Strawberry, the Stockholm-based startup behind an AI browser built for teams, released Strawberry Browser 1.0 on Oct. 26, 2026, ending the beta for macOS and Windows. Plans run from free to $250 a month.
The company, backed by General Catalyst and EQT Ventures, is aiming the release at non-technical enterprise teams, Tech.eu reported. It describes the product as an enterprise alternative to ChatGPT and Claude.
A browser with colleagues inside
Strawberry calls its product "agentic": a full desktop browser with AI companions built in. According to the company's product pages, those agents operate inside the tabs and accounts a user is already signed into. They can browse, click, type and use connected apps, then stop to ask for approval before anything consequential, such as sending an email, making a payment or deleting something.
The homepage lists a long menu of tasks: parallel research, meeting transcription, email drafting, CRM updates, slide and diagram building, and scheduled routines. Gmail, Slack, Notion and Google Suite are among the connected apps, and the browser supports Chrome extensions.
Charles Maddock, the CEO and a co-founder, told Tech.eu why the company chose a browser over a standalone app.
"The reason we chose to make Strawberry a browser on your device is because if you think about the work you do on a daily basis, you are not in 10 different files on your computer, you are actually in ten different tabs inside your browser," Maddock said.
What 1.0 adds
Release notes posted Oct. 26 describe several new pieces. Users can design how their companions look and "hire" from nine role templates, among them "Sales Sally" and "Talent Theo." A new Library gathers everything the companions produce, with search and previews. A Meetings page keeps recordings, transcripts, summaries, decisions and action items in one place, and transcripts show who said what.
Then there is the Companion Plaza, a new-tab page where the companions wander about and users can click on them to start a conversation. It is a playful touch for a product pitched at enterprise buyers.
Several earlier features carry into 1.0: split tabs (February 2026), routines (March 2026) and local file sandbox access for companions (April 2026). Support for more than 100 new apps and Chrome extensions arrived May 26, 2026, followed by encrypted cross-device chat sync on Aug. 15, 2026. Passwords, history and cookies remain on the device, the company said.
Strawberry's spec page counts 93 native integrations with 1,254 hand-written operations, plus 1,975 further apps reachable through account authorization. Those figures come from the company and carry no date.
Pricing
Browsing is free at every level. Credits are spent when companions take actions, according to the pricing page as viewed Oct. 30, 2026:
- Free: 500 credits a month
- Intern: $20 a month, 6,000 credits
- Part-Time: $85 a month, 25,000 credits
- Full-Time: $250 a month, 75,000 credits
Top-ups cost $0.01 per credit and roll over. Earlier company pages cited 2,000 free credits and a $100 Part-Time tier, but the October pricing page supersedes them. Maddock's Product Hunt post also offered 50% off the first month of any monthly plan with the code PH50 through Nov. 8, 2026.
Customers, team and funding
Tech.eu named Lovable and Tandem Health as early users. Maddock's Product Hunt post went further, claiming "hundreds of teams, including Lovable, Tandem Health and ElevenLabs." That is the company's own claim, and the ElevenLabs relationship could not be independently confirmed. The Product Hunt listing ranked first for Oct. 26, 2026, with 350 points when captured on Oct. 30, 2026.
Strawberry was founded in 2023 and had 12 people at launch, Tech.eu reported. Maddock is joined by co-founders Arian Hanifi, the chief technology officer, and Sebastian Thunman, the chief operating officer. The legal entities are Dendrite Systems, Inc. and Strawberry Browser AB.
According to Tech.eu, the company announced a $6 million seed round on Oct. 14, 2025, led by General Catalyst and EQT Ventures. Founders of Lovable, Hugging Face and Supabase also took part.
The competition
Maddock does not consider other AI browsers the main rivals. "I would say that we compete much more with the big agent platforms like Claude, ChatGPT, Grok Bot and Gemini," he told Tech.eu.
Browsers are not absent from the field, though. Opera's Neon, an agentic browser, reached its first users on Sept. 30, 2025, according to an Opera press release, and the company positions it as a premium subscription product. Product Hunt lists Manus and Browser Use as alternatives for agentic workflows.
Strawberry's pitch leans on shared context. "Strawberry is unique in that it is a browser where a team's context, workflows and logins already live," the company said in a statement quoted by Tech.eu. "A companion remembers how your team works and gets better the more you work together, because it is connected to all of that context."
Early reception is mixed, if mostly warm. Product Hunt showed a 4.8 out of 5 average across 13 reviews, with users praising task execution and visibility controls while asking for more speed and smoothness. Maddock's own view of the technology is blunter: "The technology is already here: agents can now work for weeks in a row."
