# Browser Use vs Notte (slim)

> 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. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by…

- Full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/browser-use-vs-notte.md (~2,500 tokens) · this version ~780 tokens · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/browser-use-vs-notte.json · canonical https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/browser-use-vs-notte
- Index: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt · API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json · Updated: 2026-10-08

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 Use: BB 77.9, rank #16 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/browser-use.min.md
- Notte: B 63.2, rank #317 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/notte.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 58; Schema & documentation, 85 against 74; Payments & pricing, 90 against 40. Also 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.
- Notte, 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.

| Category | Browser Use | Notte |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 87 | 58 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 85 | 74 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 78 | 75 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 59 | 56 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 90 | 40 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 77 | 83 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 65 | 61 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Browser Use | Notte |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Browser Use | Notte Labs Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.browser-use.com/api/v4` | `https://api.notte.cc` |
| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio | HTTP |
| 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 | Proprietary hosted service under Notte's terms of service. The core repository is SSPL-1.0 and the Node SDK is MIT |
| Tools exposed | 7 | 8 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |
| MCP registry | `com.browser-use/browser-use` | not listed |
| Terms last updated | 2026-07-15 | couldn't be read |
| Privacy policy last updated | no date given | couldn't be read |
| Customer content may train models | yes | couldn't be read |
| Terms restrict automated access | yes | couldn't be read |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | couldn't be read |
| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | couldn't be read |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | couldn't be read |
| Popularity | 117k stars, 107k npm/wk, 2.1M PyPI/wk | 1.3k npm/wk, 5.1k PyPI/wk |