Agentic browser vs. AI browser: who does the clicking?
An AI browser adds an assistant to your browsing. An agentic browser browses for you: you describe an outcome and it operates the web to deliver it.
The difference is who does the clicking. An AI browser puts an assistant beside the page: it summarizes, answers and drafts while you keep working the tabs. An agentic browser takes the tabs, opens them, reads them, types and hands you the finished result.
Strawberry is in the second group. Say “source 30 companies matching this profile into a sheet with contact emails” and the sheet is what comes back, built in the accounts you are already signed into, with consequential steps held at an approval card.
| AI browser | Agentic browser | |
|---|---|---|
| Core promise | Help while you browse | Browsing done for you |
| Who operates the pages | You do | The agent does; you supervise |
| Typical output | Summaries, answers, drafts | Completed tasks: rows, records, staged drafts |
| Your logged-in accounts | Reads what you have open | Acts in them, with approvals |
| Unattended work | No. You prompt each time | Scheduled routines |
| Examples | Comet, Dia, Brave Leo | Strawberry; Opera markets Neon this way |
What is an AI browser?
A browser with an assistant attached: a sidebar or overlay that reads the page you are on, summarizes it, answers questions about it, translates it, drafts from it. Comet, Dia and Brave Leo are examples of the form, as of this writing.
You still open every tab, run every search and copy every value across. The assistant talks about the page; the clicking stays where it was.
What is an agentic browser?
A browser where the AI drives and you supervise.
You say “source 30 companies matching this profile into a sheet with contact emails” and it opens the tabs, reads the pages, clicks, types and delivers the sheet.
In Strawberry the drivers are persistent companions working in your real logged-in session, with routines for the recurring jobs and skills that turn a proven pass into one line. The longer treatment is our guide to what an agentic browser is.
Four questions that sort any product
Apply these to whatever you are evaluating and the category shows itself:
- Who does the clicking: you, or it?
- Whose accounts does it work in: a sandbox, or your real session?
- What comes back: words about the work, or the work?
- Does anything happen unprompted: can it run scheduled, recurring jobs?
Which one your week calls for
Count the hours going on browser work.
The sourcing pass, the screening, the extraction, the filing, the outreach prep, the forty tabs somebody has to work through by Thursday. That is the share a companion takes off you, and it is the share an assistant leaves where it is.
Since “agentic” is now a marketing word, check the method rather than the label. The tasks we test on and the way each is marked are written out at /benchmarks/spec, and our read of the field is in the best AI browsers in 2026.
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