Open-source agent on the cloud

The cloud browser-use agent is the open-source agent, hosted — same agent, same models, running on stealth browsers.

The browser-use agent you run on the cloud is the open-source browser-use agent — the same agent, hosted for you. Same behavior, and you can run the exact same models. The difference is where it runs: on the cloud it drives our stealth browsers — hardened Chromium with randomized fingerprints, automatic CAPTCHA solving, and residential proxies — so it gets past the bot detection that blocks a local Chromium.

One call, no infrastructure:

curl

curl -X POST https://api.browser-use.com/api/v1/agents/browser-use/runs \
  -H "X-Browser-Use-API-Key: $BROWSER_USE_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"task": "List the top 5 posts on Hacker News with their points"}'

Self-host or cloud?

	Self-hosted (open source)	Cloud
Agent	browser-use	The same browser-use
Setup	Your machines, your browser, your keys	None — one API call
Browser	Whatever you run locally	Stealth browsers: anti-fingerprinting, CAPTCHA solving, residential proxies
Logins	Manage your own browser state	Profiles — saved login state by id

Self-host when you want full control on your own infra. Use the cloud when you want the same agent with zero setup and browsers that don’t get blocked — see Stealth.