{ "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": "Notte scores 59.7 (C) on agent readiness against AutoCua's 44.3 (E), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. AutoCua leads on payments \u0026 pricing.", "b": { "slug": "notte", "name": "Notte", "vendor": "Notte Labs Inc.", "vendorUrl": "https://www.notte.cc", "kind": "http-api", "category": "browser", "summary": "Notte, from Notte Labs Inc., runs hosted browser sessions with web agents, scraping, search, serverless browser functions, credential vaults and personas. Access is by REST API, Python and Node SDKs, a CLI or a hosted MCP server.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/notte", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/notte.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/notte.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/notte.json", "dns": "notte.grade.anchorterminal.com", "repo": "https://github.com/nottelabs/notte", "license": "Proprietary hosted service under Notte's terms of service. The core repository is SSPL-1.0 and the Node SDK is MIT", "transports": [ "http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.notte.cc", "packages": [ { "registry": "pypi", "name": "notte-sdk" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "notte-sdk" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "notte-mcp" } ], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "Self-serve API key from the console at console.notte.cc, sent as `Authorization: Bearer \u003ckey\u003e`. The hosted MCP server also accepts OAuth sign-in with a Notte account and a choice of workspace; its metadata lists one scope, `email`. No key scopes or rotation guidance were found in the reviewed documentation. No sales approval is needed below Enterprise.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "Free plan with $10 of credits, granted once, no card, so an agent's owner can start without a contract. Credits are spent on browser sessions at $0.01 an hour, browser functions at $0.05 an hour, residential proxies at $10 a GB and LLM tokens at the model's price. Developer is $20 a month and Startup $100, each with the same amount in monthly credits (https://www.notte.cc/pricing, checked 2026-11-02).", "priceSummary": "$0.01 / session-hr", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the OpenAPI document, the docs index or the pricing page (checked 2026-10-08). The session payment endpoints pay third-party merchants from a connected wallet and do not pay Notte.", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 8, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": 1299, "pypiWeekly": 5107, "asOf": "2026-10-08" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.notte.cc", "llmsTxt": "https://docs.notte.cc/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://api.notte.cc/openapi.json", "capabilities": [ "browser.control", "browser.hosted", "web.scrape", "web.search", "web.extract", "scraping.proxies", "scraping.anti-bot", "secrets.store" ], "tags": [ "official", "hosted", "freemium", "no-card", "openapi", "llms-txt", "mcp", "oauth", "python", "typescript", "cli", "status-page", "soc2", "source-available" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-29", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 59.7, "grade": "C", "agentReady": false, "rank": 615, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1354, "categoryRank": 14, "methodology": "0.7", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 75, "maintenance": 83, "payments": 40, "reliability": 70, "schema": 74, "security": 56, "transparency": 62 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-11-02" }, "negative": -6, "negativeNotes": [ "-3, 2026-10-23. notte-sdk 1.10.0 on npm and PyPI, a minor release in the 1.x line, removed the agent API (`client.Agent()`, `client.agents` and their types), renamed `profileSave` to `saveProfile` and removed image scraping types, each labelled breaking in the changelog. No deprecation warning or dated notice for these removals was found in 1.9.7 or the docs, and the v1.10 tag came about 17 hours before the release (https://github.com/nottelabs/notte/blob/main/node-sdk/CHANGELOG.md).", "-3, 2026-10-23. The same release shipped a fix that keeps vault credential values out of error logs (commit f15592c9, \"keep credential values out of logs and fail closed on vault errors\", 14 October), a described flaw in Notte's own code with no advisory in OSV on 2 November (https://github.com/nottelabs/notte)." ], "verdict": "Notte publishes an OpenAPI 3.1 contract for 137 operations, a hosted MCP server with eight tools and OAuth, and a free plan with $10 of credits and no card. Its Scrape API was