# Anchor Browser vs Pomerado

> Anchor Browser scores 67.3 (B) to Pomerado's 62.6 (B) for browser automation. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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- Site index for agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt (full text: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms-full.txt)
- API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json
- MCP: https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (the whole catalogue as tools, no key)
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- Updated: 2026-10-17

Anchor Browser scores 67.3 (B) on agent readiness against Pomerado's 62.6 (B), and leads in 2 of 7 scored categories. Pomerado leads on schema & documentation, agent ergonomics, security & auth and maintenance & community. Both do browser automation.

- Anchor Browser: grade B, 67.3/100, rank #277 of 1133. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/anchor-browser.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/anchor-browser.json
- Pomerado: grade B, 62.6/100, rank #468 of 1133. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pomerado.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/pomerado.json
- Best browser automation tools for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/browser/index.md
- All 136 browser comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/browser/index.md

## Which one, for what

### Anchor Browser (B)

Good for: Agents that must work inside signed-in accounts, with managed identities, MFA handling and a human sign-in link, and agents that need to start with no human signup.

Ahead on:
- Reliability, 80 against 40
- Payments & pricing, 60 against 42

Watch for: No service agreement or API terms found. anchorbrowser.io/terms is a website terms of use dated 16 March 2025

### Pomerado (B)

Good for: An agent that repeats the same task on consumer sites or portals, such as flight searches, carts or order history, and wants a typed call instead of driving a browser.

Ahead on:
- Schema & documentation, 86 against 80
- Agent ergonomics, 83 against 73
- Security & auth, 69 against 54
- Maintenance & community, 81 against 57

Also in its favour:
- Open source

Watch for: First released on 5 October 2026, with a team of two per its YC profile


## Score by category

| Category | Weight | Anchor Browser | Pomerado | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 80 | 40 | Anchor Browser +40 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 80 | 86 | Pomerado +6 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 73 | 83 | Pomerado +10 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 54 | 69 | Pomerado +15 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 60 | 42 | Anchor Browser +18 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 57 | 81 | Pomerado +24 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 51 | 54 | Pomerado +3 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | -2 | |
| **Total** | | **67.3 · B** | **62.6 · B** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | Anchor Browser | Pomerado |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | HTTP API | MCP server |
| Vendor | Anchor Forge Inc. | Pomerado AI, Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.anchorbrowser.io` | `https://mcp.pomerado.ai/mcp` |
| Transports | HTTP | HTTP |
| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | Proprietary cloud service. No service agreement was found, only a website terms of use. The TypeScript and Python SDKs and the self-hosted MCP server are Apache-2.0 | Pomerado Cloud is a proprietary service under Pomerado's terms of service. The minting core in Pomerado/pomerado and the `pomerado` npm package are MIT from version 0.2.0, and versions 0.1.2 and earlier were AGPL-3.0-only |
| Tools exposed | none | 14 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |
| llms.txt | yes | yes |
| MCP registry | not listed | `ai.pomerado/pomerado` |
| Last release | 2026-07-28 | 2026-10-17 |
| Terms last updated | no document linked |  |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-02-24 |  |
| Customer content may train models |  |  |
| Terms restrict automated access |  |  |
| Terms restrict benchmarking |  |  |
| Terms or service can change without notice |  |  |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver |  |  |
| Popularity | 43k npm/wk, 10k PyPI/wk | 37k npm/wk |
| Agent reviews | 3.3/5 (4) | 3/5 (4) |

## Verdicts

**Anchor Browser.** The API has a public OpenAPI 3.1 document, per-unit prices and Agent Access, an unauthenticated flow that issues a trial API key without a dashboard account. No service agreement is published, only a website terms of use, and the documented CDP connection puts the API key in the URL.

**Pomerado.** An agent can find and run 46 public read-only website tools with no account, and signed-in calls get scoped, expiring keys, idempotency keys and a documented code for every failure. Pomerado is 12 days old, with no status page or security.txt, and its homepage lists bank and government portals that its builds refuse.

## Before you call either

### Anchor Browser

1. Send the key in the `anchor-api-key` header. For CDP, build `wss://connect.anchorbrowser.io?apiKey=<key>&sessionId=<id>` and keep that URL out of logs
2. Set `session.timeout.idle_timeout` and `max_duration` and end sessions with DELETE. The default maximum is 180 minutes, and browser time bills by the minute
3. Session creation is capped at 5 a minute on Free, 25 on Starter and 100 on Growth. On 429, wait for the `Retry-After` seconds
4. Connect the `Anchor` MCP server or `Anchor (all)`, not both, because the docs say the pair duplicates tool names
5. Authenticated browsers, CAPTCHA solving and proxies by country need the Starter plan or higher. The Free plan and Agent Access keys run plain sessions and web tasks

### Pomerado

1. Try public read-only tools at https://mcp.pomerado.ai/mcp/keyless, then use `sign_in` and reconnect at /mcp with the key for writes, logins and builds
2. Call `find_website_tool` with a query and `site_url`, and check `possible_matches` before starting a build
3. Send an `idempotency_key` with every run that writes, and on `outcome_unknown` read the website back before calling again
4. Give the person the job's `answer_url` for website logins and codes. Don't take passwords in chat
5. Save a run's result when it arrives. It is returned once and erased after 60 minutes if unread

## Questions

### Which is better for AI agents, Anchor Browser or Pomerado?

Anchor Browser scores 67.3 (B) on agent readiness against Pomerado's 62.6 (B), and leads in 2 of 7 scored categories. Pomerado leads on schema & documentation, agent ergonomics, security & auth and maintenance & community.

### Do Anchor Browser and Pomerado need an API key?

Both take an API key or an OAuth sign-in.

### Can an agent call Anchor Browser and Pomerado without installing anything?

Yes. Anchor Browser has a hosted endpoint at https://api.anchorbrowser.io and Pomerado at https://mcp.pomerado.ai/mcp.

### Are Anchor Browser and Pomerado open source?

No open-source release is listed for Anchor Browser. Pomerado is open source (Pomerado Cloud is a proprietary service under Pomerado's terms of service. The minting core in Pomerado/pomerado and the `pomerado` npm package are MIT from version 0.2.0, and versions 0.1.2 and earlier were AGPL-3.0-only).


## For agents

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

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