{"name":"Browser Use","tagline":"Open-source browser agent library plus managed cloud browsers — task-in, work-out, or raw CDP.","url":"https://browser-use.com","category":"agents","pricing":"freemium","price_note":"OSS library free; Cloud Free $0 (10 agent tasks/mo); PAYG credits; Dev $29/mo, Business $299/mo, Scaleup $999/mo; browser time $0.02/hour; default V4 model GPT-5.6 Luna $0.24/$1.44 per 1M tokens","free_tier":true,"open_source":true,"api":true,"self_host":true,"models_used":["gpt-5-6-luna"],"model_routing":"byok","verdict":"situational","verdict_text":"Two products, one brand: pip-install the agent locally, or buy managed browsers at $0.02/hour. Cloud Free is 10 agent tasks/month. Stealth benchmarks are vendor-published — treat as a receipt, not a guarantee. Adjacent to Browserbase, not a duplicate of it.","limitations":["Cloud Free is 10 agent tasks/month; PAYG starts after a credit top-up.","BYOK and custom proxies start at Dev ($29), not Free.","Residential proxy is $5/GB (Scaleup $4/GB) — stealth traffic is the real bill.","V2/V3 APIs still exist; new work should be V4 or you inherit old meters."],"strengths":["Open-source agent library with a local pip-install path and managed cloud option.","Two products, one brand covers both self-hosted and browser-as-a-service.","CDP/raw browser control is available."],"use_for":["Browser automation where you want open-source code you can audit.","Tasks that need managed browsers without building the infra yourself.","Stealth/scraping workflows where proxy costs are budgeted."],"skip_when":["Cloud Free's 10 tasks/month is too small for your volume.","You need BYOK or custom proxies but will not pay the Dev tier.","You treat vendor-published stealth benchmarks as guarantees."],"receipts":["https://browser-use.com/pricing.md","https://docs.browser-use.com/open-source/quickstart","https://github.com/browser-use/browser-use"],"affiliate":"none","evidence_tier":"source-verified","momentum":"blueshift","featured":false,"data_sensitivity":{"trains_on_inputs":"unknown","local_processing":true},"last_verified":"2026-08-19","observed_by":"whysanesanders","slug":"browser-use","canonical_url":"https://noemium.com/tools/browser-use/","attribution":"Noemium catalog data is licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). See https://noemium.com/method/ for how entries are verified."}