Gemini Agent vs Browser Use vs H Company (Runner H / Holo) vs Browserbase
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
| GA Gemini Agent Google's browsing agent, and Project Mariner's successor — US and Engl... Visit | BU Browser Use Open-source Python library that lets LLM agents drive a real web brows... Visit |
H Company (Runner H / Holo)
Paris agent lab whose Holo 3 claims to beat GPT-5.4 on cost
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Browserbase
Managed-browser infrastructure for AI agents
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| RECATOOLS Score | 6.6 / 10 | 8.2 / 10 | 6.8 / 10 | 7.6 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Paid | Freemium | Custom | Freemium |
| Free tier | — | Library free under MIT (BYO LLM key); Cloud has a $0 Free plan | — | Free: 3 concurrent browsers, 1 browser hour, 3 agent runs and $5 of model tokens a month |
| Paid from | Included with Google AI Pro, from $19.99/mo | $29/month (Browser Use Cloud Dev plan) | Quoted — the vendor publishes no pricing page | $20/month (Developer, 100 browser hours) — Startup $99, extra hours $0.10–$0.12 |
| Has API | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ |
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| Founded | — | — | 2023 | 2024 |
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| Verdict | The supported successor to Project Mariner, bundled into a Gemini subscription rather than sold on its own — so if you already pay for AI Pro, trying it costs nothing.Read the regional limit first. It is US-only and Engl... |
Think of Browser Use as an agent automation tool first and a scraper second. It's a Python library that gives an LLM control of a real Chromium browser through the Chrome DevTools Protocol, using the project's open-sourc... |
H Company's research pedigree is real: the founding team came out of DeepMind, and the $220 million seed (Eric Schmidt, Amazon, Accel among the backers) was Europe's largest at the time. Holo 3's claimed 78.9% on OSWorld... |
Browserbase provides managed, scalable headless-browser infrastructure purpose-built for AI agents and web automation, with session recording, stealth/anti-bot handling, and the Stagehand SDK for natural-language browser... |
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Comparisons cover up to 4 tools. Scores are RECATOOLS editorial assessments; verify current pricing on each vendor's site.