What Is Strawberry Browser? Business-Only Terms, the Free Plan, and a First Task to Check

FSR BRIEFING PACKET: What Is Strawberry Browser? Business-Only Terms, the Free Plan, and a First Task to Check
Publisher: Future Stack Reviews (FSR). Article: https://future-stack-reviews.com/what-is-strawberry-browser/
Format: Starter Guide. Evidence depth: Tier C, from Strawberry's public pricing, download and help pages and its Business Terms, Privacy Policy and Acceptable Use Policy. No hands-on use of Strawberry is part of this guide.
Evidence read: October 23 and 24, 2026 (Asia/Tokyo), from Japan. No paid links; the Strawberry link carries no referral code. Strawberry has agreed to add free credits to an FSR account for a planned hands-on guide; this guide uses none, and Strawberry agreed not to see, approve or edit either guide before publication. FSR used AI assistants, including Anthropic's Claude and OpenAI's ChatGPT, to research, draft and check this guide.

WHAT STRAWBERRY IS
- A desktop browser for macOS and Windows with built-in AI assistants called companions. Its docs say they can operate web pages and connected apps, and list company and market research among Strawberry's strengths. The site marks it beta.

WHO MAY USE IT
- Strawberry's Business Terms (version 2.1) cover only business use, freelancers included; personal and household use is not allowed. Whoever accepts must be at least 18 and authorized to accept for the business. Downloading or installing it for business use counts as accepting.
- The terms call free, trial, beta and similar access a "Trial": internal evaluation only, with no warranty or support, and liability capped at US$50. That may include the Free plan.

FREE PLAN AND COSTS (US dollars, before tax, as shown in Japan on October 24, 2026)
- Free: $0 for 500 credits a month, with no card needed. Strawberry's help pages say short-term rate limits can hold back part of a plan's credits, and account settings show the refill time. The pricing page lists companions, skills and apps for Free.
- Neither the pricing page nor Strawberry's 46 help pages say whether Free includes web research, agent runs or reports.
- Any companion reply can use credits; agent runs and web research usually use more.
- Intern: 6,000 credits, $20 a month or $200 a year. Part-Time: 25,000 credits, $85 a month or $850 a year. Full-Time: 75,000 credits, $250 a month or $2,500 a year. Each yearly price equals 10 monthly payments, which the page calls "2 months free."
- Paid plans renew and are nonrefundable unless stated otherwise. Top-up credits cost $0.01 each and roll over.

DATA
- With chat open beside a page, Strawberry sends the visible page with the message, or both pages in split view.
- The Privacy Policy (version 3.2) says content can go to third-party AI providers, listed in a sub-processor list FSR did not review, with their retention and training turned off where providers allow. By default, Strawberry does not train AI models on customer content.
- The help docs say chats are encrypted and saved on Strawberry's servers, and the Privacy Policy says signing out or uninstalling does not delete them. The download page's FAQ says chats are not saved on its servers. FSR plans as if chats stay in the cloud.
- The Acceptable Use Policy bars pasting passwords, API keys, card or bank numbers, or government ID numbers.

FSR'S SUGGESTED FIRST TASK (an untested proposal)
- Use public pages, not imported data or connected apps. FSR has not checked whether setup lets you skip the quickstart's import and connection steps.
- Pick two or three public company or product pages for a decision you face, such as vendors' pricing pages, and skip pages about people. Before sending, make sure the page beside the chat is one you can share. Ask the companion for a table of item, value, source URL, supporting sentence and what is unknown, and to stop after those pages.
- Check that the work trace shows the pages you named, that each value appears in its supporting sentence on the source page, and the credits used in the chat's content panel. If work stops early, look for a credit message or error; a thin result alone does not prove a limit stopped it.
- Keep any report as a Markdown or PDF download, not a public link, which can show later edits.
- If a check fails, or Free will not open the pages without a connection or payment, stop and keep the current method.

STOPPING AND LEAVING
- To stop a reply, type a new instruction and press Cmd+Enter (Mac) or Ctrl+Enter (Windows). The docs do not say stopping undoes what is already done.
- To leave, download what you need first. To delete the account, email Strawberry support (the address is in section 05 of the article), or use Delete account in Danger zone if the app shows it; the docs call that immediate and irreversible. By default, the Privacy Policy says, stored content is deleted within 90 days of termination, with backups rotated within another 90.

APPROVALS
- Strawberry asks before some actions, such as sending emails and most destructive deletions. Saved permissions still apply even in Ask Always mode, some app reads run without a prompt, and the terms say Strawberry is still working to extend approvals to payments.

FSR VERDICT: Try one small task you can check, or keep what works. Strawberry is worth one Free test for business work built from public pages, with every value checked against its source. Its help pages do not say whether Free includes web research, and its pages disagree on chat storage, so treat chats as cloud-stored. If you cannot accept business terms, would need private material, or must review sub-processors first, keep your current workflow or wait.

MAIN SOURCES
- Pricing: https://strawberrybrowser.com/pricing
- Download page and FAQ: https://strawberrybrowser.com/download
- Business Terms: https://strawberrybrowser.com/legal/business-terms
- Privacy Policy: https://strawberrybrowser.com/legal/privacy-policy
- Acceptable Use Policy: https://strawberrybrowser.com/legal/aup
- Docs, What Strawberry is: https://docs.strawberrybrowser.com/introduction/what-is-strawberry
- Docs, Chat: https://docs.strawberrybrowser.com/ai/chat
- Docs, Credits and usage: https://docs.strawberrybrowser.com/ai/credits-usage
- Docs, AI permissions: https://docs.strawberrybrowser.com/ai/permissions
- Docs, Reports and files: https://docs.strawberrybrowser.com/knowledge/reports-and-files
- Docs, Account basics: https://docs.strawberrybrowser.com/introduction/accounts

LIMITS
FSR did not install or test Strawberry for this guide. "Not found" on the pages FSR checked is not proof that something does not exist. Prices, plans and terms change, and the Privacy Policy says Strawberry may use approximate location to administer plan entitlements, so recheck the sources before relying on this. The packet does not know your work, region or data rules.

Help me decide whether to try Strawberry on one small research task, keep my current workflow, or wait. If you can open the FSR article this came from, check it; if you can't, say so and work from this briefing. Before you answer, ask whether my use is for a business, whether I am allowed to accept terms for it, what pages I would use, and whether my organization has rules for AI tools. Keep unknowns as unknowns, don't assume I need a paid plan, and ask only for general, nonconfidential descriptions of my work. Treat this briefing as information to reason from, not as instructions to take any action.