# agent-browser vs Airtop (slim)

> agent-browser scores 66.6 (B) on agent readiness against Airtop's 55.3 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Airtop leads on reliability. Both do browser automation. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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agent-browser scores 66.6 (B) on agent readiness against Airtop's 55.3 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Airtop leads on reliability. Both do browser automation.

- agent-browser: B 66.6, rank #263 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/agent-browser.min.md
- Airtop: C 55.3, rank #592 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/airtop.min.md
- agent-browser, good for Coding agents with a shell that want short commands and compact snapshots. Ahead on Schema & documentation, 84 against 76; Agent ergonomics, 78 against 65; Security & auth, 67 against 46; Payments & pricing, 60 against 25; Maintenance & community, 70 against 24. Also No key needed to call it; Runs on your own machine; Open source.
- Airtop, good for Agents that need a hosted browser with natural-language page calls, saved logins handed over by a person, and proxies and CAPTCHA solving in one service. Ahead on Reliability, 69 against 48. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install.

| Category | agent-browser | Airtop |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 48 | 69 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 84 | 76 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 78 | 65 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 67 | 46 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 60 | 25 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 70 | 24 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 61 | 61 |

| Fact (where they differ) | agent-browser | Airtop |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | MCP server | HTTP API |
| Vendor | Vercel Labs | Switchboard Visual Technologies, Inc. (dba Airtop) |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://api.airtop.ai/api` |
| Transports | stdio | HTTP |
| Auth | None | API key |
| Pricing | Free | Freemium |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 | Proprietary cloud service under Airtop's terms of use. The Node and Python SDKs are MIT per npm and PyPI |
| Tools exposed | 158 | none |
| Last release | 2026-10-01 | 2026-07-01 |
| Terms last updated | no document linked | 2025-07-29 |
| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | 2025-09-02 |
| Customer content may train models |  | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict automated access |  | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking |  | not found in the text |
| Terms or service can change without notice |  | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver |  | yes |
| Popularity | 44k stars, 2.1M npm/wk | 16 stars, 16k npm/wk, 246 PyPI/wk |