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Magentic-UI vs Browser Use: catalog facts
Magentic-UIBrowser Use
Free

Free and open source; model usage may cost money depending on the provider you configure.

Freemium

The core library is free and open source under MIT; a separate hosted cloud service is…

Self-hosted Windows, macOS, Linux, Command line
  • Agent works across both the browser and local files
  • Designed to run with smaller models
  • MIT licensed and self-hostable for full control over agent browsing
  • Widely adopted with a large, active GitHub community
  • Experimental research project
  • Requires setting up Python and a model configuration
  • Requires your own LLM API access to power the agent's decisions
  • Automation reliability depends on the structure of the target website
Self-hosted Self-hosted, Downloadable app
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

Checked October 1, 2026

Checked September 22, 2026

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