Compare CloakBrowser vs. Gaffa

CloakBrowser is a custom Chromium distribution for developers building browser automation with Playwright, Puppeteer, Selenium, or CDP. Instead of relying only on runtime JavaScript patches, it changes browser behavior at the Chromium source level while preserving familiar automation APIs. Teams can adapt existing Python, JavaScript, and .NET workflows with minimal code changes and run sessions on Windows, macOS, Linux, Docker, or their own VPS infrastructure. Features include persistent profiles, reproducible browser identities, proxy-aware locale and timezone configuration, human-like input timing, and CDP server mode. CloakBrowser is intended for legitimate public-web data collection, QA, monitoring, scraping, and AI-agent workflows. The developer wrapper is MIT-licensed, while current custom Chromium binaries are distributed separately under a proprietary license. Users provide their own proxies and CAPTCHA services.

Gaffa is a REST API built for web scraping and browser automation, allowing developers to run real, full browsers at scale with a single API call. It removes the difficulty of managing headless browser frameworks, rotating proxies, CAPTCHA solving, and scaling infrastructure, all of which are handled automatically. JavaScript-heavy and dynamic websites render exactly as they would for a human visitor by default. Beyond standard scraping, Gaffa supports AI-driven structured data extraction (extract data into a defined schema without writing CSS selectors), screenshot and PDF capture, infinite-scroll and form-filling automation, and clean Markdown conversion for feeding webpages directly into LLM and RAG pipelines. A rotating residential proxy network keeps access reliable across regions, and a credit-based pricing model means teams pay only for the browser time and bandwidth they actually use. Gaffa is designed for AI engineers, data teams, and developers who want production-grade web data extraction without having to build and maintain their own infrastructure.