down for about 32 hours in 90 days, its 23 October SDK release removed the agent API without notice, and a bot check blocks its terms.", "bestFor": "Teams that want hosted browsers together with agents, vaults for logins, personas with mailboxes and scheduled browser functions behind one key.", "strengths": [ "OpenAPI 3.1 at api.notte.cc/openapi.json with 110 paths and 137 operations, plus llms.txt, Markdown twins of the docs and a keyless documentation MCP server", "Hosted MCP server at https://api.notte.cc/mcp with eight tools, three marked read-only, signed in by OAuth or a Bearer API key", "Free plan with $10 of non-expiring credits and no card, 5 concurrent browsers and 15-minute sessions, per the pricing page", "Vaults substitute stored credentials at fill time, so the model handling the page never receives them, per the vault docs", "25 tagged releases between 5 August and 29 October 2026, the latest v1.10.2" ], "weaknesses": [ "status.notte.cc records the Scrape API down for about 32 hours over 14 days in 90 days, including 20 hours from 23 October", "No request rate limit is published per plan, and 429 responses carry no `Retry-After` or `X-RateLimit` headers", "A Vercel bot check answered 429 on the terms of service and privacy policy at console.notte.cc, so we could not read either", "The core repository is under SSPL-1.0, which is not an OSI-approved licence. Only the Node SDK is MIT", "No API key scopes, deprecation policy, subprocessor list or public DPA found in the reviewed documentation", "notte-sdk 1.10.0, a minor release, removed the agent API and renamed `profileSave` with no advance notice found" ], "agentNotes": [ "Send `Authorization: Bearer $NOTTE_API_KEY` to https://api.notte.cc. A person creates the key in the console at console.notte.cc first", "Stop every session when the task ends. Sessions close after 3 idle minutes or 15 minutes in total by default, and the Free plan caps a session at 15 minutes", "Use https://api.notte.cc/mcp for browser work. Function and agent administration tools are only on https://api.notte.cc/mcp/full", "Back off with jitter on 429, which carries no `Retry-After`, and honour `Retry-After` on 529, which means no browser capacity. Check `X-Error-Class` to tell rate limits from active-resource caps", "Download session replays within 24 hours. The recordings page says they are deleted after that", "Pin notte-sdk below 1.10 if you use `client.agents`, or call the API's `/agents` endpoints directly. 1.10.0 removed the agent client from both SDKs" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 4, "avgRating": 2.5, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "C", "methodology": "0.7", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 59.7 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 75, "maintenance": 83, "payments": 40, "reliability": 70, "schema": 74, "security": 56, "transparency": 36 }, "provenanceScore": 87, "checked": { "categories": { "ergonomics": "2026-11-02", "maintenance": "2026-11-02", "payments": "2026-11-02", "reliability": "2026-11-02", "schema": "2026-11-02", "security": "2026-11-02", "transparency": "2026-11-02" }, "last": "2026-11-02", "lastMoved": "2026-11-02", "oldest": "2026-11-02", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "connect": { "install": "pip install notte-sdk", "http": "curl https://api.notte.cc/sessions -H \"Authorization: Bearer $NOTTE_API_KEY\"", "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http notte https://api.notte.cc/mcp", "config": { "mcpServers": { "notte": { "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer \u003cyour-notte-api-key\u003e" }, "url": "https://api.notte.cc/mcp" } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/browser.control", "tool": "https://letme.dev/notte" }, "area": "developer", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Browser session", "unit": "session-hour", "usd": 0.01, "note": "Rounded by Notte's billing policy" }, { "item": "Browser function runtime", "unit": "session-hour", "usd": 0.05, "note": "Rounded by Notte's billing policy" }, { "item": "Residential proxy traffic", "unit": "gb", "usd": 10, "note": "Billed only when proxies are enabled" }, { "item": "Developer plan", "unit": "month", "usd": 20, "note": "$20 of credits a month, 25 concurrent browsers" }, { "item": "Startup plan", "unit": "month", "usd": 100, "note": "$100 of credits a month, 100 concurrent browsers" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Notte Labs Inc.", "domain": "notte.cc", "domainRegistered": "2024-09-25", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://console.notte.cc/terms", "privacy": "https://console.notte.cc/privacy", "statusPage": "https://status.notte.cc", "changelog": "https://github.com/nottelabs/notte/blob/main/node-sdk/CHANGELOG.md", "securityTxt": "valid", "checked": "2026-11-02", "notes": [ "The site footer reads Notte Labs Inc. and COPYRIGHT.md in the repository reads Notte Labs, Inc.", "The site footer and llms.txt link the terms of service and privacy policy at console.notte.cc. console.notte.cc answered robots.txt with a Vercel security checkpoint (429) on 2 November 2026, as it answered both documents on 8 October, so neither was read and their scope and dates are unconfirmed.", "The API and the hosted MCP server answer at api.notte.cc. The MCP authorisation server is a supabase.co host.", "www.notte.cc/.well-known/security.txt, re-read on 2 November 2026, names security@notte.cc, a policy at www.notte.cc/security and an expiry of 17 September 2027.", "RDAP for notte.cc gives a registration date of 2024-09-25 and Tucows Domains Inc. as registrar.", "No changelog page was found in the docs. Dated changes come from GitHub tags and the Node SDK's CHANGELOG.md." ], "score": 87 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/notte.json", "live": { "slug": "notte", "probe": { "target": "https://api.notte.cc", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-11-06T09:47:40.006146552Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 200, "lastMs": 322, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 352, "p95ms24h": 431, "samples24h": 221, "samples30d": 7114, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-08", "probes": 70, "ok": 70 }, { "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://status.notte.cc", "indicator": "unknown", "summary": "no machine-readable status found", "checkedAt": "2026-11-06T05:42:09.388576197Z" }, "versions": [ { "registry": "github", "name": "nottelabs/notte", "version": "v1.10.5", "released": "2026-11-04", "seenAt": "2026-11-05T21:51:42.445777463Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "notte-sdk", "version": "1.10.5", "seenAt": "2026-11-05T21:51:40.458893167Z" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "notte-mcp", "version": "1.8.28", "released": "2026-07-13", "seenAt": "2026-11-05T21:51:41.361680266Z" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "notte-sdk", "version": "1.10.5", "released": "2026-11-04", "seenAt": "2026-11-05T21:51:40.345258471Z" } ], "githubStars": 2055, "npmWeekly": 7015, "pypiWeekly": 10101, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://notte.cc/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "valid", "expires": "2027-09-17T00:00:00.000Z", "checkedAt": "2026-11-05T15:55:12.012589178Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://docs.notte.cc/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-05T15:26:44.654967143Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "notte.cc", "registered": "2024-09-25", "source": "https://tld-rdap.verisign.com/cc/v1/domain/notte.cc", "checkedAt": "2026-11-01T14:17:50.533825703Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nottelabs/notte/main/node-sdk/CHANGELOG.md", "kind": "changelog", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-11-05T13:06:16.422324149Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-29T05:16:57.891069288Z", "fingerprint": "dfef0363aeb5" }, { "url": "https://docs.notte.cc/features/sessions/observe-migration.md", "kind": "deprecations", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-11-05T12:53:06.140793283Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "13eeeac22e00" }, { "url": "https://www.notte.cc/pricing", "kind": "pricing", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-05T13:15:29.811345744Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-18T23:46:05.502080158Z", "fingerprint": "b29f6450669e" }, { "url": "https://console.notte.cc/privacy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 429, "checkedAt": "2026-11-05T12:48:41.696157366Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z" }, { "url": "https://console.notte.cc/terms", "kind": "terms", "status": 429, "checkedAt": "2026-11-05T12:48:43.716530203Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z" } ], "github": { "repo": "nottelabs/notte", "checkedAt": "2026-11-02T09:10:51.731252202Z", "stars": 2051, "archived": false, "issuesEnabled": true, "pushedAt": "2026-11-02T09:09:08Z", "openIssues": 1, "openPRs": 8, "issuesOpened90d": 3, "issuesClosed90d": 2, "prsMerged90d": 499, "ci": { "branch": "main", "runs": 50, "success": 30, "failure": 19, "other": 1, "latest": "success", "latestAt": "2026-11-02T08:40:30Z" }, "replies": { "sampled": 25, "unanswered": 0, "medianDays": 2.1 } }, "updatedAt": "2026-11-06T09:47:40.006146552Z" } }, "edges": [ { "by": 45, "category": "reliability", "leads": "notte", "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. status.notte.cc on Better Stack publishes a status feed with component events (20). The feed, read on 2 November, runs from 23 July to 27 October 2026. In the 90 days from 4 August the Scrape API (`/scrape`) was down for about 32 hours over 14 days, the longest from 20:14 UTC on 23 October to 16:31 UTC on 24 October (20 hours 17 minutes) and from 04:11 UTC on 23 October for 6 hours 5 minutes. CAPTCHA solving and proxies were down for long stretches, and the Session API for 36 minutes in three short outages. On 17 and 28 August the Session API went down with the Scrape API and CAPTCHA solving (and proxies on 17 August) for under 20 minutes, while the page's API reachability check and the Functions, Vaults and Managed Auth APIs read 100 per cent uptime on 2 November. No outage of the API itself or the whole platform appears. Each outage hit one component or a few for part of the service, which this run reads as partial and minor whatever its length, so minor only (20, was 10). The 8 October reading of the page's JSON data file is set aside, since that file is the page's own data endpoint. Concurrency is published per plan (5, 25, 100), and the rate-limit page, re-read on 2 November, lists per-minute, per-hour and per-day windows on session start, agent start and the prompt helpers without the numbers (8). The docs say to retry 429s with bounded exponential backoff and jitter, that 429s carry no `Retry-After` or `X-RateLimit` headers while 529 does, and to retry only an operation known to be safe to repeat. The SDK retries selected transient failures, and only the payment endpoint takes an idempotency key. Safe-retry guidance without keys (12, was 10). SLAs are listed for Enterprise without published terms (0). The API answered healthy at version 1.10.3 on 2 November (10). 20 + 20 + 8 + 12 + 0 + 10 = 70." }, "scores": { "a": 25, "b": 70 } }, { "by": 32, "category": "schema", "leads": "notte", "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 3.1.0 at api.notte.cc/openapi.json, version 1.10.3 on 2 November, with 110 paths and 137 operations (25). llms.txt on the site and in the docs, a Markdown twin of every docs page and a keyless documentation MCP server (10). Every operation has a summary, 383 of 1,620 schema properties carry a description, and the guides explain each product (12). 312 schemas with 77 enums and ranges such as `max_duration_minutes` up to 1,440. `chrome_args` and `extra_http_headers` are free-form (11). The errors page shows the body format and its statuses, but 131 of 137 operations document only 422 as an error (8). The spec version matches the release tags. No dated API changelog page was found; changes are visible through GitHub tags, the Node SDK's CHANGELOG.md, whose entries carry no dates, and a dated migration page for the observe deprecation (8). 25 + 10 + 12 + 11 + 8 + 8 = 74." }, "scores": { "a": 42, "b": 74 } }, { "by": 20, "category": "ergonomics", "leads": "notte", "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": "The browser MCP endpoint has eight compact tools, and scrape accepts selectors and a structured output schema (22). List endpoints take `page` and `page_size` up to 100, and sessions filter by `only_active` (15). Errors are a `message` and `detail` with six documented statuses and an `x-error-class` header on execution failures (11). An `idempotency-key` header is required on session payments only, stopping a session is documented as safe to repeat, and the MCP docs mark three tools read-only and five as write. We could not list the tools to confirm the annotations (12). Session start has no required fields, and Python and Node SDKs and a CLI are official (15)." }, "scores": { "a": 55, "b": 75 } }, { "by": 20, "category": "payments", "leads": "autocua", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "reasons": { "a": "Free self-hosted package with nothing to buy: 0 + 20 + 20 + 20 = 60.", "b": "No x402, MPP or L402 on Notte's endpoints (0). Unit prices are published without login, re-read on 2 November, $0.01 an hour for browser sessions (listed at $0 on 8 October), $0.05 an hour for browser functions, $10 a GB for residential proxies, $0.20 a GB through your own proxy on Startup, and LLM tokens at the model's price (20). Free plan with $10 of credits and no card (20). A person has to sign up in the console to create a key or approve OAuth (0). 