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Browser Use

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Velocity6.3

Browser Use put its API behind X402 micropayments and made session management free.

browser agentsx402usage pricingmicropaymentsllm gatewaysession management
◆Current state
Browser Use ships infrequently but each release moves something structural. The August release restructured what customers pay for - X402 top-ups from one cent, payment required only to open a new browser, per-run cost caps scaled per model up to $100 - alongside session sharing via public links, thumbs-up/down feedback on run outputs, and a consolidated usage page covering Agents, Browsers, and the LLM Gateway. Earlier in the year the product added OAuth browser access, recording controls, BYOK, and its own models.
◆Where it's heading
The pricing surface is being reshaped around agents as the paying customer rather than humans with credit cards: sub-cent top-ups and pay-per-browser-open only make sense if the thing buying is a program. Everything else in the release supports running many cheap sessions - free polling and follow-ups, per-model cost caps so expensive models stay usable, automatic retries on streaming stalls. The product is converging on being metered infrastructure rather than a subscription tool.
◆Prediction
Expect the free-versus-paid boundary to keep moving toward per-browser-open metering and more of the API to become callable without a prior account relationship; the entries do not show whether X402 stays optional alongside conventional billing.

◆Recent moves

  1. 9d ago

    X402 micropayments, free session management, and shared sessions

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    X402 pay-what-you-want top-ups from $0.01 land alongside a rewritten free/paid boundary where managing an open session costs nothing and only opening a new browser requires payment. Session sharing, per-run feedback, a consolidated usage page and per-model cost caps ship with it. This is the release that reorients Browser Use's commercial model around programmatic buyers.

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  2. 1mo ago

    Recording Controls & OAuth Browser Access

    Recording controls and OAuth browser access, which let agents work against authenticated sites without credential handling in the prompt. It is the access-and-audit groundwork that the later pricing work assumes is in place.

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  3. 4mo ago

    BYOK, Code Mode & Sensitive Data

    Bring-your-own-key support, Code Mode, and sensitive data handling. All three reduce what customers have to trust the platform with, consistent with a product courting developers rather than end users.

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  4. 4mo ago

    Free Tier, Agent Signup & New Pricing

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    A free tier, agent signup, and a new pricing structure - the earlier commercial reset that the August X402 release builds directly on. Agent signup in particular anticipated non-human customers months before the micropayment work landed.

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  5. 5mo ago

    CLI 2.0 + Weekly Update

    CLI 2.0 plus a weekly update roll-up. Developer surface work in a period where the product was still establishing its interfaces.

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  6. 5mo ago

    BU Agent API & SDK 3.0

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    The BU Agent API and SDK 3.0, which turned Browser Use from a tool into something other software calls. Every commercial change since - agent signup, X402, per-browser metering - depends on that API existing.

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