--- title: "GoLogin Alternative: Local & Open Source — Donut Browser" description: "Looking for a GoLogin alternative? Donut Browser keeps every profile on your own disk, ships its app AGPL-3.0 on GitHub, and starts with no account at all." url: "https://donutbrowser.com/alternatives/gologin/" --- 1. [Home](https://donutbrowser.com/) 2. [Alternatives](https://donutbrowser.com/alternatives/) 3. GoLogin Switching guide # Looking for GoLogin alternatives? 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. Every claim about GoLogin 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. [Download Donut Browser](https://donutbrowser.com/#download) [How importing works](https://donutbrowser.com/docs/profile-import) [Read the source](https://donutbrowser.com/open-source-antidetect-browser) Importing Free on every tier Profiles live On your own disk Account to start None App licence AGPL-3.0 The question behind "GoLogin 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 GoLogin profile into a Donut profile. What carries your accounts across is the cookie file: export it from GoLogin, 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 GoLogin cell carries the URL it was read from and the date it was read — August 6, 2026. Nothing about GoLogin is quoted from memory. > - You manage accounts from a phone. GoLogin publishes an Android application; Donut Browser is a desktop app with no mobile client. ## What actually moves when you leave GoLogin? 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. GoLogin What you hold there Donut Browser What lands on your disk 01 Cookies and site storage The part that is actually holding your logins. GoLogin exports them as JSON, Netscape or plain text. Crosses Donut reads JSON and Netscape cookie files straight into a profile, in plaintext, at the path the engine reads. 02 Your proxy list Hosts, ports and credentials. Text you already have, and the one thing a settings export is good for. Crosses Paste the list in once, then assign it round-robin across profiles in the same pass. 03 The profile container GoLogin's own profile object, holding its settings and its browser data together. Stops here GoLogin's export is a CSV of profile settings, with no browsing data in it. There is no Chromium profile directory in it, and no antidetect vendor exports to another one's format. 04 The fingerprint Canvas, WebGL, audio, font metrics, and the TLS handshake sitting underneath all of them. Minted new It was never a file to carry. Each vendor compiles its own spoofing into its own browser build, so the far side can only mint a fresh one. That is also the better outcome: a stale fingerprint replayed on a different engine is easier to spot, not harder. Nothing converts a GoLogin profile into a Donut profile, because GoLogin's export is a CSV of profile settings, with no browsing data in it. What moves is the session. Export your cookies from GoLogin, load them into a new Donut profile, and the accounts stay signed in. The fingerprint is not lost on the way across. It never was a file. GoLogin's own export is a settings CSV, and GoLogin says so plainly: profiles created from it are new, clean environments that are not logged into any accounts. So the move is not a conversion. Export the cookies instead, rebuild the profiles here, and load the cookie file. 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. > GoLogin will assign new fingerprints to imported profiles. This may trigger verification on some platforms, so plan for a brief warming period. GoLogin's own documentation, gologin.com, read August 9, 2026 ### 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. ### 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. ### 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. - [Import profiles · Docs](https://donutbrowser.com/docs/profile-import) - [REST API reference](https://donutbrowser.com/docs/rest-api) - [MCP server](https://donutbrowser.com/docs/mcp) ## Which Chromium is GoLogin 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. Chromium major version, read from each vendor's own release notes 1. GoLogin _Orbita_ not published — 2. Donut Browser _Wayfern_ 150 3. 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 GoLogin 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. Where the profile sleeps The vendor's cloud Your own disk **GoLogin** **Donut Browser** GoLogin Cloud only. Profiles synchronise to GoLogin's servers; the on-disk folders are temporary and the vendor calls them safe to delete. 