Browserbase

Browserbase is a cloud platform for running and managing headless browser sessions at scale, built for web automation and AI agents.

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Browserbase: A web browser for AI agents & applications
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https://www.browserbase.com

What it is

Browserbase is “browser infrastructure as a service” — instead of running Playwright/Puppeteer/Selenium on your own servers, you spin up real browser sessions in the cloud via an API.

Why it exists

Running browser automation reliably is painful at scale:
- browsers are heavy and expensive
- sessions crash, hang, or get blocked
- debugging is hard without recordings/logs
- scaling from 10 → 10,000 sessions requires real infrastructure

Browserbase abstracts all of that.

Core capabilities

  • Cloud-based headless browser sessions (on demand)
  • Session management (start/stop, concurrency, scaling)
  • Debugging + observability (recordings, logs, replay)
  • Designed for both:
  • scripted automation (Playwright/Puppeteer)
  • agentic workflows (LLM-driven browsing)

Typical use cases

  • AI agents that need to actually use the web
  • Web scraping from dynamic JS-heavy sites
  • Automating multi-step UI workflows (logins, portals, forms)
  • QA / testing that needs reliable browser execution

Key value

Browserbase turns browsers into a scalable backend service — so you focus on automation logic and outcomes, not browser ops.

Docs

https://docs.browserbase.com/introduction/getting-started#next-steps

Framework

Browserbase requires a framework: Stagehand, Playwright, Puppeteer or Selenium.

I have used Selenium in the past, but Stagehand is recommended as it’s built and maintained by the Browserbase team.

Stagehand

https://docs.browserbase.com/introduction/stagehand

  • Recommended for AI-Native Workflows
  • Javascript and Python support
  • Self-healing page automations
  • LLM-powered browser control
  • AI-first architecture

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