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What hurts when your agents run on someone else’s browsers: hourly bills, logins only a person can finish, passwords on a vendor’s machine, files and sound that never reach you. Here is who solves it.

easi.run compared with Browserbase

Feature	easi.run	Browserbase , choose another of 19
Runs on your own server	Yes: Yes. One command on a Linux x86-64 server with Docker	No: Cloud only
No usage fees	Yes: No usage fees. You pay only for your server	No: $20/mo with 100 h and 1 GB of proxy, then $0.12 per browser-hour and $12/GB
No plan limit on browsers at once	Yes: As many as you set, within your server’s memory	No: 3 free; 25 on Developer, 100 on Startup, 250+ on Scale
No plan limit on session length	Yes: Until you stop it	No: 15 min free; 6 h on Developer and Startup
Take over, and the agent waits	Yes: One click. The agent waits until you give it back	Partly: You can click in the live view; no pause of the agent documented
Build your own takeover screen	Yes: A viewer SDK draws the screen and takes input; the buttons and prompts are yours	Partly: An iframe of their viewer; the navbar can be hidden
An API your agents can call	Yes: REST API with a token per agent	Yes: REST API and Node and Python SDKs
An MCP server for your agents	Yes: Built-in MCP endpoint, or on the server itself with no token; works with Claude Code and Codex	Yes: Official MCP server, hosted or run locally
Your typing hidden from the agent	Yes: Text of four characters or more you type or paste after taking over reaches the agent as [redacted]; screenshots leave its results after a takeover, and password fields’ values never reach it	Unknown: Not in their docs
Encrypted session vaults only your password unlocks	Yes: Logins, site data (caches aside), history and preferences kept between sessions, encrypted with a key your password unlocks; locked after a restart until you enter it; agents resume only the ones you allow	Unknown: Contexts kept on their infrastructure, encrypted at rest; who holds the key is not in their docs
Private network off-limits	Yes: No network of its own; your private network is off-limits	Unknown: Not in their docs
Built-in stealth	Yes: Real Google Chrome, webdriver false; clean on BrowserScan, sannysoft, rebrowser (Oct 2026)	Yes: Basic on Developer, Advanced on Scale
Live sound	Yes: The page’s sound, live	Unknown: Not in their docs
Drag a file straight onto the page	Yes: Drop files right on the page, with real progress where you dropped them	Unknown: Remote file picker and downloads through their API; dragging onto the page not in their docs
Your own file picker for uploads	Yes: The page’s own file chooser opens your computer’s picker	No: The page’s chooser opens a remote picker that can’t reach your files
Downloads land on your computer	Yes: Streamed into your browser’s Downloads as they are written, byte for byte; a page saved with Save as arrives whole, in one file	No: Cloud storage, fetched through an API
Copy and paste both ways	Yes: Text both ways, with your usual shortcuts	Unknown: Only iframe clipboard permissions; behavior not in their docs
Record the session	Yes: On the server in high quality, with your camera and microphone	Yes: HLS video; MP4 after the session
Turn off input, clipboard, files or sound per session	Yes: Input, clipboard, uploads, downloads, sound, recording; enforced on the server	Partly: Recording per session; view-only is CSS on your iframe
Your own proxy per session, location matched	Yes: A proxy you pick per session, checked before use, with its own time zone and languages (suggested from where it exits); name lookups go through it	Partly: Own proxy per session; time zone follows only built-in proxy
Works over one HTTPS port, no TURN	Yes: One HTTPS port is enough; the media also take UDP where your network lets them; no TURN server	Not applicable: Cloud only
Open source you can audit	Yes: AGPL-3.0, everything around the browser (Chrome itself is Google’s)	No: Closed cloud service

✓ has it · – doesn’t, partly, unknown, or not applicable · Tap a mark for details · Oct 2026 · Sources · Names and logos belong to their owners.