Browser Use vs BrowserOS
Browser Use leads on trust: 72.4/100 (Grade B) against 66.0/100 (Grade B), a 6.4-point gap. Browser Use leads on adoption and rests on broader evidence; BrowserOS leads on supply-chain integrity.
Agents that use the browser.
Choose Browser Use if adoption matters most.
- +10.1Adoption: 116.3k GitHub stars against 13.8k
- A vs CEvidence coverage: 4 of 5 independent signal types, against 2
🌐 The open-source Agentic browser; alternative to ChatGPT Atlas, Perplexity Comet, Dia.
Choose BrowserOS if supply-chain integrity matters most.
- +2.8Safety / Integrity: 97% of recent commits signed, against 47%
Where they differ
2 dimensions identical: Identity 10.8 · Maintenance 19.9 · Full evidence table
An independent, evidence-based trust comparison of Browser Use 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 | Browser Usebrowser-use/browser-use | BrowserOSbrowseros-ai/BrowserOS |
|---|---|---|
| HVTrust score | 72.4 | 66.0 |
| Evidence grade | B | B |
| Coverage grade | A | C |
| Overall rank | #278 | #442 |
| Rank in Browser & Computer Use | #12 | #14 |
| GitHub stars | 116.3k | 13.8k |
| Last updated | 1d ago | 2d ago |
| Build provenance | No | No |
| OSSF Scorecard | 4.7 / 10 | 4.9 / 10 |
| License | MIT | AGPL-3.0 |
| Downloads | 1.8M/wk | — |
| Trust dimensions (points earned) | ||
| Safety / integrity / 25 | 8.2 | 11.0 |
| Identity & provenance / 18 | 10.8 | 10.8 |
| Transparency / 17 | 12.5 | 12.7 |
| Maintenance / 20 | 19.9 | 19.9 |
| Adoption / 20 | 20.0 | 9.9 |
| Runtime capability surface (full matrix) | ||
| MCP server | Declared | Implemented |
| External providers | 5 — Amazon Bedrock, Anthropic, Google Gemini, … | 1 — Amazon Bedrock |
| Requires API keys | Yes | No |
| Plugin surface | — | 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 →