Bardeen review
6.3/10★★★★★Browser automation for sales teams: AI scraping, enrichment and lead qualification
- Best for
- Sales and go-to-market teams automating prospecting in the browser
- Price
- Freemium · from $10/month
Free: 100 credits a month - Platforms
- Chrome extension, Web
- Made by
- Bardeen
What it is
Bardeen runs in your browser to scrape sites like LinkedIn, enrich contacts and qualify leads with AI, then send the results to Google Sheets, Notion or your CRM. Its Magic Box builds playbooks from a plain-English description.
What the AI does
- Magic Box builds playbooks from plain English
- AI web scraping, including build-your-own scrapers
- Contact enrichment
- AI lead qualification
Pros and cons
- Fast, accurate scraping from the browser
- Easy for non-technical users
- SOC 2 Type II and GDPR
- Narrow focus on sales prospecting, not general automation
- Credits run out quickly at volume
- Struggles with dynamic sites and breaks when pages change
How it scores
Good at browser scraping for sales; too narrow and credit-hungry to compete as a general automation tool.
Feature checklist · 2 of 9
- AI agents that decide their own steps (no)
- Builds workflows or agents from a plain-English description (yes)
- 1,000+ app integrations (no)
- Branching, loops and data transformation (no)
- Custom code steps (no)
- Self-hosted or private-cloud deployment (no)
- Choice of AI models or bring your own keys (no)
- MCP support for connecting AI assistants (no)
- Browser, desktop or computer-use automation (yes)
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