Google doesn’t sell auto browse as a product of its own. It’s a feature of Gemini in Chrome, and Google’s help page for it is titled “Ask Gemini in Chrome to complete tasks for you with auto browse.” We gave it a separate page anyway, because the free assistant and the paid agent share a name and not much else when it comes to price, limits and who gets them. The assistant is covered in our Gemini in Chrome comparison.
Who gets to use it
Auto browse went into preview on January 28, 2026, and the list of who can use it has barely moved since. You need to be 18 or older and in the US, with your device language set to English, signed in to Chrome with a personal Google account that pays for Google AI Pro ($19.99 a month) or Ultra (from $99.99). Pro allows up to 20 requests a day and Ultra 200. It runs in Chrome on Windows, Mac and Chromebook Plus, and on Android in the US after a rollout that ran through the summer, but not on iPhone or iPad and never in Incognito.
Twenty a day covers booking a table and chasing a delivery. Whether it stretches to a morning of supplier admin depends on how Google counts a request, which the help page doesn’t say, and we’d want to know before building a routine on it.
The careful parts
Google built a lot of stopping into it. Auto browse asks before it starts a task, sends anything, submits a form, changes your data, schedules an event or opens a site with sensitive financial or health data, and you can take the wheel at any point. Since July 30 it has also had a bigger sibling: Gemini Spark, Google’s agent that runs on Google’s own cloud machines, can drive auto browse in your desktop Chrome, starting in the US.
Logging in
Auto browse works in your open tabs, on sites you’re already signed into. When a site asks for a password it can use Google Password Manager, after checking with you, and Google says the password manager “does not share your passwords with Gemini in Chrome.”
dassi’s approach is close to that, and in Chrome the password manager it leans on is the same one. It works in the sessions already open in Chrome, Edge or Brave, and when one has expired it signs in with whatever the browser’s password manager autofills, so the password never ends up in a chat or in dassi’s settings. 2FA codes are yours to type, and anything you’ve flagged waits for you.
When to choose auto browse
You’re in the US, you already pay for Google AI Pro or Ultra, and you never leave Chrome. You’ve bought it already, so give it a few weeks on your real chores before paying anyone else, us included.
When to choose dassi
Auto browse isn’t open to a bookkeeper in Manchester, and it can’t help anyone whose office runs Edge. dassi works for both. It runs in Chrome, Edge or Brave with Claude, GPT, Gemini on your own key, Grok, DeepSeek, Kimi, OpenRouter or a local model, and a job you’ll repeat gets taught once, in plain English or by doing it while dassi follows along, then saved as a workflow you rerun on demand, or on a schedule as long as the browser is open when it’s due. It’s $10 a month with your own key or $25 to $300 on a plan with credits, and the instructions and page content go to the provider you chose, through dassi’s relay on included credits.
If Google drops the US-only rule, we’ll rewrite the first half of this page. The Edge part, we suspect, will outlive it.