{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "autocua", "name": "AutoCua", "vendor": "Ashish Yadav and contributors (ComputerUseAgent on GitHub)", "vendorUrl": "https://github.com/ComputerUseAgent/AutoCua", "kind": "framework", "category": "desktop-automation", "summary": "AutoCua is an open-source Python agent that operates a computer the way a person does, desktop apps, a terminal, your own Chrome and iOS or Android phones, with any of 60 models from ten providers.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/autocua", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/autocua.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/autocua.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/autocua.json", "dns": "autocua.grade.anchorterminal.com", "repo": "https://github.com/ComputerUseAgent/AutoCua", "license": "MIT", "transports": [], "packages": [ { "registry": "pypi", "name": "AutoCua" } ], "auth": "none", "authNotes": "No account. You bring an API key for the model provider you choose, kept with chats, Chrome profiles and a credential vault in a local AutoCua_data folder.", "pricing": "free", "pricingNotes": "Free and MIT-licensed. You pay your model provider for tokens. Nothing to buy from the project (checked 2026-11-06).", "priceSummary": "Free · OSS", "where": "library", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "A local package with nothing to buy and no payment protocol (checked 2026-11-06).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-11-06" }, "docsUrl": "https://github.com/ComputerUseAgent/AutoCua#readme", "capabilities": [ "browser.control", "agent.run" ], "tags": [ "open-source", "mit", "python", "computer-use", "local", "new" ], "lastRelease": "2026-11-04", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 44.3, "grade": "E", "agentReady": false, "rank": 1100, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1354, "categoryRank": 8, "methodology": "0.7", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 55, "maintenance": 65, "payments": 60, "reliability": 25, "schema": 42, "security": 38, "transparency": 42 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "low", "date": "2026-11-06" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "A capable, fast-moving open-source agent for driving desktops, browsers and phones through real input and accessibility trees, with a careful safety section. It's two weeks old, with no test CI or changelog, and on Windows the model itself decides whether to accept an admin elevation prompt.", "bestFor": "Developers who want a local agent to operate desktop apps, their own browser or phones across platforms, on a machine they control.", "strengths": [ "One run_agent call drives the desktop, a terminal, your Chrome, or an iOS or Android device", "Element picking from accessibility trees and OCR instead of pixel coordinates", "Credentials typed from a vault so the model never sees them, in the browser and phone agents", "No telemetry, and nothing downloaded without a yes on the terminal", "MIT licence, a pip wheel per OS and architecture, and 60 models across ten providers" ], "weaknesses": [ "Two weeks old at version 0.1.9, with no changelog file", "No CI running the tests; the only workflow labels issues", "On Windows the model answers UAC elevation prompts itself through a kernel input driver", "Keeps API keys and logged-in Chrome profiles in a local folder next to the checkout", "No API reference beyond the README" ], "agentNotes": [ "pip install AutoCua, then call run_agent with a mode such as \"web use\" or \"computer use\", a provider, a model and a task", "Run it on a machine or account you can afford to lose; it drives real input and keeps logged-in browser profiles", "On Windows, don't install the Interception driver unless you accept the model deciding UAC prompts", "Set AutoCua_DATA_DIR to keep keys and profiles somewhere private", "Phones go over USB from a script; Wi-Fi only through the desktop app" ], "metrics": { "kind": "local", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "low", "grade": "E", "methodology": "0.7", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 44.3 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 55, "maintenance": 65, "payments": 60, "reliability": 25, "schema": 42, "security": 38, "transparency": 70 }, "provenanceScore": 13, "checked": { "categories": { "ergonomics": "2026-11-06", "maintenance": "2026-11-06", "payments": "2026-11-06", "reliability": "2026-11-06", "schema": "2026-11-06", "security": "2026-11-06", "transparency": "2026-11-06" }, "last": "2026-11-06", "oldest": "2026-11-06", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "connect": { "install": "pip install AutoCua\n# then, in Python:\n# from AutoCua.agent_launcher import run_agent\n# run_agent(mode=\"web use\", provider=\"openrouter\", model=\"gemini-3.8-flash\", task=\"Open wikipedia.org and summarise today's featured article.\")" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/browser.control", "tool": "https://letme.dev/autocua" }, "area": "developer", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "", "domain": "github.com", "domainRegistered": "", "endpointOnVendorDomain": null, "terms": "", "privacy": "", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-11-06", "notes": [ "The licence names Ashish Yadav as copyright holder; most commits are from the GitHub user FunctionFreak. No company, site or terms were found.", "github.com/AutoCua/AutoCua and github.com/ComputerUseAgent/AutoCua serve the same main branch, so one is a rename or mirror of the other." ], "score": 13 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/autocua.json" }, "answer": "Hyperbrowser scores 67.7 (B) on agent readiness against AutoCua's 44.3 (E), and leads in every scored category.", "b": { "slug": "hyperbrowser", "name": "Hyperbrowser", "vendor": "S2 Labs Inc.", "vendorUrl": "https://www.hyperbrowser.ai", "kind": "http-api", "category": "browser", "summary": "Hyperbrowser, from S2 Labs Inc., runs hosted Chromium sessions that agents control over CDP, WebDriver or computer actions, with Fetch, Search, Crawl, Extract and cloud sandbox APIs. Access is by API key, SDKs, a stdio MCP server or x402.