# Airtop vs Anchor Browser (slim)

> 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 & trust. Both do browser automation. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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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 & trust. Both do browser automation.

- Airtop: C 55.3, rank #511 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/airtop.min.md
- Anchor Browser: B 67.3, rank #211 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/anchor-browser.min.md
- 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 Transparency & trust, 61 against 51.
- Anchor Browser, good for 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. Ahead on Reliability, 80 against 69; Agent ergonomics, 73 against 65; Security & auth, 54 against 46; Payments & pricing, 60 against 25; Maintenance & community, 57 against 24. Also Free to start without a card.

| Category | Airtop | Anchor Browser |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 69 | 80 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 76 | 80 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 65 | 73 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 46 | 54 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 25 | 60 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 24 | 57 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 61 | 51 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Airtop | Anchor Browser |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Switchboard Visual Technologies, Inc. (dba Airtop) | Anchor Forge Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.airtop.ai/api` | `https://api.anchorbrowser.io` |
| Auth | API key | OAuth or key |
| 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 |
| Last release | 2026-07-01 | 2026-07-28 |
| Terms last updated | 2025-07-29 | no document linked |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2025-09-02 | 2026-02-24 |
| 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 | 16 stars, 16k npm/wk, 246 PyPI/wk | 43k npm/wk, 10k PyPI/wk |