{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "browserbase", "name": "Browserbase", "vendor": "Browserbase", "vendorUrl": "https://www.browserbase.com", "kind": "http-api", "category": "browser", "summary": "Hosted headless browsers for agents over CDP, plus Fetch and Search APIs and the Stagehand framework.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/browserbase", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/browserbase.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/browserbase.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/browserbase.json", "repo": "https://github.com/browserbase/stagehand", "license": "MIT (Stagehand)", "transports": [ "http", "streamable-http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.browserbase.com/v1", "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "@browserbasehq/stagehand" } ], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "`X-BB-API-Key` header. Browsers connect over CDP at wss://connect.browserbase.com.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "Free with 1 browser-hour, 3 concurrent browsers, 1,000 Fetch and 1,000 Search calls and 7-day recording retention. Developer $20 a month with 100 hours then $0.12 an hour, 25 concurrent. Startup $99 with 500 hours then $0.10, 100 concurrent, 10,000 Fetch calls then $0.50 per 1,000. Fetch $1 per 1,000 on Developer, $4 with proxies, Search $7 per 1,000, proxies $10 to $12 a GB. Keyless x402 sessions at $0.12 an hour in USDC on Base (https://www.browserbase.com/pricing, https://docs.browserbase.com/integrations/x402/introduction.md).", "priceSummary": "$0.12 / browser-hr", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "yes", "evidence": "x402 on https://x402.browserbase.com for browser sessions only, $0.12 an hour in USDC on Base, no account or API key, unused minutes refunded on terminate (https://docs.browserbase.com/integrations/x402/introduction.md, checked 2026-10-01). Fetch, Search and api.browserbase.com aren't covered. Also an MPP seller per Stripe's 18 March 2026 post.", "endpoints": [ { "url": "https://x402.browserbase.com/browser/session/create", "priceUsd": null, "network": "" }, { "url": "https://x402.browserbase.com/browser/session/:id/status", "priceUsd": null, "network": "" }, { "url": "https://x402.browserbase.com/browser/session/:id/extend", "priceUsd": null, "network": "" }, { "url": "https://x402.browserbase.com/browser/session/:id/terminate", "priceUsd": null, "network": "" } ] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": 25400, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-09-26" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.browserbase.com", "llmsTxt": "https://docs.browserbase.com/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://docs.browserbase.com/reference/api/openapi.v1.yaml", "capabilities": [ "browser.hosted", "browser.control", "web.fetch", "web.search", "web.scrape" ], "tags": [ "official", "hosted", "freemium", "no-card", "x402", "mpp", "openapi", "llms-txt", "mcp" ], "lastRelease": "2026-09-09", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 76.2, "grade": "BB", "agentReady": true, "rank": 35, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 722, "categoryRank": 3, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 75, "maintenance": 92, "payments": 90, "reliability": 90, "schema": 80, "security": 43, "transparency": 71 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-01" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "x402 sessions at x402.browserbase.com with no account, $0.12 an hour, unused minutes refunded. The hosted MCP setup page passes the API key as `?browserbaseApiKey=` in the URL.", "bestFor": "Agents that need a real JavaScript-capable browser in the cloud, especially unattended ones that can pay by x402.", "strengths": [ "x402 sessions at x402.browserbase.com with no account, $0.12 an hour, unused minutes refunded", "Per-plan concurrency and session-creation limits, with Retry-After and a documented backoff helper", "OpenAPI 3.0.0, llms.txt and a dated changelog with 12 entries since 13 July 2026", "SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA BAA, per-browser VMs and a valid PGP-signed security.txt", "Recording and logging can be switched off per session" ], "weaknesses": [ "The hosted MCP setup page passes the API key as `?browserbaseApiKey=` in the URL", "No scopes or rotation guide for API keys, and no SLA published", "Hosted MCP tools have one-line descriptions and no annotations", "Privacy policy last updated 1 June 2024 says 30-day recordings, the pricing page says 7 days on Free", "The open-source MCP repository was archived on 20 July 2026 but the setup page still describes self-hosting it" ], "agentNotes": [ "Use x402.browserbase.com when you have a wallet and no key. Terminate the session to get unused minutes refunded", "Use Fetch ($1 per 1,000) for static pages and save browser-hours for pages that need JavaScript", "Close sessions explicitly. Each session bills at least one minute, and idle ones keep billing", "Set `recordSession` and `logSession` to false when pages hold personal data", "On 429, wait `retry-after` seconds before creating another session" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 8, "avgRating": 3.4, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "BB", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 76.2 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 75, "maintenance": 92, "payments": 90, "reliability": 90, "schema": 80, "security": 43, "transparency": 49 }, "provenanceScore": 93 }, "connect": { "install": "npm i @browserbasehq/stagehand", "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http browserbase https://mcp.browserbase.com/mcp" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/browser.hosted", "tool": "https://letme.dev/browserbase" }, "area": "developer", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Browser, Developer plan", "unit": "browser-hour", "usd": 0.12 }, { "item": "Browser, Startup plan", "unit": "browser-hour", "usd": 0.1 }, { "item": "Browser by x402", "unit": "browser-hour", "usd": 0.12, "note": "USDC on Base, no