# Notte vs Selenium (slim)

> Selenium scores 73.6 (BB) to Notte's 63.2 (B) for browser automation. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Selenium scores 73.6 (BB) on agent readiness against Notte's 63.2 (B), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Notte leads on agent ergonomics and security & auth. Both do browser automation.

- Notte: B 63.2, rank #429 of 1076 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/notte.min.md
- Selenium: BB 73.6, rank #90 of 1076 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/selenium.min.md
- 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 Agent ergonomics, 75 against 70; Security & auth, 56 against 43. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install; Free to start without a card.
- Selenium, good for Agents that write test or automation scripts in any of five languages, and teams with a Grid. Ahead on Reliability, 90 against 58; Schema & documentation, 89 against 74; Payments & pricing, 60 against 40; Maintenance & community, 94 against 83; Transparency & trust, 74 against 61. Also Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better; No key needed to call it; Open source.

| Category | Notte | Selenium |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 58 | 90 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 74 | 89 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 75 | 70 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 56 | 43 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 40 | 60 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 83 | 94 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 61 | 74 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Notte | Selenium |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | HTTP API | SDK + MCP |
| Vendor | Notte Labs Inc. | Selenium project (Software Freedom Conservancy) |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.notte.cc` | no (local only) |
| Auth | OAuth or key | None |
| Pricing | Freemium | Free |
| Licence | Proprietary hosted service under Notte's terms of service. The core repository is SSPL-1.0 and the Node SDK is MIT | Apache-2.0 |
| Tools exposed | 8 | none |
| Read-only variant documented | yes | no |
| Last release | 2026-10-07 | 2026-10-09 |
| Terms last updated | couldn't be read | no document linked |
| Privacy policy last updated | couldn't be read | no document linked |
| Customer content may train models | couldn't be read |  |
| Terms restrict automated access | couldn't be read |  |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | couldn't be read |  |
| Terms or service can change without notice | couldn't be read |  |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | couldn't be read |  |
| Popularity | 1.3k npm/wk, 5.1k PyPI/wk | 35k stars, 1.8M npm/wk, 6.9M PyPI/wk |