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    "a": {
      "slug": "airtop",
      "name": "Airtop",
      "vendor": "Switchboard Visual Technologies, Inc. (dba Airtop)",
      "vendorUrl": "https://www.airtop.ai",
      "kind": "http-api",
      "category": "browser",
      "summary": "Airtop runs cloud browser sessions that an agent controls through a REST API, Node and Python SDKs, natural-language page calls, or Puppeteer, Playwright and Selenium connections. The same company sells Agent Builder, a no-code product for scheduled web agents.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/airtop",
      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/airtop.md",
      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/airtop.min.md",
      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/airtop.json",
      "repo": "https://github.com/airtop-ai/airtop-node-sdk",
      "license": "Proprietary cloud service under Airtop's terms of use. The Node and Python SDKs are MIT per npm and PyPI",
      "transports": [
        "http"
      ],
      "remoteUrl": "https://api.airtop.ai/api",
      "packages": [
        {
          "registry": "npm",
          "name": "@airtop/sdk"
        },
        {
          "registry": "pypi",
          "name": "airtop"
        }
      ],
      "auth": "api-key",
      "authNotes": "Self-serve API key from the portal at portal.airtop.ai/api-keys after a browser signup, sent as `Authorization: Bearer` on https://api.airtop.ai/api/v1. Puppeteer and Playwright connect to the session's `cdpWsUrl`, and Selenium to its `chromedriverUrl`, with the same Bearer header, so the key stays out of URLs. A key works across its organisation, including saved profiles. No scopes, read-only keys, expiry or rotation were found in the reviewed documentation. The developers page mentions RBAC for enterprise access without detail.",
      "pricing": "freemium",
      "pricingNotes": "Free plan with 1,000 credits a month and 3 simultaneous sessions. Paid plans start at $29 a month (Starter, 30,000 credits), $189 (Professional, 225,000) and $558 (Enterprise, 775,000), each with larger credit options, and annual billing takes 10 per cent off. Credits pay for browser time (billed in 30-second increments), integrated proxy traffic and AI calls, but the credits charged per unit are not published. No one-off credit purchases, and unused credits do not carry over. The pricing page states a 10,000 one-time credit bonus on Free while the billing guide states 30,000. Whether signup needs a card is not stated (https://www.airtop.ai/pricing, https://www.airtop.ai/help/billing/billing, checked 2026-10-08).",
      "priceSummary": "$29 / mo",
      "where": "hosted",
      "x402": {
        "level": "no",
        "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the docs, the OpenAPI document or the pricing page. An unauthenticated GET to https://api.airtop.ai/api/v1/sessions on 2026-10-08 returned 401, not 402.",
        "endpoints": []
      },
      "toolCount": null,
      "popularity": {
        "githubStars": 16,
        "npmWeekly": 15505,
        "pypiWeekly": 246,
        "asOf": "2026-10-08"
      },
      "docsUrl": "https://docs.airtop.ai",
      "llmsTxt": "https://docs.airtop.ai/llms.txt",
      "openapi": "https://docs.airtop.ai/openapi.json",
      "capabilities": [
        "browser.control",
        "browser.hosted",
        "browser.debug",
        "web.scrape",
        "scraping.proxies",
        "scraping.anti-bot"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "official",
        "hosted",
        "freemium",
        "api-key",
        "openapi",
        "llms-txt",
        "typescript",
        "python",
        "proxies",
        "captcha",
        "status-page",
        "soc2"
      ],
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      "graded": true,
      "anchor": {
        "graded": true,
        "score": 55.3,
        "grade": "C",
        "agentReady": false,
        "rank": 511,
        "ranked": true,
        "rankOf": 722,
        "categoryRank": 11,
        "methodology": "0.4",
        "run": "2026-10-01",
        "scores": {
          "ergonomics": 65,
          "maintenance": 24,
          "payments": 25,
          "reliability": 69,
          "schema": 76,
          "security": 46,
          "transparency": 61
        },
        "pending": [
          "performance",
          "tasks"
        ],
        "assessment": {
          "confidence": "medium",
          "date": "2026-10-08"
        },
        "negative": 0,
        "verdict": "The cloud browser API has a public OpenAPI 3.1 document, Markdown docs, natural-language page calls with a per-call credit cap, and a status page with no incident in the last 90 days. Credit rates for browser time, proxy traffic and AI calls are not published, and the developer changelog's last entry is dated 3 September 2025.",
        "bestFor": "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.",
        "strengths": [
          "OpenAPI 3.1 document with 39 operations, an llms.txt index and a Markdown twin of every docs page",
          "The API key travels as a Bearer header on REST, CDP and Selenium connections, not in the URL",