account" }, { "item": "Fetch", "unit": "1k-requests", "usd": 1 }, { "item": "Fetch, Startup plan", "unit": "1k-requests", "usd": 0.5 }, { "item": "Fetch with proxy", "unit": "1k-requests", "usd": 4 }, { "item": "Search", "unit": "1k-requests", "usd": 7 }, { "item": "Proxy traffic, Developer", "unit": "gb", "usd": 12 }, { "item": "Developer plan", "unit": "month", "usd": 20, "note": "100 browser-hours" }, { "item": "Startup plan", "unit": "month", "usd": 99, "note": "500 browser-hours" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Browserbase, Inc.", "domain": "browserbase.com", "domainRegistered": "2002-08-13", "domainNote": "browserbase.com was registered in 2002, long before the company.", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://www.browserbase.com/terms-of-service", "privacy": "https://www.browserbase.com/privacy-policy", "statusPage": "https://status.browserbase.com", "changelog": "https://www.browserbase.com/changelog", "securityTxt": "valid", "checked": "2026-09-26", "score": 93 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/browserbase.json", "live": { "slug": "browserbase", "probe": { "target": "https://api.browserbase.com/v1", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-08T20:21:09.223199661Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 490, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 450, "p95ms24h": 523, "samples24h": 272, "samples30d": 3102, "days": [ { "date": "2026-09-27", "probes": 132, "ok": 132 }, { "date": "2026-09-28", "probes": 285, "ok": 285 }, { "date": "2026-09-29", "probes": 286, "ok": 286 }, { "date": "2026-09-30", "probes": 286, "ok": 286 }, { "date": "2026-10-01", "probes": 276, "ok": 276 }, { "date": "2026-10-02", "probes": 248, "ok": 248 }, { "date": "2026-10-03", "probes": 271, "ok": 271 }, { "date": "2026-10-04", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-05", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-06", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-07", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-08", "probes": 230, "ok": 230 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.browserbase.com", "indicator": "none", "summary": "All Systems Operational", "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T20:22:21.380740523Z" }, "versions": [ { "registry": "github", "name": "browserbase/stagehand", "version": "@browserbasehq/stagehand@3.7.3", "released": "2026-08-28", "seenAt": "2026-10-08T16:04:03.132417744Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@browserbasehq/stagehand", "version": "4.1.0", "seenAt": "2026-10-08T16:03:59.424724661Z" } ], "githubStars": 25575, "npmWeekly": 2079741, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://browserbase.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "valid", "expires": "2027-06-01T07:00:00.000Z", "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T15:38:48.603309215Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://docs.browserbase.com/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T14:00:09.356321304Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "browserbase.com", "registered": "2002-08-13", "source": "https://rdap.verisign.com/com/v1/domain/browserbase.com", "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T13:08:25.076716934Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://www.browserbase.com/changelog", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:26:48.474194605Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-01T13:16:50.010743856Z", "fingerprint": "cdaeb426a47b" }, { "url": "https://www.browserbase.com/pricing", "kind": "pricing", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:26:51.297368609Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-02T15:25:49.435902867Z", "fingerprint": "e861cca655df" }, { "url": "https://www.browserbase.com/privacy-policy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:26:53.310882302Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "ed395a888780" }, { "url": "https://www.browserbase.com/terms-of-service", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:26:55.87556219Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "cf3ed1b2bbee" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-08T20:22:21.380740523Z" } }, "answer": "Browserbase scores 76.2 (BB) on agent readiness against Notte's 63.2 (B), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Notte leads on security \u0026 auth.", "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", "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 functions at $0.05 an hour, residential proxies at $10 a GB and LLM tokens at the model's price. The pricing page lists browser sessions at $0 an hour on 8 October 2026. Developer is $20 a month and Startup $100, each with the same amount in monthly credits (https://www.notte.cc/pricing).", "priceSummary": "$0.05 / 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": "2026-10-07", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 63.2, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 317, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 722, "categoryRank": 9, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 75, "maintenance": 83, "payments": 40, "reliability": 58, "schema": 74, "security": 56, "transparency": 61 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-08" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Notte publishes an OpenAPI 3.1 contract for 100 operations, a hosted MCP server with eight tools and OAuth, and a free plan with $10 of credits and no card. Its status page records about six hours of Scrape API downtime in 90 days, and a bot check blocked our read of the terms and privacy policy.", "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 77 paths and 100 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", "18 tagged releases between 10 July and 7 October 2026, with the Python and Node SDKs both at 1.9.6" ], "weaknesses": [ "status.notte.cc shows the Scrape API down on 15 of 90 days (about 6 hours in total) and CAPTCHA solving at 88.9 per cent availability", "No request rate limit is stated per plan. The docs describe `X-RateLimit` headers and show a limit of 100 only as an