0 + 20 + 20 + 0 = 40." }, "scores": { "a": 60, "b": 40 } }, { "by": 20, "category": "transparency", "leads": "notte", "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 hosted platform is closed. The core repository is public under SSPL-1.0, which is source-available and not OSI-approved, and the Node SDK is MIT (20). The privacy policy and terms answered with a bot check and were not read. The recordings page says replays are deleted after 24 hours, while an older page in the docs source gives 7 to 30 days by plan. No public DPA found (8). No deprecation policy found. The Node SDK changelog labels breaking changes and the spec marks one field deprecated (5). The trust centre page we read named no subprocessors or data locations, and other regions are an Enterprise option (3)." }, "scores": { "a": 42, "b": 62 } }, { "by": 18, "category": "security", "leads": "notte", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "reasons": { "a": "Framework reading (telemetry, approvals, guardrails, sandboxing). Provider keys stored in a local folder with Chrome profiles (10 of 30). The worker tools are an allow-list with no write tool, unseen ids are refused, downloads need a yes, but on Windows the model answers UAC elevation prompts itself through a kernel driver, with no person asked (6 of 20). The scraping ruleset has a prompt-injection instruction to log page text that gives instructions (10 of 15). Runs are logged in the app, with no audit log (7 of 15). No security policy, disclosure route or advisories found (5 of 20, for the vault and certificate handling). 10 + 6 + 10 + 7 + 5 = 38.", "b": "A Bearer API key from the console, or OAuth on the MCP server with one scope, `email`. No key scopes or rotation guidance found (18). The browser MCP endpoint leaves out administration tools, three of its tools are read-only, and vaults keep stored credentials away from the model. No read-only key or confirmation step found (9). Pages are untrusted content. The only guidance found is one line in the Claude managed agents guide about limiting where a credential may be sent (4). Session replays, a network log endpoint and usage logs give a per-session trail (11). A valid security.txt, a disclosure policy with safe harbour and a three-business-day acknowledgement, and a SOC 2 Type 2 report on the trust centre. The security page says there is no paid bounty (14)." }, "scores": { "a": 38, "b": 56 } } ], "facts": [ { "a": "Agent framework", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Ashish Yadav and contributors (ComputerUseAgent on GitHub)", "b": "Notte Labs Inc.", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "no (local only)", "b": "https://api.notte.cc", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "", "b": "HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "None", "b": "OAuth or key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Free", "b": "Freemium", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "MIT", "b": "Proprietary hosted service under Notte's terms of service. The core repository is SSPL-1.0 and the Node SDK is MIT", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "none", "b": "8", "name": "Tools exposed" }, { "a": "no", "b": "yes", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "no", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-11-04", "b": "2026-10-29", "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": "1.3k npm/wk, 5.1k PyPI/wk", "name": "Popularity" }, { "a": "none", "b": "2.5/5 (4)", "name": "Agent reviews" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Notte scores 59.7 (C) on agent readiness against AutoCua's 44.3 (E), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. AutoCua leads on payments \u0026 pricing.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, AutoCua or Notte?" }, { "answer": "No hosted endpoint is listed for AutoCua. Notte has a hosted endpoint at https://api.notte.cc.", "question": "Can an agent call AutoCua and Notte without installing anything?" }, { "answer": "AutoCua is open source (MIT). No open-source release is listed for Notte.", "question": "Are AutoCua and Notte open source?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 40" ], "also": [ "No key needed to call it", "Open source", "No incidents deducted, where Notte loses 6 points for them" ], "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, 70 against 25", "Schema \u0026 documentation, 74 against 42", "Agent ergonomics, 75 against 55", "Security \u0026 auth, 56 against 38", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 83 against 65", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 62 against 42" ], "also": [ "A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install", "Free to start without a card" ], "goodFor": "Teams that want hosted browsers together with agents, vaults for logins, personas with mailboxes and scheduled 