Bardeen
Browser-native Chrome extension that scrapes lead data from any site, enriches and qualifies it with AI, and exports to Sheets, Airtable, Notion or CSV.
Bardeen is a browser-native automation tool that runs as a Chrome extension, which is its defining design choice. Because automations execute inside the browser you are already using rather than on a remote server, Bardeen can act on any site you can see, including the many web apps that expose no public API. The trade-off is that this generally requires the browser to be open, though paid plans can run scheduled automations in the cloud when it is closed.
The product's center of gravity is lead research for go-to-market teams. A point-and-click scraper pulls structured data off a page, a list of profiles, a company directory, a property listing, and a web search tool replaces manual lookups. Enrichment resolves validated emails and phone numbers against external data providers. AI tools sit on top of the extracted data.
An AI Qualifier scores each lead against criteria you define and shows its reasoning, and an AI text generator drafts personalized emails, content and social posts from the same data. Users create custom automations as Playbooks, triggered from the page you are on or from a browser context menu, and as Autobooks that run on a schedule or when a condition is met.
Finished data leaves as CSV or lands in Google Sheets, Airtable or Notion. Getting it into a CRM is a file import, not a live sync. Bardeen pushes data to Salesforce, HubSpot, Pipedrive, Apollo and similar tools as a CSV export that the customer brings in with each destination's own import feature. A browsable template library, filterable by target website, covers common scraping and research jobs, and packaged solution sets are offered for solopreneurs, recruiting, real estate, private equity, music and event services.
Bardeen holds SOC 2 Type 2, CASA Tier 2 and Tier 3. Data from connected applications is kept only in your local browser storage and never on Bardeen's cloud servers, with cloud runs held stateless and erased once complete. Bardeen Inc. also sells a separate enterprise product, WIQ, on its own site at getwiq.ai, and WIQ has its own entry rather than being covered here. Bardeen itself is a browser based research and data collection tool for revenue teams, not an autonomous agent platform, and it runs on credit based pricing.
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Vendor details
Canonical URL
https://www.bardeen.ai
Category
GTM / revenue agent
Funding status
Bardeen Inc., San Francisco. Backed by FirstMark and Insight Partners. The same legal entity also operates WIQ, a separate enterprise product at getwiq.ai.
Company status
independent
Use cases & customers
Target customers
Deployment options
Integrations
Export to CSV, Google Sheets, Airtable and Notion. Connected apps via OAuth cover Gmail, Google Drive, Google Calendar, Google Sheets, Zoom and Slack. CRM and outreach tools including Salesforce, HubSpot, Pipedrive, Apollo, Outreach, Salesloft, Lemlist, Monday.com, SmartSuite, ClickUp and Zoho are reached by exporting a CSV and importing it using those tools' own import features, not by a native connection.
In practice
You spend hours copying profiles and company details from a directory into a spreadsheet. Bardeen's point and click scraper pulls the structured data off the page and drops it into Google Sheets, Airtable or Notion, no code required.
You need data from a web app that has no API. Because Bardeen runs as a Chrome extension inside your own browser, it can work on any site you can see, opening and switching tabs and scraping in the background.
Your prospecting means researching each lead before outreach. Bardeen scrapes and searches the web for each company, the AI Qualifier scores the lead against your criteria and shows its reasoning, and the list leaves as a CSV your CRM imports.
Sources & related URLs
Related / legacy domains
Agentic Index coverage score
6.0 / 14 capabilities · 43%
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A short, fixed set of authenticated connections covers export into Google Sheets, Airtable and Notion, and OAuth connections to Gmail, Google Drive, Google Calendar, Google Sheets, Zoom and Slack. CRM and outreach tools such as Salesforce, HubSpot, Pipedrive, Apollo, Outreach, Salesloft, Lemlist, Monday.com, SmartSuite, ClickUp and Zoho are reached by file. Bardeen pushes data to those tools, or to any platform that supports CSV, as a CSV export the customer imports by hand with each destination's own import feature. Bardeen names no custom connector or user defined action. Sourcebardeen.ai/integrations and bardeen.ai/securityread 2026-09-01 |
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| Workflow Orchestration | Partial |
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Users create custom workflows as Playbooks and assign them to the browser context menu. Playbook runs and their errors are tracked. An Autobook runs a playbook when its automation condition is met, for example sending a Slack message when an email arrives. In Bardeen Studio, shown on the home and pricing pages, a Bardeen Agent chains actions the user adds in order, for example a search results scraper, a profile details scraper, email validation, AI qualification and an export to a Google Sheet, and the run can be scheduled. The chain runs in a fixed order, and Bardeen names no branching, error handling or retry, no sub workflow composition and nothing multi agent. Sourcebardeen.ai/security, home, AI Tools and pricingread 2026-10-23 |
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| Knowledge Grounding & RAG | Not documented |
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Research runs on the public web, not on the customer's own knowledge. Web Scraper extracts from live pages, Web Search replaces manual lookups, and Enrichment resolves contact details against external providers. Import from Google Sheets, Notion and Airtable moves data into a scraping run. Bardeen names no knowledge base, document or file ingestion, vector store or persistent corpus of customer material. Qualification criteria the customer types into the AI Qualifier are instructions for each run. Sourcebardeen.ai/ai, bardeen.ai/scraper and bardeen.ai/integrationsread 2026-09-01 |
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| Human Oversight & Guardrails | Not documented |
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Users start automations from the page they are on, and most run in the user's own open browser, so a person is present for most runs. Bardeen names no approval step for each action, no gate to confirm a run, no permission scoping over what an automation may touch and no configurable guardrail. The company's separate WIQ product has pause for review checkpoints and escalation paths, but they are not part of Bardeen. Sourcebardeen.ai, bardeen.ai/integrations and bardeen.ai/securityread 2026-09-01 |
