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Head to head · Browser automation · October 2026 research run

Airtop vs Notte

Notte scores 63.2 (B) on agent readiness against Airtop's 55.3 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Airtop leads on reliability. Both do browser automation.

AirtopSwitchboard Visual Technologies, Inc. (dba Airtop) · HTTP API C55.3/100#453 of 629 NotteNotte Labs Inc. · HTTP API B63.2/100#285 of 629

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

  • Reliability, 69 against 58

Watch for

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

Notte B

Good for Teams that want hosted browsers together with agents, vaults for logins, personas with mailboxes and scheduled browser functions behind one key.

Ahead on

  • Agent ergonomics, 75 against 65
  • Security & auth, 56 against 46
  • Payments & pricing, 40 against 25
  • Maintenance & community, 83 against 24

Also in its favour

  • Free to start without a card

Watch for

status.notte.cc shows the Scrape API down on 15 of 90 days (about 6 hours in total) and CAPTCHA solving at 88.9 per cent availability

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runAirtopNotteEdge
Reliability16%206958Airtop +11
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.27674Airtop +2
Agent ergonomics13%16.26575Notte +10
Security & auth14%17.54656Notte +10
Payments & pricing10%12.52540Notte +15
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.82483Notte +59
Transparency & trust7%8.86161even
Negative events≤1500
Total55.3 · C63.2 · B

Facts side by side

FactAirtopNotte
KindHTTP APIHTTP API
VendorSwitchboard Visual Technologies, Inc. (dba Airtop)Notte Labs Inc.
Hosted endpointhttps://api.airtop.ai/apihttps://api.notte.cc
TransportsHTTPHTTP
AuthAPI keyOAuth or key
PricingFreemiumFreemium
x402nono
LicenceProprietary cloud service under Airtop's terms of use. The Node and Python SDKs are MIT per npm and PyPIProprietary hosted service under Notte's terms of service. The core repository is SSPL-1.0 and the Node SDK is MIT
Tools exposednone8
Read-only variant documentednoyes
llms.txtyesyes
Last release2026-07-012026-10-07
Terms last updated2025-07-29couldn't be read
Privacy policy last updated2025-09-02couldn't be read
Customer content may train modelsnot found in the textcouldn't be read
Terms restrict automated accessnot found in the textcouldn't be read
Terms restrict benchmarkingnot found in the textcouldn't be read
Terms or service can change without noticenot found in the textcouldn't be read
Arbitration or class-action waiveryescouldn't be read
Popularity16 stars, 16k npm/wk, 246 PyPI/wk1.3k npm/wk, 5.1k 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.

Notte

Notte publishes an OpenAPI 3.1 contract for 100 operations, a hosted MCP server with eight tools and OAuth, and a free plan with $10 of credits and no card. Its status page records about six hours of Scrape API downtime in 90 days, and a bot check blocked our read of the terms and privacy policy.

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

Notte

  1. Send Authorization: Bearer $NOTTE_API_KEY to https://api.notte.cc. A person creates the key in the console at console.notte.cc first
  2. Stop every session when the task ends. Sessions close after 3 idle minutes or 15 minutes in total by default, and the Free plan caps a session at 15 minutes
  3. Use https://api.notte.cc/mcp for browser work. Function and agent administration tools are only on https://api.notte.cc/mcp/full
  4. Back off on 429 and on 529, which means the cluster has too many sessions. The SDKs do not retry rate limits for you
  5. Download session replays within 24 hours. The recordings page says they are deleted after that

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, Airtop or Notte?

Notte scores 63.2 (B) on agent readiness against Airtop's 55.3 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Airtop leads on reliability.

Do Airtop and Notte need an API key?

Airtop needs an API key. Notte takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in.

Can an agent call Airtop and Notte without installing anything?

Yes. Airtop has a hosted endpoint at https://api.airtop.ai/api and Notte at https://api.notte.cc.

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