          "Every AI call returns `meta.usage.credits` and accepts `costThresholdCredits` and `timeThresholdSeconds` to cap spend and time",
          "status.airtop.ai shows no incident between 10 July and 8 October 2026, only 30 minutes of scheduled maintenance on 18 August",
          "A person can log in through an embedded Live View, and the saved profile keeps the agent signed in without it seeing the password"
        ],
        "weaknesses": [
          "No published rate for what a browser minute, a GB of proxy traffic or an AI call costs in credits",
          "The developer changelog's last entry is 3 September 2025, and the stable Python SDK dates from 23 April 2025",
          "No request rate limits, 429 handling or idempotency keys found in the reviewed documentation",
          "No scoped or read-only API keys documented, and no guidance on prompt injection from page content",
          "No security.txt, bug bounty, public DPA or subprocessor list found. The SOC 2 report is on request"
        ],
        "agentNotes": [
          "Terminate every session with `DELETE /v1/sessions/{id}`. Sessions bill in 30-second increments and idle ones last 10 minutes by default",
          "Set `costThresholdCredits` on AI calls and read `meta.usage.credits` afterwards. Credit rates are not published, so measure them",
          "Use `page-query` with `configuration.outputSchema` for structured output. `prompt-content` and `summarize-content` are deprecated",
          "When calling REST without the SDK, poll session status until `running` before creating a window. Only the SDK waits for you",
          "Airtop's integrated proxy cannot reach LinkedIn, ticketing sites and some banks and streaming services. Bring a custom proxy for those"
        ],
        "metrics": {
          "kind": "remote",
          "measured": false
        },
        "reviewCount": 0,
        "avgRating": 0,
        "history": [
          {
            "basis": "public evidence",
            "confidence": "medium",
            "grade": "C",
            "methodology": "0.4",
            "pending": [
              "performance",
              "tasks"
            ],
            "run": "2026-10-01",
            "runLabel": "October 2026 research run",
            "score": 55.3
          }
        ],
        "editorialScores": {
          "ergonomics": 65,
          "maintenance": 24,
          "payments": 25,
          "reliability": 69,
          "schema": 76,
          "security": 46,
          "transparency": 42
        },
        "provenanceScore": 80
      },
      "connect": {
        "install": "npm i -s @airtop/sdk",
        "http": "curl -X POST https://api.airtop.ai/api/v1/sessions -H \"Authorization: Bearer YOUR_AIRTOP_API_KEY\" -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" -d '{}'"
      },
      "letme": {
        "capability": "https://letme.dev/browser.control",
        "tool": "https://letme.dev/airtop"
      },
      "area": "developer",
      "unitPrices": [
        {
          "item": "Starter plan",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 29,
          "note": "30,000 credits, larger credit options cost more"
        },
        {
          "item": "Professional plan",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 189,
          "note": "225,000 credits, 30 simultaneous sessions"
        },
        {
          "item": "Enterprise plan",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 558,
          "note": "775,000 credits, 100 simultaneous sessions"
        }
      ],
      "provenance": {
        "legalEntity": "Switchboard Visual Technologies, Inc. (dba Airtop)",
        "domain": "airtop.ai",
        "domainRegistered": "2024-07-08",
        "endpointOnVendorDomain": true,
        "terms": "https://www.airtop.ai/tos",
        "privacy": "https://www.airtop.ai/privacy",
        "statusPage": "https://status.airtop.ai",
        "changelog": "https://docs.airtop.ai/changelog",
        "securityTxt": "none",
        "checked": "2026-10-08",
        "notes": [
          "The Terms of Use (effective 28 July 2025) are a contract with Switchboard Visual Technologies, Inc dba Airtop, 3277 S. White Rd., PMB 14328, San Jose, CA 95148, under California law. They cover the website, products, services and applications, and no separate API or service agreement was found.",
          "The privacy policy was updated on 2 September 2025 and says the services are hosted in the United States.",
          "The API answers at api.airtop.ai, Live View at live.airtop.ai and the portal at portal.airtop.ai.",
          "www.airtop.ai/.well-known/security.txt and docs.airtop.ai/.well-known/security.txt both return 404.",
          "RDAP for airtop.ai gives a registration date of 2024-07-08.",
          "The status page runs on Instatus with one component, App. The trust centre at trust.airtop.ai is a Vanta page that needs JavaScript and was not read.",
          "There are two changelogs. docs.airtop.ai/changelog covers the browser API and ends on 3 September 2025. www.airtop.ai/help/changelog covers Agent Builder and has one entry, 5 August 2026."
