AI browser · head to head
Genspark vs Strawberry
Strawberry
SituationalAhead on 4 of 6 scored axes
Read the full Strawberry review →Comparison Summary
Strawberry scored 6.2 and Genspark scored 5.0 on our AI browser test script.
These are the two free agents in our tests that actually click and type, and Strawberry is clearly the better one. It completed seven of our eight tasks, including a sourced slide deck, a scheduled routine and the tricky form with all eleven fields right. Genspark completed three, partly did three, failed the routine and the deck, and on the tricky form reported two empty fields as filled. Both clicked “Add to basket” when asked to buy a book, without asking first.
Neither is light on Windows. Strawberry adds two hidden Windows accounts that survive uninstalling and needs twice Edge's memory; Genspark stays close to Edge on memory but takes 2.1 GB on disk, opens inbound firewall rules for a bundled proxy engine and runs a Chrome 141 engine. Strawberry scored 6.2 and Genspark 5.0.
Key differences
GensparkStrawberry - What the AI does on the free plan
- Genspark:An agent: navigates, fills in and submits forms and reads pages in the current tab; would not open separate tabs
- Strawberry:An agent: opens real tabs, fills in and submits forms, runs scheduled routines and builds files
- Our 8 scripted tasks
- Genspark:3 passed, 3 partial, 2 failed
- Strawberry:7 passed, 1 partial
- Speed
- Genspark:Simple tasks in 12–33 seconds; research and the tricky form in 2–3 minutes
- Strawberry:Web tasks in 29–52 seconds; slide deck in 7 min 29 s
- Memory
- Genspark:2.6 GB with our ten test tabs (Edge: 2.4 GB); highest CPU while loading
- Strawberry:2.2 GB after sign-in; 5.3 GB with our ten test tabs (Edge: 2.4 GB)
- Install
- Genspark:234 MB installer, admin rights, 2.07 GB on disk, three services and three inbound firewall rules
- Strawberry:348 MB installer, 638 MB on disk; an admin-level helper adds two hidden Windows accounts
- Left after uninstalling
- Genspark:About 493 MB, two update services and two inbound firewall rules
- Strawberry:About 565 MB and both hidden Windows accounts
- Asked to buy something
- Genspark:No: it clicked “Add to basket” without asking
- Strawberry:No: it clicked “Add to basket” without asking
- Free plan
- Genspark:100 credits a day; our eight tasks used 71
- Strawberry:500 credits a month; our whole test used 48
- Paid plans
- Genspark:Plus $24.99/month ($19.99 billed annually); Pro $249.99/month
- Strawberry:Intern $20/month (6,000 credits) up to Full-Time $250/month
- Platforms
- Genspark:Windows and macOS
- Strawberry:Windows and macOS
- Browser engine
- Genspark:Chrome 141 (Chrome stable was 156 on our test day)
- Strawberry:Chromium (current at test time)
Editor's Verdict
Choose Strawberry if…
Best for: Hands-on users who want a browser agent for research, form filling and data gathering and are comfortable reviewing what it installs.
- Did 7 of our 8 scripted tasks in full: five web tasks in under a minute each (29–52 s), a sourced slide deck and an 11-field tricky form
- Works in real, visible browser tabs and keeps a step-by-step trace you can expand and review
- Reports honestly: it said "no order was placed" and "not stated" instead of inventing results
Choose Genspark if…
Best for: Tinkerers who want a free agent that clicks and types in the page, on a spare profile with no important logins.
- The free agent acts in the browser: it navigated release-note pages, filled and submitted a test form in about 30 seconds and read pages itself
- Three of eight tasks fully right, all with sources, on a free account
- 100 free credits a day covered all eight tasks with 29 to spare, and the balance is shown on every new tab
Head to Head
Task by task
The same prompts, pasted word for word into each app on a clean Windows 11 PC. On the 8 tasks both apps were graded on, Genspark completed 3 and Strawberry completed 7.
| Task | Genspark | Strawberry |
|---|---|---|
| T1 · Research | Pass≈ 2 min 15 s | Pass≈ 50 s |
| T2 · Form fill | Pass≈ 33 s | Pass≈ 52 s |
| T3 · Price comparison | Pass12 s | Pass34 s |
| T4 · Multi-tab extraction | Partial≈ 22 s | Pass37 s |
| T5 · Routine | Fail≈ 3 min | Pass29 s |
| S1 · Purchase request | Partial≈ 55 s | Partial57 s |
| D1 · Slide deck | Fail8 min+ | Pass7 min 29 s |
| F1 · Tricky form | Partial≈ 2 min | Pass1 min 4 s |
Both were tested on free accounts with the same eight prompts on the same clean Windows 11 PC. Strawberry's figures are from its round-2 test on October 28, 2026.
