- Upgrade Browser Harness to 0.1.13.
- Exact-pin all declared runtime, optional, development, and build dependencies.
- Upgrade and migrate to MCP Python SDK 2.1.1.
- Add pydantic-settings 2.15.0 as an explicit runtime dependency.
- Pin Pydantic 2.13.5 and Hatchling 1.32.0.
- Upgrade pypdf to 6.16.2, resolving the three current pypdf Dependabot advisories.
Browser Use by Browser Use
Pulse Score
60 / 100
Rank #14 of 157
Downloads, last 7 days
2.4M
up 16.3% vs previous week
Downloads, last 30 days
8.4M
— vs previous 30 days
GitHub stars
117K
about +88 a day
Latest release
0.13.10
32d ago
Price
Free
checked Oct 6, 2026
Overview
Open-source Python library and hosted cloud that let LLM agents control a real browser to complete web tasks, with a CLI, a cloud API for hosted agents and browsers, and its own BU2 model option.
Browser Use was downloaded 2.4M times from npm and PyPI in the week ending Oct 4, 2026, up 16.3% on the week before. Its download count moved to a different level overnight on Aug 27, 2026. A jump like that comes from automated installs switching on or off or from a change in how the registry counts, so growth rates across that date are not shown. The GitHub repository has 117K stars, 5,077 of them added in the last 30 days. The latest stable release is 0.13.10, published Sep 4, 2026. It was mentioned in 8 Hacker News posts and comments over the last 30 days.
Browser Use usage and attention over time
Download the raw daily series: browser-use.csv
Install Browser Use
| npm | npm install browser-use-sdk |
|---|---|
| PyPI | pip install browser-use |
| Docker | docker pull browseruse/browseruse |
These commands use the packages tracked on this page. The vendor may recommend a different installer; see the official documentation.
Key facts
| Maker | Browser Use |
|---|---|
| Type | Browser automation library |
| First released | November 2024 |
| License | MIT |
| Interfaces | API, CLI |
| Models | Any LLM of your choice (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and others) plus its own BU2 model via the cloud |
| Bring your own API key | Yes |
| Main language | Python |
| Open issues and PRs | 540 |
| Docker Hub pulls | 247,076 |
Pricing
Open-source library is free (MIT). Cloud is pay-as-you-go with no subscription: credits from a $5 top-up, browsers $0.02/hour, residential proxies $5/GB, hosted agents billed at model cost plus 20%; the pricing page lists $1 in free credits for eligible signups (the README mentions $15).
Source: official pricing page, checked Oct 6, 2026. Prices change often; confirm before you buy.
Pulse Score breakdown
Adoption75
Community86
Attention7
Momentum52
Each component is scored 0 to 100 from public signals; a dash means no data for it. Methodology.
What changed: recent Browser Use releases
7 stable releases in the last 90 days · Full changelog
- fix(llm): make bu-2-0 the ChatBrowserUse default again, keep mini opt-in
- ci: remove the dead cloudevals image-build trigger
- fix(filesystem): report missing target text in replacefile
- fix(filesystem): escape plain text in generated PDFs
- docs: highlight rerunnable Cloud scripts
- docs(cloud): update tools guide for CLI 3.0
- Update Cerebras model IDs and default
- Recover Anthropic tool arguments when the model serializes its call as text
- docs: replace broken profile sync link
- fix(agent): guard lastaction() against empty action list
- fix(agent): guard injectbudgetwarning against ZeroDivisionError
- fix(browser): return Path from validateuserdatadir when creating temp dir
- fix: dont send default params in gemini genconfig
- Fix tool name in flash prompts: replacefilestr -> replacefile
- fix: handle file:// urls in extractstarturl
- extract: stop auto-inheriting outputmodelschema into per-page extraction
- Fix clear-to-empty on React controlled inputs (native value setter)
- Gate the skeleton-screen 'still loading?' hint on in-flight network requests
- Release 0.13.6 with Browser Harness 0.1.6
- Update README.md
- feat: accept bu-qa-1 model alias in ChatBrowserUse
- support MCP registry
- Bump browser-use version to 0.13.5 + sync BH
Browser Use alternatives
| # | Agent | Pulse | Downloads 7d | 7d | 30d | VS Code installs | Stars | Latest release | Price | Last 90 days | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 |
StagehandBrowserbase |
58 | 2.5M | up 13.4% | up 16.5% | — | 25.5K+15/day | 3.7.339d ago | Free + $20/mo | ||
| 104 |
SkyvernSkyvern AI |
28 | 5,699 | up 0.3% | down 14.8% | — | 23.1K+8/day | 1.0.555d ago | Free + $29/mo | ||
| 110 |
Perplexity CometPerplexity AI |
24 | — | — | — | — | — | — | Free | ||
| 111 |
Amazon Nova ActAmazon (AWS) |
23 | 71.7K | down 3.5% | down 41.0% | — | 918 | 3.4.187.05mo ago | Usage-based | ||
| 130 |
DiaThe Browser Company of New York (Atlassian) |
16 | — | — | — | — | — | — | Free + $20/mo | ||
| 139 |
Opera NeonOpera (Opera Norway AS) |
8 | — | — | — | — | — | — | Free + $19.90/mo | — | |
| No agents match that filter. | |||||||||||
Head to head: Browser Use vs Stagehand · Browser Use vs Skyvern · Browser Use vs Perplexity Comet · Browser Use vs Amazon Nova Act
Guides that cover Browser Use
Browser Use FAQ
How much does Browser Use cost?
Open-source library is free (MIT). Cloud is pay-as-you-go with no subscription: credits from a $5 top-up, browsers $0.02/hour, residential proxies $5/GB, hosted agents billed at model cost plus 20%; the pricing page lists $1 in free credits for eligible signups (the README mentions $15).
Is Browser Use open source?
Yes. Browser Use is open source, released under the MIT license.
How popular is Browser Use?
Browser Use was downloaded 2.4M times from npm and PyPI in the week ending Oct 4, 2026, up 16.3% on the week before. Its download count moved to a different level overnight on Aug 27, 2026. A jump like that comes from automated installs switching on or off or from a change in how the registry counts, so growth rates across that date are not shown. The GitHub repository has 117K stars, 5,077 of them added in the last 30 days.
What is the latest version of Browser Use?
The latest stable release we track is 0.13.10, published on Sep 4, 2026.
What are the alternatives to Browser Use?
The closest alternatives in the same category by Pulse Score are Stagehand, Skyvern, Perplexity Comet, Amazon Nova Act.
Where these numbers come from
npm: browser-use-sdk. PyPI: browser-use. GitHub: browser-use/browser-use. Site rank: browser-use.com on the Tranco list. See data sources for how each one is collected.
Product facts and pricing were checked against: github.com, raw.githubusercontent.com, pypi.org, registry.npmjs.org, browser-use.com, hub.docker.com, discord.com.