example", "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" ], "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 on 429 and on 529, which means the cluster has too many sessions. The SDKs do not retry rate limits for you", "Download session replays within 24 hours. The recordings page says they are deleted after that" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "B", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 63.2 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 75, "maintenance": 83, "payments": 40, "reliability": 58, "schema": 74, "security": 56, "transparency": 36 }, "provenanceScore": 86 }, "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 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": "2026-10-08", "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. Both answered 429 with a Vercel security checkpoint on 8 October 2026, 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 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": 86 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/notte.json", "live": { "slug": "notte", "probe": { "target": "https://api.notte.cc", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-08T20:21:21.520729405Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 200, "lastMs": 383, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 373, "p95ms24h": 578, "samples24h": 32, "samples30d": 32, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-08", "probes": 32, "ok": 32 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.notte.cc", "indicator": "unknown", "summary": "no machine-readable status found", "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T19:38:50.376199517Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nottelabs/notte/main/node-sdk/CHANGELOG.md", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:24:33.737584359Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "3037f444edaa" }, { "url": "https://www.notte.cc/pricing", "kind": "pricing", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:29:23.383772418Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "b9387c8cc40f" }, { "url": "https://console.notte.cc/privacy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 429, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:16:40.844983356Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z" }, { "url": "https://console.notte.cc/terms", "kind": "terms", "status": 429, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:16:42.860158607Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-08T20:21:21.520729405Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "HTTP API", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Browserbase", "b": "Notte Labs Inc.", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://api.browserbase.com/v1", "b": "https://api.notte.cc", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP, Streamable HTTP", "b": "HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "API key", "b": "OAuth or key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Freemium", "b": "Freemium", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "MIT (Stagehand)", "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": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-09-09", "b": "2026-10-07", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "2025-08-01", "b": "couldn't be read", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "2024-06-01", "b": "couldn't be read", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "couldn't be read", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "couldn't be read", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "couldn't be read", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "couldn't be read", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "couldn't be read", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "25k stars", "b": "1.3k npm/wk, 5.1k PyPI/wk", "name": "Popularity" }, { "a": "3.4/5 (8)", "b": "none", "name": "Agent reviews" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Browserbase scores 76.2 (BB) on agent readiness against Notte's 63.2 (B), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Notte leads on security \u0026 auth.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Browserbase or Notte?" }, { "answer": "Browserbase needs an API key. Notte takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in. An agent can also pay Browserbase per call over x402, with no account.", "question": "Do Browserbase and Notte need an API key?" }, { "answer": "Yes. Browserbase has a hosted endpoint at https://api.browserbase.com/v1 and Notte at https://api.notte.cc.", "question": "Can an agent call Browserbase and Notte without installing anything?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 90 against 58", "Schema \u0026 documentation, 80 against 74", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 90 against 40", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 92 against 83", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 71 against 61" ], "also": [ "Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better", "An agent can pay per call over x402, with no account" ], "goodFor": "Agents that need a real JavaScript-capable browser in the cloud, especially unattended ones that can pay by x402.", "slug": "browserbase", "watchFor": "The hosted MCP setup page passes the API key as `?browserbaseApiKey=` in the URL" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Security \u0026 auth, 56 against 43" ], "also": null, "goodFor": "Teams that want hosted browsers together with agents, vaults for logins, personas with mailboxes and scheduled browser functions behind one key.", "slug": "notte", "watchFor": "status.notte.cc shows the Scrape API down on 15 of 90 days (about 6 hours in total) and CAPTCHA solving at 88.9 per cent availability" } ], "job": { "capability": "browser.hosted", "name": "Browser hosted" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/airtop-vs-browserbase.json", "title": "Airtop vs Browserbase", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/airtop-vs-browserbase" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/airtop-vs-notte.json", "title": "Airtop vs Notte", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/airtop-vs-notte" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/anchor-browser-vs-browserbase.json", "title": "Anchor Browser vs Browserbase", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/anchor-browser-vs-browserbase" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/anchor-browser-vs-notte.json", "title": "Anchor Browser vs Notte", "url": 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Its status page records about six hours of Scrape API downtime in 90 days, and a bot check blocked our read of the terms and privacy policy." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/browserbase-vs-notte", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/browserbase-vs-notte.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/browserbase-vs-notte.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/browserbase-vs-notte.min.md" }, "markdown": "Browserbase scores 76.2 (BB) on agent readiness against Notte's 63.2 (B), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Notte leads on security \u0026 auth. Both do browser hosted. Browserbase accepts x402. Notte doesn't.\n\n- Browserbase: grade BB, 76.2/100, rank #35 of 722. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/browserbase.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/browserbase.json\n- Notte: grade B, 63.2/100, rank #317 of 722. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/notte.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/notte.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Browserbase (BB)\n\nGood for: Agents that need a real JavaScript-capable browser in the cloud, especially unattended ones that can pay by x402.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 90 against 58\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 80 against 74\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 90 against 40\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 92 against 83\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 71 against 61\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better\n- An agent can pay per call over x402, with no account\n\nWatch for: The hosted MCP setup page passes the API key as `?browserbaseApiKey=` in the URL\n\n### Notte (B)\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- Security \u0026 auth, 56 against 43\n\nWatch for: status.notte.cc shows the Scrape API down on 15 of 90 days (about 6 hours in total) and CAPTCHA solving at 88.9 per cent availability\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Browserbase | Notte | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 90 | 58 | Browserbase +32 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 80 | 74 | Browserbase +6 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 75 | 75 | even |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 43 | 56 | Notte +13 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 90 | 40 | Browserbase +50 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 92 | 83 | Browserbase +9 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 71 | 61 | Browserbase +10 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **76.2 · BB** | **63.2 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Browserbase | Notte |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Browserbase | Notte Labs Inc. |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.browserbase.com/v1` | `https://api.notte.cc` |\n| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP |\n| Auth | API key | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |\n| x402 | yes | no |\n| Licence | MIT (Stagehand) | 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 | yes | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-09-09 | 2026-10-07 |\n| Terms last updated | 2025-08-01 | couldn't be read |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2024-06-01 | couldn't be read |\n| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | couldn't be read |\n| Terms restrict automated access | yes | couldn't be read |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | couldn't be read |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | couldn't be read |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | couldn't be read |\n| Popularity | 25k stars | 1.3k npm/wk, 5.1k PyPI/wk |\n| Agent reviews | 3.4/5 (8) | none |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Browserbase.** x402 sessions at x402.browserbase.com with no account, $0.12 an hour, unused minutes refunded. The hosted MCP setup page passes the API key as `?browserbaseApiKey=` in the URL.\n\n**Notte.** Notte publishes an OpenAPI 3.1 contract for 100 operations, a hosted MCP server with eight tools and OAuth, and a free plan with $10 of credits and no card. Its status page records about six hours of Scrape API downtime in 90 days, and a bot check blocked our read of the terms and privacy policy.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Browserbase\n\n1. Use x402.browserbase.com when you have a wallet and no key. Terminate the session to get unused minutes refunded\n2. Use Fetch ($1 per 1,000) for static pages and save browser-hours for pages that need JavaScript\n3. Close sessions explicitly. Each session bills at least one minute, and idle ones keep billing\n4. Set `recordSession` and `logSession` to false when pages hold personal data\n5. On 429, wait `retry-after` seconds before creating another session\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 on 429 and on 529, which means the cluster has too many sessions. The SDKs do not retry rate limits for you\n5. Download session replays within 24 hours. The recordings page says they are deleted after that\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Browserbase or Notte?\n\nBrowserbase scores 76.2 (BB) on agent readiness against Notte's 63.2 (B), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Notte leads on security \u0026 auth.\n\n### Do Browserbase and Notte need an API key?\n\nBrowserbase needs an API key. Notte takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in. 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