Python library for controlling a real browser with vision and DOM extraction, built for agent workflows.
Where it wins
Vision + DOM hybrid approach for robust page understanding
Large public traction and active development
Works with multiple LLM providers
Handles complex multi-step browser tasks
Where to be skeptical
Python-only — no native TypeScript/Node support
Still evolving reliability for complex flows
Heavier setup than MCP-based browser tools
Editorial verdict
Unchallenged category leader — 81K stars, 1M+ weekly PyPI downloads, 89.1% WebVoyager. The gap to #2 is enormous: 4x stars, 6x downloads vs the next autonomous agent.
Source
Videos
Reviews, tutorials, and comparisons from the community.
Browser Use: This New AI Agent Can Do Anything (Full AI Scraping Tutorial)
Browser Use: FREE AI Agent CAN CONTROL BROWSERS & DO ANYTHING! (Beats Anthropic!)
Browser Use - AI Agent with the Browser
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Public evidence
$17M seed led by Felicis with Paul Graham participating. 20+ YC W25 batch companies used Browser Use. Manus (viral agent) built on top of it.
Browser Use achieved 89.1% success rate on the WebVoyager benchmark across 586 web tasks. State-of-the-art open-source performance, though below commercial competitors (Surfer 2 at 97.1%).
Firecrawl's independent ranking places Browser Use as the top open-source AI browser agent. Cites vision+DOM hybrid approach and multi-step task capability.
1M+ weekly PyPI downloads confirms massive real-world adoption. No other open-source browser agent comes close — Skyvern is at 167K/wk (6x gap).
YC W25 backing, SOC 2 Type II certified, cloud product at $30/month. Proprietary cost-optimized model BU-30B (200 tasks/$1). Enterprise runway no other open-source agent has.
Dominant AI browser agent framework by stars. Zero to 81K+ in ~18 months. Weekly release cadence. 314 contributors.
Hands-on comparison of 6 browser automation tools confirms Browser Use wins for 'complex multi-step tasks (form filling, autonomous workflows).'
Multiple independent sources confirm Browser Use in production contexts. AWS blog coverage, InfoWorld feature, and official Apify integration validate real-world deployment beyond star counts.
Confirms Browser Use's unique full-autonomy positioning: 'the LLM decides what to click, what to type, when to scroll, and when the task is complete.' Independent editorial, not sponsored.
Multiple commenters compared Browser Use and Stagehand architectures in depth. Organic community discussion validates Browser Use as the autonomous agent default.
Browser Use Cloud showed 43.9% success rate vs Skyvern's 64.4% in cloud mode. However, Browser Use was 2x faster and 2x cheaper per task. Reveals reliability gap in cloud deployment vs strong cost/speed profile.
Raw GitHub source
Constrained peek so you can sanity-check the source material without leaving the site.
Browser Use lets an AI agent use a web browser the same way you do — it opens pages, clicks buttons, types, and fills in forms. You describe the task, and it completes it. For example, you can have it:
Example code ↗
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/93714c75-98f4-4cfc-add1-69c38b5138b5
Browser Use Cloud Docs ↗
Browser Use CLI ↗
<br/>If you want to use Browser Use in your agent (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Hermes, OpenClaw, etc.), paste this prompt, and it sets everything up itself:
Install or upgrade browser-use to the latest stable version with uv using Python 3.12, run `browser-use skill install` to register the skill, and connect it to my browser. If setup or connection fails, follow https://github.com/browser-use/browser-harness/blob/main/install.md.
Then tell your agent what you want done.
<br/>Want to automate the web at scale, from your own code, and with any LLM? Use the Python library:
1. Install Browser Use (Python >= 3.11):
uv add browser-use
# or: pip install browser-use
2. Add your LLM API key to .env. Get one from Browser Use Cloud, or bring your own provider key:
# .env
BROWSER_USE_API_KEY=your-key
# GOOGLE_API_KEY=your-key
# ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=your-key
3. Run your first agent:
import asyncio
from browser_use import Agent, ChatBrowserUse
async def main():
agent = Agent(
task="Find the number of stars of the browser-use repo",
llm=ChatBrowserUse(model='openai/gpt-5.5'),
# llm=ChatBrowserUse(model='bu-2-0'), # Browser Use's optimized model
# llm=ChatOpenAI(model='gpt-5.5'),
# llm=ChatAnthropic(model='claude-opus-4-8'), # Sonnet also works well
)
history = await agent.run()
if __name__ == "__main__":
asyncio.run(main())
Check out the library docs and the cloud docs for more!
<br/>We benchmark Browser Use across 100 real-world browser tasks. Full benchmark is open source: browser-use/benchmark.
Browser Use is also #1 on the Odysseys leaderboard with an 87.4% average, ahead of computer-use agents from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Microsoft. Odysseys measures the agent's performance on 200 long-horizon web tasks.