Browser Use
Python library that turns any LLM into a browser agent — extracts DOM into a structured representation the LLM can act on (rather than pure screenshot). Browser Use Inc. raised $17M seed Q1 2025 (Felicis); cloud product at cloud.browser-use.com. Project is one of the most-starred browser-agent OSS repos.
Active · Verified 2026-10-31 · fresh as of 2026-10-31 · 68 cited facts, 5 with a third-party source · 1 recorded change · Suggest a correction
At a glance
- Type
- OSS browser-agent library + Cloud (browser-use) vendor fix
- Tier
- T1
- Section
- Computer-use & desktop agents
- Created
- 2024-10 (GitHub first commit) repo fix
- Latest release
- v0.13.11 (2026; release date not confirmed) third-party fix
- GitHub
- browser-use/browser-use — ~119k stars, last commit 2026-09+ (release 0.13.10 on 2026-09-04) repo fix
- Pricing
- OSS library free; Cloud pay-as-you-go: $1 free credit, $5 min top-up, browsers $0.02/hr, agents = model price +20%; on-prem via sales vendor fix
- Funding
- $17M seed Mar-2025 (Felicis lead) third-party fix
- Freshness
- 2026-10-31 fix
- Layer
- agent-infra repo fix
- Deployment locus
- computer-use vendor fix
- SDK languages
- python, rest, typescript vendor fix
- Protocols
- mcp-server vendor fix
- Developer activity
- OpenRank 18.04 (12-mo avg 31.57) · 182 participants — 2026-09 third-party fix
When to use
Optimised for: LLM-driven browser automation as a primitive — DOM + screenshot mode
Anti-fit: Not for desktop apps (browser-only); not a SaaS — caller builds product on top
Pros & cons
Pros
Most-starred browser-agent OSS in 2025; permissive MIT license; Felicis-backed; works on top of any major LLM.
Cons
Not a finished app — caller builds product on top; compliance / SOC 2 still maturing on Cloud.
Claims & capabilities
One of the most-starred AI agent repos of 2025; $17M seed Mar-2025 (Felicis lead); WebVoyager SOTA per maintainer claim
Technical surface
- API surface
- Python SDK + Cloud REST API
- Backend storage
- Local Playwright state; Cloud uses managed Postgres
- Deployment
- Both (self-hosted + managed cloud) — OSS Python library + Browser Use Cloud; on-prem via sales
- Embedding model
- not applicable — not a memory product
- Multi-tenancy
- Cloud is multi-tenant; OSS is single-tenant per process
- MCP
- yes — first-party hosted MCP server (api.browser-use.com/v3/mcp) plus local stdio browser-harness-mcp
- A2A
- searched not found
- OpenTelemetry
- searched not found
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Similar systems
Other computer-use & desktop agents in the catalog, ranked by inbound references.
- Stagehand T1
Open-source browser-automation framework by Browserbase (TypeScript core plus Python and Go SDKs). Mixes Playwright-style code with natural-language act/extract/observe; pairs with Browserbase Cloud.
- Hyperbrowser T2
Cloud-hosted headless browser API tuned for AI agents — captcha solving, stealth mode, session recordings. Y Combinator S24; pitched as a faster / cheaper Browserbase alternative. Used as substrate by agents that need browser execution but don't want to run their own Chromium fleet.
- UI-TARS T2
ByteDance Seed's open-source GUI-agent foundation model — released Jan 2025; trained end-to-end on screenshot → action pairs. Comes with UI-TARS-Desktop (Electron app) that runs the model against the user's screen. SOTA on OSWorld at release; weights on HuggingFace.
- Anthropic Computer Use T1
Anthropic's API-surface capability that lets Claude control a virtual desktop — see screenshots, type, click. Launched 2024-10 as a public beta. Not a finished IDE itself; it's the substrate that other harnesses (and Anthropic's own Claude apps) use to operate a computer.
- Skyvern T2
Open-source autonomous browser agent that uses computer vision + LLMs to navigate websites. Workflow-based: agents follow recorded plans that adapt to layout changes. Skyvern Inc. raised $4.5M seed (Sep-2024, Felicis lead). Self-hostable; cloud version on skyvern.com.
- Bytebot T3
Open-source desktop-agent runtime that runs an LLM-controlled Linux desktop inside Docker — uses xdotool / X11 capture for control. Pitched as the 'self-hosted Operator' alternative; agent sees a real desktop screen, not just a browser.
Sources (67 cited facts, 5 third-party)
Each fact links to the page it came from; the badge says who published it (how to read sources).