        ],
        "score": 80
      },
      "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/airtop.json",
      "live": {
        "slug": "airtop",
        "probe": {
          "target": "https://api.airtop.ai/api",
          "method": "get",
          "lastAt": "2026-10-08T20:21:05.236260417Z",
          "lastOk": true,
          "lastStatus": 404,
          "lastMs": 339,
          "authRequired": false,
          "uptime24h": 100,
          "uptime30d": 100,
          "p50ms24h": 296,
          "p95ms24h": 338,
          "samples24h": 32,
          "samples30d": 32,
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              "date": "2026-10-08",
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              "ok": 32
            }
          ]
        },
        "vendorStatus": {
          "page": "https://status.airtop.ai",
          "indicator": "unknown",
          "summary": "no machine-readable status found",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T19:38:12.902359465Z"
        },
        "pages": [
          {
            "url": "https://docs.airtop.ai/changelog",
            "kind": "changelog",
            "status": 200,
            "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:18:10.014971821Z",
            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
            "fingerprint": "c3630d9e2345"
          },
          {
            "url": "https://www.airtop.ai/pricing",
            "kind": "pricing",
            "status": 200,
            "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:26:01.944890702Z",
            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
            "fingerprint": "38896fa721d2"
          },
          {
            "url": "https://www.airtop.ai/privacy",
            "kind": "privacy",
            "status": 200,
            "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:26:04.133677205Z",
            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
            "fingerprint": "ee64836a6ed3"
          },
          {
            "url": "https://www.airtop.ai/tos",
            "kind": "terms",
            "status": 200,
            "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:26:06.187954482Z",
            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
            "fingerprint": "d7cae0ea0d26"
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        ],
        "updatedAt": "2026-10-08T20:21:05.236260417Z"
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    },
    "answer": "Anchor Browser scores 67.3 (B) on agent readiness against Airtop's 55.3 (C), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Airtop leads on transparency \u0026 trust.",
    "b": {
      "slug": "anchor-browser",
      "name": "Anchor Browser",
      "vendor": "Anchor Forge Inc.",
      "vendorUrl": "https://anchorbrowser.io",
      "kind": "http-api",
      "category": "browser",
      "summary": "Anchor Browser runs cloud browser sessions for AI agents, controlled through a REST API, a CDP WebSocket, TypeScript and Python SDKs and hosted MCP servers. It adds managed logins with MFA, profiles, proxies, CAPTCHA solving and recordings.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/anchor-browser",
      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/anchor-browser.md",
      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/anchor-browser.min.md",
      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/anchor-browser.json",
      "repo": "https://github.com/anchorbrowser/AnchorBrowser-SDK-Typescript",
      "license": "Proprietary cloud service. No service agreement was found, only a website terms of use. The TypeScript and Python SDKs and the self-hosted MCP server are Apache-2.0",
      "transports": [
        "http"
      ],
      "remoteUrl": "https://api.anchorbrowser.io",
      "packages": [
        {
          "registry": "npm",
          "name": "anchorbrowser"
        },
        {
          "registry": "pypi",
          "name": "anchorbrowser"
        }
      ],
      "auth": "mixed",
      "authNotes": "API key in the `anchor-api-key` header, created in the dashboard at app.anchorbrowser.io or issued by Agent Access, an unauthenticated puzzle flow that needs no account. The hosted MCP servers also accept OAuth sign-in through signin.anchorbrowser.io, with `mcp:tools` and `mcp:admin` scopes in the resource metadata. CDP connections pass the key as the `apiKey` query parameter on `wss://connect.anchorbrowser.io`. No key scopes, expiry or rotation guidance were found. Teams that enforce Agent Access identity also send `anchor-identity-token`.",
