Agent Browser vs Browser Use
Agent Browser (Vercel Labs) and Browser Use (Browser Use) side by side on public data, as of Oct 10, 2026.
Browser Use has 1.3x the weekly package downloads of Agent Browser (2.2M against 1.7M). Browser Use has 2.7x the GitHub stars of Agent Browser (117K against 43.7K). Agent Browser shipped 20 stable releases in the past 90 days. Browser Use shipped 7 stable releases in the past 90 days.
Side-by-side numbers
| Metric | Agent Browser | Browser Use |
|---|---|---|
| Gid Score | 58 | 60 |
| Overall rank | #33 | #25 |
| Downloads, last 7 days | 1.7M | 2.2M |
| Downloads, 7-day change | down 19.9% | down 3.2% |
| Downloads, 30-day change | up 59.8% | — |
| VS Code installs | — | — |
| Marketplace rating | — | — |
| GitHub stars | 43.7K | 117K |
| Homebrew installs, 30 days | — | — |
| Hacker News mentions, 30 days | 2 | 8 |
| Latest stable release | 0.39.0 · yesterday | 0.13.11 · 3d ago |
| Stable releases, 90 days | 20 | 7 |
| Terminal-Bench (best run) | — | — |
| Price | Free (OSS) | Free |
| License | Apache-2.0 | MIT |
| First released | January 2026 | November 2024 |
| Interfaces | — | API, CLI |
| Models | Any LLM of your choice (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and others) plus its own BU2 model via the cloud |
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Agent Browser
Browser automation CLI for AI agents
Pricing: Open source under the Apache-2.0 licence; check the website for any paid hosted plans.
Latest release 0.39.0:
- Added an experimental Obscura engine (--engine obscura), launched and cleaned up locally like Chrome with bounded startup and CLI/MCP support. Obscura still has accessibility and rendering gaps,…
- Added private CA trust for CLI HTTPS requests so read, install, upgrade and doctor work behind TLS inspection. --ca-cert now applies to them on every platform, the new --use-system-ca uses the…
- Fixed selector-scoped snapshots (snapshot -s) so elements under ignored wrappers are no longer printed twice and shadow root content of a selected custom element is no longer dropped
- Fixed --auto-connect to wait up to 30s while Chrome 144+ shows the remote-debugging prompt, so it no longer opens repeated prompts or fails with "No running Chrome instance found"
Browser Use
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.
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).
Latest release 0.13.11:
- chore: pin publish workflow toolchain
- filesystem: writefile can create tiny binary images (png/gif/jpg/webp) for upload flows
- fix(agent): redact sensitive data nested below list boundaries in saved history
- fix(anthropic): treat data URL scheme and media type case-insensitively