Compare Browser Use vs. Gaffa

Browser Use provides hosted AI agents and remote browser infrastructure for automating work on websites. It helps developers connect software to tasks such as signing into portals, completing forms, collecting information, and downloading documents, especially where no usable API exists. Browser Use Agents accepts natural-language tasks and operates a managed browser to carry them out. Teams can delegate multi-step website work without building and maintaining their own agent loop. Use cases include cross-site research, authenticated document collection, data extraction, and repetitive portal workflows. Browser Infrastructure supplies remote Chromium sessions for teams running their own agents, Playwright scripts, or Puppeteer automation. It combines browser stealth, residential proxy options, and automatic handling of supported CAPTCHAs. Developers retain control of their automation logic while Browser Use manages the browsers. The MIT-licensed browser-use Python library supports running and customizing agents in your own environment with local or cloud browsers. Browser Harness, CLI tools, SDKs, and Model Context Protocol (MCP) interfaces provide additional ways to give existing applications and agents browser capabilities. Cloud services use pay-as-you-go pricing with no required subscription and no expiry on purchased credits. Browser runtime starts at $0.02/hour; network traffic is charged separately. Hosted agents add model costs and a 20% service fee. Eligible signups receive a one-time $15 cloud credit. The open-source library is free to use, with model and infrastructure costs depending on your setup.

Gaffa is a REST API built for web scraping and browser automation, allowing developers to run real, full browsers at scale with a single API call. It removes the difficulty of managing headless browser frameworks, rotating proxies, CAPTCHA solving, and scaling infrastructure, all of which are handled automatically. JavaScript-heavy and dynamic websites render exactly as they would for a human visitor by default. Beyond standard scraping, Gaffa supports AI-driven structured data extraction (extract data into a defined schema without writing CSS selectors), screenshot and PDF capture, infinite-scroll and form-filling automation, and clean Markdown conversion for feeding webpages directly into LLM and RAG pipelines. A rotating residential proxy network keeps access reliable across regions, and a credit-based pricing model means teams pay only for the browser time and bandwidth they actually use. Gaffa is designed for AI engineers, data teams, and developers who want production-grade web data extraction without having to build and maintain their own infrastructure.