Browser Use vs Browserbase: Pricing, Stealth & Performance
By Steven Van ·
Browser Use's own benchmarks claim lower prices, higher stealth scores and faster sessions than Browserbase, while conceding Selenium and session length.
A Browser Use comparison with Browserbase sets the two browser infrastructure providers side by side on pricing, stealth, performance and developer experience. The figures come from Browser Use's own benchmarks, and the post says Browserbase was tested on Basic Stealth.
Pricing
Browser Use is pay-as-you-go with no subscription. A browser hour costs $0.02 and a GB of residential proxy data costs $5. Credits never expire, and the free tier is a one-time $1 credit for eligible Google, GitHub or Microsoft signups.
Browserbase uses monthly plans ($0, $20, $99, custom) with fixed allowances of browser hours, proxy data and API requests. Overage is $0.10 to $0.12 per browser hour and $10 to $12 per GB of proxy data. Browser Use puts itself at about 5x cheaper per browser hour and about 2x cheaper per GB of proxy at scale. It notes that some teams may value the API requests included in Browserbase's plans.
Stealth
Both providers can solve CAPTCHAs, run residential proxies and manage fingerprints. In Browser Use's stealth benchmark, Browserbase (Basic Stealth) scored 42% against 81% for Browser Use. The post says the gap held across repeated runs and anti-bot vendors including Cloudflare, PerimeterX and Datadome. In BrowserBench, Browserbase scored 70.3% and Browser Use 84.8%.
Browserbase's Advanced Stealth, which uses a custom Chromium build, is only on the Scale plan. Browser Use runs every browser on a custom Chromium build with real fingerprints, with no tiers.
Performance and limits
On the open-source Browser Arena benchmark (maintained by Notte, 100 runs, measured September 14, 2026), a full session cycle took 372 ms on Browser Use and 1009 ms on Browserbase, about 2.7x faster. Session creation was roughly level (160 ms against 150 ms). Browser Use was faster at connecting over CDP (111 ms against 590 ms), navigating (61 ms against 147 ms) and releasing (40 ms against 122 ms).
Browserbase allows longer sessions: up to 6 hours on paid plans and 15 minutes on Free, against a 4-hour cap on Browser Use.
Concurrency on Browser Use scales with lifetime spend:
- $0: 10 concurrent browsers
- $200: 50
- $1,000: 250
- $5,000: 500
- $25,000: 1,000
Browserbase ties concurrency to plan: 3 on Free, 25 on Developer, 100 on Startup and 250+ on Scale.
Developer experience
Both offer Python and JavaScript/TypeScript SDKs, REST APIs and CDP access, which gives out-of-the-box Playwright and Puppeteer support. Browserbase also offers a direct Selenium connection, a session inspector, more mature session-replay tooling, the Stagehand framework, and Search, Fetch and Extract endpoints that work without a full browser session. Browser Use Agents takes a goal and returns the result.
The vendor's recommendation
Browser Use recommends itself for affordable, stealthy infrastructure or a hosted agent. It suggests Browserbase for teams that need direct Selenium support, prefer its tooling or plan to use Stagehand.