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hyperbrowser", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hyperbrowser.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hyperbrowser.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/hyperbrowser.json", "dns": "hyperbrowser.grade.anchorterminal.com", "repo": "https://github.com/hyperbrowserai/node-sdk", "license": "Proprietary service under S2 Labs' terms of service. The Node and Python SDKs and the MCP server are MIT, and HyperAgent is AGPL-3.0", "transports": [ "http", "stdio" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.hyperbrowser.ai", "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "@hyperbrowser/sdk" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "hyperbrowser" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "hyperbrowser-mcp" } ], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "Self-serve API key from the dashboard at app.hyperbrowser.ai, sent in the `x-api-key` header. No scopes or rotation guidance found. The x402 routes need no key or account. They return session-scoped connection tokens and a separate `managementToken`, valid 24 hours, that can only read or stop that session. Connection tokens travel in the `wsEndpoint` URL.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "Free plan with 5,000 credits and no card, so an agent's owner can start without a contract. Credits are $0.001 each. Browser time $0.10 an hour billed per second, proxy data $10 a GB, Fetch and Scrape $0.001 a page, Search $0.005 a query, agent steps $0.02. Sandboxes $0.045 a vCPU-hour and $0.015 a GiB-hour, with GPUs from $0.7992 (L4) to $7.0992 (B300) a GPU-hour. Startup $30 and Scale $100 a month with credits included. The same session, Fetch and Search prices apply by x402 (https://www.hyperbrowser.ai/docs/pricing.md, https://www.hyperbrowser.ai/pricing).", "priceSummary": "$0.001 / call", "where": "both", "x402": { "level": "yes", "evidence": "x402 version 2 on https://api.hyperbrowser.ai for browser sessions, Fetch and Search, with USDC on Base and Solana and no account or API key (https://www.hyperbrowser.ai/docs/integrations/x402/overview.md). Unpaid requests on 2026-11-01 returned 402 with a PAYMENT-REQUIRED header pricing a default 30-minute session at $0.05, a default fetch at $0.001 and a search at $0.005. Scrape, Crawl, Extract, agent tasks and sandboxes aren't covered.", "endpoints": [ { "url": "https://api.hyperbrowser.ai/x402/session", "priceUsd": null, "network": "eip155:8453" }, { "url": "https://api.hyperbrowser.ai/x402/web/fetch", "priceUsd": 0.001, "network": "eip155:8453" }, { "url": "https://api.hyperbrowser.ai/x402/web/search", "priceUsd": 0.005, "network": "eip155:8453" } ] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": 88684, "pypiWeekly": 73215, "asOf": "2026-10-08" }, "docsUrl": "https://www.hyperbrowser.ai/docs/home", "llmsTxt": "https://www.hyperbrowser.ai/docs/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://www.hyperbrowser.ai/docs/openapi.json", "capabilities": [ "browser.control", "browser.hosted", "web.fetch", "web.scrape", "web.crawl", "web.extract", "web.search", "scraping.proxies", "sandbox.code" ], "tags": [ "official", "hosted", "freemium", "no-card", "x402", "openapi", "llms-txt", "mcp", "python", "typescript", "status-page" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-28", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 67.7, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 282, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1354, "categoryRank": 9, "methodology": "0.7", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 67, "maintenance": 79, "payments": 94, "reliability": 65, "schema": 72, "security": 44, "transparency": 66 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-11-01" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Sessions, Fetch and Search can be bought by x402 at api.hyperbrowser.ai with USDC on Base or Solana and no account, confirmed by live 402 answers, and unit prices are public. The official MCP server was last published in April 2025, no request rate limits or SLA are published, and the privacy notice covers only the website.", "bestFor": "Agents that need a cloud browser by the minute plus cheap fetch and search, especially wallet-holding agents with no account.", "strengths": [ "x402 on /x402/session, /x402/web/fetch and /x402/web/search with USDC on Base or Solana and no account, confirmed by live 402 answers on 1 November 2026", "Unit prices public in the docs, $0.10 a browser-hour billed per second, $0.001 a Fetch page, $0.005 a Search query", "Free plan with 5,000 credits and no card, per the pricing page", "OpenAPI 3.0.1 with 111 operations, two llms.txt files and Markdown twins of every docs page", "Node SDK 1.4.1 and Python SDK 1.14.1 tagged on 28 October 2026, both MIT, with 27 Python tags in the 90 days from 3 August" ], "weaknesses": [ "The official MCP server's last npm release is 1.0.25 of 13 April 2025, and it isn't in the official MCP registry", "No request rate limits, Retry-After header or SLA found; the pricing page says paid plans have no rate limits", "One `x-api-key` per account with no scopes or rotation guidance found in the reviewed documentation", "The privacy notice of 24 October 2025 covers only the website, and no DPA is public", "The website changelog stopped at 18 November 2025, and 34 of 111 OpenAPI operations document no error response" ], "agentNotes": [ "With a wallet and no key, POST to https://api.hyperbrowser.ai/x402/session