Browser Use vs Perplexity Comet
Browser Use (Browser Use) and Perplexity Comet (Perplexity AI) side by side on public data, as of Oct 6, 2026.
Browser Use shipped 7 stable releases in the past 90 days.
Side-by-side numbers
| Metric | Browser Use | Perplexity Comet |
|---|---|---|
| Pulse Score | 60 | 24 |
| Overall rank | #14 | #110 |
| Downloads, last 7 days | 2.4M | — |
| Downloads, 7-day change | up 16.3% | — |
| Downloads, 30-day change | — | — |
| VS Code installs | — | — |
| Marketplace rating | — | 4.8 / 5 (7,791) |
| GitHub stars | 117K | — |
| Homebrew installs, 30 days | — | 156 |
| Hacker News mentions, 30 days | 8 | 4 |
| Latest stable release | 0.13.10 · 32d ago | — |
| Stable releases, 90 days | 7 | |
| Terminal-Bench (best run) | — | — |
| Price | Free | Free |
| License | MIT | Proprietary |
| First released | November 2024 | July 2025 |
| Interfaces | API, CLI | Desktop, Mobile |
| Models | Any LLM of your choice (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and others) plus its own BU2 model via the cloud |
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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 0.13.10:
- 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.
Perplexity Comet
Chromium-based AI browser from Perplexity with a built-in assistant that summarizes pages, answers questions across tabs and can act for the user, for example drafting email or shopping. It runs on Mac, Windows, Android and iOS.
Pricing: Comet is free to download and use (free for everyone since October 2025); higher limits and Perplexity Computer need a Perplexity Pro or Max plan. Plan prices could not be read from an official page.