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Legba vs Browser Use

Legba vs Browser Use for OpenClaw.

Browser Use is an open-source framework that drives a browser. It is good at capability.

Legba is the containment under it. A disposable cloud browser, isolated credentials, a bounded blast radius. Run OpenClaw on a hostile page without exposing your machine.

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Capability, then containment.

Browser Use decides what the agent does. Legba decides what it can reach.

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Legba
Browser Use
What it is
A disposable cloud browser the agent drives
An open-source framework that drives a browser
Where it runs
Off your machine, in an isolated cloud session
On your host, in your process, by default
Credentials
Scoped to the session, destroyed on close
Read from your environment and local profile
Blast radius
Bounded to one throwaway session
Your filesystem, tokens, and network
Prompt injection
Contained: the agent reaches nothing real
Reaches whatever the host process can
IP and fingerprint
Fresh residential IP, real headful Chromium
Your IP, your local browser
After the run
Session burned, no trail left behind
Local state and cookies persist
Best for
Running OpenClaw on untrusted pages safely
Building and scripting agent behavior

Last verified 2026-06-12 · reviewed by the Legba engineering team

When Browser Use is the better pick

Browser Use is the right tool when you are building and scripting agent behavior on pages you trust. It is open source, fast to wire up, and runs locally with no session cost. If the page is safe and the credentials are throwaway, the host is fine. Reach for Legba when the page is untrusted and the credentials are not.

Questions people ask.

Is Legba a replacement for Browser Use?
No. They solve different problems. Browser Use is the framework that gives your agent browser actions. Legba is the contained browser those actions run inside. You can point an OpenClaw agent at Legba so the capability stays the same and the blast radius shrinks to one disposable session.
Why run OpenClaw inside Legba instead of Browser Use on my machine?
Browser Use on your host runs the agent in your process, with your environment and your local profile in reach. A prompt-injected agent can read tokens, touch files, and use your network. Legba moves the run off your machine into an isolated cloud session. The credentials are scoped to that session and destroyed on close.
What happens to credentials and cookies after a run?
They live inside the session container and are destroyed when the session ends. Nothing persists on your machine. A prompt injection or a leaked token has nowhere to go after close.
Can I use both together?
Yes. Keep Browser Use for how the agent decides and acts, and run those actions against a Legba session so the work happens on a fresh residential IP, off your stack, gone on close.

Access anything.
Expose nothing.

Legba is a disposable real browser: it spawns a clean session, does the work, and destroys itself on close.

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chromium / real fingerprint · residential ip · burn on close

Real browser. Real IP. Real page. Spawn a session. Do the work. Destroy it. Off your device. Off your stack. Gone on close.