Browser Use

license

MIT(OSI, library core fully open)

source

public

managed-tier

Browser-Use-Cloud(proxies/stealth/captcha/hosted browsers, proprietary)

core features withheld

no — one MIT LICENSE and no ee/ path. The pricing page prices hosted capacity only and states that cloud usage and the open-source browser-use Python library are separate products with different APIs. The four modules reading BROWSER_USE_API_KEY - browser/cloud sandbox skills and llm/browser_use - are published clients to that hosted product and the local agent needs no key

The MIT-licensed repository has no enterprise or commercial directory, and the vendor's pricing page states that its hosted cloud and the open-source library are separate products with different APIs. The four modules that read a BROWSER_USE_API_KEY are clients to that hosted service, not a withheld feature; the local agent runs with any LLM and no key at all.

• https://api.github.com/repos/browser-use/browser-use/contents recorded 2026-08-12

  Root tree: a single LICENSE (MIT per the repo metadata) beside browser_use/, docker/, examples/, skills/, static/, tests/, bin/ and scripts/. No ee/, enterprise/ or commercial/ directory and no second license, so nothing in the published tree is carved out under different terms.

• https://browser-use.com/pricing recorded 2026-08-12

  Prices hosted cloud capacity only: Dev $29/mo (25 concurrent sessions, 20 browser profiles, premium proxy pool, bring-your-own model key, scheduled jobs), Business $299/mo (200 concurrent sessions), Scaleup $999/mo (500 concurrent sessions), Enterprise on negotiated annual credits and SLAs, plus a pay-as-you-go credit option. States "Cloud usage and the open-source browser-use Python library are separate products with different APIs."

• https://github.com/browser-use/browser-use recorded 2026-06-04

  MIT (OSI) license, full public source; Browser Use Cloud as optional managed tier

• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/browser-use/browser-use/main/CLOUD.md recorded 2026-09-29

  CLOUD.md describes Browser Use Cloud as "the fully hosted product made by Browser Use made for users to automate web-based tasks", a separate hosted product with its own API key.

• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/browser-use/browser-use/main/LICENSE recorded 2026-09-29

  The LICENSE is the plain MIT License text headed "MIT License" and "Copyright (c) 2024 Gregor Zunic".

• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/browser-use/browser-use/main/README.md recorded 2026-09-29

  The README offers the library as a local path - "Run the Browser Use agent locally from Python, with your choice of model and a local or cloud browser:" - and names the hosted services as optional - "For either optional Browser Use service, get a [Browser Use API key]".

Adoption is measured by monthly PyPI downloads of the browser-use package, with GitHub stars serving only as a corroborating signal.

• https://github.com/browser-use/browser-use recorded 2026-08-13

  Repo page, 109,104 stargazers (corroborating).

• https://pypistats.org/api/packages/browser-use/recent recorded 2026-10-07

  8,061,974 downloads in the trailing 30 days for browser-use (pypistats last_month)

• https://pypistats.org/packages/browser-use recorded 2026-08-13

  The rendered pypistats page for browser-use; figures read from its API endpoint above.

Browser Use offers a curated surface over a single browser session, authenticated with the caller's own API key in a `.env` file or, for signed-in sites, a Chrome profile the caller already used. The hosted cloud is a separate product surface, leaving its feature set level with Playwright MCP's.

• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/browser-use/browser-use/main/README.md recorded 2026-09-17

  The README's quickstart adds "your OpenAI API key to .env", and its authentication answer is "Local browser: Use Browser.from_system_chrome() to reuse a Chrome profile" - the caller's credentials, in the caller's browser.