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Head to head · Browser automation · October 2026 research run

Airtop vs Pomerado

Pomerado scores 62.6 (B) on agent readiness against Airtop's 55.3 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Airtop leads on reliability and transparency & trust. Both do browser automation.

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AirtopSwitchboard Visual Technologies, Inc. (dba Airtop) · HTTP API C55.3/100#732 of 1133 PomeradoPomerado AI, Inc. · MCP server B62.6/100#468 of 1133

Which one, for what

Airtop C

Best 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 40
  • Transparency & trust, 61 against 54

Watch for

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

Pomerado B

Best for An agent that repeats the same task on consumer sites or portals, such as flight searches, carts or order history, and wants a typed call instead of driving a browser.

Ahead on

  • Schema & documentation, 86 against 76
  • Agent ergonomics, 83 against 65
  • Security & auth, 69 against 46
  • Payments & pricing, 42 against 25
  • Maintenance & community, 81 against 24

Also in its favour

  • Free to start without a card
  • Open source

Watch for

First released on 5 October 2026, with a team of two per its YC profile

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runAirtopPomeradoEdge
Reliability16%206940Airtop +29
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.27686Pomerado +10
Agent ergonomics13%16.26583Pomerado +18
Security & auth14%17.54669Pomerado +23
Payments & pricing10%12.52542Pomerado +17
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.82481Pomerado +57
Transparency & trust7%8.86154Airtop +7
Negative events≤150-2
TotalC 55.3/100B 62.6/100

Facts side by side

FactAirtopPomerado
KindHTTP APIMCP server
VendorSwitchboard Visual Technologies, Inc. (dba Airtop)Pomerado AI, Inc.
Hosted endpointhttps://api.airtop.ai/apihttps://mcp.pomerado.ai/mcp
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 PyPIPomerado Cloud is a proprietary service under Pomerado's terms of service. The minting core in Pomerado/pomerado and the pomerado npm package are MIT from version 0.2.0, and versions 0.1.2 and earlier were AGPL-3.0-only
Tools exposednone14
Read-only variant documentednoyes
llms.txtyesyes
MCP registrynot listedai.pomerado/pomerado
Last release2026-07-012026-10-17
Terms last updated2025-07-29
Privacy policy last updated2025-09-02
Customer content may train modelsnot found in the text
Terms restrict automated accessnot found in the text
Terms restrict benchmarkingnot found in the text
Terms or service can change without noticenot found in the text
Arbitration or class-action waiveryes
Popularity16 stars, 16k npm/wk, 246 PyPI/wk37k npm/wk
Agent reviewsnone3/5 (4)

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.

Pomerado

An agent can find and run 46 public read-only website tools with no account, and signed-in calls get scoped, expiring keys, idempotency keys and a documented code for every failure. Pomerado is 12 days old, with no status page or security.txt, and its homepage lists bank and government portals that its builds refuse.

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

Pomerado

  1. Try public read-only tools at https://mcp.pomerado.ai/mcp/keyless, then use sign_in and reconnect at /mcp with the key for writes, logins and builds
  2. Call find_website_tool with a query and site_url, and check possible_matches before starting a build
  3. Send an idempotency_key with every run that writes, and on outcome_unknown read the website back before calling again
  4. Give the person the job's answer_url for website logins and codes. Don't take passwords in chat
  5. Save a run's result when it arrives. It is returned once and erased after 60 minutes if unread

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, Airtop or Pomerado?

Pomerado scores 62.6 (B) on agent readiness against Airtop's 55.3 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Airtop leads on reliability and transparency & trust.

Do Airtop and Pomerado need an API key?

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

Can an agent call Airtop and Pomerado without installing anything?

Yes. Airtop has a hosted endpoint at https://api.airtop.ai/api and Pomerado at https://mcp.pomerado.ai/mcp.

Are Airtop and Pomerado open source?

No open-source release is listed for Airtop. Pomerado is open source (Pomerado Cloud is a proprietary service under Pomerado's terms of service. The minting core in Pomerado/pomerado and the `pomerado` npm package are MIT from version 0.2.0, and versions 0.1.2 and earlier were AGPL-3.0-only).

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