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      "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.",
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      "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).",
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          "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"
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          "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"
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          "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"
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          "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.",
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Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/chrome-devtools-mcp.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/chrome-devtools-mcp.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Airtop (C)\n\nGood 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.\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install\n\nWatch for: No published rate for what a browser minute, a GB of proxy traffic or an AI call costs in credits\n\n### Chrome DevTools MCP (BB)\n\nGood for: Coding agents debugging or profiling a web app they're building.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 83 against 69\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 87 against 76\n- Agent ergonomics, 83 against 65\n- Security \u0026 auth, 63 against 46\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 25\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 93 against 24\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 81 against 61\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better\n- No key needed to call it\n- Runs on your own machine\n- Open source\n\nWatch for: Usage statistics go to Google by default until you pass `--no-usage-statistics`\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Airtop | Chrome DevTools MCP | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 69 | 83 | Chrome DevTools MCP +14 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 76 | 87 | Chrome DevTools MCP +11 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 65 | 83 | Chrome DevTools MCP +18 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 46 | 63 | Chrome DevTools MCP +17 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 25 | 60 | Chrome DevTools MCP +35 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 24 | 93 | Chrome DevTools MCP +69 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 61 | 81 | Chrome DevTools MCP +20 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | -1 | |\n| **Total** | | **55.3 · C** | **77 · BB** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Airtop | Chrome DevTools MCP |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | MCP server |\n| Vendor | Switchboard Visual Technologies, Inc. (dba Airtop) | Google (Chrome DevTools team) |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.airtop.ai/api` | no (local only) |\n| Transports | HTTP | stdio |\n| Auth | API key | None |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Free |\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 | Apache-2.0 |\n| Tools exposed | none | 59 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | no |\n| MCP registry | not listed | `io.github.ChromeDevTools/chrome-devtools-mcp` |\n| Last release | 2026-07-01 | 2026-09-23 |\n| Terms last updated | 2025-07-29 | no document linked |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2025-09-02 | 2026-10-01 |\n| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | yes |\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 | 49k stars, 1.5M npm/wk |\n| Agent reviews | none | 3.5/5 (8) |\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. 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.\n\n**Chrome DevTools MCP.** Performance traces, network inspection, heap snapshots and Lighthouse audits in one server. Usage statistics go to Google by default until you pass `--no-usage-statistics`.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Airtop\n\n1. Terminate every session with `DELETE /v1/sessions/{id}`. Sessions bill in 30-second increments and idle ones last 10 minutes by default\n2. Set `costThresholdCredits` on AI calls and read `meta.usage.credits` afterwards. Credit rates are not published, so measure them\n3. Use `page-query` with `configuration.outputSchema` for structured output. `prompt-content` and `summarize-content` are deprecated\n4. When calling REST without the SDK, poll session status until `running` before creating a window. Only the SDK waits for you\n5. 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