Switching guides
Antidetect browser alternatives, with the sources attached
5 switching guides, written the same way: how your profiles actually move across, where Donut Browser takes a different approach from the vendor you are leaving, and an honest section on when not to switch at all. Every claim about another product links to the page it was read from, dated August 9, 2026.
Most "best alternative" lists are published by a vendor with a subscription to sell, which is why they all reach the same conclusion. This one is too — Donut Browser is a product, not a review site — so the only useful thing it can do is show its working: what was read, where, and on what day.
There are 40 citations behind these guides, each one a URL on the vendor's own site with the date it was fetched, the most recent being August 9, 2026. Where a figure could not be read unambiguously — GoLogin's and Multilogin's prices render monthly and annual columns side by side — no figure is printed at all, and the difference in approach is described instead.
Where every one of them keeps your profiles
The question each guide below ends up turning on. Four of these products hold your profiles in their own storage by default, and each one runs a different clock on them from the day a subscription lapses.
- GoLogin
- Cloud only. Profiles synchronise to GoLogin's servers; the on-disk folders are temporary and the vendor calls them safe to delete.
- Multilogin
- Your choice per profile: cloud or local, convertible either way. Mobile profiles are always cloud.
- Dolphin Anty
- Cloud by default, and cloud sync is a paid-plan feature: on the free plan nothing leaves the device.
- AdsPower
- Local by default. Cloud sync exists and is switched off unless you turn it on.
- Octo Browser
- Cloud only. Profiles live in the Octo account rather than on the machine, and the vendor documents no local-only mode.
- Donut Browser
- Local only unless you turn sync on. Sync is opt-in per profile and the server is open source, so you can run your own.
If you stop paying
- GoLogin Kept 180 days after the subscription expires, then permanently deleted.
- Multilogin Cloud data may be permanently deleted 3 months after the subscription ends.
- Dolphin Anty Cloud data is deleted 45 days after sync is switched off, or at once if you ask.
- AdsPower Not documented
- Octo Browser Kept 6 months without an active subscription, then every profile in the account is deleted.
- Donut Browser Nothing to delete. There was never a second copy.
Read from each vendor's own documentation, most recently on August 9, 2026. Where a vendor documents no deletion policy the row says so, because on this question silence is worth recording.
- gologin alternative
Switching from GoLogin
A GoLogin alternative that runs on your own machine instead of the vendor's: unlimited local profiles, an auditable AGPL-3.0 app, and nothing to sign up for.
Read the switching guide → - multilogin open source alternative
Switching from Multilogin
The open-source answer to Multilogin: the profile manager, local API and sync server are AGPL-3.0 on GitHub, and every profile stays on your machine.
Read the switching guide → - dolphin anty open source alternative
Switching from Dolphin Anty
An open-source Dolphin Anty alternative with no profile ceiling and no per-user surcharge: the app is AGPL-3.0, and profiles never leave your disk.
Read the switching guide → - adspower alternative free
Switching from AdsPower
An AdsPower alternative with a free tier that does not run out: unlimited local profiles, a published price list, and an app you can read the source of.
Read the switching guide → - octo browser alternative
Switching from Octo Browser
A local Octo Browser alternative: profiles are folders on your own machine, so nothing meters them, nothing bills you to take one out, and nothing deletes them when you stop paying.
Read the switching guide →
How these pages are written
Every sentence about another company restates something on a page that was actually opened, and carries that URL and the day it was read — August 9, 2026 for the current set. A competitor's pricing page changes without notice, so an undated claim is not a fact, it is a fact-shaped string that was true once.
What is deliberately not here
- No ratings, review counts or awards. There is no rating data anywhere in this project, so publishing a number would mean inventing one.
- No tick-and-cross feature matrix. Every tick is a claim about somebody else's product, and a matrix is where unchecked claims hide.
- No Incogniton, Kameleo or Undetectable yet. They are the next tier and get a page once these five have earned search impressions.
- No page for "Incognium". That name came from a brief, the domain returns nothing, and no such product exists — the real company is Incogniton.