If you're building browser agents that hit CAPTCHAs, understanding the three solving strategies (and how to detect completion via console events) helps you avoid brittle automation and choose the right integration approach.
This Browserbase guide explains how CAPTCHA solvers detect, compute answers for, and submit responses to CAPTCHA challenges using model-based recognition, human-in-the-loop solving, or token-based methods.
It also documents Browserbase's built-in CAPTCHA solving feature, which is enabled by default in its browser sessions and emits console events so automation code can wait until solving completes.
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