Browser Use
Free open code that lets any AI model drive a browser.
FreeOpen sourceRuns on your PC
- Best for
- Tinkerers automating websites
- On your PC
- Technical
- Works on
- Windows, Mac, Linux, API
- License
- MIT
What’s good
- Free and open, about 120,000 GitHub stars
- Works with local models through Ollama
- Strong WebVoyager score for an open project
Downsides
- Needs Python and command line skills
- Small local models make more wrong clicks
- No safety checks unless you add them yourself
At a glance.
- Best for
- Tinkerers automating websites
- Price
- Free, open source
- For developers
- Browsers $0.02 per hour; BU Fast $0.12/$0.60 per million tokens
- Works on
- Windows, Mac, Linux, API
- Open source
- Yes, MIT
- Website
- browser-use.com
How it ranks.
- WebVoyager via Steel#8 · 89.12026-11-05
Can I run it myself?
Yes. Technical: command line or python.
Use Python with Ollama for a local model.
- You need
- Any computer; a local 8B model needs 8 GB RAM, better with GPU
- Setup
- TechnicalCommand line or Python
- Laptop, 8 GBRuns
- PC, 16 GB+Runs
- Mac, 16 GBRuns
- Mac, 32 GBRuns
- Mac, 64 GB+Runs
- PC, 8 GB GPURuns
- PC, 12 GB GPURuns
- PC, 16 GB GPURuns
- PC, 24 GB GPURuns
- WorkstationRuns