# 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. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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- Updated: 2026-10-09

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.

- Airtop: grade C, 55.3/100, rank #592 of 842. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/airtop.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/airtop.json
- TinyFish: grade B, 67.7/100, rank #227 of 842. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tinyfish.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/tinyfish.json

## 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

| Category | Weight | Airtop | TinyFish | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 69 | 60 | Airtop +9 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 76 | 85 | TinyFish +9 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 65 | 79 | TinyFish +14 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 46 | 57 | TinyFish +11 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 25 | 55 | TinyFish +30 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 24 | 80 | TinyFish +56 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 61 | 59 | Airtop +2 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |
| **Total** | | **55.3 · C** | **67.7 · B** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | Airtop | TinyFish |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |
| Vendor | Switchboard Visual Technologies, Inc. (dba Airtop) | Tiny Fish, Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.airtop.ai/api` | `https://agent.tinyfish.ai` |
| 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 | Proprietary 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 documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | yes | yes |
| MCP registry | not listed | `ai.tinyfish.agent/web-agent` |
| Last release | 2026-07-01 | 2026-10-07 |
| Terms last updated | 2025-07-29 | 2026-08-17 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2025-09-02 | 2025-12-14 |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | yes |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | yes |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | yes |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | yes |
| Popularity | 16 stars, 16k npm/wk, 246 PyPI/wk | 5.7k 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.


## For agents

- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/airtop-vs-tinyfish.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/airtop-vs-tinyfish.min.md
- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {"a": "airtop", "b": "tinyfish"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare airtop tinyfish`
- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/airtop.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/tinyfish.json

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