# Browser Use review (2026): is the free plan enough? > Browser agents and cloud browsers for AI apps Checked Nov 12, 2026 ยท graded Nov 12, 2026 by ToolGPA. Browser Use sells three things for automating the web: agents that take a task and return JSON, cloud browsers with stealth and proxy options, and Browser Harness, an open-source tool that lets coding agents drive Chrome. Cloud products are billed by use from prepaid credits, with no subscription. - **Category:** AI Agents - **Made by:** Browser Use - **Website:** https://browser-use.com - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Not for you if you want a no-code app, as it is built around an API key and docs. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 12, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 12, 2026, Browser Use has a free plan, and paid plans start at $5 minimum top-up, used as you go. - **Pricing model:** Free plan - **Free plan:** Browser Harness is free and open source (MIT); on the cloud, each person gets a one-time $1 signup credit that never expires. - **Free trial:** None listed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | 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. | | Enterprise | Custom | Concurrency past 1,000, annual credit pools, custom SLAs, HIPAA, EU data residency and on-prem deployment. | Read from https://browser-use.com/pricing on Nov 12, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Browser Use before buying. ## Key features - **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. ## Good for - Developers adding browser automation to an AI app without a subscription - Coding-agent users who want an open-source way to drive Chrome - Teams that need scraping behind login walls with proxies ## Worth knowing - 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. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.6 out of 4**, graded Nov 12, 2026. Browser Use runs web agents and stealth cloud browsers, with a free MIT-licensed Browser Harness you run in your own Chrome. The cloud is pay as you go from a $5 top-up. It is for developers, with an API key and docs rather than a no-code app. - **Value for money: A.** The open-source harness is free to run in your own Chrome, and the cloud has no subscription, only a $5 top-up that never expires. - **Free plan and trial: B.** The harness is free and open source for Claude Code and Codex, and each cloud person gets a one-time $1 credit. - **Features: C.** Web agents, stealth browsers and a choice of models, but concurrency starts at 10 and unlocks by total paid. - **Ease of use: D.** No store rating on record. The page lists an API key and docs, not a no-code app. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web only, with three integrations, an API and an open-source harness; no desktop or phone app. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Browser Use's own pages on 12 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among AI agents - Browser Use's GPA of 2.6 is higher than 70 of the 101 other AI agents we grade, and level with 17. - It stands best on value for money (A, above 91 of 101) and worst on ease of use (D, above 0). The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/ai-agents ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** To replace Browser Use you would be making an AI agent, with the models and the safeguards behind it. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. It is one of the better ones too: its GPA of 2.6 is higher than 70 of the 101 other AI agents we grade. Browser Use is open source, so there is a third way: take its code and run it yourself. - You could not: An AI agent, with the models and the safeguards behind it. - You could not: It plugs into other products, Claude Code, Codex and Hermes Agent among them, and has an API. - You could not: What a company asks for before it lets staff use something: SOC 2 and HIPAA. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with Claude Code, Codex, Hermes Agent **Tags:** AI agents, Open source, Public API ## Alternatives - [Browserbase](https://toolgpa.com/tools/browserbase): Cloud browsers and APIs for agents that use the web. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/browser-use-vs-browserbase) - [Airtop](https://toolgpa.com/tools/airtop): AI agents that automate web, app and API workflows from a chat. 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