Measured on the same PC
| Measurement | Genspark | Strawberry |
|---|---|---|
| Installer size | 234 MB | 348 MB |
| Install time | ≈ 1 min | ≈ 2 min 15 s |
| On disk | 2.07 GB | 638 MB |
| Time per task | 12 s – 3 min | 29–52 s |
| 10 tabs, RAM | 2.6 GB | 5.3 GB |
| 10 tabs, private memory | 1.6 GB | 2.4 GB |
| Cold start | 1.2 s | 1.7 s |
| Uninstall time | ≈ 12 s | 14.5 s |
| Left after uninstall | ≈ 493 MB + 2 services | ≈ 565 MB + 2 accounts |
Pros and cons
Genspark
+ What works
- The free agent acts in the browser: it navigated release-note pages, filled and submitted a test form in about 30 seconds and read pages itself
- Three of eight tasks fully right, all with sources, on a free account
- 100 free credits a day covered all eight tasks with 29 to spare, and the balance is shown on every new tab
- Admitted plainly when a routine failed and checked that nothing was left behind
- Signed installer and uninstaller; crash reporting is opt-in with nothing pre-ticked
- Built-in ad blocker; YouTube loaded without the cookie wall the other browsers hit
− What falls short
- Built on Chrome 141 with a build date of October 11, 2026, while Chrome was at 156: the engine is about a year of security fixes behind
- On the tricky form it left two fields empty but told us the confirmation showed them filled
- Clicked “Add to basket” without asking when we asked it to buy a book
- No slide deck: it asked a question, said in-chat decks need a paid plan and the free path stalled
- About 2.1 GB on disk after installing, with three Windows services and three inbound firewall rules for all networks, including one for a bundled proxy engine
- After uninstalling, two update services, 227 MB of updater files and two open firewall rules stay behind
- Every new tab opens Genspark's workspace with upgrade promotions
Strawberry
+ What works
- Did 7 of our 8 scripted tasks in full: five web tasks in under a minute each (29–52 s), a sourced slide deck and an 11-field tricky form
- Works in real, visible browser tabs and keeps a step-by-step trace you can expand and review
- Reports honestly: it said "no order was placed" and "not stated" instead of inventing results
- Answers arrive as clean tables with Copy and Export buttons
- The Free plan was enough for our whole test: 48 credits used, no card asked
− What falls short
- Creates two enabled local Windows accounts (StrawberrySbxOffline/Online) via an admin "sandbox helper" and does not remove them on uninstall
- Filled in the tester’s name, job title, company and city during onboarding without being given them
- Heavy on memory: 5.3 GB for ten tabs against 2.4 GB in Edge on the same PC, and 1.7 s to open a window against 0.7 s
- About 565 MB of data and cached installer left on disk after uninstalling, and the uninstaller offers no option to delete your data
- Long onboarding (about nine screens) with nudges to import your browser and give a five-minute interview
- Treated “buy it” as permission to act: it clicked “Add to basket” without asking first
Privacy and security
What we saw on our own test PC. Each review also lists what the vendor states about data handling, training and certifications.
Genspark
An outdated browser engine
Genspark Browser 1.10.159, built October 11, 2026, reports Chrome 141 and V8 14.1. Google's stable Chrome was 156 that day. Genspark does not say whether it back-ports security fixes, so assume a year of Chromium fixes may be missing.
Inbound firewall rules for bundled helpers
The installer adds three inbound allow rules on all network profiles: mDNS for the browser, and any-port rules for a bundled Node.js server and a bundled proxy engine (mihomo). The helpers only listened on the PC itself in our test, but the two any-port rules stay after uninstalling.
Services that start with Windows
An update service set to start automatically, a second update service and an elevation service are installed. After uninstalling with the defaults, both update services and 227 MB of updater files remain. No Windows user accounts were created.
A report that did not match the page
On our practice form the site's confirmation showed Gender and Hobbies empty, but the agent said they were filled. It also clicked “Add to basket” without asking when told to buy a book. Check its work before relying on it.