and read the `PAYMENT-REQUIRED` header. Sessions are prepaid for 5 to 60 minutes (default 30) with no refund", "Save the x402 creation response. It holds the only copy of the connection tokens, and `managementToken` is what stops the session", "Stop sessions explicitly in cleanup code. Browser time bills per second until the timeout", "Use Fetch at $0.001 a page for static pages and keep browser sessions for pages that need interaction", "Add `\u0026keepAlive=true` to `wsEndpoint` to reconnect after a CDP disconnect. Treat that URL as a secret because it carries the session token" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 4, "avgRating": 3.5, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "B", "methodology": "0.7", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 67.7 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 67, "maintenance": 79, "payments": 94, "reliability": 65, "schema": 72, "security": 44, "transparency": 55 }, "provenanceScore": 76, "checked": { "categories": { "ergonomics": "2026-11-01", "maintenance": "2026-11-01", "payments": "2026-11-01", "reliability": "2026-11-01", "schema": "2026-11-01", "security": "2026-11-01", "transparency": "2026-11-01" }, "last": "2026-11-01", "lastMoved": "2026-11-01", "oldest": "2026-11-01", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "connect": { "install": "npm install @hyperbrowser/sdk", "http": "curl -X POST https://api.hyperbrowser.ai/api/session -H \"x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY\" -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" -d '{\"timeoutMinutes\": 15}'", "config": { "mcpServers": { "hyperbrowser": { "args": [ "hyperbrowser-mcp" ], "command": "npx", "env": { "HYPERBROWSER_API_KEY": "your-api-key" } } } }, "x402": "curl -i https://api.hyperbrowser.ai/x402/session -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" -d '{\"timeoutMinutes\": 5}'" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/browser.control", "tool": "https://letme.dev/hyperbrowser" }, "area": "developer", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Browser session", "unit": "browser-hour", "usd": 0.1, "note": "Billed per second" }, { "item": "Browser session by x402", "unit": "browser-hour", "usd": 0.1, "note": "USDC on Base or Solana, prepaid for 5 to 60 minutes, no refund" }, { "item": "Proxy traffic", "unit": "gb", "usd": 10 }, { "item": "Fetch", "unit": "1k-requests", "usd": 1 }, { "item": "Fetch with proxy", "unit": "1k-requests", "usd": 10 }, { "item": "Fetch with JSON output", "unit": "1k-requests", "usd": 6, "note": "$0.001 a page plus $0.005 for JSON output" }, { "item": "Search", "unit": "1k-requests", "usd": 5 }, { "item": "Search with location", "unit": "1k-requests", "usd": 10 }, { "item": "Scrape", "unit": "1k-pages", "usd": 1 }, { "item": "Scrape with proxy", "unit": "1k-pages", "usd": 10 }, { "item": "HyperAgent or Browser Use step", "unit": "call", "usd": 0.02, "note": "Plus browser time" }, { "item": "Sandbox vCPU", "unit": "vcpu-hour", "usd": 0.045, "note": "Memory is $0.015 a GiB-hour on top" }, { "item": "Sandbox GPU (L4)", "unit": "gpu-hour", "usd": 0.7992, "note": "billed per GPU-second, up to $7.0992 an hour for B300, plus vCPU and memory" }, { "item": "Credit", "unit": "credit", "usd": 0.001 }, { "item": "Startup plan", "unit": "month", "usd": 30, "note": "30,000 credits, 25 concurrent browsers" }, { "item": "Scale plan", "unit": "month", "usd": 100, "note": "100,000 credits, 100 concurrent browsers" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "S2 Labs Inc.", "domain": "hyperbrowser.ai", "domainRegistered": "2024-11-19", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://www.hyperbrowser.ai/terms", "privacy": "https://www.hyperbrowser.ai/privacy-policy", "statusPage": "https://hyperbrowser.betteruptime.com/", "changelog": "https://www.hyperbrowser.ai/changelog", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-08", "notes": [ "The terms and the privacy notice (last updated 24 October 2025) name S2 Labs Inc. as operator, and the terms choose Delaware law. No date was found on the terms.", "The API, including the x402 routes, answers at api.hyperbrowser.ai.", "www.hyperbrowser.ai/.well-known/security.txt returns 404. The security page, last updated 7 May 2026, gives a contact for security reports.", "RDAP for hyperbrowser.ai gives a registration date of 2024-11-19.", "The website changelog's newest entry is dated 18 November 2025. Current release dates come from the SDK repositories, npm and PyPI." ], "score": 76 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hyperbrowser.json", "live": { "slug": "hyperbrowser", "probe": { "target": "https://api.hyperbrowser.ai", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-11-06T09:47:32.561153244Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 165, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 146, "p95ms24h": 230, "samples24h": 221, "samples30d": 7137, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-08", "probes": 93, "ok": 93 }, { "date": "2026-10-09", "probes": 250, "ok": 250 }, { "date": "2026-10-10", "probes": 247, "ok": 247 }, { "date": "2026-10-11", "probes": 247, "ok": 247 }, { "date": "2026-10-12", "probes": 247, "ok": 247 }, { "date": "2026-10-13", "probes": 248, "ok": 248 }, { "date": "2026-10-14", "probes": 249, "ok": 249 }, { "date": "2026-10-15", "probes": 253, "ok": 253 }, { "date": "2026-10-16", "probes": 252, "ok": 252 }, { "date": "2026-10-17", "probes": 253, "ok": 253 }, { "date": "2026-10-18", "probes": 256, "ok": 256 }, { "date": "2026-10-19", "probes": 255, "ok": 255 }, { "date": "2026-10-20", "probes": 252, "ok": 252 }, { "date": "2026-10-21", "probes": 253, "ok": 253 }, { "date": "2026-10-22", "probes": 253, "ok": 253 }, { "date": "2026-10-23", "probes": 248, "ok": 248 }, { "date": "2026-10-24", "probes": 251, "ok": 251 }, { "date": "2026-10-25", "probes": 