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"https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/notte-vs-tinyfish" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/browserbase-vs-notte.json", "title": "Browserbase vs Notte", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/browserbase-vs-notte" } ], "panel": null, "scores": [ { "autocua": 25, "by": 45, "edge": "notte", "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "notte": 70, "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "autocua": 42, "by": 32, "edge": "notte", "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "notte": 74, "weight": 13 }, { "autocua": 55, "by": 20, "edge": "notte", "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "notte": 75, "weight": 13 }, { "autocua": 38, "by": 18, "edge": "notte", "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "notte": 56, "weight": 14 }, { "autocua": 60, "by": 20, "edge": "autocua", "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "notte": 40, "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "autocua": 65, "by": 18, "edge": "notte", "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "notte": 83, "weight": 7 }, { "autocua": 42, "by": 20, "edge": "notte", "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "notte": 62, "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "Notte scores 59.7 (C) on agent readiness against AutoCua's 44.3 (E), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. 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Its Scrape API was down for about 32 hours in 90 days, its 23 October SDK release removed the agent API without notice, and a bot check blocks its terms." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/autocua-vs-notte", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/autocua-vs-notte.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/autocua-vs-notte.md", "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/autocua-vs-notte.min.md" }, "markdown": "Notte scores 59.7 (C) on agent readiness against AutoCua's 44.3 (E), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. AutoCua leads on payments \u0026 pricing. Both do browser automation.\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- Notte: grade C, 59.7/100, rank #615 of 1354. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/notte.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/notte.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\nAhead on:\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 40\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- No key needed to call it\n- Open source\n- No incidents deducted, where Notte loses 6 points for them\n\nWatch for: Two weeks old at version 0.1.9, with no changelog file\n\n### Notte (C)\n\nGood for: Teams that want hosted browsers together with agents, vaults for logins, personas with mailboxes and scheduled browser functions behind one key.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 70 against 25\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 74 against 42\n- Agent ergonomics, 75 against 55\n- Security \u0026 auth, 56 against 38\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 83 against 65\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 62 against 42\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install\n- Free to start without a card\n\nWatch for: status.notte.cc records the Scrape API down for about 32 hours over 14 days in 90 days, including 20 hours from 23 October\n\n\n## Why the edge\n\n### Reliability: Notte +45\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- Notte (70): Graded as a hosted API. status.notte.cc on Better Stack publishes a status feed with component events (20). The feed, read on 2 November, runs from 23 July to 27 October 2026. In the 90 days from 4 August the Scrape API (`/scrape`) was down for about 32 hours over 14 days, the longest from 20:14 UTC on 23 October to 16:31 UTC on 24 October (20 hours 17 minutes) and from 04:11 UTC on 23 October for 6 hours 5 minutes. CAPTCHA solving and proxies were down for long stretches, and the Session API for 36 minutes in three short outages. On 17 and 28 August the Session API went down with the Scrape API and CAPTCHA solving (and proxies on 17 August) for under 20 minutes, while the page's API reachability check and the Functions, Vaults and Managed Auth APIs read 100 per cent uptime on 2 November. No outage of the API itself or the whole platform appears. Each outage hit one component or a few for part of the service, which this run reads as partial and minor whatever its length, so minor only (20, was 10). The 8 October reading of the page's JSON data file is set aside, since