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Nanobrowser vs Browser Use: catalog facts
NanobrowserBrowser Use
Free

Free and open source; you pay your chosen LLM provider for API usage.

Freemium

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

Browser extension Windows, macOS, Linux, Command line
  • Runs inside your own browser
  • Bring your own LLM API key
  • MIT licensed and self-hostable for full control over agent browsing
  • Widely adopted with a large, active GitHub community
  • Needs a paid API key from a model provider
  • Chrome-focused
  • Requires your own LLM API access to power the agent's decisions
  • Automation reliability depends on the structure of the target website
Browser extension Self-hosted, Downloadable app
Open source Open source
License not stated License: MIT
No account needed Not stated if an account is needed
Needs internet Not stated if it works offline

Checked September 26, 2026

Checked September 22, 2026

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