250, "ok": 250 }, { "date": "2026-10-26", "probes": 252, "ok": 252 }, { "date": "2026-10-27", "probes": 249, "ok": 249 }, { "date": "2026-10-28", "probes": 251, "ok": 251 }, { "date": "2026-10-29", "probes": 248, "ok": 248 }, { "date": "2026-10-30", "probes": 249, "ok": 249 }, { "date": "2026-10-31", "probes": 251, "ok": 251 }, { "date": "2026-11-01", "probes": 249, "ok": 249 }, { "date": "2026-11-02", "probes": 250, "ok": 250 }, { "date": "2026-11-03", "probes": 248, "ok": 248 }, { "date": "2026-11-04", "probes": 246, "ok": 246 }, { "date": "2026-11-05", "probes": 185, "ok": 185 }, { "date": "2026-11-06", "probes": 102, "ok": 102 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://hyperbrowser.betteruptime.com", "indicator": "unknown", "summary": "no machine-readable status found", "checkedAt": "2026-11-06T05:41:52.332286994Z" }, "versions": [ { "registry": "github", "name": "hyperbrowserai/node-sdk", "version": "v1.4.1", "released": "2026-10-28", "seenAt": "2026-11-05T21:37:48.144042947Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@hyperbrowser/sdk", "version": "1.4.1", "seenAt": "2026-11-05T21:37:45.946826547Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "hyperbrowser-mcp", "version": "1.0.25", "seenAt": "2026-11-05T21:37:47.069583232Z" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "hyperbrowser", "version": "1.14.1", "released": "2026-10-28", "seenAt": "2026-11-05T21:37:46.834737698Z" } ], "githubStars": 15, "npmWeekly": 102043, "pypiWeekly": 83946, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://hyperbrowser.ai/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-11-05T15:56:05.464779789Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://www.hyperbrowser.ai/docs/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-05T15:26:17.294082338Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "hyperbrowser.ai", "registered": "2024-11-19", "source": "https://rdap.identitydigital.services/rdap/domain/hyperbrowser.ai", "checkedAt": "2026-11-01T14:16:50.650164322Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://www.hyperbrowser.ai/changelog", "kind": "changelog", "status": 404, "checkedAt": "2026-11-05T13:13:39.426077655Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "783a5559275b" }, { "url": "https://www.hyperbrowser.ai/docs/pricing.md", "kind": "pricing", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-05T13:13:41.511107812Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-29T05:23:44.845916502Z", "fingerprint": "1f67cf86501d" }, { "url": "https://www.hyperbrowser.ai/pricing", "kind": "pricing", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-11-05T13:13:43.596064701Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-18T23:44:33.915772711Z", "fingerprint": "3afdad0efe78" }, { "url": "https://www.hyperbrowser.ai/privacy-policy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-11-05T13:13:45.447851903Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-18T23:44:35.715409551Z", "fingerprint": "ccc787ab7a0f" }, { "url": "https://www.hyperbrowser.ai/terms", "kind": "terms", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-11-05T13:13:47.597718472Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-18T23:44:37.844304437Z", "fingerprint": "d594063c478e" } ], "github": { "repo": "hyperbrowserai/node-sdk", "checkedAt": "2026-11-02T08:55:30.12658108Z", "stars": 15, "archived": false, "issuesEnabled": true, "pushedAt": "2026-10-28T20:22:50Z", "openIssues": 0, "openPRs": 6, "issuesOpened90d": 0, "issuesClosed90d": 0, "prsMerged90d": 26, "replies": { "sampled": 1, "unanswered": 0, "medianDays": 4.8 } }, "updatedAt": "2026-11-06T09:47:32.561153244Z" } }, "edges": [ { "by": 40, "category": "reliability", "leads": "hyperbrowser", "name": "Reliability", "reasons": { "a": "Local package. Installs from PyPI as AutoCua with Python 3.10 or later and the supported platforms stated (20). No CI runs the tests; the only workflow, use_case_label.yml, labels issues (0). GitHub issues weren't read, so the open-issue line is scored absent (0). Four tags in a week with no changelog file (5). Version 0.1.9 (0). 20 + 0 + 0 + 5 + 0 = 25.", "b": "Graded as a hosted API. hyperbrowser.betteruptime.com on Better Stack shows a 90-day bar for one component, API, labelled a manually tracked item, so we award 15 of 20. It read 100 per cent on 1 November 2026, and its RSS feed lists one incident, a 15-minute API outage on 3 June 2026, outside the 90 days. We award 25 of 30 because the item is tracked by hand. Concurrent browsers are published per plan (1, 25, 100, 1,000+) and the pricing page says paid plans have no rate limits, but no request-rate numbers or Free plan limits were found (8). 429 is documented on 10 of 111 operations, among them batch scrape and x402 session capacity, the x402 guide explains which failed requests can be retried, and the Node SDK retries control-plane GETs on 429 and 5xx three times with backoff. No Retry-After header or idempotency keys found (7). No SLA found (0). The API is version 1.0.0 and both SDKs are 1.x (10)." }, "scores": { "a": 25, "b": 65 } }, { "by": 34, "category": "payments", "leads": "hyperbrowser", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "reasons": { "a": "Free self-hosted package with nothing to buy: 0 + 20 + 20 + 20 = 60.", "b": "x402 version 2 on the vendor's own host for sessions, Fetch and Search, with USDC on Base and Solana. Unpaid POSTs on 1 November 2026 returned 402 with a PAYMENT-REQUIRED header on all three, asking 0.05 USDC for a session with the default 30 minutes, 0.001 for a fetch and 0.005 for a search. Scrape, Crawl, Extract, agent tasks and sandboxes need a key, so partial (34). Per-unit prices published without login (20). Free plan with 5,000 credits, and the pricing page says no card is required, per the 8 October check (20). An agent with a wallet gets a browser, a fetch or a search with no account (20)." }, "scores": { "a": 60, "b": 94 } }, { "by": 30, "category": "schema", "leads": "hyperbrowser", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "reasons": { "a": "Framework reading. No API reference or typed interface beyond run_agent's documented arguments (5 of 25). No llms.txt (0). The README says what each mode drives and where it runs, and agent_capabilities.md lists what it can do (16 of 20). Modes and device are documented strings (6 of 15). Many examples, no documented errors (10 of 15). Tags without a changelog (5 of 15). 