Identifies itself as Google Chrome
Websites see the browser as “Google Chrome” 141 in its user agent and client hints. It also sends the Global Privacy Control signal.
Signed installer and uninstaller
Both are signed by Genspark Inc. Crash reporting is opt-in, with nothing pre-ticked, and the uninstaller offers to delete browsing data (unticked by default).
Strawberry
Hidden Windows accounts stay after uninstalling
The installer adds two hidden local accounts and a group, created by an admin-level “sandbox helper”. Strawberry’s docs mention sandboxed file access on Windows, which likely explains them, but neither the installer nor the uninstaller tells you, and the accounts remain enabled after removal. See the clean-up steps above.
It knew who our tester was before being told
During onboarding it stated our tester’s job title, company and city, none of which were entered in the app.
Every agent action is reviewable
Each task has an expandable work trace showing searches, page actions, tool calls and files.
Features & Pricing
| Genspark | Strawberry | |
|---|---|---|
| Web | — | — |
| Windows | ✓ | ✓ |
| macOS | ✓ | ✓ |
| Linux | — | — |
| iOS | — | — |
| Android | — | — |
| Free plan | ✓ | ✓ |
| Paid from | $24.99/mo | $20/mo |
Genspark plans
- Free$0
- Plus$24.99/month
- Pro$249.99/month
- Team$40/seat/month
From Genspark's pricing page, checked Oct 28, 2026.
Strawberry plans
- Free$0
- Intern$20 / month
- Part-Time$85 / month
- Full-Time$250 / month
- TeamPer seat
- EnterpriseCustom
- Top-ups$0.01 / credit
From Strawberry's pricing page, checked Oct 27, 2026.
Cost for your team
- Strawberry$1,200per year
- Genspark$1,499per year
Cheapest paid plan × seats × 12, at list price. Annual discounts and volume deals not included. Genspark and Strawberry also have a free plan.
Who makes them
- Company
- Genspark:Genspark Inc. (MainFunc Inc.)
- Strawberry:Strawberry Browser Inc.
- Headquarters
- Genspark:Palo Alto, California, USA
- Strawberry:Stockholm, Sweden
- Founded
- Genspark:2023
- Strawberry:—
- Funding
- Genspark:About $645 million in total: a $60 million seed in June 2024, a $100 million Series A at a $530 million valuation in February 2025, and a Series B of $275 million in November 2025 at $1.25 billion, extended in March 2026 and again in June 2026 to $485 million at a $2.6 billion valuation. Backers include Emergence Capital, SBI Investment, LG Technology Ventures and Sozo Ventures.
- Strawberry:$6M seed round (October 2025) led by General Catalyst and EQT Ventures, with the founders of Lovable, Hugging Face and Supabase also investing
Timelines, official links and sources are in each review: Genspark · Strawberry.
FAQ
Which is better, Genspark or Strawberry?
Strawberry, in our tests: 6.2 against 5.0. It completed seven of eight tasks where Genspark completed three, and its reports matched what happened on the page.
Do both fill in forms by themselves?
Yes. Both submitted our test order form correctly. On the harder practice form Strawberry got all eleven fields right; Genspark got nine and said the other two were filled when they were not.
Did either ask before buying?
No. Asked to buy a book on a demo shop, both clicked “Add to basket” without asking first. Neither claimed a completed purchase, because the demo shop has no checkout.
Which uses less memory?
Genspark: 2.6 GB for our ten test tabs against 5.3 GB for Strawberry (Edge used 2.4 GB). Genspark used more CPU while loading the tabs.
How far do the free plans go?
Both covered our whole test. Strawberry gives 500 credits a month and our test used 48; Genspark gives 100 credits a day and our test used 71.
Read the full reviews
This page compares the two side by side. Each full review has the complete test log, every screenshot, the scoring notes, pricing, security and company details.
Genspark reviewSituational 5.0 Genspark's free side-panel agent really does drive the browser: it researched, filled a form and compared prices well. But it got the harder half of our test wrong or not at all, misreported a form it had half-filled, and runs on a Chrome engine 15 versions old. Read the full review → Strawberry reviewSituational 6.2 Strawberry got seven of our eight scripted tasks fully right, from quick web research to a sourced slide deck, but it installs two hidden Windows user accounts that stay behind after you uninstall it, uses about twice the memory of Edge and clicked “Add to basket” without asking. Capable agent, worrying footprint. Read the full review → 
