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AdsPower vs Octo Browser

The one pairing in the bracket where the two answers to who holds the profile are opposite: AdsPower stores on your device by default, Octo Browser is cloud only. This page takes 7 decisions one at a time and prints the call under each, with the vendor page it came from and the day it was read — August 9, 2026. Donut Browser publishes it and sells neither side, so the recommendation at the end names one of these two.

Disclosure Donut Browser publishes this page. It is an antidetect browser, so it competes with both AdsPower and Octo Browser — and it earns nothing from which of the two you choose, which is why the comparison below has two columns rather than three. Donut Browser appears once, near the bottom, labelled as the publisher.

Published by
Donut Browser
Stake in the call
Sells neither AdsPower nor Octo Browser
Sourced claims
14, each linked
Vendor pages read
August 9, 2026
How the 7 axes fall
AdsPower Draw Octo Browser
  1. Where profiles live
  2. The clock that starts when you stop paying
  3. Engine version, as published
  4. What an export actually is
  5. Free tier
  6. Are the prices printed?
  7. Published source code
2 AdsPower 3 Draw 2 Octo Browser

Axes are not weighted, and no total is printed, because "free tier" and "published source code" do not trade against each other one for one for any real reader. Read the rows that matter to your work and ignore the rest.

“AdsPower vs Octo Browser” is not really a question about features. Both products do broadly the same thing and anybody typing it has already worked that out; what they want is the one difference that will still matter in six months — and some reason to believe the person telling them is not paid to prefer an answer.

So this page is organised as a series of decisions rather than as a table. Each one asks a question you might genuinely be deciding on, puts what each vendor's own page says beside it, and makes a call. Where the honest call is that the two are the same, it says that instead.

Key Takeaways

  • The one pairing in the bracket where the two answers to who holds the profile are opposite: AdsPower stores on your device by default, Octo Browser is cloud only.
  • The axis the whole pairing turns on, and the two vendors are at opposite ends of it. AdsPower's default answer is your disk; Octo Browser has no such answer.
  • 7 decisions, 14 citations. Every figure was read from the vendor's own page and carries that URL and the day it was read — August 9, 2026. Nothing here is quoted from memory.
  • A draw, and the axis on which every antidetect browser in this bracket looks alike: you are asked to trust a binary you cannot read.
  • Donut Browser publishes this page and sells a subscription against neither AdsPower nor Octo Browser. That is why it can print “this could not be established” where a pricing table was ambiguous, and why the recommendation at the end names one of these two rather than a third product.

AdsPower vs Octo Browser: which one should you pick?

Follow the tree. Each fork is one decision, the two branches are what AdsPower and Octo Browser actually do about it, and the call underneath is the referee's — sourced, dated, and sometimes “a draw”. It resolves at the bottom into who each product is for; the same 7 decisions are then taken again, in full and with their citations, in the section after it.

The tree lights up as you scroll and resolves at the bottom. With motion switched off, or with no JavaScript at all, it is simply shown resolved. Nothing in it is a score: each call is a sentence about two cited cells, and the calls are never added up, because weighting one decision against another is the reader's job and not the publisher's.

Which Chromium is each one running?

Both are patched Chromium builds, and neither is on the current one. This is the axis where the two are easiest to check and hardest to argue about: the vendor publishes a number, or it does not.

Chromium major version, read from each vendor's own release notes

Chrome stable was 151 on August 9, 2026. Donut Browser is in the chart because leaving it out of a measurement it also fails would be the kind of quiet edit this page exists not to make.

Where do the profiles actually live?

The axis neither vendor puts on its pricing page, and the one that decides what you still have on the day you stop paying.

Where the profile sleeps

Read from each vendor's own documentation on August 9, 2026. Donut Browser is on the axis for the same reason it is in the engine chart: a referee that measures two products and hides its own position is not refereeing.

Which decisions actually separate AdsPower and Octo Browser?

One section per decision, in the order a buyer meets them. Every cell restates something on a page that was opened on August 9, 2026 and links to it; the call under each is a judgement about those two cells and nothing else.

Where profiles live

How do AdsPower and Octo Browser compare on where profiles live?

AdsPower

Key data is stored on your device by default; the cloud setting exists and is switched off unless you turn it on. [1]

Octo Browser

Cloud only. Profile data syncs when the profile stops, no local-only mode is documented, and the device keeps an optional page cache rather than the profile.

The call The axis the whole pairing turns on, and the two vendors are at opposite ends of it. AdsPower's default answer is your disk; Octo Browser has no such answer.

The clock that starts when you stop paying

How do AdsPower and Octo Browser compare on the clock that starts when you stop paying?

AdsPower

None published. The subscription documentation describes losing features on a downgrade and names no deletion window for profile data.

