# Browser Use vs TinyFish (slim)

> Browser Use scores 77.9 (BB) on agent readiness against TinyFish's 67.7 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Both do browser automation. Browser Use accepts x402. TinyFish doesn't. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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Browser Use scores 77.9 (BB) on agent readiness against TinyFish's 67.7 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Both do browser automation. Browser Use accepts x402. TinyFish doesn't.

- Browser Use: BB 77.9, rank #17 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/browser-use.min.md
- TinyFish: B 67.7, rank #227 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tinyfish.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 60; Payments & pricing, 90 against 55; Transparency & trust, 65 against 59. 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.
- TinyFish, good for Agents that want one account for a goal-driven web agent, a raw CDP browser, and free search and fetch.

| Category | Browser Use | TinyFish |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 87 | 60 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 85 | 85 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 78 | 79 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 59 | 57 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 90 | 55 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 77 | 80 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 65 | 59 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Browser Use | TinyFish |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Browser Use | Tiny Fish, Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.browser-use.com/api/v4` | `https://agent.tinyfish.ai` |
| 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 service under Tiny Fish's terms of service. The MCP proxy `@tiny-fish/mcp` and the cookbook are MIT. The SDK packages state no licence in npm or PyPI metadata |
| Tools exposed | 7 | none |
| MCP registry | `com.browser-use/browser-use` | `ai.tinyfish.agent/web-agent` |
| Terms last updated | 2026-07-15 | 2026-08-17 |
| Privacy policy last updated | no date given | 2025-12-14 |
| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 117k stars, 107k npm/wk, 2.1M PyPI/wk | 5.7k npm/wk, 6.5k PyPI/wk |