# Airtop vs Puppeteer (slim)

> Puppeteer scores 70.6 (BB) to Airtop's 55.3 (C) for browser automation. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Puppeteer scores 70.6 (BB) on agent readiness against Airtop's 55.3 (C), and leads in every scored category. Both do browser automation.

- Airtop: C 55.3, rank #700 of 1076 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/airtop.min.md
- Puppeteer: BB 70.6, rank #154 of 1076 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/puppeteer.min.md
- Airtop, 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. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install.
- Puppeteer, good for Agents that write and run Node.js scripts against Chrome or Firefox. Ahead on Reliability, 80 against 69; Schema & documentation, 81 against 76; Security & auth, 52 against 46; Payments & pricing, 60 against 25; Maintenance & community, 89 against 24; Transparency & trust, 70 against 61. Also Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better; No key needed to call it; Open source.

| Category | Airtop | Puppeteer |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 69 | 80 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 76 | 81 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 65 | 67 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 46 | 52 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 25 | 60 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 24 | 89 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 61 | 70 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Airtop | Puppeteer |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | HTTP API | SDK + MCP |
| Vendor | Switchboard Visual Technologies, Inc. (dba Airtop) | Google |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.airtop.ai/api` | no (local only) |
| Transports | HTTP |  |
| Auth | API key | None |
| Pricing | Freemium | Free |
| Licence | Proprietary cloud service under Airtop's terms of use. The Node and Python SDKs are MIT per npm and PyPI | Apache-2.0 |
| llms.txt | yes | no |
| Last release | 2026-07-01 | 2026-10-08 |
| Terms last updated | 2025-07-29 | no document linked |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2025-09-02 | no document linked |
| 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 | 96k stars, 11.5M npm/wk |