Agent Browser vs BrowserOS
Agent Browser leads on trust: 87.7/100 (Grade A) against 66.0/100 (Grade B), a 21.7-point gap. Agent Browser leads on adoption and provenance, and rests on broader evidence; BrowserOS leads on maintenance.
Browser automation CLI for AI agents
Choose Agent Browser if adoption and provenance matter most.
- +9.5Adoption: 43.2k GitHub stars against 13.8k
- +7.2Identity / Provenance: package provenance attested, against none
- +7.1Safety / Integrity: 100% of recent commits signed, against 97%
- B vs CEvidence coverage: 3 of 5 independent signal types, against 2
🌐 The open-source Agentic browser; alternative to ChatGPT Atlas, Perplexity Comet, Dia.
Choose BrowserOS if maintenance matters most.
- +1.6Maintenance
Where they differ
An independent, evidence-based trust comparison of Agent Browser and BrowserOS, two Browser & Computer Use projects in the HVTracker registry. Scores come from public, checkable signals — supply-chain provenance, OSSF Scorecard, maintenance, and adoption — not popularity.
Full evidence
| Signal | Agent Browservercel-labs/agent-browser | BrowserOSbrowseros-ai/BrowserOS |
|---|---|---|
| HVTrust score | 87.7 | 66.0 |
| Evidence grade | A | B |
| Coverage grade | B | C |
| Overall rank | #46 | #442 |
| Rank in Browser & Computer Use | #5 | #14 |
| GitHub stars | 43.2k | 13.8k |
| Last updated | 2d ago | 2d ago |
| Build provenance | Yes | No |
| OSSF Scorecard | 4.5 / 10 | 4.9 / 10 |
| License | Apache-2.0 | AGPL-3.0 |
| Downloads | 1.6M/wk | — |
| Trust dimensions (points earned) | ||
| Safety / integrity / 25 | 18.1 | 11.0 |
| Identity & provenance / 18 | 18.0 | 10.8 |
| Transparency / 17 | 12.3 | 12.7 |
| Maintenance / 20 | 18.3 | 19.9 |
| Adoption / 20 | 19.4 | 9.9 |
| Runtime capability surface (full matrix) | ||
| MCP server | Implemented | Implemented |
| External providers | 3 — Amazon Bedrock, Browserbase, Redis | 1 — Amazon Bedrock |
| Requires API keys | Yes | No |
| Plugin surface | plugins | plugins |
| Provenance drift | Match | — |
How to read this: HVTrust (0–100) weighs supply-chain signals (provenance, OSSF Scorecard, signed commits, open license) alongside real-world adoption, scaled by an evidence-confidence factor. Grade bands: A ≥ 80, B ≥ 65, C ≥ 50, D < 50. Signals refresh daily. Full methodology v4.3 →