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by rvz 482 days ago
> On the open-source side, browser use remains free. You can use any LLM, from Gemini to Sonnet, Qwen, or even DeepSeek-R1. It’s licensed under MIT, giving you full freedom to customize it.

As this project is MIT, that means companies like Amazon can deploy a managed version and can compete against you with prices going close to zero in their free-tier and with a higher quotas than what you are offering.

I predict that this project is likely going to change to AGPL or a new business license to combat against this.

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Have you seen in the past that Amazon did that against other projects?
Previous well known victims include: Elasticsearch, MongoDB and Redis.