Octo Browser

Six months without an active subscription and every profile in the account is deleted. Deleted profiles sit in a trash bin for 72 hours.

The call A draw between a countdown and a silence. Octo Browser tells you the day it deletes your profiles; AdsPower never says what becomes of yours.

Engine version, as published

How do AdsPower and Octo Browser compare on engine version, as published?

AdsPower

Release notes for June 2026 record a Chrome 149 kernel and a Firefox 150 kernel, dated to the month. [5]

Octo Browser

The Octium changelog records the kernel updated to Chromium 151 on 30 July 2026, with an entry for every Chromium major back to 124.

The call Octo Browser is level with Chrome stable and publishes a dated entry each time it moves. AdsPower's newest published Chromium kernel is two majors back.

What an export actually is

How do AdsPower and Octo Browser compare on what an export actually is?

AdsPower

An Excel or text spreadsheet of the profile fields you tick, up to 200 selected profiles at a time, which re-imports only if you keep the id columns and their titles.

Octo Browser

An encrypted file carrying the fingerprint, cookies and proxy, which costs half a token per profile, imports exactly once, opens only in Octo Browser and drops extensions.

The call Opposite failure modes, so this is a draw. AdsPower's export is readable and partial; Octo Browser's is faithful, billed, and useless anywhere else.

Free tier

Which free tier is actually worth using?

AdsPower

Two profiles and zero members, described as "free forever" with one super-administrator. [9]

Octo Browser

None. The cheapest rung is a paid plan carrying three profiles. [10]

The call Two profiles is a demonstration rather than an allowance, and it is still two more than the other side of this table offers.

Are the prices printed?

Which one can you price without operating the page?

AdsPower

No. The plan cells render as placeholders until a currency and a billing cycle are selected. [11]

Octo Browser

Yes, in euros excluding VAT: €10 for 3 profiles, €29 for 10, €79 for 100, €169 for 350 and €329 for 1,200. [12]

The call Only one of these two can be priced without operating the page, and it is the one that also tells you the tax treatment.

Published source code

Can you read either one's source code?

AdsPower

The pricing page names no open-source licence and no public repository. [13]

Octo Browser

The licence agreement scopes itself around the software excluding its source code and forbids reverse engineering. [14]

The call A draw, and the axis on which every antidetect browser in this bracket looks alike: you are asked to trust a binary you cannot read.

What could not be verified about AdsPower or Octo Browser?

Two things belong in a comparison that can be checked: what was established, and what was not. This is the second — listed rather than filled in, because a comparison that quietly guesses at the two or three values it could not read is indistinguishable from one that guessed at all of them.

None of the cells above records a value that could not be read: on this pairing, both vendors' pages answered every question the comparison put to them. What the page still declines to claim is below.

Not claimed anywhere on this page

  • No ratings, review counts or awards for either product. There is no rating data anywhere in this project, so publishing a number would mean inventing one.
  • No detection or ban-rate results. Testing either product against a detection suite needs a paid account on both, and no such test was run.
  • No support-quality, uptime or refund claims. Nothing on the pages read establishes any of them.
  • 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 quotes from Reddit, Trustpilot or a review site. None was read, and paraphrasing one would put an unverifiable sentence on a page whose whole argument is that its sentences can be checked.

How was this AdsPower vs Octo Browser comparison checked?

14 citations, grouped by whose site they came from, most recently read on August 9, 2026. Each is a sentence restating what that page said, the page itself, and the date — so a figure that changes tomorrow can be caught by anybody, not only by whoever wrote this.

AdsPower

  1. AdsPower states that key data is stored locally by default instead of being synced to the cloud automatically, and that the cloud setting is disabled by default. adspower.com · August 9, 2026
  2. AdsPower's release notes for June 2026 state that a Chrome 149 kernel and a Firefox 150 kernel were added. adspower.com · August 9, 2026
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. AdsPower's pricing page contains no statement of open-source licensing or source-code availability. adspower.com · August 6, 2026

Octo Browser

  1. Octo Browser's pricing page lists no free plan; its cheapest rung is Lite at €10 per month for 3 profiles, with prices shown excluding VAT. octobrowser.net · August 9, 2026
  2. Octo Browser's pricing page lists Lite at €10 per month for 3 profiles, Starter at €29 for 10, Base at €79 for 100, Team at €169 for 350 and Advanced at €329 for 1,200, and states that prices are shown excluding VAT. octobrowser.net · August 9, 2026
  3. Octo Browser's end-user licence agreement grants a licence to use the software excluding its object code and source code, forbids decompiling, disassembling and reverse engineering, and names no public repository. octobrowser.net · August 9, 2026

