Browser Use vs E2B (2026): which should you pick?

Pick Browser Use if

• Fits if you are a developer who wants browser agents with a free harness
• Works for someone who prefers pay as you go to a subscription

Look elsewhere if

• Not for you if you want a no-code app, as it is built around an API key and docs
• Watch out: costs follow use at $0.02 a browser hour and $5 a GB on home-IP proxies
• Tight if you scale: concurrency starts at 10 and is 50 after $100 paid
• Watch out: the default model rate is $0.12 per million input tokens, and other models cost more

Pick E2B if

• Fits if you build agents that run code and need an isolated place to run it
• Works for a developer who wants a $100 credit before paying

Look elsewhere if

• Pricey if you move to Pro: $150 a month before any sandbox usage
• Watch out: a default 2 vCPU sandbox is billed at $0.000028 a second and memory separately
• Tight if you scale: 600 or 1,100 concurrent sandboxes add $500 or $1,000 a month
• Not for you if you need a free allowance that renews, as the $100 credit does not
• Skip it if you want a no-code product, as it is used through SDK and API

Browser Use

• Costs follow use: $0.02 per browser hour, $5/GB on home-IP proxies and $0.20/GB direct.
• The default agent model rate is $0.12 per million input tokens and $0.60 output; other models cost more.
• Concurrency unlocks by total paid: 10 at the start, 50 after $100, 250 after $1,000.
• Aimed at developers: the page lists an API key and docs, not a no-code app.

E2B

• Usage is billed separately from the plan: for example a default 2 vCPU sandbox costs $0.000028 per second and 4 GiB of memory $0.000018 per second.
• The free Hobby tier is a one-time $100 credit, not a renewing allowance, and caps sessions at 1 hour and 10 concurrent sandboxes.
• Going from 100 to 600 or 1,100 concurrent sandboxes adds $500 or $1,000 a month on top of Pro.
• It is infrastructure for developers: there is a web console but the product is used through the SDK and API.

Browser Use

Web agents

Send a task and get JSON back. The pricing page lists a median task at $0.006 on the default model.

Stealth cloud browsers

Cloud browsers with CAPTCHA solving included and home-IP proxies, billed per browser hour plus traffic.

Browser Harness

A free, MIT-licensed tool that gives coding agents such as Claude Code and Codex control of your own Chrome.

Choice of models

Agents run on the vendor's BU models or models from OpenAI, Anthropic and others; bring your own key at provider cost plus 0.2x.

Enterprise deployment

US or EU cloud regions, on-prem browsers and agents through sales, and SOC 2 Type II with HIPAA and zero data retention available.

E2B

Isolated sandbox per session

Each agent session gets its own microVM with a shell, filesystem, network and an optional browser or desktop.

Snapshots and pause

Sandboxes start from a snapshot, and a sandbox can be paused and resumed from the same state.

Python and JavaScript SDKs

The sandbox is created and controlled from code with the e2b package for Python or npm.

Bring your own cloud

The same SDK works on E2B Cloud in the US, EU and APAC or inside your own AWS, GCP or Azure account.

MCP tools inside the sandbox

The site says more than 200 MCP servers can be called from inside a sandbox, and secrets are scoped per sandbox.

Per-second usage billing

Running sandboxes are charged by the second for vCPUs and memory, so cost follows run time and size.

Browser Use

• Browser Harness$0

  Open-source (MIT) harness for Claude Code and Codex; run it yourself in your own Chrome at no charge.

• Pay as you go$5

  one-time top-up, used as you go

  No subscription: credits from $5 (1 credit = $1) that never expire; up to 1,000 browsers at once.

• EnterpriseCustom

  Concurrency past 1,000, annual credit pools, custom SLAs, HIPAA, EU data residency and on-prem deployment.

E2B

• Hobby$0

  One-time $100 usage credit, sessions up to 1 hour, 10 concurrent sandboxes and the default sandbox CPU and RAM. Usage is charged against the credit.

• Pro$150

  per month, plus usage billed by the second

  Sessions up to 24 hours, 100 concurrent sandboxes (expandable to 1,100 with add-ons at +$500 and +$1,000 a month) and custom sandbox CPU and RAM.

• EnterpriseCustom

  Committed usage, custom billing, multi-day sessions, bring-your-own-cloud. The page says it starts at a $2,000 monthly commit.

Browser Use

No public discounts listed.

E2B

• Startups

  $20,000 in credits and Pro for early-stage startups

  A one-time $20,000 in credits plus the Pro tier for startups under three years old that have raised less than $5M.