SiliconANGLE · Mar 2025
Coverage of the seed round emphasizing Browser Use's role in helping AI agents navigate the web and its rapid rise from a weekend experiment.
Leading open-source web agent project with 50k stars in 3 months
Company research
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Jul 29, 2026
Overview
Browser Use is a San Francisco-based AI browser automation company that combines an open-source Python library with managed cloud browser products, including hosted agents and browser infrastructure, to let AI agents interact with websites more reliably.
Primary product
AI browser automation platform with Hosted Agents (API V4), Browser Infrastructure, and the open-source browser-use Python library
Founded
2024
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Team size
10-20 employees
Work style
Onsite
Industry
Software Development
Sub-industry
AI agent infrastructure / browser automation
Offices
San Francisco, California, United States
Business model
Open-source software
Usage-based cloud infrastructure
Credit-based SaaS subscriptions
Managed agent/API services
Funding
People & investors
Leadership
Co-Founder, CEO
Co-Founder, CTO
Head of Open Source Software
Head of Browsers & Stealth
Work & culture
Public hiring copy describes a small, hyper-focused, engineering-first team with a strong build-in-public/open-source ethos, high urgency, and an expectation of in-person work in San Francisco.
Work style
Onsite
Visa sponsorship
No
Compensation
No public salary bands were found. Hiring copy emphasizes in-person commitment, strong GitHub activity, and willingness to relocate; compensation details are not disclosed publicly.
Benefits
On-site hacker-house setup in San Francisco
Product & market
Pricing
Credit-based SaaS plus usage-based metering: free tier, paid subscriptions (Dev/Business/Scaleup/Enterprise), browser-hours at $0.02/hour, and token/network add-ons.
Differentiators
- —Open-source-first plus managed cloud products
- —Browser automation built for AI agents, not just scraping
- —Stealth browser infrastructure with residential proxies and CAPTCHA handling
- —Low published browser-hour pricing ($0.02/hour)
- —Persistent profiles, session observability, and structured outputs
- —Benchmark-driven positioning on stealth and web-agent accuracy
Technology
Python
TypeScript
Chromium/CDP
Playwright
Puppeteer
Selenium
REST APIs
Open-source MIT-licensed library
Residential proxies
Anti-fingerprinting / stealth browser tech
Structured JSON outputs
Persistent profiles / session storage
Customers
Fortune 500 companies
Leading AI teams
Developers building login automation
Teams doing data extraction
QA/testing teams
CRM automation users
Competitors
OpenAI Operator
Browserbase
Anchor
Steel
Hyperbrowser
Playwright
Puppeteer
Selenium
Scale & contact
Estimated revenue
≈$1.4M ARR (third-party estimate)
Estimated monthly visits
540K
Traffic estimate as of Jun 2026
Latest news
Y Combinator · Mar 2025
Launch post describing the cloud product, pricing, persistent sessions, proxy rotation, and the open-source MIT-licensed library.
TechCrunch · Mar 2025
TechCrunch confirms the $17M seed round and explains Browser Use's approach of making websites more readable for AI agents.
Felicis · Mar 2025
Lead investor announcement describing Browser Use as open platform infrastructure for web-browsing AI agents and naming the cofounders.
Browser Use blog · Mar 2025
Official announcement of the $17M seed round led by Felicis Ventures, with participation from A Capital, Nexus Ventures, Y Combinator, Paul Graham, Liquid2, SV Angel, Pioneer Fund, and others.
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