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. - **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 GoLogin 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 GoLogin cell restates something published on its own site, read on August 6, 2026 and linked in the sources list underneath. ### 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. GoLogin Neither the homepage nor the pricing page names an open-source licence or a public repository for the browser. [1] ### 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. GoLogin Three profiles, listed without profile sharing or team-member access, behind a sign-up. [2] ### 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. GoLogin A profile ladder: the published paid tiers are sold at 100, 300 and 1,000 profiles, with a configurable tier above that. [3] ### Team seats Donut Browser The Team plan includes two seats and prices additional seats as an add-on; solo use never touches seat pricing. GoLogin The published plan table shows one team member on every one of its four paid tiers. [4] ### Automation Donut Browser A local REST API on 127.0.0.1:10108 (base path /v1, OpenAPI at /openapi.json) and an MCP server at /mcp, both on the free tier. GoLogin A hosted API whose throughput is itself a plan feature, rising with the tier you buy, plus Selenium and Puppeteer integration. [5] ### Proxies Donut Browser HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS4, SOCKS5 or a WireGuard tunnel bound per profile, from whichever provider you already use. GoLogin Residential proxy traffic is bundled into the subscription, so the browser and the IPs arrive on one invoice from one vendor. [6] Sources 1. GoLogin's homepage names no open-source licence and no source-code repository. gologin.com · August 6, 2026 2. GoLogin's pricing page lists a free tier of 3 profiles with all benefits except profile sharing and team member access. gologin.com · August 6, 2026 3. GoLogin's pricing page lists paid tiers at 100, 300 and 1,000 profiles, plus a configurable tier ranging from 2,000 profiles upward. gologin.com · August 6, 2026 4. GoLogin's pricing table lists 1 team member on each of its four paid plans. gologin.com · August 6, 2026 5. GoLogin's pricing page lists REST API limits of 300, 500, 800 and 1,200 requests per minute across its four paid plans; its homepage lists Selenium and Puppeteer integration. gologin.com · August 6, 2026 6. GoLogin's pricing page lists included resident proxy traffic as a plan benefit. gologin.com · August 6, 2026 7. GoLogin's homepage lists downloads for Windows, Mac, Mac M-series, Linux and Android, and describes an Android application for mobile account management. gologin.com · August 6, 2026 ## How much does this GoLogin 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 [See the full pricing](https://donutbrowser.com/pricing) ## When is GoLogin 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 GoLogin side of it needed a source, it has one. - You manage accounts from a phone. GoLogin publishes an Android application; Donut Browser is a desktop app with no mobile client. [7] - 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. - You want proxies billed with the browser. Donut Browser sells no IP traffic, so you keep a second vendor relationship. - You need Firefox-engine profiles. Donut Browser ships one engine, the Wayfern anti-detect Chromium, and imports only Chromium-family profiles. 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. ## GoLogin alternative: common questions Is there a free GoLogin 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 GoLogin 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 GoLogin 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 GoLogin 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 GoLogin profiles into Donut Browser? Not as profiles. No antidetect vendor exports a profile in a format another vendor can read, and that includes GoLogin. What you move instead is the session: export your cookies from GoLogin, 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 GoLogin does with profiles imported into it as well. Do you need an account to replace GoLogin? 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 GoLogin: 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. 1. 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. 2. This week Run the real batch. Export cookies from GoLogin profile by profile, create the matching profiles in Donut, assign a group, and round-robin your stored proxies in the same pass. 3. Before you cancel Keep GoLogin 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. [Download Donut Browser](https://donutbrowser.com/#download) [How importing works](https://donutbrowser.com/docs/profile-import) ## 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 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.](https://donutbrowser.com/alternatives/multilogin/) - [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.](https://donutbrowser.com/alternatives/dolphin-anty/) - [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.](https://donutbrowser.com/alternatives/adspower/) - [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.](https://donutbrowser.com/alternatives/octo-browser/) - [All alternatives The hub: the method, and the brands deliberately left out of it.](https://donutbrowser.com/alternatives/) Comparing GoLogin 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. - [GoLogin vs Multilogin](https://donutbrowser.com/vs/gologin-vs-multilogin/) - [AdsPower vs GoLogin](https://donutbrowser.com/vs/adspower-vs-gologin/) - [Dolphin Anty vs GoLogin](https://donutbrowser.com/vs/dolphin-anty-vs-gologin/) - [GoLogin vs Octo Browser](https://donutbrowser.com/vs/gologin-vs-octo-browser/)