# Airtop vs Hyperbrowser

> Hyperbrowser scores 66.9 (B) on agent readiness against Airtop's 55.3 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Airtop leads on schema & documentation. Both do browser automation. Hyperbrowser accepts x402. Airtop doesn't. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side…

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Hyperbrowser scores 66.9 (B) on agent readiness against Airtop's 55.3 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Airtop leads on schema & documentation. Both do browser automation. Hyperbrowser accepts x402. Airtop doesn't.

- Airtop: grade C, 55.3/100, rank #511 of 722. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/airtop.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/airtop.json
- Hyperbrowser: grade B, 66.9/100, rank #223 of 722. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hyperbrowser.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/hyperbrowser.json

## Which one, for what

### Airtop (C)

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:
- Schema & documentation, 76 against 68

Watch for: No published rate for what a browser minute, a GB of proxy traffic or an AI call costs in credits

### Hyperbrowser (B)

Good for: Agents that need a cloud browser by the minute plus cheap fetch and search, especially wallet-holding agents with no account.

Ahead on:
- Payments & pricing, 94 against 25
- Maintenance & community, 79 against 24

Also in its favour:
- An agent can pay per call over x402, with no account
- Runs on your own machine
- Free to start without a card

Watch for: The official MCP server's last npm release is 1.0.25 of 13 April 2025, and it isn't in the official MCP registry


## Score by category

| Category | Weight | Airtop | Hyperbrowser | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 69 | 65 | Airtop +4 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 76 | 68 | Airtop +8 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 65 | 67 | Hyperbrowser +2 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 46 | 44 | Airtop +2 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 25 | 94 | Hyperbrowser +69 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 24 | 79 | Hyperbrowser +55 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 61 | 64 | Hyperbrowser +3 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |
| **Total** | | **55.3 · C** | **66.9 · B** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | Airtop | Hyperbrowser |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |
| Vendor | Switchboard Visual Technologies, Inc. (dba Airtop) | S2 Labs Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.airtop.ai/api` | `https://api.hyperbrowser.ai` |
| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, stdio |
| Auth | API key | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |
| x402 | no | yes |
| Licence | Proprietary cloud service under Airtop's terms of use. The Node and Python SDKs are MIT per npm and PyPI | Proprietary service under S2 Labs' terms of service. The Node and Python SDKs and the MCP server are MIT, and HyperAgent is AGPL-3.0 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | yes | yes |
| Last release | 2026-07-01 | 2026-10-08 |
| Terms last updated | 2025-07-29 | couldn't be read |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2025-09-02 | couldn't be read |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | couldn't be read |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | couldn't be read |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | couldn't be read |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | couldn't be read |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | couldn't be read |
| Popularity | 16 stars, 16k npm/wk, 246 PyPI/wk | 89k npm/wk, 73k PyPI/wk |

## Verdicts

**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.

**Hyperbrowser.** Sessions, Fetch and Search can be bought by x402 at api.hyperbrowser.ai with USDC on Base or Solana and no account, and unit prices are public. The official MCP server was last published in April 2025, no request rate limits or SLA are published, and the privacy notice covers only the website.

## Before you call either

### Airtop

1. Terminate every session with `DELETE /v1/sessions/{id}`. Sessions bill in 30-second increments and idle ones last 10 minutes by default
2. Set `costThresholdCredits` on AI calls and read `meta.usage.credits` afterwards. Credit rates are not published, so measure them
3. Use `page-query` with `configuration.outputSchema` for structured output. `prompt-content` and `summarize-content` are deprecated
4. When calling REST without the SDK, poll session status until `running` before creating a window. Only the SDK waits for you
5. Airtop's integrated proxy cannot reach LinkedIn, ticketing sites and some banks and streaming services. Bring a custom proxy for those

### Hyperbrowser

1. With a wallet and no key, POST to https://api.hyperbrowser.ai/x402/session and read the `PAYMENT-REQUIRED` header. Sessions are prepaid for 5 to 60 minutes with no refund
2. Save the x402 creation response. It holds the only copy of the connection tokens, and `managementToken` is what stops the session
3. Stop sessions explicitly in cleanup code. Browser time bills per second until the timeout
4. Use Fetch at $0.001 a page for static pages and keep browser sessions for pages that need interaction
5. Add `&keepAlive=true` to `wsEndpoint` to reconnect after a CDP disconnect. Treat that URL as a secret because it carries the session token

## Questions

### Which is better for AI agents, Airtop or Hyperbrowser?

Hyperbrowser scores 66.9 (B) on agent readiness against Airtop's 55.3 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Airtop leads on schema & documentation.

### Do Airtop and Hyperbrowser need an API key?

Airtop needs an API key. Hyperbrowser takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in. An agent can also pay Hyperbrowser per call over x402, with no account.

### Can an agent call Airtop and Hyperbrowser without installing anything?

Yes. Airtop has a hosted endpoint at https://api.airtop.ai/api and Hyperbrowser at https://api.hyperbrowser.ai.


## For agents

- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/airtop-vs-hyperbrowser.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/airtop-vs-hyperbrowser.min.md
- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {"a": "airtop", "b": "hyperbrowser"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare airtop hyperbrowser`
- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/airtop.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/hyperbrowser.json

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