that file is the page's own data endpoint. Concurrency is published per plan (5, 25, 100), and the rate-limit page, re-read on 2 November, lists per-minute, per-hour and per-day windows on session start, agent start and the prompt helpers without the numbers (8). The docs say to retry 429s with bounded exponential backoff and jitter, that 429s carry no `Retry-After` or `X-RateLimit` headers while 529 does, and to retry only an operation known to be safe to repeat. The SDK retries selected transient failures, and only the payment endpoint takes an idempotency key. Safe-retry guidance without keys (12, was 10). SLAs are listed for Enterprise without published terms (0). The API answered healthy at version 1.10.3 on 2 November (10). 20 + 20 + 8 + 12 + 0 + 10 = 70.\n\n### Schema \u0026 documentation: Notte +32\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- Notte (74): Graded on the REST API. OpenAPI 3.1.0 at api.notte.cc/openapi.json, version 1.10.3 on 2 November, with 110 paths and 137 operations (25). llms.txt on the site and in the docs, a Markdown twin of every docs page and a keyless documentation MCP server (10). Every operation has a summary, 383 of 1,620 schema properties carry a description, and the guides explain each product (12). 312 schemas with 77 enums and ranges such as `max_duration_minutes` up to 1,440. `chrome_args` and `extra_http_headers` are free-form (11). The errors page shows the body format and its statuses, but 131 of 137 operations document only 422 as an error (8). The spec version matches the release tags. No dated API changelog page was found; changes are visible through GitHub tags, the Node SDK's CHANGELOG.md, whose entries carry no dates, and a dated migration page for the observe deprecation (8). 25 + 10 + 12 + 11 + 8 + 8 = 74.\n\n### Agent ergonomics: Notte +20\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- Notte (75): The browser MCP endpoint has eight compact tools, and scrape accepts selectors and a structured output schema (22). List endpoints take `page` and `page_size` up to 100, and sessions filter by `only_active` (15). Errors are a `message` and `detail` with six documented statuses and an `x-error-class` header on execution failures (11). An `idempotency-key` header is required on session payments only, stopping a session is documented as safe to repeat, and the MCP docs mark three tools read-only and five as write. We could not list the tools to confirm the annotations (12). Session start has no required fields, and Python and Node SDKs and a CLI are official (15).\n\n### Payments \u0026 pricing: AutoCua +20\n\n- AutoCua (60): Free self-hosted package with nothing to buy: 0 + 20 + 20 + 20 = 60.\n- Notte (40): No x402, MPP or L402 on Notte's endpoints (0). Unit prices are published without login, re-read on 2 November, $0.01 an hour for browser sessions (listed at $0 on 8 October), $0.05 an hour for browser functions, $10 a GB for residential proxies, $0.20 a GB through your own proxy on Startup, and LLM tokens at the model's price (20). Free plan with $10 of credits and no card (20). A person has to sign up in the console to create a key or approve OAuth (0). 0 + 20 + 20 + 0 = 40.\n\n### Transparency \u0026 trust: Notte +20\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- Notte (62): The hosted platform is closed. The core repository is public under SSPL-1.0, which is source-available and not OSI-approved, and the Node SDK is MIT (20). The privacy policy and terms answered with a bot check and were not read. The recordings page says replays are deleted after 24 hours, while an older page in the docs source gives 7 to 30 days by plan. No public DPA found (8). No deprecation policy found. The Node SDK changelog labels breaking changes and the spec marks one field deprecated (5). The trust centre page we read named no subprocessors or data locations, and other regions are an Enterprise option (3).\n\n### Security \u0026 auth: Notte +18\n\n- AutoCua (38): Framework reading (telemetry, approvals, guardrails, sandboxing). Provider keys stored in a local folder with Chrome profiles (10 of 30). The worker tools are an allow-list with no write tool, unseen ids are refused, downloads need a yes, but on Windows the model answers UAC elevation prompts itself through a kernel driver, with no person asked (6 of 20). The scraping ruleset has a prompt-injection instruction to log page text that gives instructions (10 of 15). Runs are logged in the app, with no audit log (7 of 15). No security policy, disclosure route or advisories found (5 of 20, for the vault and certificate handling). 10 + 6 + 10 + 7 + 5 = 38.