# Browser Use

An open-source Python library that lets AI agents drive a real browser.

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Markdown: https://softbests.com/software/browser-use.md
Website: https://browser-use.com

- Category: [Agent infrastructure](https://softbests.com/category/agent-tools)
- Pricing: Freemium
- Platforms: macOS, Windows, Linux, Web

## Best for

Developers building agents that need to click, type, and read pages on sites without an API.

## Why it deserves attention

Browser Use wraps Playwright and the CDP in a Python library that hands a model the page as structured DOM and screenshots, so the agent can plan clicks, forms, uploads, and multi-tab work without hand-written selectors. It is MIT-licensed, has more than 119,000 GitHub stars, and works with Claude, GPT, Gemini, or a local model. The project also sells a cloud with stealth browsers and a hosted agent API, while the library stays free. The trade-off is that long tasks still need supervision and retries, sites with aggressive bot protection can block automation, and hosted runs are billed per task.

## Can replace

- Selenium

## Related and alternatives

- [Playwright MCP](https://softbests.com/software/playwright-mcp)
- [Browserbase](https://softbests.com/software/browserbase)