The short version
- Choose Browser Use if your agent has to do things on the web — log in, fill forms, click through flows — and you want an open-source agent you can run yourself.
- Choose SarvCrawl if your agent needs to know what whole sites and documents say, as clean markdown, chunked, embedded and searchable.
SarvCrawl and Browser Use, side by side
| SarvCrawl | Browser Use | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | Crawl-to-knowledge-base API | Open-source browser agent library and cloud |
| Best for | Content you want to search — web pages and documents together | Agents that complete tasks in a real browser |
| Output | Markdown, HTML, JSON, links, images | Task results as text or structured JSON; screenshots |
| JavaScript rendering | Yes, where a page needs it | Yes, real Chromium, local or in the cloud |
| Documents | PDF, Office, EPUB, images and audio; OCR for scans | Not a documented focus |
| Chunking, embeddings, search | Built in (search on paid plans) | Not offered |
| Anti-bot and proxies | Not the focus | Stealth browsers, residential proxies, CAPTCHA handling in the cloud |
| Pricing | 1 billion free tokens, no card; paid plans | Pay as you go from a $5 top-up: browser time plus model cost |
| Hosting and licence | Hosted, or self-host: Apache-2.0 with an AGPL-3.0 engine | MIT library, run locally; hosted cloud |
| Integrations | REST, Node, Python, CLI, n8n, 21 MCP tools | Python library, Python and TypeScript SDKs, MCP server, CLI, n8n |
Where they really differ
Browser Use is an agent: give it a task in plain language and an LLM drives a real browser — reading the page, clicking, typing — until it is done, returning text or structured output. The library is MIT-licensed and one of the most popular open-source agent projects; the cloud adds stealth browsers, proxies and CAPTCHA handling, or raw browsers you connect to over CDP.
The cloud is pay as you go: browser time billed per minute, model cost plus a margin for agent runs, and residential proxy traffic per GB. Cost follows how many steps a task takes. It is built to act, not to collect a whole site.
SarvCrawl is built to know. One crawl call follows links across a public site, parses linked documents, and lands everything in a knowledge base, so an agent can look things up in milliseconds instead of browsing for them.
Using both
Let Browser Use handle the tasks that need clicks and logins, and give the same agent SarvCrawl as a searchable memory of the docs and sites it works with, both over MCP.
SarvCrawl vs Browser Use: questions
Is SarvCrawl a Browser Use alternative?
Only for reading public content. If your agent needs to act in a browser, Browser Use is the tool, and SarvCrawl is a good companion to it.
Is Browser Use open source?
Yes. The library is MIT-licensed and runs with your own LLM. Browser Use Cloud is a separate hosted service.
How is Browser Use Cloud priced?
Pay as you go with no subscription: browser time per minute, model cost plus a margin for agent runs, and proxy traffic per GB.
Why not let the agent browse every time?
Browsing a site step by step is slow and costs tokens on every visit. A crawled knowledge base answers the same question with one search call.