Switching guide
Looking for AdsPower alternatives?
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. Every claim about AdsPower here was read from its own site on August 6, 2026. Moving across is not a profile conversion, because no antidetect browser exports a profile another one can open. It is a cookie export, and the reasons not to switch have a section of their own further down.
- Importing
- Free on every tier
- Profiles live
- On your own disk
- Account to start
- None
- App licence
- AGPL-3.0
The question behind "AdsPower alternative" is almost never which product has the longer feature list. It is whether the accounts you have already warmed up survive the move, and how long the move takes. So this page starts there, and gets to the comparison afterwards.
Donut Browser is a desktop app that keeps every profile as a directory on your own machine. Nothing counts those directories, there is no workspace in somebody else's cloud to sign into, and the app — profile manager, local REST API, MCP server and sync server — is published under AGPL-3.0 on GitHub. The Wayfern Chromium engine it drives is proprietary, which is stated here for the same reason as everything else on this page: so you can check it.
Key Takeaways
- Nothing converts a AdsPower profile into a Donut profile. What carries your accounts across is the cookie file: export it from AdsPower, import it here, and the sessions stay signed in. The fingerprint is always minted fresh, on any engine, by anyone.
- The Donut Browser app is AGPL-3.0 on GitHub: profile manager, local REST API, MCP server and sync server. The Wayfern Chromium engine is proprietary, and this page says so rather than rounding it up to "open source".
- The comparison below runs 6 axes, and every AdsPower cell carries the URL it was read from and the date it was read — August 6, 2026. Nothing about AdsPower is quoted from memory.
- You need Firefox-engine profiles. Donut Browser ships one engine, the Wayfern anti-detect Chromium, and imports only Chromium-family profiles.
What actually moves when you leave AdsPower?
Not the profile itself. No antidetect browser exports a profile in a form another one can open, so the honest question is which parts survive the move. Two of them do.
AdsPower's bulk export writes a spreadsheet of the profile fields you tick, and one of those fields is the cookie string, which is what makes the move workable. Rebuild the profiles in Donut and bring the cookies with you. Donut reads JSON and Netscape cookie files through the app, the local REST API or MCP, and writes them in plaintext where the engine actually reads them. Creating the profiles is free on every tier.
Some fields might not exactly match after the transition. Any incompatible data will automatically be converted according to the AdsPower default settings.
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In the app
Open Import from the rail. Auto-detect scans the default locations of every supported Chromium-family browser and lists what it finds; Manual points at any path, including a ZIP. Imports run per item, so one broken profile never aborts the batch.
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Over the REST API
Three endpoints cover the whole migration on the local API at 127.0.0.1:10108 — list what is importable, bulk-import with a group and a per-item proxy, and bulk-add proxies from a plain-text list or a Donut export.
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Through MCP
The MCP server exposes the same surface as tools, so an assistant can run the migration conversationally: detect the profiles, import them into a group, assign your stored proxies round-robin.
Which Chromium is AdsPower actually running?
Every anti-detect browser is a patched Chromium, and none of them is on the current one. The gap matters twice over: an engine that trails upstream trails it on web platform features and on security patches at the same time.
- AdsPower SunBrowser 149 Firefox 150
- Donut Browser Wayfern 150
- Google Chrome upstream 151
Chrome stable 151
Chrome stable was 151 on August 9, 2026. Where a vendor prints no version anywhere on its site, the row says so instead of showing a number you could not check.
Where do your AdsPower profiles actually live?
Not on your machine, in most of this market. Which matters on the ordinary day only a little, and on the day a subscription lapses quite a lot, because every vendor that holds your profiles also runs a clock on them.
- AdsPower
- Local by default. Cloud sync exists and is switched off unless you turn it on.
- 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
- AdsPower Not documented
- Donut Browser Nothing to delete. There was never a second copy.
Read from each vendor's own documentation on August 9, 2026. Where a vendor documents no deletion policy the row says so, because on this particular question silence is worth recording.
Where does this AdsPower alternative take a different approach?
Not a feature matrix. The axes below are the ones where the two products are built on different assumptions, and every AdsPower cell restates something published on its own site, read on August 6, 2026 and linked in the sources list underneath.
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Source code
Donut Browser
The app — profile manager, local REST API, MCP server and sync service — is AGPL-3.0 on GitHub. The Wayfern Chromium engine is proprietary, and the site says so.
AdsPower
The pricing page names no open-source licence and no public source repository. [1]
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Free tier
Donut Browser
Unlimited local profiles, per-profile proxy and WireGuard, the profile-management API and the MCP server. No account, no card, no trial clock.
AdsPower
Two profiles and zero members, described as "free forever" with one super-administrator. [2]
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Price transparency
Donut Browser
Every plan price is printed on the pricing page, in one currency, with no selector to operate first.
AdsPower
The plan cells render as placeholders until you choose a currency and a billing cycle; there is no static USD figure on the page. [3]
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What you are charged for
Donut Browser
Profiles are directories on your own disk. Nothing counts them, so the ceiling is storage rather than a plan.
AdsPower
A selectable profile count inside each tier — 10, 20, 50 or 100 on the Professional plan — with the top tier quoted rather than listed. [4]
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Browser engines
Donut Browser
One engine, Wayfern: an anti-detect Chromium, headless-indistinguishable from Chrome from the JavaScript side.
AdsPower
Chrome and Firefox stealth browsers. [5]
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Where profiles live
Donut Browser
Profiles, cookies and logins stay on the device. Cloud sync is an opt-in paid feature, and the personal sync server is open source and self-hostable.