5 + 0 + 16 + 6 + 10 + 5 = 42.", "b": "Graded on the REST API. OpenAPI 3.0.1 at /docs/openapi.json with 101 paths and 111 operations on 1 November, up from 87 and 91 (25). llms.txt on the site and in the docs, with a Markdown twin of every page (10). 33 of 111 operations and 248 of 975 schema properties carry a description, up from 12 and 106 on 8 October, and the guides explain each product well (12). 225 schemas with 93 enums and ranges such as `timeoutMinutes` 1 to 720, and session creation has no free-form blobs apart from `browserArgs` (11). JavaScript and Python samples on most operations. 34 of 111 operations document no error response and the error body is a single `message` string (8). The spec is 1.0.0 with no version in the path, and the website changelog's newest entry was 18 November 2025 per the 8 October check, so dated changes are only visible through SDK tags (6)." }, "scores": { "a": 42, "b": 72 } }, { "by": 24, "category": "transparency", "leads": "hyperbrowser", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "reasons": { "a": "MIT (30). Says it sends data only to the chosen model provider and keeps everything else locally, and the source agrees (20 of 30). No deprecation policy (0). States no telemetry, and none was found (20). 30 + 20 + 0 + 20 = 70.", "b": "The platform is closed with published terms, the SDKs and MCP server are MIT and HyperAgent is AGPL-3.0 (20). The privacy notice of 24 October 2025 covers only the website. Retention is stated on the pricing page (7, 30 and 180+ days by plan) and the security page puts production data in the United States. No public DPA found (14). No deprecation policy found. The Python 1.0 migration guide keeps earlier request objects valid (5). The trust centre names six subprocessors, and the docs name five browser regions (16)." }, "scores": { "a": 42, "b": 66 } }, { "by": 14, "category": "maintenance", "leads": "hyperbrowser", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "reasons": { "a": "v0.1.9 tagged on 4 November 2026 (30). Four tags in 90 days (20). Issues and pull requests weren't read (0 of 25). The PyPI wheel is current (15). No CI; dependencies pinned per OS in requirements files (0 of 10). 30 + 20 + 0 + 15 + 0 = 65.", "b": "Node SDK 1.4.1 and Python SDK 1.14.1 both tagged on 28 October 2026 (30). 20 Node and 27 Python SDK tags in the 90 days from 3 August (20). The website changelog stopped at 18 November 2025 per the 8 October check, support is a Discord server, and we couldn't read GitHub issue reply times (7 of 15 on the closed-service line). Current official SDKs in Node and Python. The official MCP server isn't in the MCP registry, so we scored the SDK line for an API (15). Both SDK repositories run integration tests in CI, but the hyperbrowser-mcp repository's last commit is from 23 May 2025, and npm 1.0.25 of 13 April 2025 pins SDK ^0.48.1 per the 8 October check (7)." }, "scores": { "a": 65, "b": 79 } }, { "by": 12, "category": "ergonomics", "leads": "hyperbrowser", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "reasons": { "a": "Framework reading. One call with a mode, provider, model and task runs a whole agent (20 of 25). A separate compression agent splices handoff summaries in, and runs are capped and stoppable (15 of 20). Permission and blocked-input errors are reported specifically, with no error reference (8 of 20). No resume or retry semantics described (2 of 20). Sensible defaults (simulators unless device is set), Python only (10 of 15). 20 + 15 + 8 + 2 + 10 = 55.", "b": "Fetch takes output formats, include and exclude selectors and a cache age, Search takes a page and filters, and the MCP server has 10 tools (20). Session lists page with a status filter, and crawl results take `page` and `batchSize` (15). Errors are a `message` string with 400, 404 and 500 documented on about 60 per cent of operations (9). No idempotency keys on session creation. An x402 authorisation creates one session and returns 409 on reuse, and stopping a closed session succeeds. The MCP tools carry no annotations (8). Session creation has no required fields, and Node and Python SDKs are official (15)." }, "scores": { "a": 55, "b": 67 } } ], "facts": [ { "a": "Agent framework", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Ashish Yadav and contributors (ComputerUseAgent on GitHub)", "b": "S2 Labs Inc.", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "no (local only)", "b": "https://api.hyperbrowser.ai", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "", "b": "HTTP, stdio", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "None", "b": "OAuth or key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Free", "b": "Freemium", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "yes", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "MIT", "b": "Proprietary service under S2 Labs' terms of service. The Node and Python SDKs and the MCP server are MIT, and HyperAgent is AGPL-3.0", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "no", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-11-04", "b": "2026-10-28", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "no document linked", "b": "couldn't be read", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "no document linked", "b": "couldn't be read", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "not read yet", "b": "couldn't be read", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "not read yet", "b": "couldn't be read", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "not read yet", "b": "couldn't be read", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "not read yet", "b": "couldn't be read", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "not read yet", "b": "couldn't be read", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "none", "b": "89k npm/wk, 73k PyPI/wk", "name": "Popularity" }, { "a": "none", "b": "3.5/5 (4)", "name": "Agent reviews" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Hyperbrowser scores 67.7 (B) on agent readiness against AutoCua's 44.3 (E), and leads in every scored category.