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Browser Use vs Magentic-UI: catalog facts
Browser Use	Magentic-UI
Freemium The core library is free and open source under MIT; a separate hosted cloud service is…	Free Free and open source; model usage may cost money depending on the provider you configure.
Windows, macOS, Linux, Command line	Self-hosted
MIT licensed and self-hostable for full control over agent browsing Widely adopted with a large, active GitHub community	Agent works across both the browser and local files Designed to run with smaller models
Requires your own LLM API access to power the agent's decisions Automation reliability depends on the structure of the target website	Experimental research project Requires setting up Python and a model configuration
Self-hosted, Downloadable app	Self-hosted
Open source	Open source
License: MIT	License: MIT
Not stated if an account is needed	Not stated if an account is needed
Not stated if it works offline	Not stated if it works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 22, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 1, 2026

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