Other sources

  1. Octo Browser documents profile data as syncing to its cloud when a profile is stopped and states that a profile's connection is checked when it starts; no local-only storage mode is documented. docs.octobrowser.net · August 9, 2026
  2. AdsPower's subscription documentation describes a downgrade as a return to the free version with limited features and states no deletion window for profile data. help.adspower.com · August 9, 2026
  3. Octo Browser's FAQ states that all profiles in an account are deleted after 6 months without an active subscription, and its documentation gives deleted profiles a 72-hour trash bin after which they cannot be recovered. docs.octobrowser.net · August 9, 2026
  4. Octo Browser's Octium changelog records the browser kernel updated to Chromium 151 on 30 July 2026, and carries an entry for every Chromium major back to 124. docs.octobrowser.net · August 9, 2026
  5. AdsPower documents bulk profile export as an Excel or text spreadsheet of selected profile fields, limited to 200 selected profiles or the latest 2,000 by filter, and states that the acc_id and id columns and the column titles must be kept for re-import. help.adspower.com · August 9, 2026
  6. Octo Browser documents profile export as producing a file carrying the profile's fingerprint, cookies and proxy, costing 0.5 tokens per profile, importable only once, and states that extensions are not saved during export. docs.octobrowser.net · August 9, 2026

Where does Donut Browser sit next to AdsPower and Octo Browser?

Publisher's disclosure

AdsPower stores locally without documenting what becomes of it, and Octo Browser documents everything while keeping all of it. Donut Browser sits at a third point: a profile is a folder you can open, no vendor copy exists unless you switch sync on, and the app is AGPL-3.0 on GitHub.

That is the entire pitch on this page, and it is at the bottom on purpose: a comparison that turns into an advertisement halfway through is worth nothing to the person reading it, and this one had a choice about whether to be one. The Donut Browser app is on GitHub under AGPL-3.0, its free tier needs no account, and its prices are printed.

What else do buyers ask about these two?

Is AdsPower or Octo Browser better?

Neither, taken as a whole product — and any page that answers that in one word is selling one of them. Across the 7 decisions above the calls go both ways, and at least one is a genuine draw. The useful question is which single decision is yours: what the free tier is worth, how profiles are metered, what a second person costs, or which engines are named. Find that one, read its call, and ignore the rest of the page.

Which free tier is bigger, AdsPower or Octo Browser?

Both publish one, and they are not the same size. What each vendor's own page said when it was read on August 9, 2026: AdsPower: Two profiles and zero members, described as "free forever" with one super-administrator. Octo Browser: None. The cheapest rung is a paid plan carrying three profiles. Two profiles is a demonstration rather than an allowance, and it is still two more than the other side of this table offers.

Which is cheaper, AdsPower or Octo Browser?

Only where the vendor prints a figure — and how often they do not is one of the recurring findings of this comparison: AdsPower: No. The plan cells render as placeholders until a currency and a billing cycle are selected. Octo Browser: Yes, in euros excluding VAT: €10 for 3 profiles, €29 for 10, €79 for 100, €169 for 350 and €329 for 1,200. Only one of these two can be priced without operating the page, and it is the one that also tells you the tax treatment.

Is AdsPower or Octo Browser open source?

Neither states an open-source licence or a public source repository on the pages read for this comparison: AdsPower: The pricing page names no open-source licence and no public repository. Octo Browser: The licence agreement scopes itself around the software excluding its source code and forbids reverse engineering. A draw, and the axis on which every antidetect browser in this bracket looks alike: you are asked to trust a binary you cannot read.

Who wrote this comparison, and what do they get out of it?

Donut Browser, which is an antidetect browser and therefore a competitor to both. It sells nothing on behalf of AdsPower or Octo Browser and earns nothing from which one you pick, which is the only reason a vendor-published comparison is worth reading at all. What it gets is this page. Every claim above links to the vendor's own page and carries the day it was read, so none of it has to be taken on trust.

AdsPower vs Octo Browser: who is each one actually for?

The calls above split, which is the normal outcome of an honest comparison and a better answer than a single winner would be. Here is the short version of each, and what to do if neither of them is it.

Pick AdsPower if…

Choose AdsPower where the calls above name it. This matchup has no written summary yet, so rather than invent one, the page sends you back to the decisions.

adspower.com

Pick Octo Browser if…

Choose Octo Browser where the calls above name it. This matchup has no written summary yet, so rather than invent one, the page sends you back to the decisions.

octobrowser.net

If neither fits

If the calls above split evenly for you, the decision is not between these two — it is about what shape of product you want, and the publisher's section describes a different one.

Open source antidetect browser

The other head-to-heads, written the same way and under the same rule: every claim about a vendor carries the page it was read from and the day it was read.