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Browser Use

Leading open-source web agent project with 50k stars in 3 months

DevToolsSan Francisco, USFounded 2024
Browser Use

Our Take

Browser Use is the fastest-growing open-source web agent project in history—50,000 GitHub stars in just 3 months. That's not a typo. Avinash Sukhwani and Gregor Zunic built Browser Use because it simply wasn't possible to use any LLM with a browser, and they asked themselves the obvious question: how hard could it be? Pretty hard, as it turns out. But they cracked it anyway. Avinash comes from Payflow, previously at Rocket Internet and BCG, with degrees from Cambridge, MIT, and Imperial College London. Gregor rounds out the team. These two went from zero to 50k stars faster than most projects get to 500.

Here's why this matters: when OpenAI launched Operator four days ago, the Browser Use community went absolutely feral requesting a hosted version. They shipped it in days. Browser Use now gives you AI-powered browser automation at scale—97 percent accuracy on benchmarks, sub-second cold starts, and the most stealthy anti-detect browsers in the game. They're offering browser infrastructure at $0.02 per hour, which is three times cheaper than anything else on the market. They've got residential proxies across 195 countries, CAPTCHA solving, and custom LLMs purpose-built for browser automation. SOC 2 compliant. Fully hosted web agents. This isn't a side project—it's the infrastructure layer for every AI agent that needs to touch the web.

The open-source community is absolutely massive and growing fast. Browser Use Box gives you a 24/7 Claude agent you can drive from Telegram, the web, or SSH. They just launched v2.1 and the changelog is moving weekly. If you're building AI agents that need to browse, scrape, or interact with websites at scale, you're either using Browser Use or you're reinventing the wheel. Welcome to the future of web automation.

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DevTools
Location
San Francisco, US
Founded
2024
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Co-founder at Payflow 📱ex-Rocket Internet and ex-BCG 👨‍💻University of Cambridge, MIT and Imperial College London 👨‍🎓 Madrid-based 🇪🇸 I like startups! 🚀

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