- What it is OSS browser-agent library + Cloud (browser-use) vendor
- What it does & what's distinct Python library that turns any LLM into a browser agent — extracts DOM into a structured … vendor
- Claims / benefits One of the most-starred AI agent repos of 2025; $17M seed Mar-2025 (Felicis lead); WebVo… repo
- Modalities DOM text + optional screen images vendor
- Created 2024-10 (GitHub first commit) repo
- Latest release v0.13.11 (2026; release date not confirmed) third-party
- License MIT repo
- GitHub browser-use/browser-use — ~119k stars, last commit 2026-09+ (release 0.13.10 on 2026-09-… repo
- Mindshare 60k+ stars; HN front-page multiple times; OG meme of the agent space 2025 repo
- Funding $17M seed Mar-2025 (Felicis lead) third-party
- Customers / scale Cloud customers + OSS users; Convergence Labs and other agent companies built on it vendor
- Pricing OSS library free; Cloud pay-as-you-go: $1 free credit, $5 min top-up, browsers $0.02/hr,… vendor
- Data handling OSS = your infra; Cloud = managed (Frankfurt + US regions) vendor
- Deployment Both (self-hosted + managed cloud) — OSS Python library + Browser Use Cloud; on-prem via… vendor
- HQ Switzerland (Zurich) / EU vendor
- Founders / pedigree Magnus Müller + Gregor Žunič (ETH Zurich alumni) third-party
- Performance WebVoyager 89% per maintainer claim; benchmarks in repo repo
- Code/weights release OSS — github.com/browser-use/browser-use repo
- API surface Python SDK + Cloud REST API vendor
- Backend storage Local Playwright state; Cloud uses managed Postgres vendor
- Multi-tenancy Cloud is multi-tenant; OSS is single-tenant per process vendor
- Encryption TLS; Cloud regions in EU and US vendor
- Versioning Browser Use 'memories' feature stores reusable web tasks vendor
- Namespace primitives per-user / per-API-key vendor
- Contradiction handling Human-arbitrate via memory edit / re-run vendor
- MCP support yes — first-party hosted MCP server (api.browser-use.com/v3/mcp) plus local stdio browse… vendor
- Webhooks / events Webhooks in Cloud product vendor
- Import / export JSON-exportable task definitions vendor
- Validated verticals horizontal — research, scraping, form-fill, QA vendor
- Time to running <30min (pip install + LLM key) repo
- Anti-fit Not for desktop apps (browser-only); not a SaaS — caller builds product on top vendor
- Optimised for LLM-driven browser automation as a primitive — DOM + screenshot mode vendor
- Adjacent infrastructure Playwright; Anthropic / OpenAI / Gemini APIs; Browserbase / Hyperbrowser substrates repo
- Pros Most-starred browser-agent OSS in 2025; permissive MIT license; Felicis-backed; works on… vendor
- Cons Not a finished app — caller builds product on top; compliance / SOC 2 still maturing on … vendor
- Project & sources browser-use.com; github.com/browser-use/browser-use; cloud.browser-use.com repo
- obs-langsmith yes vendor
- obs-custom LangChain-native — picks up LangChain callback ecosystem vendor
- cost-token-budget yes vendor
- cost-prompt-caching no vendor
- cost-semantic-caching no vendor
- cost-batching no vendor
- cost-model-routing yes vendor
- cost-streaming-only no vendor
- cost-observability-cost-attribution no vendor
- eval-langsmith-evals no vendor
- eval-braintrust no vendor
- eval-weights-and-biases-agent no vendor
- eval-helicone-evals no vendor
- eval-custom-test-harness yes repo
- eval-human-loop no vendor
- eval-production-traffic-replay no vendor
- commit-trajectory [{"ym":"2026-01","cum":8349},{"ym":"2026-02","cum":8696},{"ym":"2026-03","cum":9025},{"y… repo
- cost-input-usd-per-mtok 0 vendor
- cost-output-usd-per-mtok 0 vendor
- cost-tier free vendor
- cost-pricing-model free-tier vendor
- cost-last-verified 2026-06-29 vendor
- capability-benchmark-sources webvoyager: 89.1% (Browser Use + GPT-4o, 586 tasks, vendor technical report 2024-12-15; … vendor
- adoption-accelerator yc-w25 third-party
- architecture-deployment-locus computer-use vendor
- licensing-bucket open-core vendor
- positioning-platform-vs-product platform vendor
- taxonomy-three-layer-rollup agent-infra repo
- developer-activity-opendigger {"activity":429.14,"as_of":"2026-09","openrank_12mo":31.57,"openrank_current":18.04,"par… third-party
- sdk-languages python,rest,typescript vendor
- protocol-support mcp-server vendor
What changed
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- 2026-10-26
- Latest release “Active weekly releases (PyPI: browser-use)” → “v0.13.11 (2026; release date not confirmed)” source
- Pricing “OSS free; Cloud tiers (usage-based)” → “OSS library free; Cloud pay-as-you-go: $1 free credit, $5 min top-up, browsers $0.02/hr, agents = model price +20%; on-prem via sales” source
- Deployment “Pip self-host + Browser Use Cloud” → “Both (self-hosted + managed cloud) — OSS Python library + Browser Use Cloud; on-prem via sales” source
- MCP support “Browser Use MCP server (community + first-party)” → “yes — first-party hosted MCP server (api.browser-use.com/v3/mcp) plus local stdio browser-harness-mcp” source
Related systems
References (3)
- Anthropic Claude (foundation models) depends on at runtime — adjacent-infrastructure cell: Playwright; Anthropic / OpenAI / Gemini APIs; Browserbase / Hyperbrowser substrates
- Google Gemini 3 family depends on at runtime — adjacent-infrastructure cell: Playwright; Anthropic / OpenAI / Gemini APIs; Browserbase / Hyperbrowser substrates
- OpenAI GPT family (GPT-5 / GPT-4o / o3 / o4) depends on at runtime — adjacent-infrastructure cell: Playwright; Anthropic / OpenAI / Gemini APIs; Browserbase / Hyperbrowser substrates
Referenced by (4)
- Browserbase integrates with — Browserbase docs have a Browser Use integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Laminar integrates with — Laminar integrations docs have a Browser Use observability page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- LangChain (framework) integrates with — LangChain docs have a Browser Use integration provider page (Browser agents and cloud browsers for AI applications). (verified 2026-10-29)
- Pydantic-AI integrates with — Pydantic AI harness docs have a Browser Use integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)