# Airtop vs Selenium (slim)

> Selenium scores 73.6 (BB) to Airtop's 55.3 (C) for browser automation. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Selenium scores 73.6 (BB) on agent readiness against Airtop's 55.3 (C), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Both do browser automation.

- Airtop: C 55.3, rank #700 of 1076 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/airtop.min.md
- Selenium: BB 73.6, rank #90 of 1076 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/selenium.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.
- Selenium, good for Agents that write test or automation scripts in any of five languages, and teams with a Grid. Ahead on Reliability, 90 against 69; Schema & documentation, 89 against 76; Agent ergonomics, 70 against 65; Payments & pricing, 60 against 25; Maintenance & community, 94 against 24; Transparency & trust, 74 against 61. Also Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better; No key needed to call it; Open source.

| Category | Airtop | Selenium |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 69 | 90 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 76 | 89 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 65 | 70 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 46 | 43 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 25 | 60 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 24 | 94 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 61 | 74 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Airtop | Selenium |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | HTTP API | SDK + MCP |
| Vendor | Switchboard Visual Technologies, Inc. (dba Airtop) | Selenium project (Software Freedom Conservancy) |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.airtop.ai/api` | no (local only) |
| 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 |
| Last release | 2026-07-01 | 2026-10-09 |
| 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 | 35k stars, 1.8M npm/wk, 6.9M PyPI/wk |