# agent-browser vs Anchor Browser (slim)

> Anchor Browser and agent-browser score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 67.3 (B) and 66.6 (B). agent-browser leads on agent ergonomics, security & auth, maintenance & community and transparency & trust. Both do browser automation. Category scores, facts, verdicts…

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Anchor Browser and agent-browser score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 67.3 (B) and 66.6 (B). agent-browser leads on agent ergonomics, security & auth, maintenance & community and transparency & trust. Both do browser automation.

- agent-browser: B 66.6, rank #263 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/agent-browser.min.md
- Anchor Browser: B 67.3, rank #237 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/anchor-browser.min.md
- agent-browser, good for Coding agents with a shell that want short commands and compact snapshots. Ahead on Agent ergonomics, 78 against 73; Security & auth, 67 against 54; Maintenance & community, 70 against 57; Transparency & trust, 61 against 51. Also No key needed to call it; Runs on your own machine; Open source.
- Anchor Browser, good for Agents that must work inside signed-in accounts, with managed identities, MFA handling and a human sign-in link, and agents that need to start with no human signup. Ahead on Reliability, 80 against 48. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install; Free to start without a card.

| Category | agent-browser | Anchor Browser |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 48 | 80 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 84 | 80 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 78 | 73 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 67 | 54 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 60 | 60 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 70 | 57 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 61 | 51 |

| Fact (where they differ) | agent-browser | Anchor Browser |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | MCP server | HTTP API |
| Vendor | Vercel Labs | Anchor Forge Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://api.anchorbrowser.io` |
| Transports | stdio | HTTP |
| Auth | None | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Free | Freemium |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 | Proprietary cloud service. No service agreement was found, only a website terms of use. The TypeScript and Python SDKs and the self-hosted MCP server are Apache-2.0 |
| Tools exposed | 158 | none |
| Last release | 2026-10-01 | 2026-07-28 |
| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | 2026-02-24 |
| Popularity | 44k stars, 2.1M npm/wk | 43k npm/wk, 10k PyPI/wk |