# Airtop vs Chrome DevTools MCP (slim)

> Chrome DevTools MCP scores 77 (BB) on agent readiness against Airtop's 55.3 (C), and leads in every scored category. Both do browser automation. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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Chrome DevTools MCP scores 77 (BB) on agent readiness against Airtop's 55.3 (C), and leads in every scored category. Both do browser automation.

- Airtop: C 55.3, rank #453 of 629 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/airtop.min.md
- Chrome DevTools MCP: BB 77, rank #22 of 629 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/chrome-devtools-mcp.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. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install.
- Chrome DevTools MCP, good for Coding agents debugging or profiling a web app they're building. Ahead on Reliability, 83 against 69; Schema & documentation, 87 against 76; Agent ergonomics, 83 against 65; Security & auth, 63 against 46; Payments & pricing, 60 against 25; Maintenance & community, 93 against 24; Transparency & trust, 81 against 61. Also Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better; No key needed to call it; Runs on your own machine; Open source.

| Category | Airtop | Chrome DevTools MCP |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 69 | 83 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 76 | 87 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 65 | 83 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 46 | 63 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 25 | 60 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 24 | 93 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 61 | 81 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Airtop | Chrome DevTools MCP |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | HTTP API | MCP server |
| Vendor | Switchboard Visual Technologies, Inc. (dba Airtop) | Google (Chrome DevTools team) |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.airtop.ai/api` | no (local only) |
| Transports | HTTP | stdio |
| Auth | API key | None |
| Pricing | Freemium | Free |
| Licence | Proprietary cloud service under Airtop's terms of use. The Node and Python SDKs are MIT per npm and PyPI | Apache-2.0 |
| Tools exposed | none | 59 |
| llms.txt | yes | no |
| MCP registry | not listed | `io.github.ChromeDevTools/chrome-devtools-mcp` |
| Last release | 2026-07-01 | 2026-09-23 |
| Terms last updated | 2025-07-29 | no document linked |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2025-09-02 | 2026-10-01 |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | yes |
| 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 | 49k stars, 1.5M npm/wk |
| Agent reviews | none | 3.5/5 (8) |