Switching guide
Looking for Dolphin Anty alternatives?
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. Every claim about Dolphin Anty 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 "Dolphin Anty 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 Dolphin Anty profile into a Donut profile. What carries your accounts across is the cookie file: export it from Dolphin Anty, 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 Dolphin Anty cell carries the URL it was read from and the date it was read — August 6, 2026. Nothing about Dolphin Anty 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 Dolphin Anty?
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.
Dolphin Anty has no profile export at all. Its two export actions are cookies and local storage, which is the shortest possible version of the point this page makes: the only thing any vendor lets out of the building is the session. Take it, and rebuild the profiles here. 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.
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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 Dolphin Anty 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.
- Dolphin Anty 144
- 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 Dolphin Anty 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.
- Dolphin Anty
- Cloud by default, and cloud sync is a paid-plan feature: on the free plan nothing leaves the device.
- 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
- Dolphin Anty Cloud data is deleted 45 days after sync is switched off, or at once if you ask.
- 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 Dolphin Anty 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 Dolphin Anty 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.
Dolphin Anty
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.
Dolphin Anty
A $0 plan with five browser profiles and no additional users. [2]
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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.
Dolphin Anty
A profile ceiling per plan: $10/mo for up to 60 profiles, $89/mo for up to 100, $159/mo for up to 300, and $299/mo for unlimited. [3]
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Team seats
Donut Browser
Two seats on the Team plan, then a per-seat add-on. Additional users never change the profile ceiling, because there is not one.
Dolphin Anty
Per-user surcharges that rise with the plan: +$10, +$20 and +$25 per additional user, and the entry plan cannot buy users at all. [4]
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Browser engines
Donut Browser
One engine, Wayfern: an anti-detect Chromium with C++-level fingerprint spoofing for UA, platform, timezone, language, WebGL, canvas, audio and WebRTC.
Dolphin Anty
A choice between a Chrome and a Firefox engine per profile. [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.
Dolphin Anty
An account-bound service; the pricing page describes plans in terms of hosted profile allowances rather than local storage. [6]
Sources
- Dolphin Anty's pricing page contains no statement of open-source licensing or source-code availability. dolphin-anty.com · August 6, 2026
- Dolphin Anty's pricing page lists a Free plan at "$0 per month" with "5 Free Browser Profiles". dolphin-anty.com · August 6, 2026
- Dolphin Anty's pricing page lists Starter at "$10 per month" (up to 60 profiles), Base at "$89 per month" (up to 100), Team at "$159 per month" (up to 300) and Enterprise at "$299 per month" (unlimited). dolphin-anty.com · August 6, 2026
- Dolphin Anty's pricing page lists "+$10 for an add.user" on Base, "+$20" on Team and "+$25" on Enterprise, and states additional users "Cannot be purchased additionally" on Starter. dolphin-anty.com · August 6, 2026
- Dolphin Anty's pricing page states that profiles can use a Chrome or Firefox engine. dolphin-anty.com · August 6, 2026
- Dolphin Anty's pricing page describes every plan as an allowance of browser profiles and does not describe a local-only storage mode. dolphin-anty.com · August 6, 2026
- Dolphin Anty's pricing page lists a Starter plan at "$10 per month" for "Up to 60" profiles. dolphin-anty.com · August 6, 2026
How much does this Dolphin Anty 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 Dolphin Anty 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 Dolphin Anty 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 want a low fixed entry price with a high profile count. Dolphin Anty's entry plan advertises up to 60 profiles for $10/mo, and a small solo workload may simply be cheaper there than on a Donut paid tier. [7]
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.
Dolphin Anty alternative: common questions
Is there an open source Dolphin Anty 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.
Is there a free Dolphin Anty 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.
What Dolphin Anty 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 Dolphin Anty 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 Dolphin Anty profiles into Donut Browser?
Not as profiles. No antidetect vendor exports a profile in a format another vendor can read, and that includes Dolphin Anty. What you move instead is the session: export your cookies from Dolphin Anty, 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 Dolphin Anty does with profiles imported into it as well.
Do you need an account to replace Dolphin Anty?
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 Dolphin Anty: 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 Dolphin Anty 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 Dolphin Anty 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 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.
- 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 Dolphin Anty 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.
