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      "pricingNotes": "Free plan with 1,000 credits a month and 3 simultaneous sessions. Paid plans start at $29 a month (Starter, 30,000 credits), $189 (Professional, 225,000) and $558 (Enterprise, 775,000), each with larger credit options, and annual billing takes 10 per cent off. Credits pay for browser time (billed in 30-second increments), integrated proxy traffic and AI calls, but the credits charged per unit are not published. No one-off credit purchases, and unused credits do not carry over. The pricing page states a 10,000 one-time credit bonus on Free while the billing guide states 30,000. Whether signup needs a card is not stated (https://www.airtop.ai/pricing, https://www.airtop.ai/help/billing/billing, checked 2026-10-08).",
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          "The API key travels as a Bearer header on REST, CDP and Selenium connections, not in the URL",
          "Every AI call returns `meta.usage.credits` and accepts `costThresholdCredits` and `timeThresholdSeconds` to cap spend and time",
          "status.airtop.ai shows no incident between 10 July and 8 October 2026, only 30 minutes of scheduled maintenance on 18 August",
          "A person can log in through an embedded Live View, and the saved profile keeps the agent signed in without it seeing the password"
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          "No published rate for what a browser minute, a GB of proxy traffic or an AI call costs in credits",
          "The developer changelog's last entry is 3 September 2025, and the stable Python SDK dates from 23 April 2025",
          "No request rate limits, 429 handling or idempotency keys found in the reviewed documentation",
          "No scoped or read-only API keys documented, and no guidance on prompt injection from page content",
          "No security.txt, bug bounty, public DPA or subprocessor list found. The SOC 2 report is on request"
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          "Terminate every session with `DELETE /v1/sessions/{id}`. Sessions bill in 30-second increments and idle ones last 10 minutes by default",
          "Set `costThresholdCredits` on AI calls and read `meta.usage.credits` afterwards. Credit rates are not published, so measure them",
          "Use `page-query` with `configuration.outputSchema` for structured output. `prompt-content` and `summarize-content` are deprecated",
          "When calling REST without the SDK, poll session status until `running` before creating a window. Only the SDK waits for you",
          "Airtop's integrated proxy cannot reach LinkedIn, ticketing sites and some banks and streaming services. Bring a custom proxy for those"
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          "RDAP for airtop.ai gives a registration date of 2024-07-08.",
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      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/puppeteer",
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          "Read pages with `page.accessibility.snapshot({interestingOnly: true})` rather than full HTML to keep output short",
          "Catch `TimeoutError` separately from `TargetCloseError`. The first can be retried, the second needs a new page or browser",
          "Packages are ESM only since 25.0.0. Use `import puppeteer from 'puppeteer'` rather than `require`"
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        "name": "Kind"
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        "a": "not found in the text",
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      },
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        "b": "",
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      },
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        "a": "not found in the text",
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        "name": "Terms or service can change without notice"
      },
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        "a": "yes",
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        "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Airtop or Puppeteer?"
      },
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        "answer": "Airtop has a hosted endpoint at https://api.airtop.ai/api. No hosted endpoint is listed for Puppeteer.",
        "question": "Can an agent call Airtop and Puppeteer without installing anything?"
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      {
        "answer": "No open-source release is listed for Airtop. Puppeteer is open source (Apache-2.0).",
        "question": "Are Airtop and Puppeteer open source?"
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The docs point agents to the separate chrome-devtools-mcp project\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Airtop | Puppeteer | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 69 | 80 | Puppeteer +11 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 76 | 81 | Puppeteer +5 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 65 | 67 | Puppeteer +2 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 46 | 52 | Puppeteer +6 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 25 | 60 | Puppeteer +35 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 24 | 89 | Puppeteer +65 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 61 | 70 | Puppeteer +9 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **55.3 · C** | **70.6 · BB** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Airtop | Puppeteer |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | SDK + MCP |\n| Vendor | Switchboard Visual Technologies, Inc. (dba Airtop) | Google |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.airtop.ai/api` | no (local only) |\n| Transports | HTTP |  |\n| Auth | API key | None |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Free |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Proprietary cloud service under Airtop's terms of use. The Node and Python SDKs are MIT per npm and PyPI | Apache-2.0 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | no |\n| Last release | 2026-07-01 | 2026-10-08 |\n| Terms last updated | 2025-07-29 | no document linked |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2025-09-02 | no document linked |\n| Customer content may train models | not found in the text |  |\n| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text |  |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text |  |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text |  |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes |  |\n| Popularity | 16 stars, 16k npm/wk, 246 PyPI/wk | 96k stars, 11.5M npm/wk |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**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.\n\n**Puppeteer.** Puppeteer is a stable, Apache-2.0 library on 25.13.0, with ten releases since 27 July 2026, typed APIs, locators that wait and retry, and accessibility snapshots an agent can read. It has no MCP server or llms.txt of its own, and 10 of the 20 most recent CI runs on main failed between 7 and 13 October 2026.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Airtop\n\n1. Terminate every session with `DELETE /v1/sessions/{id}`. Sessions bill in 30-second increments and idle ones last 10 minutes by default\n2. Set `costThresholdCredits` on AI calls and read `meta.usage.credits` afterwards. Credit rates are not published, so measure them\n3. Use `page-query` with `configuration.outputSchema` for structured output. `prompt-content` and `summarize-content` are deprecated\n4. When calling REST without the SDK, poll session status until `running` before creating a window. Only the SDK waits for you\n5. Airtop's integrated proxy cannot reach LinkedIn, ticketing sites and some banks and streaming services. Bring a custom proxy for those\n\n### Puppeteer\n\n1. Install with `npm i puppeteer`, which downloads a matching Chrome for Testing. Use `puppeteer-core` to bring your own browser\n2. Prefer `page.locator()` over `page.$()`. Locators wait for the element to be visible and stable before acting\n3. Read pages with `page.accessibility.snapshot({interestingOnly: true})` rather than full HTML to keep output short\n4. Catch `TimeoutError` separately from `TargetCloseError`. The first can be retried, the second needs a new page or browser\n5. Packages are ESM only since 25.0.0. 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