      "pricing": "freemium",
      "pricingNotes": "The Free plan has $5 of credits a month, and Agent Access gives an agent 1 credit with no account. Usage is $0.01 a browser created, $0.05 a browser-hour counted to the minute, $8 a GB through Anchor's proxy and $0.20 a GB otherwise. AI steps cost $0.01, $0.05 or $0.10 by model tier from 21 August 2026. Starter is $50 a month and Growth $2,000, with overage at $1 a credit. Enterprise is priced through sales (https://docs.anchorbrowser.io/pricing, checked 2026-10-08).",
      "priceSummary": "$0.01 / call",
      "where": "hosted",
      "x402": {
        "level": "no",
        "evidence": "A blog post dated 29 August 2025 shows x402 payment on POST https://api.anchorbrowser.io/v1/sessions and says it is enabled per project. An unpaid POST on 2026-10-08 returned 401 with no payment terms, and the docs and OpenAPI document describe `x402` only as a session option that lets the browser pay other sites through Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Payments.",
        "endpoints": []
      },
      "toolCount": null,
      "popularity": {
        "githubStars": null,
        "npmWeekly": 43004,
        "pypiWeekly": 10135,
        "asOf": "2026-10-08"
      },
      "docsUrl": "https://docs.anchorbrowser.io",
      "llmsTxt": "https://docs.anchorbrowser.io/llms.txt",
      "openapi": "https://docs.anchorbrowser.io/openapi.yaml",
      "capabilities": [
        "browser.control",
        "browser.hosted",
        "browser.debug",
        "web.fetch",
        "web.scrape",
        "scraping.proxies",
        "scraping.anti-bot",
        "pdf.generate"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "official",
        "hosted",
        "freemium",
        "no-card",
        "openapi",
        "llms-txt",
        "mcp",
        "oauth",
        "python",
        "typescript",
        "proxies",
        "status-page",
        "soc2"
      ],
      "lastRelease": "2026-07-28",
      "graded": true,
      "anchor": {
        "graded": true,
        "score": 67.3,
        "grade": "B",
        "agentReady": false,
        "rank": 211,
        "ranked": true,
        "rankOf": 722,
        "categoryRank": 7,
        "methodology": "0.4",
        "run": "2026-10-01",
        "scores": {
          "ergonomics": 73,
          "maintenance": 57,
          "payments": 60,
          "reliability": 80,
          "schema": 80,
          "security": 54,
          "transparency": 51
        },
        "pending": [
          "performance",
          "tasks"
        ],
        "assessment": {
          "confidence": "medium",
          "date": "2026-10-08"
        },
        "negative": 0,
        "verdict": "The API has a public OpenAPI 3.1 document, per-unit prices and Agent Access, an unauthenticated flow that issues a trial API key without a dashboard account. No service agreement is published, only a website terms of use, and the documented CDP connection puts the API key in the URL.",
        "bestFor": "Agents that must work inside signed-in accounts, with managed identities, MFA handling and a human sign-in link, and agents that need to start with no human signup.",
        "strengths": [
          "Agent Access issues an API key through two unauthenticated calls and a puzzle, with 1 trial credit, or 5 with a verified-email OIDC token",
          "OpenAPI 3.1 document with 101 paths and 136 operations, llms.txt, llms-full.txt and a Markdown twin of every docs page",
          "Per-unit prices published without login, $0.01 a browser, $0.05 a browser-hour and $8 a GB of proxy traffic",
          "Hosted MCP servers at api.anchorbrowser.io/v1/mcp accept OAuth sign-in or the API key header, with read and write endpoint calls as separate tools",
          "Managed identities sign in and handle MFA without returning credentials to the agent, and secrets can be limited to matching domains, per the docs"
        ],
        "weaknesses": [
          "No service agreement or API terms found. anchorbrowser.io/terms is a website terms of use dated 16 March 2025",
          "The documented CDP connection passes the API key as `apiKey` in the `wss://connect.anchorbrowser.io` URL",
