comparison

browser-memory vs browser-use

Both help an AI agent use the web. One drives the browser live on every run. The other gives your agent a shared memory of pre-built, self-repairing skills, so it stops re-learning the page.

browser-memoryUpdated Jul 2026
browser-memorybrowser-use
Core ideaShared memory of pre-built skillsFramework to drive the browser live
Per-run behaviorCalls a saved tool for the siteRe-reads the page every run
Output to the modelStructured data (fields, rows)Screenshots and DOM state
When the site changesRepaired once, for every agentEach agent handles it alone
Missing capabilityGenerated and tested, then sharedYou extend the agent yourself
Speed & tokens~20x faster, ~4x fewer tokensBaseline
Works withAny MCP agent, Claude Code, your browserIts own Python agent runtime
Installbmem add {site}/{task}pip install, write the agent

The real difference: reuse

browser-use is a solid framework for building a browsing agent, and if you want to script an agent from scratch it is a good place to start. But driving the browser live means paying to re-learn each page every single run. The agent screenshots, snapshots the DOM, guesses selectors, and spends tokens re-deriving actions it already performed yesterday.

browser-memory attacks the layer underneath. Every action an agent works out becomes a saved tool in a shared catalog: current, tested, and repaired for everyone the moment a site changes. The agent calls the tool and gets back fields, not pixels.

When to use which

Choose browser-use when you want a self-contained Python agent runtime and you are fine re-deriving page logic on each run. Choose browser-memory when you run tasks repeatedly on real sites and want them 20x faster with 4x fewer tokens, on top of whatever agent you already use. The two are not mutually exclusive.

FAQ

What is the difference between browser-memory and browser-use?

browser-use is a framework for building an agent that drives a browser from natural language. browser-memory is a shared memory layer of pre-built, self-repairing skills that any browsing agent installs and reuses. browser-use decides how to act on a page live; browser-memory remembers how so the work is never repeated.

Is browser-memory a replacement for browser-use?

They solve different layers and can be combined. You can keep an agent framework for orchestration and add browser-memory so the per-site actions are pre-built tools instead of live derivations, which is where most of the latency and token cost lives.

Which is faster, browser-memory or browser-use?

For repeated tasks on the same sites, browser-memory is dramatically faster because it calls a saved tool that returns structured data, instead of re-reading the page. Typical runs are around 20x faster with 4x fewer tokens.

Does browser-memory work with Claude and MCP?

Yes. browser-memory exposes skills over the Model Context Protocol, so Claude Code and other MCP-capable browsing agents can discover and run them directly.

Compare more: browse.sh, Playwright MCP, Browserless, Playwright, Stagehand, Browserbase, Unbrowse.

Add a shared memory to your agent

Keep your framework. Give the agent pre-built skills so it stops re-learning the web.