Browser Use

What is Browser Use?

Browser Use gives AI agents a real browser to work with. Its cloud product creates a Chromium session through one API call, which you can control over the Chrome DevTools Protocol from the browser-use agent, Playwright, Puppeteer or Stagehand, follow through a live URL and shut down when finished. The service includes stealth fingerprints, residential proxies, CAPTCHA solving, session recordings and saved logins, and hosted Browser Agents complete web tasks from a prompt. The same company maintains an open-source browser agent under the MIT license, and a Browser Harness lets coding agents such as Claude Code, Codex and Cursor use a real browser. Pricing is pay as you go with no subscription: browsers cost $0.02 per hour, residential proxy traffic is $5 per GB, and agents add 20% on top of model token rates. Credits never expire, and eligible signups get $1 in free credit with no card.

Use cases

• Run AI agents in cloud browsers
• Automate web tasks from a prompt
• Scrape sites behind bot protection
• Give coding agents a real browser
• Run Playwright or Puppeteer scripts remotely
• Test logged-in flows with saved profiles

Who it's for

• AI engineers
• Developers
• Data teams
• Enterprise security teams

Why use Browser Use

• Usage-based pricing with no subscription and credits that never expire suits agents with uneven workloads.
• Managed stealth browsers, proxies and CAPTCHA solving save you from running and patching headless Chrome yourself.
• Existing Playwright or Puppeteer code only needs to swap the launch call for a CDP connection.
• A live URL lets a person watch an agent or take over a login by hand.
• Enterprise terms add SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA support, a signed DPA and zero data retention.

Browser Use features

• Cloud Chromium sessions created with a single API call
• CDP access for Playwright, Puppeteer, Stagehand and browser-use
• Custom hardened Chromium with per-session fingerprints
• Automatic CAPTCHA solving in every cloud browser
• Residential proxies in 195+ countries
• Persistent profiles for cookies and logins
• Live view URL to watch or take over a session
• Hosted browser agents with structured JSON Schema output
• SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA support and zero data retention
• Concurrency from 10 sessions up to 1,000 or more

Browser Use integrations

• Playwright
• Puppeteer
• Stagehand
• Claude Code
• Codex
• Cursor
• Gemini CLI
• 1Password

How to get started with Browser Use

1. Sign up and claim the free credit, then create an API key.
2. Create a browser with the API or SDK, choosing proxy country, profile and timeout.
3. Connect Playwright, Puppeteer, Stagehand or the browser-use agent to the returned CDP URL.
4. Watch the session through the live URL, or run a hosted web agent with a prompt.
5. Stop the browser through the API and review usage billed by the minute.

Browser Use limitations

• Chromium only, with no Firefox or WebKit support
• Selenium cannot attach because it only accepts a local debugger address
• A single browser session runs for at most 4 hours
• Closing a CDP connection does not stop billing, so sessions must be stopped explicitly
• Concurrency starts at 10 sessions and rises with total amount paid

Browser Use pricing

Browser Use has no free plan. Plans start at $0.02 usage-based, according to the official pricing page on 24 Oct 2026.

Browser Use plans

• Browsers

  $0.02 /hour

  pay as you go

  • Cloud browsers
  • Residential proxy at $5 / GB
  • Billed in whole minutes

• Browser agents

  Model price +20%

  pay as you go

  • Hosted web agents
  • Plus browser time and traffic

• Enterprise

  Custom

  • Custom concurrency and SLAs
  • HIPAA and zero data retention
  • Negotiated annual credit pools

Plans as listed on the official pricing page on 24 Oct 2026. Prices can change and may vary by country or exclude tax. Check the official pricing page.

Browser Use alternatives

The main Browser Use alternatives listed on Debuly are Browserbase, Hyperbrowser, Stagehand, Playwright, agent-browser and Steel Browser. The table compares pricing and platforms; order is A–Z.

1. 

   agent-browser

   Native Rust command-line browser automation tool built for AI agents, with compact accessibility snapshots and 50+ commands.

   Developer platformsAutomation and agentsCoding
   Open sourceVisit agent-browser (official site)
2. 

   Browserbase

   Cloud platform of headless browsers, search and fetch APIs and agent runtime for building AI agents that browse and act on the web.

   Developer platformsAutomation and agentsCoding
   FreemiumVisit Browserbase (official site)
3. 

   Hyperbrowser

   Cloud infrastructure that gives AI agents hosted Chrome sessions, isolated sandboxes, and web fetch, crawl and search APIs.

   Developer platformsAutomation and agentsCoding
   FreemiumVisit Hyperbrowser (official site)
4. 

   Playwright

   Open-source Microsoft framework for end-to-end web testing and browser automation across Chromium, Firefox and WebKit, with CLI and MCP for agents.

   Developer platformsCodingAutomation and agents
   Open sourceVisit Playwright (official site)
5. 

   Stagehand

   Open-source SDK from Browserbase for building browser agents with act, extract and observe calls in TypeScript, Python or Go.

   Developer platformsAutomation and agentsCoding
   Open sourceVisit Stagehand (official site)
6. 

   Steel Browser

   Open-source cloud browser API for AI agents, with CAPTCHA solving, proxies and persistent sessions; free Launch plan with $30 in credits.

   Developer platformsAutomation and agentsResearch and search
   FreemiumVisit Steel Browser (official site)

Browser Use FAQ

Sources & verification

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