Director

What it is for

Director is Browserbase’s plain-language web-automation cockpit: you type a task, it runs a live cloud browser, and it can emit a Stagehand script you can rerun. Use it when the job is automate a website without writing Playwright first.

It is not a separate seat SKU. Runs bill on Browserbase plans. Free is $0/mo. Developer is the first public paid card.

What makes it unique: the cover is Browserbase’s official Agent-run still — live page, action/reason log, and Optimize — not a pixel-art poster.

Key features

• Natural-language run — describe a task (cover: “Run a KYB check…”) and Director drives the page (Introducing Director).
• Live browser session — watch the remote page while the agent clicks and types (cover; Director).
• Action / reason log — each step is a Reason or Action with a timestamp (cover).
• Stagehand script out — the same run can emit reusable Stagehand code (Introducing Director).
• Self-correct / Optimize — the agent adapts when a page changes; the cover exposes Optimize (Introducing Director).
• Cloud browsers underneath — sessions run on Browserbase infrastructure, not a local Chrome you manage (Director).

Who it's for

Best fit: ops and analysts who know the workflow (“download last month’s invoices”) but do not want to start in Playwright.

Poor fit: teams that already write Stagehand locally, or that need a scrape-to-markdown API (Firecrawl).

Pricing

Verified 2026-10-22 (Asia/Shanghai) from docs.browserbase.com/account/billing/plans and the live cards on browserbase.com/pricing. Director has no public seat price of its own. Re-check before you buy.

• Free — $0/mo. 3 concurrent; 1 browser hour; 3 Agent runs; 1,000 Search; 1,000 Fetch.
• Developer — $20/mo. 25 concurrent; 100 hours then $0.12/hr; 15 Agent runs; captcha solving.
• Startup — $99/mo. 100 concurrent; 500 hours then $0.10/hr; 50 Agent runs.
• Scale — custom (250+ concurrent; HIPAA/BAA, SSO).

director.ai itself returned 503 on this check; the live product URL is browserbase.com/director.

Limitations / costs

• Director hours are Browserbase hours. Developer overage is $0.12/hr.
• Agent-run buckets are small on Free (3 calls) and still finite on Developer (15).
• Not self-hostable as a product. The Stagehand SDK is the open piece.
• director.ai was paused (503) when we fetched it; use the Browserbase URL.

Alternatives

• Stagehand — same primitives in code (MIT; local Chrome $0).
• Browserbase — the hosted session grid Director already bills on.
• Browser Use — MIT agent loop plus Cloud if you want a library, not a cockpit.

Official tutorial

Written path: Introducing Director plus Director. Official Browserbase channel: youtube.com/@browserbase.

Website

https://www.browserbase.com/director

Source

Catalog row curated for AI Tools Nav. Cover is Browserbase’s official Agent-run still (live browser + action log + Optimize). Dollars from Browserbase Plans (Free $0; Developer $20; Startup $99). director.ai returned 503 on 2026-10-22.

Last verified

2026-10-22 (Asia/Shanghai) editorial check.