# Browser Use vs Browserless (slim)

> Browser Use scores 77.9 (BB) on agent readiness against Browserless's 70.4 (BB), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Browserless leads on maintenance & community. Both do browser automation. Browser Use accepts x402. Browserless doesn't. Category scores, facts, verdicts and…

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Browser Use scores 77.9 (BB) on agent readiness against Browserless's 70.4 (BB), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Browserless leads on maintenance & community. Both do browser automation. Browser Use accepts x402. Browserless doesn't.

- Browser Use: BB 77.9, rank #16 of 629 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/browser-use.min.md
- Browserless: BB 70.4, rank #128 of 629 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/browserless.min.md
- Browser Use, good for An agent that wants to hand a whole browser task to a hosted agent and get a result back, or that needs a low-cost cloud browser over CDP, and for unattended agents that can pay by x402. Ahead on Reliability, 87 against 82; Security & auth, 59 against 53; Payments & pricing, 90 against 40. Also An agent can pay per call over x402, with no account; 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 Maintenance & community, 82 against 77.

| Category | Browser Use | Browserless |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 87 | 82 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 85 | 89 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 78 | 78 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 59 | 53 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 90 | 40 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 77 | 82 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 65 | 62 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Browser Use | Browserless |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Browser Use | browserless.io, Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.browser-use.com/api/v4` | `https://production-sfo.browserless.io` |
| Auth | API key | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Pay per use | Freemium |
| x402 | yes | no |
| Licence | MIT for the open-source library and the SDK. Browser Use Cloud is a proprietary service under Browser Use's terms of service | 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 | 7 | 14 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |
| MCP registry | `com.browser-use/browser-use` | not listed |
| Last release | 2026-10-07 | 2026-10-05 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-07-15 | no date given |
| Customer content may train models | yes | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 117k stars, 107k npm/wk, 2.1M PyPI/wk | 14k stars, 3.5k npm/wk |