# 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. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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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.

- Airtop: grade C, 55.3/100, rank #453 of 629. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/airtop.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/airtop.json
- Notte: grade B, 63.2/100, rank #285 of 629. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/notte.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/notte.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:
- 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

| Category | Weight | Airtop | Notte | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 69 | 58 | Airtop +11 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 76 | 74 | Airtop +2 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 65 | 75 | Notte +10 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 46 | 56 | Notte +10 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 25 | 40 | Notte +15 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 24 | 83 | Notte +59 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 61 | 61 | even |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |
| **Total** | | **55.3 · C** | **63.2 · B** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | Airtop | Notte |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |
| Vendor | Switchboard Visual Technologies, Inc. (dba Airtop) | Notte Labs Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.airtop.ai/api` | `https://api.notte.cc` |
| Transports | HTTP | HTTP |
| Auth | API key | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | Proprietary cloud service under Airtop's terms of use. The Node and Python SDKs are MIT per npm and PyPI | Proprietary hosted service under Notte's terms of service. The core repository is SSPL-1.0 and the Node SDK is MIT |
| Tools exposed | none | 8 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |
| llms.txt | yes | yes |
| Last release | 2026-07-01 | 2026-10-07 |
| 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 | 1.3k 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.


## For agents

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

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