\n- Notte (56): A Bearer API key from the console, or OAuth on the MCP server with one scope, `email`. No key scopes or rotation guidance found (18). The browser MCP endpoint leaves out administration tools, three of its tools are read-only, and vaults keep stored credentials away from the model. No read-only key or confirmation step found (9). Pages are untrusted content. The only guidance found is one line in the Claude managed agents guide about limiting where a credential may be sent (4). Session replays, a network log endpoint and usage logs give a per-session trail (11). A valid security.txt, a disclosure policy with safe harbour and a three-business-day acknowledgement, and a SOC 2 Type 2 report on the trust centre. The security page says there is no paid bounty (14).\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | AutoCua | Notte | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 25 | 70 | Notte +45 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 42 | 74 | Notte +32 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 55 | 75 | Notte +20 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 38 | 56 | Notte +18 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 60 | 40 | AutoCua +20 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 65 | 83 | Notte +18 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 42 | 62 | Notte +20 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | -6 | |\n| **Total** | | **44.3 · E** | **59.7 · C** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | AutoCua | Notte |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Agent framework | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Ashish Yadav and contributors (ComputerUseAgent on GitHub) | Notte Labs Inc. |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://api.notte.cc` |\n| Transports | | HTTP |\n| Auth | None | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Free | Freemium |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | MIT | Proprietary hosted service under Notte's terms of service. The core repository is SSPL-1.0 and the Node SDK is MIT |\n| Tools exposed | none | 8 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |\n| llms.txt | no | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-11-04 | 2026-10-29 |\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 | 1.3k npm/wk, 5.1k PyPI/wk |\n| Agent reviews | none | 2.5/5 (4) |\n\n## How the scores have moved\n\n### AutoCua\n\nNo score change since it was listed.\n\n### Notte\n\n- -3.6 on 2 November 2026 (B to C): terms, correction\n- +0.1 on 28 October 2026: new evidence\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**Notte.** Notte publishes an OpenAPI 3.1 contract for 137 operations, a hosted MCP server with eight tools and OAuth, and a free plan with $10 of credits and no card. Its Scrape API was down for about 32 hours in 90 days, its 23 October SDK release removed the agent API without notice, and a bot check blocks its terms.\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### Notte\n\n1. Send `Authorization: Bearer $NOTTE_API_KEY` to https://api.notte.cc. A person creates the key in the console at console.notte.cc first\n2. Stop every session when the task ends. Sessions close after 3 idle minutes or 15 minutes in total by default, and the Free plan caps a session at 15 minutes\n3. Use https://api.notte.cc/mcp for browser work. Function and agent administration tools are only on https://api.notte.cc/mcp/full\n4. Back off with jitter on 429, which carries no `Retry-After`, and honour `Retry-After` on 529, which means no browser capacity. Check `X-Error-Class` to tell rate limits from active-resource caps\n5. Download session replays within 24 hours. The recordings page says they are deleted after that\n6. Pin notte-sdk below 1.10 if you use `client.agents`, or call the API's `/agents` endpoints directly. 1.10.0 removed the agent client from both SDKs\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, AutoCua or Notte?\n\nNotte scores 59.7 (C) on agent readiness against AutoCua's 44.3 (E), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. AutoCua leads on payments \u0026 pricing.\n\n### Can an agent call AutoCua and Notte without installing anything?\n\nNo hosted endpoint is listed for AutoCua. Notte has a hosted endpoint at https://api.notte.cc.\n\n### Are AutoCua and Notte open source?\n\nAutoCua is open source (MIT). No open-source release is listed for Notte.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/autocua-vs-notte.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/autocua-vs-notte.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"autocua\", \"b\": \"notte\"}`. 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