Browserbase

Browserbase operates infrastructure that lets AI agents browse the web and interact with websites autonomously - treating the web as a programmable interface. The platform provides browser infrastructure, web search, and data extraction to automate tasks that normally require human web interaction.

Three core capabilities make up the offering: browser-as-a-service provides real browser instances that agents can control to navigate sites, fill out forms, and perform complex interactions. The Search API offers web search optimized for agent queries, while the Fetch API converts URLs directly into formats such as HTML, JSON, or markdown. "Agent Identity" handles authentication and CAPTCHA solving, while observability tools like session replay and live viewing provide transparency into running agent sessions. The infrastructure is SOC 2 Type II compliant and supports dynamic content and unpredictable UI navigation.

According to the company, Browserbase processes more than 35 million browser sessions a month across 10,000 customers, including Microsoft, Ramp, and Lovable, with around 800,000 weekly SDK downloads and 100,000 active developers.

The business model is API-key-based freemium: free trials plus paid usage tiers for browser sessions, searches, and data fetches.

Browserbase was founded in 2024 and is explicitly built for the growing need of AI agents to research and act autonomously on the web - a use case that only became relevant with the rise of agentic AI systems.