Pick Browser Use if
developers automating bookings, research, or QA in a real browser who will pay per hour or bring their own LLM.
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Our take
Pick Browser Use if developers automating bookings, research, or QA in a real browser who will pay per hour or bring their own LLM. Pick Director if ops and analysts who know the workflow (“download last month’s invoices”) but do not want to start in Playwright. Skip Browser Use if people who need a no-code workflow without an agent loop (n8n, Langflow) or a coding IDE agent (Cursor). Skip Director if teams that
Best for
Browser Use Let an agent click a real website
Director Automate a website without writing Playwright first
Free plan
Browser Use $0 · mIT. You bring a model key
Director $0 · /mo. 3 concurrent; 1 browser hour; 3 Agent runs; 1,000 Search; 1,000 Fetch
Lowest paid
Browser Use Cloud free credit $1
Director Developer $20/mo
Next step up
Browser Use
Director Startup $99/mo
Coding agent
Browser Use README demo still
Director Live browser session
Runs where
Browser Use Local; you host it
Director Local; you host it
Watch out
Browser Use $0.02/hour is the browser, not Opus
Director Director hours are Browserbase hours
Last checked
Browser Use 2026-10-21 · browser-use.com/pricing
Director 2026-10-22 · docs.browserbase.com/account/billing
Which one, then?
Pick Director if
ops and analysts who know the workflow (“download last month’s invoices”) but do not want to start in Playwright.
Read the Director page