FREE Open Operator Beats OpenAI $200/mo Operator AI Agent!🤖 Open Source BrowserBase (No API Keys)

So as most of you guys have already heard open AI dropped open ai's operator and this is their version of claud's computer use agent and as many of you guys know 2025 is the year of AI agents and and you know it's great that open AI is releasing their AI agents and computer use and whatnot but just as we've seen recently in the AI space when it comes to open source tools like deep seek R1 basically being on par if not

Better than 01 in many scenarios while being 90% cheaper and basically forcing open AI to make certain decisions like like stating that they will release 03 mini to free users we're now seeing other open-source AI tools in the AI agent operating field that are being released that don't cost $200 a month like open ai's new operator which is $2,400 over the course of a year and also seems to have less limitations in some regards to open AI operator and in today's

Video the specific one that we're going to be talking about is open operator this is an open source project created by browser base where you'll be able to self-host this by yourself in the next 5 minutes with your own API keys and this alone will be about 90 95% cheaper than open AI operator but what's even crazier is you can actually use their Cloud hosted version right now for free without even having to log in enter your API keys or anything

Like that and this of course is 100% for free so without Ado let's Dive Right In all right guys so later in this video I will show you how to get the open-source version set up but let's just dive right into the cloud hosted version now if you want to know how this actually works behind the scenes like I said you can check out their GitHub repo all links I talk about in today's video will be link down below and it

Basically shows you exactly how it works using playright open Ai and Stage hand which is their framework made by browser base all right so first things first is you can simply just enter in a query right here or you can select a pre-made one for this first one will just ask what's the Nvidia stock so a pretty simple one as you can see we got our goal right here and it is processing it's opening up a browser right here to Google

As you can see navigating to Google and reasoning Google is a comprehensive search engine that can provide latest stock price so you can see the reasoning over here which is nice then we have step two so now we're going to query Nvidia stock price and searching that right here and now it is processing okay so that's pretty awesome it didn't even have to click search because Google actually showed the stock price so it had the vision and was able to see

That so we can see here the goal of finding the Nvidia stock price has been achieved achieved as information is already displayed in the search suggestions the current stock price is shown as $142 62 cents with a change of 4 negative 4.60 and boom so pretty cool right there as you can see the agent has completed its task so we can go ahead and close this and then enter in a new task all right so here is a next question we're

Going to say go to youtube.com search Josh pook go to his channel and filter by most viewed click on that video and see see how many likes comments and Views it has so there's a few different steps it's a little bit more challenging than the last one let's go ahead and run this all right so we are searching youtube.com and it's automatically just adding the search query plus uh equals Josh pook so pretty good that it does that and as you

Can see we have our channel right here it's currently processing now it's going to click on our Channel and also too as this is going I just want to say that this is even um in some ways better than operator opening eyes operator in it of itself because opening eyes operator actually won't even let you um to my understanding go to certain websites like YouTube or different things like that now I haven't been able to test operator out myself because it's

Not available to my region yet but honestly I wouldn't even bother because I don't plan on paying $200 a month for something that is open source and for free so as you can see now we are on our videos page and looks like it's about to go to most popular now it's not lightning fast but it's also not super slow which is pretty good you know this is the first iteration really that they're coming out with as you can see here

They tweeted out recently that you don't need to pay $200 for AI we're launching open operator and open source reference project that shows how easy it is to add web uh browsing capabilities to your existing AI tool and this was posted january4 so just a couple days ago they really released this as you can see we're on the most popular now now one thing I will say as this is going is that the one thing I would like to see well

One of the main things I would like to see them add is a little chat box right here like we saw with cla's computer use when you would use the demo version or even with chat gpt's open operator um you can chat back and forth with the operator which makes it a lot easier so looks like we're getting a sign in to confirm that this isn't a bot to watch the video but we can still see the comments right here so

We got 133 comments let's see if it picks all this up okay and boom the goal is completed so we can see the total views 37k 1K likes 133 comments therefore the goal has been achieved boom that's awesome Now quickly I'm going to show you how you can actually self Host this it's very simple to actually deploy this it's really just a nextjs app so you're just going to copy this link right here you're going to go over to your terminal

And you're going to Simply run get clone and then the repo URL so get clone paste that repo in that's going to to clone the project then you're going to change directory into open dash operator for the project you're going to run pnpm install to install the dependencies right here so you can see it's using the AI SDK from open AI it's using browser base of course for sell analytics framer motion uh playright okay post hog and Zod for scheme of

Validation okay once you do that you're going to run cp. env. exam example. env. local all right that's going to copy the example file and make it into a another environment file so you can literally just copy the command that's right here within the repo then what you're going to do is open this in um cursor or vs code so I just ran it in cursor and as you can see here we have our example environment file I also have the

EnV local which I put my actual API keys in but you're just going to paste in your open AI API key as well as you're going to need a browser base API key and project ID so you can simply just create a free account at browser base paste those in and then you'll be good to go from that point on you're just going to run PNP Dev all right this is going to start up the development server and boom as you

Can see right now I'm on Local Host 3001 because I already have 3,000 Port taken right now all right so this is pretty cool that you can also have the self-hosted version now honestly I would just use the cloud hosted version because it's completely free you really don't have to log in or anything like that don't have to enter in your API keys and this is really cool because if we look at some of the Alternatives too such as browser use

And this is the browser use cloud version right here you can see that there's the cloud version which is $30 a month for unlimited chats blah blah blah blah blah proxy rotation you know that has a few different things like proxy rotations is nice um authentication handling so pretty cool that they have that but is a pave version and then of course they have their MIT open source version right here which I'll probably do a video on as well if you

Want me to do a video on this let me know in the comments down below this is another open source alternative to open AI operator so it's pretty cool that o open source is really coming out with all this great stuff like deep seek R1 which I know a lot of you guys asked for more videos on that na Nai agents with that I'm going to do a lot more stuff like that as well I wanted to cover this one since

Opening I just released operator and I know a lot of people were thinking about purchasing the $200 a month one but you know if you just really want to use these tools and really get a sense of them then you can go ahead and use this 100% for free that's pretty much it for this video guys let me know what your thoughts are in the comments down below about open AI operator about open operator maybe about browser use what's your favorite

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