Managed headless-browser infrastructure for AI agents — spins up isolated Chromium sessions with stealth defenses, proxy rotation, and live-view debugging so your agent can browse the real web without you running the fleet.
Managed headless-browser infrastructure for AI agents — spins up isolated Chromium sessions with stealth defenses, proxy rotation, and live-view debugging so your agent can browse the real web without you running the fleet.
Browserbase is a cloud platform that runs headless Chromium browsers as a service, specifically tuned for AI agents and automation workloads. You start a session over their SDK or Puppeteer/Playwright/CDP endpoints and get an isolated browser with stealth defenses (fingerprinting mitigations, human-like input patterns), a rotating proxy pool, captcha-solving hooks, and session recording. A live-view URL lets you (or your agent) watch what the browser is doing in real time, which is invaluable when debugging long-running scrapes or agent tasks. On top of the raw runtime, Browserbase ships Stagehand — a higher-level TypeScript library that adds observe/act/extract primitives so agents can navigate pages by intent instead of hand-authored selectors — and Director, a visual builder for browser automations. Pricing has a free Developer tier (60 session minutes/mo, 100 proxy MB), Startup ($39/mo), Scale ($299/mo), and Enterprise plans with volume commitments. Browserbase is used by Perplexity, OpenAI, Anthropic, and dozens of AI agent startups as the browser-execution layer under their user-facing products. For anyone building agents that need to shop, book, submit forms, or research on the live web, Browserbase is the most mature managed offering.
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Browserbase is a strong fit for production web agents, but use full browser sessions only when APIs or simpler fetch tools cannot solve the task.
Managed real browsers for agents to use interactive websites
Search API and Fetch API for agent-focused web data retrieval
Sandboxed Runtime for scalable agent deployments
Identity layer for authenticated web navigation
Browserbase combines replay debugging, logs, prompts, Browse CLI, Stagehand, and Director so teams can inspect why browser-agent workflows failed.
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