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Dolphin Anty alternative

Dolphin Anty is one of the better-known anti-detect browsers, and on raw profile count for one person it is cheaper than Parallel. This page says where that is true, where it stops being true, and the two situations where the gap is not marginal but enormous.

Start here: Parallel is Windows only

Dolphin ships Windows, macOS and Linux builds. Parallel ships Windows and nothing else. If you work on a Mac, the comparison is over and Dolphin wins it — no price difference makes up for software that will not run on your machine. A Parallel profile can present a macOS fingerprint, but that is the identity it reports to sites, not the computer it runs on.

What each costs

Reading that table honestly

For one person wanting a lot of profiles cheaply, Dolphin wins outright. Sixty profiles for $10 is about 17 cents each; Parallel's 25 for $8 is 32 cents. Their free tier is five profiles against our three. On a twelve-month commitment their discount takes the entry plan lower still. If you are working alone and sixty profiles covers you, stop reading and use Dolphin — buying a plan you need less of is not a saving.

The arithmetic inverts in two places.

The first is the jump above sixty profiles. Dolphin's next step up from the $10 plan is $89 a month. That is roughly nine times the price for forty more profiles. Parallel's equivalent step is $8 to $29 for 100. Anywhere between 60 and 100 profiles, the difference is $29 against $89 for broadly the same work.

The second is the moment a second person needs access. Dolphin's entry plan is a single seat, and the first plan that adds seats is the $89 one, at $10 per extra person on top. Three people sharing profiles there is $89 plus $20 — $109 a month. On Parallel, five team members are included on every paid licence, with roles and per-person profile access, so the same three people are $8 or $29 depending on how many profiles you need. That is not a margin, it is a different order of cost.

What is actually the same

Both give every profile its own cookie jar, storage and fingerprint, and both let you bind a proxy per profile. The fundamentals of this category are not in dispute, and anyone claiming a dramatic detection advantage over an established competitor is usually selling something. What differs is coherence, tooling and price — not whether isolation works at all.

If you would rather judge that yourself than take anyone's word for it, run the fingerprint check in both and compare what each profile reports. That is a better test than any comparison table, this one included.

Where Parallel is different

• Team access is the plan, not an upsell. Five members on every paid licence, with admin, manager and employee roles, and access granted per group or per profile. See team members.
• Coherence over hiding. Each profile's OS, screen, GPU, locale and timezone are derived from one seed so they agree with each other, and a bound proxy's geography drives the timezone. See browser fingerprinting explained and proxy timezone mismatch.
• Automation included, not an add-on. A no-code RPA builder with 58 step types, plus a local CDP endpoint for Puppeteer or Playwright and an MCP server for driving profiles from an AI assistant.
• Licences, not subscriptions. Nothing auto-renews and no card is stored. When a term ends, profiles over the free limit are frozen rather than deleted.

When to stay with Dolphin Anty

• You are on macOS or Linux. This is not close.
• You work alone and sixty profiles is enough. Their entry plan is better value than ours, and saying otherwise would be dishonest.
• You want 300 or more profiles and have priced both properly.
• Your workflow already depends on Dolphin's integrations or your team is set up there. Migration costs time, and "slightly cheaper" rarely covers it.