BrowseGPT
Verified Oct 15, 2026 ActiveFree Chrome extension that attempts web tasks by clicking and typing on your behalf
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Pricing
- Pricing model
- 100% Free
Free in the Chrome Web Store with no plans or in-app purchases; the site calls it open source, and self-hosting the server means paying only for your own Anthropic or OpenAI API usage.
Use tool ↗About BrowseGPT
BrowseGPT is an experimental browser agent packaged as a Chrome extension. You give it an instruction such as finding a place to stay on a given date, and it reads the page, then issues actions like click, enter text or navigate, showing its stated reason for each step so you can correct it. The developer is unusually candid that it sometimes loops, clicks the wrong element or lands on a dead URL, and warns against running it on pages holding private information. It is free, has around a thousand users, and the store listing was last updated in mid-2024.
- Platforms
- Chrome extension
- API
- Not confirmed
- Last verified
- Oct 15, 2026
Verified sources
- Chrome Web Store listing: free, 1,000 users, 3.2 out of 5 from 8 ratings, version 2.0 updated July 19, 2024 (15 October 2026)chromewebstore.google.com ↗
- Site describes a free, open-source extension issuing CLICK, ENTER_TEXT, NAVIGATE and DONE with a reason per step, Claude Haiku 4.5 by default, and warns against private or checkout pages (15 October 2026)browsegpt.ai ↗
- GitHub repository danielpquinn/browsegpt created March 2023, last pushed July 2024, no license file (15 October 2026)github.com ↗
Is BrowseGPT legit?
We don’t label tools safe or unsafe. Below are the records we checked ourselves, each with the date we read it.
- Domain registered
- Jan 20, 2023 (3 years ago)Registry record (RDAP), registrar GoDaddy.com, LLC, looked up Sep 16, 2026
- TLS certificate
- Issued by Let's Encrypt, valid until Nov 26, 2026Seen in our own connection to the site on Oct 15, 2026
- Last checked
- Oct 15, 2026The site answered
- On the market since
- 2023The vendor's own material, read by us
Pros & cons of BrowseGPT
A small, honest demonstration of an LLM driving a browser, and the reason-per-step display makes its failures legible rather than mysterious. The catch is that it is a side project: version 2.0 dates from July 2024 and the author openly says it gets stuck and misclicks.
Pros
- Free and installs in one click from the Chrome Web Store
- Every action comes with a stated reason you can review
- Marketing copy is honest about the failure modes
Cons
- Last store update was July 2024 and ratings average 3.2
- No support, roadmap or company behind it
- Modern browser agents are far more capable
Best for
- Seeing how an LLM decomposes a web task into concrete actions
- Teaching or demos about browser agents
- Low-stakes navigation on public pages
Not for
- Any workflow touching accounts, payments or private data
- Production automation that needs reliability or support
Watch out: The developer explicitly warns against using it on pages with private information or where a wrong click causes real damage — take that literally.
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