          "No changelog, deprecation policy or published SLA found, and docs.anchorbrowser.io/changelog returns 404",
          "The status page lists two components, Website and Anchor Application, and its incident feed has never held an entry",
          "A 2025 blog post describes x402 payment on `POST /v1/sessions`, but an unpaid request on 8 October 2026 returned 401, not 402"
        ],
        "agentNotes": [
          "Send the key in the `anchor-api-key` header. For CDP, build `wss://connect.anchorbrowser.io?apiKey=\u003ckey\u003e\u0026sessionId=\u003cid\u003e` and keep that URL out of logs",
          "Set `session.timeout.idle_timeout` and `max_duration` and end sessions with DELETE. The default maximum is 180 minutes, and browser time bills by the minute",
          "Session creation is capped at 5 a minute on Free, 25 on Starter and 100 on Growth. On 429, wait for the `Retry-After` seconds",
          "Connect the `Anchor` MCP server or `Anchor (all)`, not both, because the docs say the pair duplicates tool names",
          "Authenticated browsers, CAPTCHA solving and proxies by country need the Starter plan or higher. The Free plan and Agent Access keys run plain sessions and web tasks"
        ],
        "metrics": {
          "kind": "remote",
          "measured": false
        },
        "reviewCount": 0,
        "avgRating": 0,
        "history": [
          {
            "basis": "public evidence",
            "confidence": "medium",
            "grade": "B",
            "methodology": "0.4",
            "pending": [
              "performance",
              "tasks"
            ],
            "run": "2026-10-01",
            "runLabel": "October 2026 research run",
            "score": 67.3
          }
        ],
        "editorialScores": {
          "ergonomics": 73,
          "maintenance": 57,
          "payments": 60,
          "reliability": 80,
          "schema": 80,
          "security": 54,
          "transparency": 40
        },
        "provenanceScore": 61
      },
      "connect": {
        "install": "npm install anchorbrowser",
        "http": "curl -X POST https://api.anchorbrowser.io/v1/tools/perform-web-task -H \"anchor-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY\" -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" -d '{\"prompt\":\"Go to example.com and return the page title\",\"url\":\"https://example.com\"}'",
        "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http anchor https://api.anchorbrowser.io/v1/mcp",
        "config": {
          "mcpServers": {
            "anchor": {
              "headers": {
                "anchor-api-key": "YOUR_ANCHOR_API_KEY"
              },
              "url": "https://api.anchorbrowser.io/v1/mcp"
            }
          }
        }
      },
      "letme": {
        "capability": "https://letme.dev/browser.control",
        "tool": "https://letme.dev/anchor-browser"
      },
      "area": "developer",
      "unitPrices": [
        {
          "item": "Browser creation",
          "unit": "call",
          "usd": 0.01,
          "note": "Per browser instance created"
        },
        {
          "item": "Browser usage",
          "unit": "browser-hour",
          "usd": 0.05,
          "note": "Counted to the nearest full minute"
        },
        {
          "item": "Anchor proxy traffic",
          "unit": "gb",
          "usd": 8
        },
        {
          "item": "Egress with your own proxy or none",
          "unit": "gb",
          "usd": 0.2
        },
        {
          "item": "AI step, Light model tier",
          "unit": "call",
          "usd": 0.01,
          "note": "Also the flat rate with your own model key"
        },
        {
          "item": "AI step, Standard model tier",
          "unit": "call",
          "usd": 0.05
        },
        {
          "item": "AI step, High Performance model tier",
          "unit": "call",
          "usd": 0.1
        },
        {
          "item": "Overage credit, Starter and Growth",
          "unit": "credit",
          "usd": 1
        },
        {
          "item": "Starter plan",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 50
        },
        {
          "item": "Growth plan",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 2000
        }
      ],
      "provenance": {
        "legalEntity": "Anchor Forge Inc.",
