TL;DR: Bardeen gives every account 100 free credits a month for browser automation — web scraping, enrichment, and AI tools for sales and marketing workflows — and Bardeen states you will always get those 100 credits for free. The catch is the metering: credits are charged per row of output, and enrichment costs triple, so one realistic lead workflow can burn most of a month’s free allowance. It’s an excellent free way to prove a workflow works. It is not a free production pipeline.
What is Bardeen?
Bardeen is an AI automation tool that lives in your browser. Instead of building integrations server-side, you run Playbooks and Automations on the pages in front of you: scrape search results or profiles, pull contact details, verify emails, qualify leads with AI, and push the results into a spreadsheet or another app — everyday tasks performed in one click, without opening new tabs. Bardeen’s current pitch is aimed squarely at go-to-market teams: its pricing page leads with AI services, automated lead sourcing and enrichment, and Bardeen Agents that do that work for you.
What’s actually free on Bardeen?
Everything below is taken from Bardeen’s own pricing page, checked November 5, 2026.
| Free allowance — $0 | Basic — $10/mo billed monthly | |
|---|---|---|
| Credits | 100 free credits every month, for every account | Paid credits on top of the free allowance |
| Scrapers | Charged per row (see below) | Build your own scrapers, premium scrapers |
| Enrichment | Charged per row | Included |
| Teams | — | Included |
| Credit rollover | None — unused credits expire at the end of each billing period | |
The credit rate card is the whole story: a scraper action costs 1 credit per row it creates, web search costs 1 credit per row, AI tools cost 1 credit per row, and enrichment costs 3 credits per row. Utilities and import/export are free, and you can always download your results as a CSV at no cost.
What the pricing page doesn’t make obvious
“100 free credits” sounds like 100 automations. It isn’t — it’s 100 rows, and Bardeen’s own worked example proves the point. On its pricing page, Bardeen walks through scraping 10 profile links, extracting their contact details, verifying their emails, and adding the 4 qualified leads to a Google Sheet. The total: 64 credits — for 4 finished leads. Enrichment at 3 credits a row is what makes the meter spin. So the honest way to read the free plan is: roughly one small, complete lead workflow a month, or a few dozen simple scraped rows if you skip enrichment. That’s still genuinely useful — it’s enough to prove a workflow end-to-end before paying — but plan your test around rows, not runs. Unused credits also expire at the end of each billing period, so there’s no banking a quiet month against a busy one.
How Bardeen compares on Tested Intelligence
Bardeen sits at the browser end of the automation spectrum. Make gives you 1,000 free credits a month for server-side scenarios that run whether your browser is open or not. Activepieces also offers 1,000 free credits a month, with a free self-hosted option. n8n is unlimited and free if you self-host. Bardeen’s free allowance is smaller than all three — its advantage is that the automation happens on the live page you’re looking at, which is exactly where scraping and enrichment work lives.
Pros and cons
Pros
- 100 credits free every month — Bardeen states you will always get 100 credits for free; unused credits expire each billing period
- Utilities and import/export are free, and results can always be downloaded as CSV at no cost
- Playbooks and automations run everyday tasks in one click from the browser
- Bardeen Agents automate lead sourcing and enrichment for GTM teams
- The per-row rate card is published openly — no mystery metering
Cons
- Credits are charged per row: scraper, web search, and AI tools cost 1 credit per row; enrichment costs 3 credits per row — allowances drain faster than the headline suggests
- Unused credits expire at the end of each billing period; nothing rolls over
- 100 rows a month is a proof-of-concept budget, not a production budget
- Browser-based automation only helps while the work lives in web pages
Who is Bardeen free best for?
Sales, marketing, and ops users who want to test browser automation — scraping, enrichment, and lead sourcing — on real workflows before paying, and light users who can stay inside 100 credit-rows a month. Run Bardeen’s own example math against your workflow first: if your process enriches hundreds of rows, you’ll be on a paid plan (Basic starts at $10/mo) within the first week, and the free month will at least have told you whether the output quality is worth it.
Verdict: A small but permanent free allowance with unusually honest metering. Use it to prove one workflow, not to run your pipeline.
FAQ
Is Bardeen free to use?
Yes, in part. Bardeen’s pricing page states “you will always get 100 credits for free,” every month, for every account. Paid plans add more credits and features on top.
How many automations do 100 Bardeen credits buy?
Credits are charged per row of output, not per automation run. Bardeen’s own example — scraping and enriching profiles down to 4 qualified leads in a Google Sheet — costs 64 credits, so the free allowance covers roughly one workflow of that size per month.
Do Bardeen credits roll over?
No. Bardeen states unused credits expire at the end of each billing period.
What does Bardeen charge credits for?
Scraper actions, web search, and AI tools cost 1 credit per row; enrichment costs 3 credits per row. Utilities and import/export are free, and CSV downloads are always free.