# Anchor Browser vs Browserless (slim)

> Browserless scores 70.4 (BB) on agent readiness against Anchor Browser's 67.3 (B), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Anchor Browser leads on payments & pricing. Both do browser automation. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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Browserless scores 70.4 (BB) on agent readiness against Anchor Browser's 67.3 (B), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Anchor Browser leads on payments & pricing. Both do browser automation.

- Anchor Browser: B 67.3, rank #196 of 629 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/anchor-browser.min.md
- Browserless: BB 70.4, rank #128 of 629 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/browserless.min.md
- 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 Payments & pricing, 60 against 40.
- 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 Schema & documentation, 89 against 80; Agent ergonomics, 78 against 73; Maintenance & community, 82 against 57; Transparency & trust, 62 against 51. Also Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better; Runs on your own machine.

| Category | Anchor Browser | Browserless |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 80 | 82 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 80 | 89 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 73 | 78 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 54 | 53 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 60 | 40 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 57 | 82 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 51 | 62 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Anchor Browser | Browserless |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Anchor Forge Inc. | browserless.io, Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.anchorbrowser.io` | `https://production-sfo.browserless.io` |
| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio |
| Licence | 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 | 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 | none | 14 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |
| Last release | 2026-07-28 | 2026-10-05 |
| Terms last updated | no document linked | no date given |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-02-24 | 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 | 43k npm/wk, 10k PyPI/wk | 14k stars, 3.5k npm/wk |