Comparison
A cheaper browser agent vs Selvedge
A factual side by side of two tools in Auth & Payments. Figures come from each product’s own site.
A cheaper browser agent
ListedWhat changed when we replaced repeated tool selection with a compact program executed against a text-first browser state.
Selvedge
ListedA local MCP server that AI coding agents (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot) call as they work, logging the why behind every change into a SQLite file under .selvedge/ next to...
| A cheaper browser agent | Selvedge | |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Auth & Payments | Auth & Payments |
| Pricing model | Paid | Open Source |
| Starting price | Not disclosed | Not disclosed |
| Free tier | No | No |
| Platforms | Not disclosed | Not disclosed |
| Techavy score | Not rated yet | Not rated yet |
About A cheaper browser agent
What changed when we replaced repeated tool selection with a compact program executed against a text-first browser state. Page context is compressed DOM trees that get cached on next call. There is an adversarial relationship between developers and the big model labs. The labs use that margin to subsidize their own apps, their own competing agent harnesses, and their own consumer subscriptions. If you are building an AI IDE, browser agent, support agent, or workflow product on top of a frontier API, you are often subsidizing the company trying to replace you.
About Selvedge
A local MCP server that AI coding agents (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot) call as they work, logging the why behind every change into a SQLite file under .selvedge/ next to your code. Selvedge is a git blame for the why, a local MCP server your agent (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot) calls as it works, recording the intent behind each change in the moment it makes it, not reconstructing it from the diff afterward.
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