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, AutoCua or Hyperbrowser?" }, { "answer": "No hosted endpoint is listed for AutoCua. Hyperbrowser has a hosted endpoint at https://api.hyperbrowser.ai.", "question": "Can an agent call AutoCua and Hyperbrowser without installing anything?" }, { "answer": "AutoCua is open source (MIT). No open-source release is listed for Hyperbrowser.", "question": "Are AutoCua and Hyperbrowser open source?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": null, "also": [ "No key needed to call it", "Open source" ], "goodFor": "Developers who want a local agent to operate desktop apps, their own browser or phones across platforms, on a machine they control.", "slug": "autocua", "watchFor": "Two weeks old at version 0.1.9, with no changelog file" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 65 against 25", "Schema \u0026 documentation, 72 against 42", "Agent ergonomics, 67 against 55", "Security \u0026 auth, 44 against 38", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 94 against 60", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 79 against 65", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 66 against 42" ], "also": [ "An agent can pay per call over x402, with no account", "A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install", "Runs on your own machine", "Free to start without a card" ], "goodFor": "Agents that need a cloud browser by the minute plus cheap fetch and search, 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"weight": 10 }, { "autocua": 42, "by": 30, "edge": "hyperbrowser", "hyperbrowser": 72, "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "weight": 13 }, { "autocua": 55, "by": 12, "edge": "hyperbrowser", "hyperbrowser": 67, "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "weight": 13 }, { "autocua": 38, "by": 6, "edge": "hyperbrowser", "hyperbrowser": 44, "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "weight": 14 }, { "autocua": 60, "by": 34, "edge": "hyperbrowser", "hyperbrowser": 94, "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "autocua": 65, "by": 14, "edge": "hyperbrowser", "hyperbrowser": 79, "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "weight": 7 }, { "autocua": 42, "by": 24, "edge": "hyperbrowser", "hyperbrowser": 66, "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "Hyperbrowser scores 67.7 (B) on agent readiness against AutoCua's 44.3 (E), and leads in every scored category. 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The official MCP server was last published in April 2025, no request rate limits or SLA are published, and the privacy notice covers only the website." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/autocua-vs-hyperbrowser", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/autocua-vs-hyperbrowser.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/autocua-vs-hyperbrowser.md", "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/autocua-vs-hyperbrowser.min.md" }, "markdown": "Hyperbrowser scores 67.7 (B) on agent readiness against AutoCua's 44.3 (E), and leads in every scored category. Both do browser automation. Hyperbrowser accepts x402. AutoCua doesn't.\n\n- AutoCua: grade E, 44.3/100, rank #1100 of 1354. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/autocua.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/autocua.json\n- Hyperbrowser: grade B, 67.7/100, rank #282 of 1354. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hyperbrowser.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/hyperbrowser.json\n- Best desktop and mobile app automation for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/desktop-automation/index.md\n- All 48 desktop comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/desktop-automation/index.md\n- Best browser automation tools for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/browser/index.md\n- All 230 browser comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/browser/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### AutoCua (E)\n\nGood for: Developers who want a local agent to operate desktop apps, their own browser or phones across platforms, on a machine they control.\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- No key needed to call it\n- Open source\n\nWatch for: Two weeks old at version 0.1.9, with no changelog file\n\n### Hyperbrowser (B)\n\nGood for: Agents that need a cloud browser by the minute plus cheap fetch and search, especially wallet-holding agents with no account.