Adept vs Browser Use
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Adept
AI-agent research lab; its site is now an archive
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BU Browser Use Open-source library and cloud for AI agents that use web browsers Visit | |
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| RECATOOLS Score | 4.8 / 10 | 8.2 / 10 |
| Capability | — | |
| Value for money | — | |
| Ease of use | — | |
| ASEAN readiness | — | |
| API quality | — | |
| Pricing | Unknown | Usage_based |
| Free tier | Open weights only: Persimmon-8B (Apache 2.0) and Fuyu-8B (CC BY-NC 4.0) on Hugging Face; no hosted service | MIT-licensed library free (bring your own LLM key). Cloud: one-time $15 credit for eligible Google/GitHub/Microsoft signups, no card, 10 concurrent sessions |
| Paid from | Not sold, adept.ai is a blog archive with no sign-up or contact route (Oct 2026) | $0.02 per browser-hour, pay as you go (credits from $5, no subscription) |
| Has API | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✓ |
| Free to use | ✗ | ✓ |
| Users | — | — |
| Founded | 2022 | 2024 |
| Maker | — | Independent (Browser Use, Inc.) |
| Verdict | Adept was an early, influential lab for agents that act on software: ACT-1 drove a browser from typed instructions in 2022, and it released Persimmon-8B and Fuyu-8B with open weights.There is nothing to buy today. After... |
Browser Use is one of the most popular open-source foundations for AI browser agents: MIT-licensed, model-agnostic and actively developed, with an optional cloud that now bills simply by usage rather than subscription. I... |
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