Browserbase offers a powerful, serverless browser infrastructure designed to empower AI agents and applications with seamless web interaction capabilities. It allows developers to autonomously read, write, and perform tasks on the web, eliminating the need for managing complex infrastructure. This platform is built for scalability, speed, and security, making it an ideal solution for a wide range of use cases.
Core Features:
- Seamless Integration: Browserbase is compatible with popular automation frameworks like Playwright, Puppeteer, and Selenium, as well as its own framework, Stagehand. It can be integrated without altering existing code by simply pointing to Browserbase's browsers. It also supports native connections via the Chrome DevTools Protocol.
- Scalability: The platform can spin up thousands of browsers in milliseconds, thanks to its serverless infrastructure. This ensures that applications can handle high loads without delays, with Browserbase managing the underlying infrastructure.
- Speed: With globally distributed browsers and 4 vCPUs allocated to each browser, pages load exceptionally fast, minimizing latency and improving user experience.
- Security: Browser instances are isolated to ensure data privacy and security. The platform is SOC-2 Type 1 and HIPAA compliant, with self-hosted options available for enhanced control. Configurable logging options provide maximum control over sensitive data.
- Observability: Features like Live View allow embedding browser activity directly into applications, enabling real-time oversight and even user control. Session recording, source code capture, and command logging facilitate easy debugging of past sessions.
- Stealth: Browserbase manages captcha solving, residential proxies, and fingerprint generation to ensure smooth and uninterrupted automation. Its proxy super network intelligently selects the best proxy for the target, and users can configure various aspects like browser fingerprint and proxy geolocation.
- Extensibility: The platform supports API integrations for file uploads, downloads, and custom browser extensions. The Contexts API allows for persistent cookies and browser state across sessions. First-class SDKs are available for Node.js and Python.
- Developer First: Browserbase prioritizes developer experience with features like a Browser Playground and AI Codegen for easy script generation. Comprehensive documentation covers performance, parallelization, and authentication, with quick-start guides for Node.js and Python.
Target Users:
Browserbase is designed for developers, AI engineers, and businesses looking to leverage AI for web automation, data scraping, workflow automation, and building intelligent agents. It's particularly beneficial for companies that are AI-first and require robust, scalable, and secure browser automation solutions.
Use Cases:
- Browser Tool for AI Agents: Empowering AI agents to interact with the web, perform complex tasks, and gather information.
- Workflow Automation: Automating repetitive web-based tasks and processes.
- Web Scraping: Efficiently extracting data from websites at scale.
- AI Model Evaluation: As highlighted by the Microsoft announcement, Browserbase is used to evaluate and train computer use models in real-world scenarios.
Browserbase aims to abstract away the complexities of browser infrastructure, allowing developers to focus on building innovative AI-powered applications.
