# agent-browser vs Browserless (slim)

> Browserless scores 70.4 (BB) on agent readiness against agent-browser's 66.6 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. agent-browser leads on security & auth and payments & pricing. Both do browser automation. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

- Full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-browser-vs-browserless.md (~2,550 tokens) · this version ~780 tokens · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-browser-vs-browserless.json · canonical https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-browser-vs-browserless
- Index: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt · API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json · Updated: 2026-10-09

Browserless scores 70.4 (BB) on agent readiness against agent-browser's 66.6 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. agent-browser leads on security & auth and payments & pricing. Both do browser automation.

- agent-browser: B 66.6, rank #263 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/agent-browser.min.md
- Browserless: BB 70.4, rank #148 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/browserless.min.md
- agent-browser, good for Coding agents with a shell that want short commands and compact snapshots. Ahead on Security & auth, 67 against 53; Payments & pricing, 60 against 40. Also No key needed to call it; Open source.
- Browserless, good for Agents that need a real browser in the cloud with stealth, proxies and CAPTCHA solving, and teams that want the option of running the same server themselves. Ahead on Reliability, 82 against 48; Schema & documentation, 89 against 84; Maintenance & community, 82 against 70. Also Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better; A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install; Free to start without a card.

| Category | agent-browser | Browserless |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 48 | 82 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 84 | 89 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 78 | 78 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 67 | 53 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 60 | 40 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 70 | 82 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 61 | 62 |

| Fact (where they differ) | agent-browser | Browserless |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | MCP server | HTTP API |
| Vendor | Vercel Labs | browserless.io, Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://production-sfo.browserless.io` |
| Transports | stdio | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio |
| Auth | None | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Free | Freemium |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 | SSPL 1.0 or a commercial licence for the core server and the MCP server. The BAP TypeScript SDK is MIT. BrowserQL, stealth and other cloud additions are proprietary |
| Tools exposed | 158 | 14 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |
| Last release | 2026-10-01 | 2026-10-05 |
| Terms last updated | no document linked | no date given |
| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | no date given |
| Customer content may train models |  | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict automated access |  | yes |
| Terms restrict benchmarking |  | not found in the text |
| Terms or service can change without notice |  | yes |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver |  | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 44k stars, 2.1M npm/wk | 14k stars, 3.5k npm/wk |