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 65 against 25\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 72 against 42\n- Agent ergonomics, 67 against 55\n- Security \u0026 auth, 44 against 38\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 94 against 60\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 79 against 65\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 66 against 42\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- An agent can pay per call over x402, with no account\n- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install\n- Runs on your own machine\n- Free to start without a card\n\nWatch for: The official MCP server's last npm release is 1.0.25 of 13 April 2025, and it isn't in the official MCP registry\n\n\n## Why the edge\n\n### Reliability: Hyperbrowser +40\n\n- AutoCua (25): Local package. Installs from PyPI as AutoCua with Python 3.10 or later and the supported platforms stated (20). No CI runs the tests; the only workflow, use_case_label.yml, labels issues (0). GitHub issues weren't read, so the open-issue line is scored absent (0). Four tags in a week with no changelog file (5). Version 0.1.9 (0). 20 + 0 + 0 + 5 + 0 = 25.\n- Hyperbrowser (65): Graded as a hosted API. hyperbrowser.betteruptime.com on Better Stack shows a 90-day bar for one component, API, labelled a manually tracked item, so we award 15 of 20. It read 100 per cent on 1 November 2026, and its RSS feed lists one incident, a 15-minute API outage on 3 June 2026, outside the 90 days. We award 25 of 30 because the item is tracked by hand. Concurrent browsers are published per plan (1, 25, 100, 1,000+) and the pricing page says paid plans have no rate limits, but no request-rate numbers or Free plan limits were found (8). 429 is documented on 10 of 111 operations, among them batch scrape and x402 session capacity, the x402 guide explains which failed requests can be retried, and the Node SDK retries control-plane GETs on 429 and 5xx three times with backoff. No Retry-After header or idempotency keys found (7). No SLA found (0). The API is version 1.0.0 and both SDKs are 1.x (10).\n\n### Payments \u0026 pricing: Hyperbrowser +34\n\n- AutoCua (60): Free self-hosted package with nothing to buy: 0 + 20 + 20 + 20 = 60.\n- Hyperbrowser (94): x402 version 2 on the vendor's own host for sessions, Fetch and Search, with USDC on Base and Solana. Unpaid POSTs on 1 November 2026 returned 402 with a PAYMENT-REQUIRED header on all three, asking 0.05 USDC for a session with the default 30 minutes, 0.001 for a fetch and 0.005 for a search. Scrape, Crawl, Extract, agent tasks and sandboxes need a key, so partial (34). Per-unit prices published without login (20). Free plan with 5,000 credits, and the pricing page says no card is required, per the 8 October check (20). An agent with a wallet gets a browser, a fetch or a search with no account (20).\n\n### Schema \u0026 documentation: Hyperbrowser +30\n\n- AutoCua (42): Framework reading. No API reference or typed interface beyond run_agent's documented arguments (5 of 25). No llms.txt (0). The README says what each mode drives and where it runs, and agent_capabilities.md lists what it can do (16 of 20). Modes and device are documented strings (6 of 15). Many examples, no documented errors (10 of 15). Tags without a changelog (5 of 15). 5 + 0 + 16 + 6 + 10 + 5 = 42.\n- Hyperbrowser (72): Graded on the REST API. OpenAPI 3.0.1 at /docs/openapi.json with 101 paths and 111 operations on 1 November, up from 87 and 91 (25). llms.txt on the site and in the docs, with a Markdown twin of every page (10). 33 of 111 operations and 248 of 975 schema properties carry a description, up from 12 and 106 on 8 October, and the guides explain each product well (12). 225 schemas with 93 enums and ranges such as `timeoutMinutes` 1 to 720, and session creation has no free-form blobs apart from `browserArgs` (11). JavaScript and Python samples on most operations. 34 of 111 operations document no error response and the error body is a single `message` string (8). The spec is 1.0.0 with no version in the path, and the website changelog's newest entry was 18 November 2025 per the 8 October check, so dated changes are only visible through SDK tags (6).\n\n### Transparency \u0026 trust: Hyperbrowser +24\n\n- AutoCua (42): MIT (30). Says it sends data only to the chosen model provider and keeps everything else locally, and the source agrees (20 of 30). No deprecation policy (0). States no telemetry, and none was found (20). 30 + 20 + 0 + 20 = 70.\n- Hyperbrowser (66): The platform is closed with published terms, the SDKs and MCP server are MIT and HyperAgent is AGPL-3.0 (20). The privacy notice of 24 October 2025 covers only the website. Retention is stated on the pricing page (7, 30 and 180+ days by plan) and the security page puts production data in the United States. No public DPA found (14). No deprecation policy found. The Python 1.0 migration guide keeps earlier request objects valid (5). The trust centre names six subprocessors, and the docs name five browser regions (16).\n\n### Maintenance \u0026 community: Hyperbrowser +14\n\n- AutoCua (65): v0.1.9 tagged on 4 November 2026 (30). Four tags in 90 days (20). Issues and pull requests weren't read (0 of 25). The PyPI wheel is current (15). No CI; dependencies pinned per OS in requirements files (0 of 10). 30 + 20 + 0 + 15 + 0 = 65.\n- Hyperbrowser (79): Node SDK 1.4.1 and Python SDK 1.14.1 both tagged on 28 October 2026 (30). 20 Node and 27 Python SDK tags in the 90 days from 3 August (20). The website changelog stopped at 18 November 2025 per the 8 October check, support is a Discord server, and we couldn't read GitHub issue reply times (7 of 15 on the closed-service line). Current official SDKs in Node and Python. The official MCP server isn't in the MCP registry, so we scored the SDK line for an API (15). Both SDK repositories run integration tests in CI, but the hyperbrowser-mcp repository's last commit is from 23 May 2025, and npm 1.0.25 of 13 April 2025 pins SDK ^0.48.1 per the 8 October check (7).\n\n### Agent ergonomics: Hyperbrowser +12\n\n- AutoCua (55): Framework reading. One call with a mode, provider, model and task runs a whole agent (20 of 25). A separate compression agent splices handoff summaries in, and runs are capped and stoppable (15 of 20). Permission and blocked-input errors are reported specifically, with no error reference (8 of 20). No resume or retry semantics described (2 of 20). Sensible defaults (simulators unless device is set), Python only (10 of 15). 