Comparison
Argus and Dolphin{anty}, side by side
A sourced, dated comparison of Argus and Dolphin{anty} — two products priced almost identically. Platforms, APIs, the Scenario Builder, teams and payments, each row read from Dolphin's own documentation.
Comparison pages are usually written by whoever wants to win them, so here is how this one is built. Every Dolphin{anty} row below was read from their own site and documentation on 17 August 2026, and each cell links to the page it came from. Anything we could not find on their site is left out rather than guessed at — a blank row here means we did not verify it, never that the feature is missing. And the rows Argus loses are in the table with the rest of them.
Before the table
Which of these is for you
Dolphin{anty} is the closest thing in this comparison to a price-for-price match: a free plan of five profiles, then $89, $159 and $299 for 100, 300 and 1,000 profiles — the same three numbers Argus charges. On top of that it ships a Linux build, a $10 Starter tier that Argus has no answer to, and puts a Scenario Builder, a Cookie Robot and Smart Paste behind it.
Argus is for people who want what happens after the run as well as the run itself: automations that write into typed tables the workspace owns, a calendar that orders several of them, an assistant with 18 skills on your own model keys, and 90 MCP tools so a coding agent can drive the whole app. Dolphin has a Linux build and Argus does not.
The sourced table
Argus and Dolphin{anty}, row by row
Cells are sentences rather than ticks. Two ticks in a captcha row would hide the thing that decides it — whether every solve costs money — and the same is true of half the rows below.
| Capability | Argus | Dolphin{anty} |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | Yes — 5 profiles, 2 automations, no card | 5 browser profiles at $0 a monthSource |
| Cheapest paid plan | $89 / 30 days for 100 profiles | $10 / month for Starter (20 to 60 profiles, chosen at payment); then $89 for 100, $159 for 300 and $299 for 1,000Source |
| Desktop builds | macOS on Apple Silicon and Windows 10/11 x64. No Linux, no Intel Mac, no mobile | Windows, macOS on both Intel and M-series, and Linux. “Dolphin{anty} only supports Windows, macOS and Linux”Source |
| Local API | Yes — 89 endpoints on http://127.0.0.1:39219, with scoped keys and an approve-or-deny prompt for every new client | Local API on port 3001 by default, limited to 1,500 requests a minute. Not available on the free planSource |
| Hosted API | No. The API is loopback-only, on your own machine — there is no endpoint we host | “Remote API usage” is listed on Starter, Base, Team and Enterprise, and not on the free planSource |
| No-code automation | Yes — 24 step types, with schedules and datasets, on every plan including free | Scenario Builder, on Starter and above rather than on the free planSource |
| Team seats | Up to 10 seats on Team and 25 on Enterprise, sharing one pool. No per-resource permission model yet | Roles — Admin, Team Lead and User — listed for Base, Team and Enterprise, and not for Free or StarterSource |
| Moving profiles in and out | CSV import and export of profile rows, plus cookie files matched to profiles by name. There is no single-file export carrying a profile's fingerprint and cookies together | Export and import cover cookies and local storage rather than a whole profile; profiles are shared or transferred between accounts inside the productSource |
| Proxy management | Shared library with health checks for egress IP, country, latency and datacenter exits; a failed check blocks the launch. Argus sells no proxies | A built-in proxy checker, run against a proxy before it is usedSource |
| Crypto payment | Yes — card through Revolut or crypto through OxaPay | Cards through Stripe (and Freekassa for Russian cards), crypto through GateWayCrypto, plus Capitalist, Alipay, PicPay and PIXSource |
Every Dolphin{anty} row above was read from Dolphin{anty}'s own documentation on 17 August 2026; the Argus rows come from our own reference. These products change often, and we would rather correct this page than defend it — tell us if something here is out of date. Anything we could not verify on their site is left out of the table rather than guessed at.
What actually differs
The prices are the same. The thing you are buying is not
It is worth saying out loud rather than burying in a table: Dolphin{anty} and Argus charge $89, $159 and $299 for 100, 300 and 1,000 profiles, and both offer a free plan of five. So the choice is not a price comparison and nobody should treat it as one. Dolphin's ladder starts lower — a $10 Starter tier buys 20 to 60 profiles and the Scenario Builder with them, and Argus has nothing between free and $89. What the same money buys higher up is where the two products separate: on the Argus side, automations run into datasets the workspace owns, a calendar orders several automations against named profiles, and an assistant drives all of it.
What actually differs
Automation on the free plan, and what it writes into
Dolphin's pricing table lists the Scenario Builder, local API and remote API on Starter and above, and none of them on the free plan — its own FAQ states that “opening a profile through automation is not available” there. In Argus the free plan carries two automations with the same 24 step types the paid plans get, and the same schedules and datasets, because the only things metered by plan are profiles, seats and automation count. The larger difference is what a run produces: an Argus automation writes rows into a typed table your workspace owns and reads tomorrow's work list back out of it, which is what turns a scraper into a process rather than a script you re-run by hand.
What actually differs
Your own model keys, and an agent that can drive the app
Every AI feature in Argus runs on API keys you bring — the assistant, its 18 skills, and the model steps inside an automation. You pay your provider at their prices, Argus sells no tokens or credits, and two of the supported providers run on your own machine and cost nothing at all. On top of that the launcher serves 89 local endpoints on 127.0.0.1 with 90 MCP tools in front of them, so Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and other MCP clients can drive profiles, datasets and schedules as tools — with scoped keys and an approve-or-deny prompt for every new client. We found no AI or MCP feature documented on Dolphin's own site, which is a statement about their documentation and not about their product; if they ship one, tell us and this page changes.
The honest part
Where Argus is the wrong answer
Four things about Argus that a table makes it easy to skim past. If any of them is load-bearing for you, buy the other one — a refund and a bad review cost us more than the sale was worth.
- The desktop builds are macOS on Apple Silicon and Windows 10/11 on x64. There is no Linux build, no Intel Mac build and no mobile app.
- Everything runs on your machine. There is no hosted API and no cloud runner, so nothing happens while the app is closed — a schedule entry whose slot passed with the launcher shut is marked missed and skipped, never caught up.
- The cheapest paid plan is $89 for 30 days. Several products in this category start lower.
- Teams share one pool with no per-resource permissions and no activity log yet — both are named as missing on the teamwork page rather than implied.
The rest of what Argus does not do yet is written down on the teamwork page and in what an anti-detect browser cannot do.
Moving over
What actually transfers, and what does not
Profiles do not move between these tools the way files move between folders. There is no shared format, and the part that matters most — a profile's cookies and its fingerprint together — is the part that travels worst. What genuinely carries over, what has to be rebuilt, and the order to do it in are on the switching page, written without pretending an importer exists that does not.
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