lever. Bardeen’s strict monthly expiry boosts effective revenue per credit but penalizes bursty usage — a trade-off every credit-model designer must make explicitly. See prepaid credit models.
- Published price architecture is a positioning signal. Bardeen’s 2025 swing to $1,500/month floors and back shows how quickly a credits-plus-services company can re-cost itself — and how the pricing page, not the product, carries the repositioning.
Sources
- Bardeen pricing page — live capture (accessed 2026-06-10)
- Bardeen contact sales / demo — live capture (accessed 2026-06-10)
- Bardeen Pricing 2.0 announcement (accessed 2026-06-10)
- Bardeen.ai raises $15.3M Series A — Insight Partners (accessed 2026-06-10)
- TechCrunch: Bardeen raises $15.3M for browser-based workflow automation (accessed 2026-06-10)
- Bardeen launches business-ready AI Agent — Business Wire (accessed 2026-06-10)
- Wayback Machine snapshots: bardeen.ai/pricing — 2022-08, 2023-02, 2024-06, 2024-12, 2025-03, 2025-10, 2025-11, 2025-12, 2026-01 (accessed 2026-06-10)
Bottom line
Bardeen is an AI browser-automation and workflow-agent platform for GTM teams (founded 2020; $15.3M Series A led by Insight Partners) whose current pricing is a credit-included subscription: Basic $10/month (+100 credits), Premium $50/month (+1,000 credits, or $480/year at 20% off), and a Contact-Sales Enterprise tier — with credits metering output rows at 1 credit each and 3 for enrichment. Behind that simple page sits the corpus’s wildest repricing arc: $10 Pro (2023) → $60 Pricing 2.0 (Dec 2024) → $129–$1,500 GTM/AIgency tiers (Mar 2025) → back to $10/$50 self-serve (Dec 2025). Browse the pricing blueprint for more fully-researched company profiles.
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Pricing timeline : Major events on a vertical axis
Each milestone below corresponds to a public pricing change, product launch, or material adjustment. Major events use a filled marker; minor adjustments use a faded one.
Current pricing verified — Basic $10 / Premium $50 unchanged
Live capture confirms the December 2025 structure is unchanged: Basic $10/mo (+100 credits), Premium $50/mo (+1,000 credits, or $480/yr at 20% off), Enterprise with custom bulk credits. 1 credit per action row, 3 credits per enrichment row; imports, utilities, and CSV exports free.
Self-serve reset — Basic $10 / Premium $50 with row-based credits
The $99–$1,500 GTM tiers disappear; pricing resets to Basic $10/month (+100 credits/month) and Premium $50/month (+1,000 credits/month, $480/year annually) plus a Contact-Sales Enterprise tier. Credits now meter output rows: 1 credit per row, 3 for enrichment rows.
GTM pivot — Starter $129 / Teams $500 / Enterprise $1,500/mo
Bardeen goes up-market around GTM teams and its white-glove 'AIgency': Starter $129/month monthly or $99/month billed annually (15K credits/year), Teams $500/month billed annually (120K credits/year, 2 custom-built AI playbooks), Enterprise from $1,500/month (500K+ credits/year, dedicated GTM consultant, SSO).
Pricing 2.0 — every action costs 1 credit; Pro jumps to $60/mo
Repackaged as Free (100 credits, free forever) / Pro $60/month monthly or $30/month annually (50% off) with a 1,000–8,000 credit selector / Business and Enterprise custom. Credit equations flattened to 1 credit per action; unlimited seats on every plan; automation consulting sold at $200/hour.
Business tier added at $15 + limited-time $990 team flat fee
Lineup grows to Free / Professional $10 (500 credits/mo) / Business $15 (teams under 100 people, demo-led) / Enterprise, with a limited-time $990 flat fee for teams of five or fewer.
First paid plan — Pro $10/mo with 500 premium actions
Pro debuts at $10/month with 500 premium actions and pay-as-you-go top-ups of 100 actions; a Teams tier is 'coming soon.' By March the unit is renamed credits (500 credits/month), priced per integration: 1 Clearbit enrichment = 25 credits, 1,000 OpenAI words = 2 credits, 1 image extraction = 30 credits.
Launch era — free product, paid 'PRO' still coming soon
Bardeen's early pricing page lists 150+ pre-built automations and 26 integrations free, with a 'PRO — coming soon, we are currently working on pro features' placeholder. No paid plan existed yet.
- · Bardeen's cheapest paid plan round-tripped 13x in nine months: Pro was $60/month under 'Pricing 2.0' (December 2024), the March 2025 GTM pivot made entry $129/month, and by December 2025 the floor reset to $10/month.
- · Bardeen meters output, not effort: a row created by a scraper costs 1 credit but an enrichment row costs 3 — and importing data, utilities, and CSV exports are explicitly free.
- · Everyone gets 100 free credits a month — exactly the same credit grant as the paid $10 Basic plan, which effectively sells premium scrapers and team features rather than a bigger credit pool.
Questions & answers
- How much does Bardeen cost?
- Bardeen's Basic plan is $10/month (+100 credits/month) and the Premium plan is $50/month (+1,000 credits/month, or $480/year billed annually — a 20% saving). Enterprise pricing with custom bulk credits is quoted by Bardeen's sales team.
- What is a Bardeen credit?
- A credit is Bardeen's usage unit, metered on output rows. Each row an action creates (scraper, web search, AI tools) costs 1 credit; enrichment rows cost 3 credits. Importing data, using utilities, and exporting results to CSV are free.
- Does Bardeen offer a free tier?
- Yes. Every account receives 100 free credits each month — the same credit grant as the paid Basic plan. Unused credits expire at the end of each billing period, so the free allowance does not roll over.
- How much do you save with Bardeen's annual plan?
- Annual billing on the Premium plan costs $480/year (12,000 credits/year) versus $600 if paid monthly — a 20% saving. The Basic plan is billed monthly only.
- How has Bardeen's pricing changed over time?
- Dramatically. Pro launched at $10/month (500 credits) in 2023; 'Pricing 2.0' (December 2024) repriced Pro to $60/month with every action costing 1 credit; a March 2025 GTM pivot introduced Starter $129/mo, Teams $500/mo, and Enterprise from $1,500/mo; and by December 2025 the lineup reset to today's Basic $10 / Premium $50 plans.