AdsPower
An account-bound workspace with a member model built in — the free plan explicitly allocates zero members and one super-administrator. [6]
Sources
- AdsPower's pricing page contains no statement of open-source licensing or source-code availability. adspower.com · August 6, 2026
- AdsPower's pricing page lists a free plan of 2 profiles and 0 members, described as "free forever" with "1 super-administrator included". adspower.com · August 6, 2026
- AdsPower's pricing page renders '——' in place of USD prices and offers Monthly, Quarterly (-10%) and Annually (-20%) billing options alongside USD, BRL, PLN and VND currency selection. adspower.com · August 6, 2026
- AdsPower's pricing page offers selectable profile counts of 10, 20, 50 and 100 on its Professional tier and lists its Enterprise tier at 5000+ profiles by quotation. adspower.com · August 6, 2026
- AdsPower's pricing page lists "Chrome and Firefox stealth browsers" in its feature comparison. adspower.com · August 6, 2026
- AdsPower's pricing page describes the free plan as 2 profiles, 0 members and "1 super-administrator included". adspower.com · August 6, 2026
- AdsPower's pricing page allocates members and a super-administrator role from its free plan onward. adspower.com · August 6, 2026
- AdsPower's pricing page offers currency selection between USD, BRL, PLN and VND. adspower.com · August 6, 2026
How much does this AdsPower alternative cost?
The free tier is not a trial and it is not capped by profile count, because there is nothing to cap: profiles are directories on your disk. The paid tiers buy capabilities, never permission to create more of them.
Free, no account
- Unlimited local profiles on the Wayfern anti-detect Chromium engine
- Per-profile proxy — HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS4, SOCKS5 — and WireGuard VPN
- The profile-management REST API and the MCP server
- Cookie and extension management
- Importing, which is free on every tier including this one
Paid, from $29/month
- Cloud profile backups and the nightly Cookie Bot
- Fingerprints for other operating systems
- The browser-manipulation API and MCP, and a higher automation rate limit
- Team seats, profile sharing and collaboration
- Commercial use
When is AdsPower still the better tool?
Every switching page should carry this section and almost none do. Nothing below is softened: each one is a real limitation of Donut Browser, and where the AdsPower side of it needed a source, it has one.
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You need Firefox-engine profiles. Donut Browser ships one engine, the Wayfern anti-detect Chromium, and imports only Chromium-family profiles.
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You want to open the same profile from any machine with nothing to set up. Donut keeps profiles on the device; reaching them elsewhere means the paid sync tier or self-hosting the sync server.
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You need a role hierarchy out of the box. AdsPower models members and a super-administrator from the free plan up; Donut's collaboration features start at the Team plan. [7]
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You want to pay in your local currency. AdsPower's pricing page offers USD, BRL, PLN and VND; Donut Browser bills in USD. [8]
If none of those describe your work, the switch is one import and an afternoon. If one of them does, stay where you are — a browser you have to fight costs more than a subscription does.
AdsPower alternative: common questions
Is there a free AdsPower alternative?
Yes, and it is not a trial. Donut Browser's free tier carries unlimited local profiles, per-profile proxy and WireGuard, the profile-management REST API and the MCP server, with no account and no card. Importing your existing profiles is free on every tier as well. The paid tiers add cloud backups, cross-OS fingerprints, seats and commercial use — never a higher profile count, because nothing counts them.
Is there an open source AdsPower alternative?
The Donut Browser app is published under AGPL-3.0 on GitHub: the profile manager, the local REST API, the MCP server and the sync server. The Wayfern Chromium engine it drives is proprietary, and this site says so wherever the claim is made. None of the four vendors compared across these pages names an open-source licence or a public source repository on the pages linked in the sources list.
What AdsPower alternative do people recommend on Reddit?
No thread is quoted here, because none was read, and inventing one would undo the point of the rest of the page. What is offered instead of upvotes: the app's source is on GitHub under AGPL-3.0, the prices are published, and every claim about AdsPower above links to the page it came from with the date it was read. That is a slower answer than a recommendation, and it is one you can check yourself.
Can I import my AdsPower profiles into Donut Browser?
Not as profiles. No antidetect vendor exports a profile in a format another vendor can read, and that includes AdsPower. What you move instead is the session: export your cookies from AdsPower, create the profiles in Donut, and import the cookie file through the app, the local REST API or MCP. Donut reads JSON and Netscape cookie files. Every new profile gets a freshly generated fingerprint, which is what AdsPower does with profiles imported into it as well.
Do you need an account to replace AdsPower?
No. The free tier runs with no account, no card and no trial clock, because your profiles are directories on your own disk rather than rows in somebody else's database. An account appears only when you buy a paid tier or turn on cloud sync, and the sync server itself is open source and self-hostable.
Switching from AdsPower: what to do this week
A migration you cannot roll back is not a migration, so do it in the order below rather than all at once. None of the first two steps bills you or creates an account.
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Today
Download Donut Browser and import one profile — the least important one you have. Check that it opens, that the proxy is bound and that the site still recognises the session.
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This week
Run the real batch. Export cookies from AdsPower profile by profile, create the matching profiles in Donut, assign a group, and round-robin your stored proxies in the same pass.
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Before you cancel
Keep AdsPower running until every rebuilt profile has signed in and stayed signed in for a few days. Sites re-check a device they have not seen before, so give them the chance. Then cancel.
The other switching guides
Written the same way, from the same data, under the same rule: every claim about another company carries the page it was read from and the day it was read.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- All alternatives The hub: the method, and the brands deliberately left out of it.
Comparing AdsPower against another vendor rather than against Donut Browser? These head-to-heads are refereed by a product that is not selling a subscription against either side.
