# Airtop vs Pomerado

> Pomerado scores 62.6 (B) to Airtop's 55.3 (C) for browser automation. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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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.

- Airtop: grade C, 55.3/100, rank #732 of 1133. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/airtop.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/airtop.json
- Pomerado: grade B, 62.6/100, rank #468 of 1133. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pomerado.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/pomerado.json
- Best browser automation tools for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/browser/index.md
- All 136 browser comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/browser/index.md

## 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 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)

Good 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

| Category | Weight | Airtop | Pomerado | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 69 | 40 | Airtop +29 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 76 | 86 | Pomerado +10 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 65 | 83 | Pomerado +18 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 46 | 69 | Pomerado +23 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 25 | 42 | Pomerado +17 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 24 | 81 | Pomerado +57 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 61 | 54 | Airtop +7 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | -2 | |
| **Total** | | **55.3 · C** | **62.6 · B** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | Airtop | Pomerado |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | HTTP API | MCP server |
| Vendor | Switchboard Visual Technologies, Inc. (dba Airtop) | Pomerado AI, Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.airtop.ai/api` | `https://mcp.pomerado.ai/mcp` |
| 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 | 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 |
| Tools exposed | none | 14 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |
| llms.txt | yes | yes |
| MCP registry | not listed | `ai.pomerado/pomerado` |
| Last release | 2026-07-01 | 2026-10-17 |
| Terms last updated | 2025-07-29 |  |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2025-09-02 |  |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text |  |
| 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 | 37k npm/wk |
| Agent reviews | none | 3/5 (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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