        "domain": "anchorbrowser.io",
        "domainRegistered": "2024-09-18",
        "endpointOnVendorDomain": true,
        "terms": "",
        "privacy": "https://anchorbrowser.io/privacy-policy",
        "statusPage": "https://status.anchorbrowser.io",
        "changelog": "",
        "securityTxt": "none",
        "checked": "2026-10-08",
        "notes": [
          "The website terms of use (last updated 16 March 2025) and the privacy policy (last updated 24 February 2026) name Anchor Forge Inc. and its affiliates. The terms choose New York law.",
          "No terms URL is recorded. anchorbrowser.io/terms is a website terms of use that grants personal, non-commercial use of the site, and no service agreement or API terms were found.",
          "The privacy policy is written for the website and customer contacts and has one product section, on Gmail access for sign-in codes. A DPA is listed in the trust portal behind an access request.",
          "The API and MCP servers answer at api.anchorbrowser.io, CDP at connect.anchorbrowser.io and OAuth sign-in at signin.anchorbrowser.io.",
          "anchorbrowser.io/.well-known/security.txt and docs.anchorbrowser.io/.well-known/security.txt both return 404. The trust portal at trust.anchorbrowser.io runs on SafeBase.",
          "RDAP for anchorbrowser.io gives a registration date of 2024-09-18.",
          "docs.anchorbrowser.io/changelog returns 404 and no API changelog was found."
        ],
        "score": 61
      },
      "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/anchor-browser.json",
      "live": {
        "slug": "anchor-browser",
        "probe": {
          "target": "https://api.anchorbrowser.io",
          "method": "get",
          "lastAt": "2026-10-08T20:21:06.076530465Z",
          "lastOk": true,
          "lastStatus": 404,
          "lastMs": 481,
          "authRequired": false,
          "uptime24h": 100,
          "uptime30d": 100,
          "p50ms24h": 390,
          "p95ms24h": 481,
          "samples24h": 32,
          "samples30d": 32,
          "days": [
            {
              "date": "2026-10-08",
              "probes": 32,
              "ok": 32
            }
          ]
        },
        "vendorStatus": {
          "page": "https://status.anchorbrowser.io",
          "indicator": "none",
          "summary": "All Systems Operational",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T20:22:19.078850437Z"
        },
        "pages": [
          {
            "url": "https://docs.anchorbrowser.io/pricing",
            "kind": "pricing",
            "status": 200,
            "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:18:10.688067751Z",
            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
            "fingerprint": "d1115f8035fb"
          },
          {
            "url": "https://anchorbrowser.io/privacy-policy",
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(dba Airtop) | Anchor Forge Inc. |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.airtop.ai/api` | `https://api.anchorbrowser.io` |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP |\n| Auth | API key | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Proprietary cloud service under Airtop's terms of use. The Node and Python SDKs are MIT per npm and PyPI | Proprietary cloud service. No service agreement was found, only a website terms of use. The TypeScript and Python SDKs and the self-hosted MCP server are Apache-2.0 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-07-01 | 2026-07-28 |\n| Terms last updated | 2025-07-29 | no document linked |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2025-09-02 | 2026-02-24 |\n| Customer content may train models | not found in the text |  |\n| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text |  |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text |  |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text |  |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes |  |\n| Popularity | 16 stars, 16k npm/wk, 246 PyPI/wk | 43k npm/wk, 10k PyPI/wk |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Airtop.** The cloud browser API has a public OpenAPI 3.1 document, Markdown docs, natural-language page calls with a per-call credit cap, and a status page with no incident in the last 90 days. 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