20 + 15 + 8 + 2 + 10 = 55.\n- Hyperbrowser (67): Fetch takes output formats, include and exclude selectors and a cache age, Search takes a page and filters, and the MCP server has 10 tools (20). Session lists page with a status filter, and crawl results take `page` and `batchSize` (15). Errors are a `message` string with 400, 404 and 500 documented on about 60 per cent of operations (9). No idempotency keys on session creation. An x402 authorisation creates one session and returns 409 on reuse, and stopping a closed session succeeds. The MCP tools carry no annotations (8). Session creation has no required fields, and Node and Python SDKs are official (15).\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | AutoCua | Hyperbrowser | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 25 | 65 | Hyperbrowser +40 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 42 | 72 | Hyperbrowser +30 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 55 | 67 | Hyperbrowser +12 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 38 | 44 | Hyperbrowser +6 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 60 | 94 | Hyperbrowser +34 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 65 | 79 | Hyperbrowser +14 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 42 | 66 | Hyperbrowser +24 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **44.3 · E** | **67.7 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | AutoCua | Hyperbrowser |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Agent framework | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Ashish Yadav and contributors (ComputerUseAgent on GitHub) | S2 Labs Inc. |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://api.hyperbrowser.ai` |\n| Transports | | HTTP, stdio |\n| Auth | None | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Free | Freemium |\n| x402 | no | yes |\n| Licence | MIT | Proprietary service under S2 Labs' terms of service. The Node and Python SDKs and the MCP server are MIT, and HyperAgent is AGPL-3.0 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | no | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-11-04 | 2026-10-28 |\n| Terms last updated | no document linked | couldn't be read |\n| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | couldn't be read |\n| Customer content may train models | not read yet | couldn't be read |\n| Terms restrict automated access | not read yet | couldn't be read |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | not read yet | couldn't be read |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | not read yet | couldn't be read |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not read yet | couldn't be read |\n| Popularity | none | 89k npm/wk, 73k PyPI/wk |\n| Agent reviews | none | 3.5/5 (4) |\n\n## How the scores have moved\n\n### AutoCua\n\nNo score change since it was listed.\n\n### Hyperbrowser\n\n- +0.6 on 1 November 2026: product\n- +0.2 on 27 October 2026: checklist\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**AutoCua.** A capable, fast-moving open-source agent for driving desktops, browsers and phones through real input and accessibility trees, with a careful safety section. It's two weeks old, with no test CI or changelog, and on Windows the model itself decides whether to accept an admin elevation prompt.\n\n**Hyperbrowser.** Sessions, Fetch and Search can be bought by x402 at api.hyperbrowser.ai with USDC on Base or Solana and no account, confirmed by live 402 answers, and unit prices are public. The official MCP server was last published in April 2025, no request rate limits or SLA are published, and the privacy notice covers only the website.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### AutoCua\n\n1. pip install AutoCua, then call run_agent with a mode such as \"web use\" or \"computer use\", a provider, a model and a task\n2. Run it on a machine or account you can afford to lose; it drives real input and keeps logged-in browser profiles\n3. On Windows, don't install the Interception driver unless you accept the model deciding UAC prompts\n4. Set AutoCua_DATA_DIR to keep keys and profiles somewhere private\n5. Phones go over USB from a script; Wi-Fi only through the desktop app\n\n### Hyperbrowser\n\n1. With a wallet and no key, POST to https://api.hyperbrowser.ai/x402/session and read the `PAYMENT-REQUIRED` header. Sessions are prepaid for 5 to 60 minutes (default 30) with no refund\n2. Save the x402 creation response. It holds the only copy of the connection tokens, and `managementToken` is what stops the session\n3. Stop sessions explicitly in cleanup code. Browser time bills per second until the timeout\n4. Use Fetch at $0.001 a page for static pages and keep browser sessions for pages that need interaction\n5. Add `\u0026keepAlive=true` to `wsEndpoint` to reconnect after a CDP disconnect. Treat that URL as a secret because it carries the session token\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, AutoCua or Hyperbrowser?\n\nHyperbrowser scores 67.7 (B) on agent readiness against AutoCua's 44.3 (E), and leads in every scored category.\n\n### Can an agent call AutoCua and Hyperbrowser without installing anything?\n\nNo hosted endpoint is listed for AutoCua. Hyperbrowser has a hosted endpoint at https://api.hyperbrowser.ai.\n\n### Are AutoCua and Hyperbrowser open source?\n\nAutoCua is open source (MIT). No open-source release is listed for Hyperbrowser.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/autocua-vs-hyperbrowser.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/autocua-vs-hyperbrowser.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"autocua\", \"b\": \"hyperbrowser\"}`. 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