Browser Use

license

MIT(OSI, library core fully open)

source

public

managed-tier

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

core-gated

ungated(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 core is ungated: the repo root has one MIT LICENSE and no ee/, enterprise/ or commercial/ path, and neither the repo nor the pricing page shows a feature gate. The pricing page prices hosted capacity only - Dev $29/mo for 25 concurrent sessions and 20 browser profiles, Business $299/mo, Scaleup $999/mo, Enterprise custom, plus pay-as-you-go credits - and states outright that "Cloud usage and the open-source browser-use Python library are separate products with different APIs." The one thing that could have gone the other way is that four library modules read BROWSER_USE_API_KEY: browser_use/browser/cloud/cloud.py, browser_use/sandbox/sandbox.py, browser_use/skills/service.py and browser_use/llm/browser_use/chat.py. Each is a published client to the separate hosted product rather than a withheld feature - SkillService fetches skills from the Browser Use API through the browser_use_sdk package, sandbox posts to the hosted sandbox, and chat.py is the ChatBrowserUse endpoint - and the local agent, browser session and tools run with any LLM and no key at all. Selling a separate hosted product is the langchain/LangSmith shape, which the rubric settles as ungated.

• 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://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://raw.githubusercontent.com/browser-use/browser-use/main/CLOUD.md recorded 2026-08-12

  Describes Browser Use Cloud as "the fully hosted product made by Browser Use made for users to automate web-based tasks", billed per usage through an API key, with its own v2 REST API at api.browser-use.com, hosted Sessions and Browsers, cloud Browser Profiles and a chromium fork carrying "proprietary optimizations". All of it is hosted infrastructure sold beside the library; none of it is a feature removed from the MIT library, which drives a local browser with any LLM.

Banded on downloads of the declared browser-use package, one of the most-used agent browser-automation libraries; GitHub stars corroborate but are not the basis. The registry reports 53,142,086 downloads in the last month, more than five times the >10M floor for level 5, and a live measured figure like that takes precedence over a hand-set band.

• https://pypistats.org/api/packages/browser-use/recent recorded 2026-08-14

  last_month = 53,142,086 downloads for browser-use (last_week 14,575,579, last_day 2,624,999).

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

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

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

  Repo page, 109,104 stargazers (corroborating).

Leading OSS browser-automation-for-agents library with broad action coverage and a production cloud tier; widely adopted as the default agent browsing layer. Rated 4 on feature_matrix (multi-step web tasks, structured extraction, anti-block infra); no standard benchmark applies to a browser-control library.

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

  README - CLI for one-off tasks, Python library for repeatable automation; "Custom tools, custom system prompts, structured output, fine-grained browser control"; skills/ in the root tree. Stealth, proxy rotation and scaling are attributed to the hosted cloud browsers - "We recommend pairing it with our cloud browsers for leading stealth, proxy rotation, and scaling".