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Head to head · Browser automation · October 2026 research run

Airtop vs TinyFish

TinyFish scores 67.7 (B) on agent readiness against Airtop's 55.3 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Airtop leads on reliability. Both do browser automation.

AirtopSwitchboard Visual Technologies, Inc. (dba Airtop) · HTTP API C55.3/100#592 of 841 TinyFishTiny Fish, Inc. · HTTP API B67.7/100#227 of 841

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 60

Watch for

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

TinyFish B

Good for Agents that want one account for a goal-driven web agent, a raw CDP browser, and free search and fetch.

Ahead on

  • Schema & documentation, 85 against 76
  • Agent ergonomics, 79 against 65
  • Security & auth, 57 against 46
  • Payments & pricing, 55 against 25
  • Maintenance & community, 80 against 24

Also in its favour

  • Free to start without a card

Watch for

The terms of 17 August 2026 allow Tiny Fish to train and improve its models on customer data. No opt-out was found in the reviewed pages

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runAirtopTinyFishEdge
Reliability16%206960Airtop +9
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.27685TinyFish +9
Agent ergonomics13%16.26579TinyFish +14
Security & auth14%17.54657TinyFish +11
Payments & pricing10%12.52555TinyFish +30
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.82480TinyFish +56
Transparency & trust7%8.86159Airtop +2
Negative events≤1500
Total55.3 · C67.7 · B

Facts side by side

FactAirtopTinyFish
KindHTTP APIHTTP API
VendorSwitchboard Visual Technologies, Inc. (dba Airtop)Tiny Fish, Inc.
Hosted endpointhttps://api.airtop.ai/apihttps://agent.tinyfish.ai
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 PyPIProprietary service under Tiny Fish's terms of service. The MCP proxy @tiny-fish/mcp and the cookbook are MIT. The SDK packages state no licence in npm or PyPI metadata
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtyesyes
MCP registrynot listedai.tinyfish.agent/web-agent
Last release2026-07-012026-10-07
Terms last updated2025-07-292026-08-17
Privacy policy last updated2025-09-022025-12-14
Customer content may train modelsnot found in the textyes
Terms restrict automated accessnot found in the textyes
Terms restrict benchmarkingnot found in the textyes
Terms or service can change without noticenot found in the textnot found in the text
Arbitration or class-action waiveryesyes
Popularity16 stars, 16k npm/wk, 246 PyPI/wk5.7k npm/wk, 6.5k PyPI/wk

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.

TinyFish

OpenAPI documents are published for five APIs, errors carry typed codes and request IDs, and Search and Fetch are free within daily allowances. The terms let Tiny Fish train its models on customer data, run creation takes no idempotency keys, and the status page shows an hour or more of downtime on several days for the Browser and Search APIs.

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

TinyFish

  1. Check result as well as status. A run can be COMPLETED while the goal failed, with result.status set to failure
  2. Don't retry POST /v1/automation/run blindly after a timeout. There are no idempotency keys, so list runs first to avoid duplicates
  3. Use /v1/automation/run-async or /run-sse when a run may need cancelling. Runs started with the synchronous endpoint can't be cancelled
  4. Allow 60 seconds for Browser session creation, connect Playwright to cdp_url (not base_url), and DELETE the session when done because billing is per minute
  5. Never put passwords in goal, which is logged. Pass use_vault: true with credential_item_ids, or use_profile: true for saved login state

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, Airtop or TinyFish?

TinyFish scores 67.7 (B) on agent readiness against Airtop's 55.3 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Airtop leads on reliability.

Do Airtop and TinyFish need an API key?

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

Can an agent call Airtop and TinyFish without installing anything?

Yes. Airtop has a hosted endpoint at https://api.airtop.ai/api and TinyFish at https://agent.tinyfish.ai.

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