| Rating |
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| AgentsWisdom score | 66 | 65 |
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| Confidence | high | medium |
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| Rank in category | No. 1 of 2 | No. 2 of 2 |
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| Pillars |
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| Adoption & momentum | 87 | 76 |
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| Experts (independent reviews) | 67 | 58 |
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| Crowd (community sample) | 36 | 59 |
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| Community posts sampled | 12 | 10 |
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| Experts vs crowd | Crowd cooler by 31 | Crowd warmer by 1 |
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| Adoption |
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| GitHub stars | 116k | 25k |
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| npm weekly downloads | n/e | 1.5M |
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| PyPI monthly downloads | 7.4M | 1.1M |
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| VS Code installs | n/e | n/e |
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| Reported users | n/e | n/e |
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| Reported customer organisations | n/e | n/e |
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| Releases, last 90 days | 8 | 9 |
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| Benchmarks (shown, not scored) |
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| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | not listed | not listed |
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| SWE-bench | not listed | not listed |
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| Independent reviews | 3 | 3 |
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| Trust & safety |
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| Overall grade | B | A |
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| Permission model | C | C |
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| Data access scope | B | B |
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| Data storage | A | A |
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| Data retention & training | C | n/e |
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| Incident history | C | A |
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| Compliance | A | A |
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| Transparency | A | A |
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| Price |
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| Price | Free, paid from $0.02 | Free, paid from $20 |
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| Plans | - Open-source library: Free
- Browsers (pay-as-you-go): $0.02 / per browser-hour
- Browser Use Agents (pay-as-you-go): Custom
- Enterprise: Custom
| - Stagehand SDK: Free
- Browserbase Free: Free
- Browserbase Developer: $20 / monthly
- Browserbase Startup: $99 / monthly
- Browserbase Scale: Custom
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| Product |
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| Category | Browser & computer use | Browser & computer use |
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| Maker | Browser Use (browser-use.com) | Browserbase |
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| Licence | MIT | MIT |
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| Use it via | API, CLI, Web app | API, CLI |
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| Runs on | macos, linux, windows, web | macos, linux, windows, web |
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| Models it drives | GPT, Claude, Gemini, BU2 (Browser Use's own model), local via Ollama | any OpenAI-compatible, GPT, Claude, Gemini |
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| Key features | - Python library: an Agent takes a task string and an LLM and drives a Chromium browser via CDP
- Cloud browsers billed per browser-hour, with residential proxies and CAPTCHA solving
- Hosted Browser Use Agents billed at model cost plus a 20% service fee
- sensitive_data parameter keeps credentials out of the LLM prompt, optionally scoped per domain
- Authentication via real Chrome profiles or cloud profile sync
- Browser Harness (April 2026): raw-CDP skill for coding agents such as Claude Code and Codex
| - act(), extract() with a schema, and observe() natural-language primitives
- Action caching so repeat runs can skip LLM inference
- v4 runs as a browser extension next to the page to reduce latency
- SDKs in TypeScript, Python and Go; works with local browsers by default
- Optional hosted browsers on Browserbase (concurrency, proxies, session retention)
- browse CLI and integrations with coding-agent and framework harnesses
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| Verdicts |
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| Praised for | - Largest community and example library among open-source browser-agent frameworks (Gonsalvez on dev.to; 116k GitHub stars)
- Model-agnostic, including local models (Scrapfly, ByteTunnels)
- Quick to start for Python developers (Reddit r/AI_Agents thread 1slvuta)
| - More deterministic and debuggable than fully autonomous agents because most code is standard Playwright-style (ByteTunnels; Reddit r/AI_Agents)
- Lower token cost through caching (Gonsalvez; HN comment 2026-09-18)
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| Criticised for | - Users report hallucinated clicks and brittleness on long multi-step workflows (Reddit r/AI_Agents, r/LocalLLaMA)
- Slow and token-heavy because every action is an LLM round trip (ByteTunnels; HN comments)
- Telemetry with task-level data is on by default (vendor telemetry doc; HN comment 2026-09-18)
| - Requires more upfront developer effort to decide which steps are deterministic (ByteTunnels)
- Python SDK reported to lag the TypeScript SDK (Reddit r/AI_Agents)
- Some teams found runtime AI still non-deterministic and moved to generated Playwright scripts (Reddit r/AI_Agents)
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| Evidence |
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| Evidence collected | 26 Sept 2026 | 26 Sept 2026 |
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| Sources cited | 4 | 4 |
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