This is the clearest comparison of the six. If every tool you need is on Zapier and has an API, Zapier is cheaper and more reliable than any browser agent. Katteb exists for the tools that are not.
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Built from their own published pricing and documentation, checked in September 2026.
A browser agent on our servers with a Chrome profile of your own, and a toolbelt that writes the files on the server.
Agents inside the automation platform that connects seven thousand apps.
The lines that actually change the day, not a feature count.
| Katteb | Zapier Agents | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | A browser agent with its own real Chrome profile on our servers, plus a toolbelt for files, data and media. | Agents layered on an integration platform with 7,000+ connected apps. |
| Where the browser runs | On Katteb's servers, always on, one dedicated profile per account. | No browser agent. A web parser, or a third-party scraping service. |
| Your signed-in accounts | You sign in once inside your own agent browser and the session stays. | API connections per app, not a browser session. |
| Exit IP address | A static ISP address tied to your host, the same one on every run. | Their datacentre address. |
| CAPTCHA | Solved inside the run. | Not applicable: there is no browser to be challenged. |
| Price before you run it | The plan card shows the hold (200 credits) before you press Run. | Metered in activities. A trigger, a knowledge lookup, an action, a web search and a scrape each count as one. |
| A task that fails | Not charged at all, and the hold comes straight back. | Activities are counted as they run. |
| Ceiling on one task | 1,500 credits a task on the entry plan, and we absorb the rest. | A paid add-on with its own activity tiers. |
| Scheduling | Daily, weekly, or only when you click. | Triggers from 7,000+ apps, which is the best in this group. |
| Files it produces | PowerPoint with real charts, PDF, CSV, images, video, music, and voice notes in your own recorded voice. | Whatever the connected apps themselves produce. |
| Where you talk to it | Web, an installable app, Telegram and Slack. | Web, Slack, email. |
| Entry price | $19 a month, agents included. | An add-on on top of a Zapier plan. |
Built from their own published pricing and documentation, checked in September 2026. Their site
Not features we counted. Three decisions in the architecture.
Your agent works in its own Chrome profile on our server, from a static IP, and stays signed in between one task and the next. The others either open a fresh sandbox per task and inject your session into it, or drive the browser on your own laptop, which then has to be awake. A task that runs on LinkedIn at 3am needs a steady identity, not a new sandbox.
A task holds 200 credits and settles at what it really cost, and a task that fails is charged nothing. The rest of this category bills from a credit pool that drains whether the task worked or not, with no budget stop to catch it.
Send a message while a task is running and it is delivered to the agent mid-flight rather than queued for the next one. When it hits a login wall or a real decision it stops and asks you instead of guessing. Press Stop and it wraps up, hands you the report and the files it already made, and charges only for the part that ran.
The loudest complaint in this whole category is that the price only appears after it is gone. Here is the entire policy.
Before it runs
It holds 200 credits, then you pay what the run really cost.
If it fails
You are charged nothing. Stop it halfway and you pay for the part that ran.
The ceiling
1,500 credits a task on the entry plan, and we absorb the rest.
Often, yes, and we would rather say so than pretend otherwise. Zapier is the better wiring between systems that expose APIs. Katteb is the better hands for the systems that do not. Plenty of accounts run a Zap for the plumbing and a Katteb task for the part that needs a browser and a judgement call.
Not yet from outside. Tasks run on a schedule, on your click, or from a message in the chat, Telegram or Slack. A public API for triggering a task is on the roadmap.
For the work it is pointed at, yes, with two honest caveats: a site redesign can break a step, and a run takes minutes rather than seconds. That is why every run ends with a report of what it actually did, every file lands in your library, and a failed run is not charged.
Any site your agent can sign in to through the browser, plus 31 direct API integrations with your own token. The browser is the general case and the API is the fast path.
The same lines, against other platforms.
A cloud agent on its own virtual machine, with an extension that can drive the browser on your laptop.
The strongest general model, with a cloud browser attached to it.
An all-in-one super agent for research, slides, sheets and outbound calls, with its own AI browser.
An agent builder for business workflows: inbox, calendar, meetings and a hundred connected apps.
Google's personal agent, bundled with Google AI Pro, driving the Chrome on your own computer.
Every plan includes the agents, from $19 a month. A free account opens the whole model catalogue to try in chat, and an agent run starts when a plan does.
