# Selenium vs TinyFish (slim)

> Selenium scores 73.6 (BB) to TinyFish's 67.7 (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 TinyFish's 67.7 (B), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. TinyFish leads on agent ergonomics and security & auth. Both do browser automation.

- Selenium: BB 73.6, rank #90 of 1076 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/selenium.min.md
- TinyFish: B 67.7, rank #258 of 1076 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tinyfish.min.md
- 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 60; Payments & pricing, 60 against 55; Maintenance & community, 94 against 80; Transparency & trust, 74 against 59. Also Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better; No key needed to call it; 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. Ahead on Agent ergonomics, 79 against 70; Security & auth, 57 against 43. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install; Free to start without a card.

| Category | Selenium | TinyFish |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 90 | 60 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 89 | 85 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 70 | 79 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 43 | 57 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 60 | 55 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 94 | 80 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 74 | 59 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Selenium | TinyFish |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | SDK + MCP | HTTP API |
| Vendor | Selenium project (Software Freedom Conservancy) | TinyFish |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://agent.tinyfish.ai` |
| Auth | None | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Free | Freemium |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 | 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 |
| MCP registry | not listed | `ai.tinyfish.agent/web-agent` |
| Last release | 2026-10-09 | 2026-10-07 |
| Terms last updated | no document linked | 2026-08-17 |
| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | 2025-12-14 |
| Customer content may train models |  | yes |
| Terms restrict automated access |  | yes |
| Terms restrict benchmarking |  | yes |
| Terms or service can change without notice |  | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver |  | yes |
| Popularity | 35k stars, 1.8M npm/wk, 6.9M PyPI/wk | 5.7k npm/wk, 6.5k PyPI/wk |