# Airtop vs Browser Use (slim)

> Browser Use scores 77.9 (BB) on agent readiness against Airtop's 55.3 (C), and leads in every scored category. Both do browser automation. Browser Use accepts x402. Airtop doesn't. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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Browser Use scores 77.9 (BB) on agent readiness against Airtop's 55.3 (C), and leads in every scored category. Both do browser automation. Browser Use accepts x402. Airtop doesn't.

- Airtop: C 55.3, rank #511 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/airtop.min.md
- Browser Use: BB 77.9, rank #16 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/browser-use.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.
- Browser Use, good for An agent that wants to hand a whole browser task to a hosted agent and get a result back, or that needs a low-cost cloud browser over CDP, and for unattended agents that can pay by x402. Ahead on Reliability, 87 against 69; Schema & documentation, 85 against 76; Agent ergonomics, 78 against 65; Security & auth, 59 against 46; Payments & pricing, 90 against 25; Maintenance & community, 77 against 24. Also Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better; An agent can pay per call over x402, with no account; Runs on your own machine; Free to start without a card; Open source.

| Category | Airtop | Browser Use |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 69 | 87 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 76 | 85 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 65 | 78 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 46 | 59 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 25 | 90 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 24 | 77 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 61 | 65 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Airtop | Browser Use |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Switchboard Visual Technologies, Inc. (dba Airtop) | Browser Use |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.airtop.ai/api` | `https://api.browser-use.com/api/v4` |
| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio |
| Pricing | Freemium | Pay per use |
| x402 | no | yes |
| Licence | Proprietary cloud service under Airtop's terms of use. The Node and Python SDKs are MIT per npm and PyPI | MIT for the open-source library and the SDK. Browser Use Cloud is a proprietary service under Browser Use's terms of service |
| Tools exposed | none | 7 |
| MCP registry | not listed | `com.browser-use/browser-use` |
| Last release | 2026-07-01 | 2026-10-07 |
| Terms last updated | 2025-07-29 | 2026-07-15 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2025-09-02 | no date given |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | yes |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | yes |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | yes |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | yes |
| Popularity | 16 stars, 16k npm/wk, 246 PyPI/wk | 117k stars, 107k npm/wk, 2.1M PyPI/wk |