Drive a browser
Browser Use
Cloud browsers with stealth and proxies you control over CDP, plus an agent API and an open-source Python library.
At a glance
- Provider
- Browser Use
- Category
- Drive a browser
- Type
- Hosted browser
- Pricing model
- Pay as you go, prepaid credits2
- Free tier
- $1 one-time signup credit1
- Authentication
- API key in
X-Browser-Use-API-Keyheader; Bearer key for the MCP server4 - Connect via
- REST API (v4), CDP URL for Playwright/Puppeteer/Selenium, remote MCP server, Python and TypeScript SDKs, open-source library4
- Read from the provider's pages
- 2026-11-04
Pricing
- Pricing model: Pay as you go, prepaid credits; no subscription
- Free tier: $1 one-time credit per person, for eligible Google, GitHub or Microsoft signups
- Card required for free tier: No
- Official MCP server: Yes, remote
- Address or package:
https://api.browser-use.com/v3/mcp
- Who creates the account: A person; agent self-signup is off
- Where to get a key: Cloud dashboard (API keys settings); keys belong to a project
- Other requirements: Sign-in with Google, GitHub or Microsoft for the free credit; no card for the free credit; auto recharge needs a saved payment method
- REST API:
https://api.browser-use.com/api/v4(EU:https://api.eu.browser-use.com/api/v4) - MCP server:
https://api.browser-use.com/v3/mcp - OpenAPI spec:
https://docs.browser-use.com/cloud/openapi/v4.json
- Per-project request budget: Default max(25, 2 x concurrency) requests per second, capped at 100 for creates, lists, updates, deletes, event reads and full run reads
- Edge limit per IP: 1,000 requests per second per public source IP for general traffic, over a 300-second window
- Data location: US by default; separate EU deployment in Frankfurt, Germany
- Retention: Not stated for general use; with Zero Data Retention, save results and files within 15 minutes after completion
- Used for training: The privacy policy says inputs are used to train models; ZDR page does not address training
Read from Browser Use’s own pages on 2026-11-04. Every number links to the page a value came from. For agents, the same facts as markdown: /tools/drive-a-browser/browser-use.md