Browser Use

Open-source library to run browser agents locally for free

What Browser Use does

  • Open-source library to run browser agents locally for free
  • Hosted agent API billed per token + browser-hour
  • Managed browser infrastructure for scaling agents

Browser Use — straight answers

What is Browser Use?

Browser Use is listed under Browser & Computer-Use Agents, in the AI Agents & Automation category on Flocci AI Tools. Open-source library to run browser agents locally for free. It is freemium — a usable free tier with paid plans above it, and it lives at browser-use.com.

Is Browser Use free?

Browser Use is freemium: there is a free tier you can work in and paid plans above it. It is one of 391 freemium tools in the catalog, all labelled the same way so you are never surprised by a paywall.

What can Browser Use do?

Browser Use does 3 things the catalog singles out: Open-source library to run browser agents locally for free; hosted agent api billed per token + browser-hour; managed browser infrastructure for scaling agents.

What is the best free alternative to Browser Use?

Playwright MCP is the closest free alternative: it sits in the same Browser & Computer-Use Agents sub-category and is free. Browserbase, Firecrawl and Skyvern also start free. The full list is on the alternatives page.

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Browser Use alternatives

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Browserbase

Browser & Computer-Use Agents
freemium
  • Free tier: 1 browser-hour/month, 3 concurrent browsers, 3 agent runs
  • Creator of Stagehand, an AI-native browser automation framework
  • Agent identity management for logging into restricted sites

Skyvern

Browser & Computer-Use Agents
freemium
  • Vision+LLM based automation that survives UI/DOM changes (no brittle selectors)
  • 22,700+ GitHub stars, self-hostable via Docker
  • Used by 500+ enterprises for workflow automation on arbitrary sites

Steel.dev

Browser & Computer-Use Agents
freemium
  • Open-source browser API for fleets of cloud browsers
  • Free launch tier with one-time starting credits, no card required
  • Built-in auto-CAPTCHA solving and proxy management, sessions up to 24h

Firecrawl

Browser & Computer-Use Agents
freemium
  • Converts any site into clean LLM-ready markdown/structured data
  • Free tier: 1,000 credits/month, no card required
  • Crawl, scrape, map and search endpoints purpose-built for RAG/agent pipelines

Playwright MCP

Browser & Computer-Use Agents
free
  • Official Microsoft MCP server exposing Playwright browser control to any MCP client
  • Uses accessibility snapshots instead of screenshots/vision, faster and more deterministic
  • 36k+ GitHub stars, Apache-2.0 licensed

Simular

Browser & Computer-Use Agents
trial
  • Sai: always-on computer-use agent operating a private cloud virtual desktop
  • 72.6% success on computer-use benchmarks, above reported human baseline
  • Works across desktop GUI, APIs, terminals, and code, not just browser tasks

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