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Head to head · Browser automation · October 2026 research run

Browser Use vs Notte

Browser Use scores 77.9 (BB) on agent readiness against Notte's 63.2 (B), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Notte leads on maintenance & community. Both do browser automation. Browser Use accepts x402. Notte doesn't.

Browser UseBrowser Use · HTTP API BB77.9/100#16 of 629 NotteNotte Labs Inc. · HTTP API B63.2/100#285 of 629

Which one, for what

Browser Use BB

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 58
  • Schema & documentation, 85 against 74
  • Payments & pricing, 90 against 40

Also in its favour

  • Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better
  • An agent can pay per call over x402, with no account
  • Runs on your own machine
  • Open source

Watch for

The privacy policy says inputs are used to train Browser Use's AI models, with no opt-out described outside Enterprise zero data retention

Notte B

Good for Teams that want hosted browsers together with agents, vaults for logins, personas with mailboxes and scheduled browser functions behind one key.

Ahead on

  • Maintenance & community, 83 against 77

Watch for

status.notte.cc shows the Scrape API down on 15 of 90 days (about 6 hours in total) and CAPTCHA solving at 88.9 per cent availability

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runBrowser UseNotteEdge
Reliability16%208758Browser Use +29
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.28574Browser Use +11
Agent ergonomics13%16.27875Browser Use +3
Security & auth14%17.55956Browser Use +3
Payments & pricing10%12.59040Browser Use +50
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.87783Notte +6
Transparency & trust7%8.86561Browser Use +4
Negative events≤1500
Total77.9 · BB63.2 · B

Facts side by side

FactBrowser UseNotte
KindHTTP APIHTTP API
VendorBrowser UseNotte Labs Inc.
Hosted endpointhttps://api.browser-use.com/api/v4https://api.notte.cc
TransportsHTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdioHTTP
AuthAPI keyOAuth or key
PricingPay per useFreemium
x402yesno
LicenceMIT for the open-source library and the SDK. Browser Use Cloud is a proprietary service under Browser Use's terms of serviceProprietary hosted service under Notte's terms of service. The core repository is SSPL-1.0 and the Node SDK is MIT
Tools exposed78
Read-only variant documentednoyes
llms.txtyesyes
MCP registrycom.browser-use/browser-usenot listed
Last release2026-10-072026-10-07
Terms last updated2026-07-15couldn't be read
Privacy policy last updatedno date givencouldn't be read
Customer content may train modelsyescouldn't be read
Terms restrict automated accessyescouldn't be read
Terms restrict benchmarkingyescouldn't be read
Terms or service can change without noticeyescouldn't be read
Arbitration or class-action waiveryescouldn't be read
Popularity117k stars, 107k npm/wk, 2.1M PyPI/wk1.3k npm/wk, 5.1k PyPI/wk

Verdicts

Browser Use

The hosted cloud accepts x402 top-ups in USDC on Base with no account or API key, and publishes prices, rate limits and three OpenAPI documents. The privacy policy says inputs are used to train Browser Use's models, API keys have no documented scopes, and no prompt-injection guidance was found in the docs.

Notte

Notte publishes an OpenAPI 3.1 contract for 100 operations, a hosted MCP server with eight tools and OAuth, and a free plan with $10 of credits and no card. Its status page records about six hours of Scrape API downtime in 90 days, and a bot check blocked our read of the terms and privacy policy.

Before you call either

Browser Use

  1. Send the key as X-Browser-Use-API-Key with no Bearer prefix. A Bearer header returns 401
  2. Stop browsers with PATCH /api/v4/browsers/{id} and {"action":"stop"}. Closing CDP or the SDK client leaves the browser billing
  3. Poll GET /runs/{id}/status, not the full run, and wait for the returned Retry-After on 429, which can be 300 seconds at the edge
  4. Before resubmitting after a timeout, read the existing run's status. The server keeps running and may already have submitted a form
  5. With a wallet and no key, call x402.api.browser-use.com on /api/v2 or /api/v3 routes. A task stops with INSUFFICIENT_CREDITS if credit runs out mid-run

Notte

  1. Send Authorization: Bearer $NOTTE_API_KEY to https://api.notte.cc. A person creates the key in the console at console.notte.cc first
  2. Stop every session when the task ends. Sessions close after 3 idle minutes or 15 minutes in total by default, and the Free plan caps a session at 15 minutes
  3. Use https://api.notte.cc/mcp for browser work. Function and agent administration tools are only on https://api.notte.cc/mcp/full
  4. Back off on 429 and on 529, which means the cluster has too many sessions. The SDKs do not retry rate limits for you
  5. Download session replays within 24 hours. The recordings page says they are deleted after that

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, Browser Use or Notte?

Browser Use scores 77.9 (BB) on agent readiness against Notte's 63.2 (B), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Notte leads on maintenance & community.

Do Browser Use and Notte need an API key?

Browser Use needs an API key. Notte takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in. An agent can also pay Browser Use per call over x402, with no account.

Can an agent call Browser Use and Notte without installing anything?

Yes. Browser Use has a hosted endpoint at https://api.browser-use.com/api/v4 and Notte at https://api.notte.cc.

Are Browser Use and Notte open source?

Browser Use is open source (MIT for the open-source library and the SDK. Browser Use Cloud is a proprietary service under Browser Use's terms of service). No open-source release is listed for Notte.

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