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Browser Use Cloud vs Stagehand
Browser Use Cloud or Stagehand? Their plans monthly and yearly, the capabilities their makers state, security and latest updates, side by side — read from the makers' own pages.
In short
- Both: Choice of models, API, Official SDKs, Builds agents and workflows
- Only Browser Use Cloud states: Command line, No code retained, Runs models for you
- Only Stagehand states: Traces and evaluates
Browser Use Cloud
Browser Use Cloud runs AI agents in real browsers for web research, data extraction, automation, monitoring, and testing.
Plans
Browsers
- $0.02 / hour
- For your own agents and automation
- Browser time + traffic; proxies are on by default
Enterprise
Price on request
- Custom concurrency
- Custom SLAs
- Custom data policy
- HIPAA support and zero data retention
Prices checked 2026-09-25 on the maker’s page.
Capabilities
- Command line — “Browser Use CLI 3.0 gives coding agents a browser and the ability to execute Python within it.” source
- Choice of models — “Post the task, pick a model, and the agent handles the clicking, scrolling, logins and retries on the other side.” source
- No code retained — “HIPAA support and zero data retention.” source
- API — “The Browser Harness (v4) agent API is now part of our public API surface — listed in the OpenAPI spec, docs, and SDK codegen.” source
- Official SDKs — “The Browser Harness (v4) agent API is now part of our public API surface — listed in the OpenAPI spec, docs, and SDK codegen.” source
- Runs models for you — “Use our model with your own agent.” source
- Builds agents and workflows — “The Browser Harness (v4) agent API is now part of our public API surface” source
Latest updates
- Faster Sessions, BYOK Pricing Fix & Reliability Updates
Opening a v4 session now takes a single request instead of several; BYOK now costs the same as the managed path.
- Scheduled V4 Agents, Agency Skill & Model Picker Updates
V4 agents can now be scheduled, with pause/resume controls; new Agency skill; bu-2-0-mini-preview is now available.
- Session Sharing, Usage Analytics & X402 Pricing
Delete and rename sessions directly from the sidebar; share a session via a public link; Usage and analytics moved to a single redesigned page.
Stagehand
Open-source SDK for building browser agents that act, observe, extract data, and run workflows using natural-language instructions.
Plans
Free Plan
Free
- 3 concurrent browsers
- 1 browser hour
- 3 Agent runs included
- 1,000 Search calls
- 1,000 Fetch calls
- 15 minutes /session
Developer Plan
- $20/mo
- then $0.12/browser hr
- Then $12/GB
- 25 concurrent browsers
- 100 browser hours
- 15 Agent runs included
- 1,000 Search calls
- 1,000 Fetch calls
- 1 GB of proxies
Startup Plan
- $99/mo
- then $0.10/browser hr
- then $10/GB
- 100 concurrent browsers
- 500 browser hours
- 50 Agent runs included
- 1,000 Search calls
- 10,000 Fetch calls
- 5 GB of proxies
Scale Plan
Price on request
- 250+ concurrent browsers
- 500+ browser hours
- Custom Agent runs
- 10,000+ Search calls; usage-based
- 10,000+ Fetch calls; usage-based
- HIPAA (BAA) & DPA; SSO available
Prices checked 2026-09-25 on the maker’s page.
Capabilities
- Choice of models — “Stagehand supports all major model providers — including OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google Gemini — via the Vercel AI SDK.” source
- API — “Perform browser actions from a plain-English instruction. Click, fill, navigate, scroll.” source
- Official SDKs — “Stagehand is an open source SDK that uses AI to make your browser agents resilient, readable, and production-ready.” source
- Builds agents and workflows — “Use agent when you need multi-step workflows executed autonomously, like navigating a complex checkout flow.” source
- Traces and evaluates — “session replay, prompt observability” source
Security
- SOC 2 Type II — “SOC 2 Type 2 Report - 2026” source
- SOC 2 — “SOC 2 Type 2 Report - 2026” source
- HIPAA — “HIPAA Compliance Policy” source
Latest updates
- Configurable caching in Stagehand (v4)
Stagehand v4 caches act(), observe(), and extract() results on Browserbase's servers. Now you control it.
- Introducing Stagehand v4: the SDK for browser agents (v4)
Improved context management, self-healing actions, and iframe support; Stagehand now lives in the browser as an extension.
- Cut inference costs 30–40% with Model Router
Set model: "auto", and Browserbase selects the model for each call server-side, balancing accuracy, speed, and cost automatically.