BrowserOS

Open-source Chromium browser with a built-in AI agent that automates web tasks

What BrowserOS does

  • Open-source Chromium browser with a built-in AI agent that automates web tasks
  • Runs with local models via Ollama or your own keys, keeping data on your machine
  • Positioned as a free alternative to Comet and ChatGPT Atlas
  • Supports MCP servers

BrowserOS — straight answers

What is BrowserOS?

BrowserOS is listed under Browser & Computer-Use Agents, in the AI Agents & Automation category on Flocci AI Tools. Open-source Chromium browser with a built-in AI agent that automates web tasks. It is free, with no paid plan attached, and it lives at browseros.com.

Is BrowserOS free?

BrowserOS is listed as fully free — there is no paid tier attached to it in the catalog. That makes it one of the 397 entries on Flocci AI Tools with no upgrade path built in.

Can I use BrowserOS in a browser, or is there an app?

BrowserOS needs to be installed or self-hosted — it doesn't run in a browser tab. It is available on Mac and Windows.

What can BrowserOS do?

BrowserOS does 4 things the catalog singles out: Open-source chromium browser with a built-in ai agent that automates web tasks; runs with local models via ollama or your own keys, keeping data on your machine; positioned as a free alternative to comet and chatgpt atlas; supports mcp servers.

What is the best free alternative to BrowserOS?

Alibaba Page Agent is the closest free alternative: it sits in the same Browser & Computer-Use Agents sub-category and is free. Amazon Nova Act SDK, MagenticLite and Microsoft OmniParser also start free. The full list is on the alternatives page.

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Browser Use

Browser & Computer-Use Agents
freemium
  • Open-source library to run browser agents locally for free
  • Hosted agent API billed per token + browser-hour
  • Managed browser infrastructure for scaling agents

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

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