UseAgent review
Open-source browser and desktop automation with schedules, approvals, and team memory.
Reviewed by iTechGuides Editors · Editorial team · Updated Oct 2026
UseAgent is an open-source AI workspace for teams that want agents to research, prepare reports, handle follow-ups, and complete work across connected tools. It combines chat and coding agents with browser and desktop automation, named bots, scheduled routines, shared knowledge, team memory, artifacts, approval gates, and recorded run history. It suits teams that want repeatable browser work alongside collaboration features rather than a browser-only automation tool.
The published plans show two no-cost ways to run UseAgent. Cloud is hosted by UseAgent and includes five engines, bots and routines, approval gates, an audit trail, artifacts, knowledge, skills, team memory, Slack, and GitHub. Self-host is free and open source, with the backend, frontend, and sandbox included. It runs on the customer’s machines and uses the customer’s provider keys, computers, and database. Model-provider and computer infrastructure costs are billed separately to the customer’s accounts. Enterprise adds self-hosted or dedicated deployment, organization controls, SSO and audit requirements, approval policies, audit exports, and direct support.
UseAgent’s main distinction is the combination of automation and oversight. Agents can run hourly, daily, or weekly routines, while human approval gates cover sensitive or destructive actions. Recorded histories expose tool calls and outputs, and shared company knowledge, wikis, skills, and team memory support coordinated work. Connections include Slack, GitHub, Linear, Gmail, Notion, HubSpot, Google Drive, MCP, and PostgreSQL, with DOCX, XLSX, and PPTX artifact creation and export. Choose it if open-source deployment, scheduled work, and reviewable automation matter. Choose another product if you want a simpler browser automation tool without infrastructure responsibilities or separate provider and computer costs.
UseAgent pros and cons
- Where it wins
- Browser and desktop automation with screenshots, typing, clicking, and scrolling
- Scheduled routines, approval gates, and inspectable run histories
- Shared knowledge, artifacts, team memory, and broad tool connections
- Where it doesn't
- Self-hosting requires provider keys, computers, and a database
- Model-provider and computer infrastructure costs are billed separately
- Enterprise controls and direct support are limited to the Enterprise plan
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