[tobyhinloopen]

Way too expensive, I'll wait for a free/open source browser optimized to be used by agents.

[antves]

Our approach is actually very cost-effective compared to alternatives. Our browser uses a token-efficient LLM-friendly representation of the webpage that keeps context size low, while also allowing small and efficient models to handle the low-level navigation. This means agents like Claude can work at a higher abstraction level rather than burning tokens on every click and scroll, which would be far more expensive

[verdverm]

If a potential user says it is too expensive, better to ask why than to tell them they are wrong. You likely have assumptions you have not validated

[antves]

Definitely! Making Smooth as cost-effective as possible it's been a core goal for us, so we'd really love to hear your thoughts on this

We'll continue to make Smooth more affordable and accessible as this is a core principle of our work (https://www.smooth.sh/images/comparison.gif)

[verdverm]

are your evals / comparisons publicly/3rd party reproducible?

If it's "trust me, I did a fair comparison", that's not going to fly today. There's too much lying in society, trusting people trying to sell you something to be telling the truth is not the default anymore, skepticism is

[antves]

That's a great point, we'll publish everything on our docs as soon as possible

[tobyhinloopen]

I'm paying a fixed amount on Claude and other agents, so "more tokens" is "free" for me. There's a lot of niche tools out there but I think we all have "subscription fatigue".

But maybe that's just me - Maybe im just not your target audience :)