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| Security, Identity & Governance | Partial |
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Bardeen holds AICPA SOC 2 Type 2 and CASA Tier 2 and Tier 3, assessed against the App Defense Alliance standard built on OWASP ASVS, and it adheres to GDPR. Data is encrypted with TLS 1.2 in transit and 256 bit AES at rest. Infrastructure is managed as code with versioned changes, all code changes get peer review, vulnerability scanning is automated, and a published security contact takes vulnerability reports. Plans include unlimited users, and Bardeen names no SSO, SAML, role based access, audit log or permission model. Sourcebardeen.ai/securityread 2026-09-01 |
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| Observability & Auditability | Partial |
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The AI Qualifier shows its work when it scores a lead against the customer's criteria, which explains the one decision the product makes on its own. Bardeen names no run history, no execution log across Playbooks and Autobooks, no audit trail of who ran what and no failure or error view the customer can inspect. Bardeen's own logging is internal telemetry through Amplitude, Statsig and Sentry, collected without user data, and customers do not see it. Sourcebardeen.ai/ai and bardeen.ai/securityread 2026-09-01 |
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| Memory & State Persistence | Not documented |
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Browser state and data persist. App data is kept only in local browser storage, with the unlimitedStorage permission for volume, and browser history and bookmarks are read locally to suggest automations. Cloud runs keep no storage. Bardeen names no memory the agent reads as context across runs. Sourcebardeen.ai/securityread 2026-10-01 |
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| Deployment & Data Residency | Full |
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Automations run on the customer's own machine. App data from connected applications is kept only in local browser storage and never on Bardeen's cloud servers, and the exchange runs directly between the customer's browser and the third party application. When automations are set to run with the browser closed, a cloud instance is created for each trigger. That instance has no storage, so all data is erased once the run completes. Only connected app configurations and playbook definitions are held on Bardeen's servers. Customers cannot choose a region for that stored metadata, and there is no VPC option or self hosted backend. Sourcebardeen.ai/securityread 2026-09-01 |
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| Prebuilt Agents, Templates & Packs | Full |
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A browsable template catalog at bardeen.ai/templates can be filtered by target website, including GitHub, YouTube, Crunchbase, Monster, Upwork, Product Hunt, Realtor, Facebook, Instagram and Zillow, with a view of all templates behind them. The templates are packaged scrapers and automations a customer adopts and runs. Six packaged vertical solution sets for solopreneurs, music, real estate, recruiting, private equity and event services sit alongside the catalog. Sourcebardeen.ai/templatesread 2026-09-01 |
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| Triggers & Channel Coverage | Full |
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Autobooks run on a schedule or when a condition is met, such as an inbound email, without a person prompting them. On paid plans those runs continue with the browser closed, with a cloud instance started each time the condition fires. In the browser, Bardeen lays its interface over the page in view, sends browser notifications for time sensitive prompts and adds its own entry to the context menu. It also reaches into Gmail, Google Calendar and Slack through OAuth. Users can still start an automation by hand from the page. Sourcebardeen.ai/security and bardeen.ai/integrationsread 2026-09-01 |
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| Model Flexibility & Routing | Not documented |
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Large language models categorize leads and compose outreach, but Bardeen names none of them and no provider. Customers get no model selector, no model choice per automation, no way to bring their own key and no routing control. Bardeen lists the third party services it uses for telemetry, A/B testing and crash reporting, and no model provider is among them. Sourcebardeen.ai/ai and bardeen.ai/securityread 2026-09-01 |
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| APIs, SDKs & MCP Extensibility | Not documented |
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The only routes in or out are the Chrome extension itself, OAuth connections to a short list of apps, and CSV export. Bardeen names no API, SDK, MCP server or webhook, and the customer's own systems cannot call the extension. The same company's separate product, WIQ, ships an MCP server and is advertised as callable from Claude, Workato and Copilot, but those belong to WIQ, not to Bardeen. Sourcebardeen.ai/integrations, bardeen.ai/ai and bardeen.ai/securityread 2026-09-01 |
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| Testing, Debugging & Optimization | Not documented |
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Bardeen names nothing the customer can use to test, debug or optimize an automation. It describes no evaluation surface, no scored runs, no comparison between two versions of a scraper or automation, no dry run or preview before an Autobook goes live and no accuracy measurement over extracted or qualified data. The AI Qualifier shows its reasoning on each lead. Sourcebardeen.ai/ai and bardeen.ai/scraperread 2026-09-01 |
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| Browser & Computer Use | Full |
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The product is a Chrome extension that operates sites Bardeen does not control, including sites with no programmatic interface. Host permission lets it lay its own interface over whatever page the user is browsing. The activeTab and tabs permissions let it open, close and switch browser tabs and run background scraping. It also captures page snapshots, and webNavigation drives OAuth flows. Point and click selection extracts structured data from any page. Bardeen calls this its defining design choice, since running inside the browser lets it act on web apps that publish no API. Sourcing runs against live sites, not a static database. Sourcebardeen.ai/security and bardeen.ai/scraperread 2026-09-01 |
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Product updates
Bardeen introduced a revamped pricing model that eliminates per-seat licensing, allowing unlimited team members on all plans. The update also rolls out new Business and Enterprise tiers designed to provide more predictable costs and flexibility.
Bears on: Pricing / packaging
View sourceBardeen announced a $3 million strategic investment from Dropbox and HubSpot alongside the launch of its Business-Ready AI agent. The release evolves the platform from standard workflow automation into an instructable agent built for generative AI use cases.
Bears on: Agent capability
View sourcePricing
From $10 a month (Basic) · 100 free credits always
credits
Included quota
Free: 100 credits, always. Basic ($10 a month): 100 more credits a month, more on a slider up to 500, for building your own scrapers; premium scrapers, enrichment and teams are not included. Premium ($50 a month, or $480 a year with 12,000 credits a year): 1,000 credits a month, more on a slider up to 10,000, with premium scrapers, enrichment and teams. Enterprise: custom bulk credits billed annually, scrapers Bardeen builds and maintains for the customer, and premium support. Unused credits expire at the end of each billing period.
What is public
Bardeen publishes Basic at $10 a month, Premium at $50 a month or $480 a year, Enterprise with custom bulk credits through sales, the 100 free credits, what each plan includes, and the credit cost of each action with a worked example.
Billing mechanics
Credit metered subscription. Each row an action creates costs 1 credit and an enrichment row 3; importing data, utilities and CSV downloads are free. Every account keeps 100 free credits, unused credits expire at the end of each billing period, and Premium billed annually saves 20 percent ($480 a year against $50 a month).
Cost watchouts
Enrichment rows cost 3 credits, so a list with validated emails burns credits three times as fast as plain scraping, and unused credits do not roll over. Enrichment and premium scrapers need Premium; Basic covers only scrapers you build yourself. Exporting rows to a Google Sheet costs a credit per row, while a CSV download is free.
Variable cost rationale
Cost tracks the rows the customer creates, at 1 credit a row and 3 for enrichment, so heavy enrichment or frequent scheduled runs use a month's credits quickly; larger allowances are bought on a plan's slider.
Additional watchouts
Bardeen runs only in Chrome. Scraping automations can break when a target site changes its interface, so expect periodic rebuilds on Basic and Premium; on Enterprise, Bardeen builds and maintains the scrapers. Budget credits before scaling, since enrichment costs 3 a row and unused credits expire.
Overage / add-ons
Unused credits expire each billing period. Larger credit allowances are chosen on each plan's slider; prices beyond the base allowance are not shown.
Sales call required
Mixed (some tiers require a call)
Free / trial
100 free credits always
Lowest paid plan
Basic at $10 a month with 100 credits
Commercial notes
Bardeen Inc. was founded in 2020 by Artem Harutyunyan and Pascal Weinberger and has raised about $25.3M, with backers including FirstMark, Insight Partners, Dropbox Ventures and HubSpot Ventures. Bardeen is sold for lead research by GTM teams; the company's enterprise WIQ product is sold on its own site.
Key ambiguities
The price of credits above each plan's base allowance is set on a slider and not stated on the page.
Cancellation / refund
Free 100 credits/mo always (no card for the free tier); 7-day Pro trial (self-serve) and a 'request' 14-day team trial via sales; paid plans self-serve monthly or annual (annual cheaper); buy additional credit packs as needed; Business/Enterprise custom-contracted; unlimited seats on every plan
Support SLA / resale
Enterprise adds premium support and scrapers Bardeen builds and maintains for the customer; Premium includes teams. SOC 2 Type II, GDPR and CASA Tier 2 and 3 are listed on the pricing page.
Missing data
The price of additional credits and the terms of Enterprise bulk credits are not published.
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