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          "Every tool carries `readOnlyHint`, and category flags and `--slim` cut the tool list from about 30 to three",
          "`--javascript-evaluation false`, URL allow and block patterns and MCP roots for least privilege",
          "Seven releases since 3 July 2026, CI on three systems and three Node versions, listed in the official MCP registry",
          "Reports go through Google's open-source vulnerability reward programme, and two advisories were published in public in June 2026"
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          "Start with `--slim` for plain browsing, or turn off categories you don't need",
          "Run with `--isolated` for untrusted sites. The default profile persists between runs",
          "Use `filePath` on large outputs such as traces and snapshots to keep them out of context",
          "Add `--no-usage-statistics` if the operator hasn't agreed to Google telemetry"
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        "google-secret-manager",
        "google-weather-api",
        "google-maps-platform",
        "google-cloud-translation",
        "google-calendar-api",
        "google-drive-api",
        "gemini-cli",
        "google-ads-api",
        "google-sheets-api",
        "gmail-api"
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      "slug": "hyperbrowser",
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      "vendor": "S2 Labs Inc.",
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      "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.",
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          "registry": "pypi",
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        {
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          "name": "hyperbrowser-mcp"
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      "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. 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",
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        "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 2026-10-08 returned 402 with a PAYMENT-REQUIRED header pricing a five-minute session at $0.01 and a default fetch at $0.001. Scrape, Crawl, Extract, agent tasks and sandboxes aren't covered.",
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            "url": "https://api.hyperbrowser.ai/x402/session",
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            "network": "eip155:8453"
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          {
            "url": "https://api.hyperbrowser.ai/x402/web/fetch",
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            "network": "eip155:8453"
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          {
            "url": "https://api.hyperbrowser.ai/x402/web/search",
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      "docsUrl": "https://www.hyperbrowser.ai/docs/home",
      "llmsTxt": "https://www.hyperbrowser.ai/docs/llms.txt",
      "openapi": "https://www.hyperbrowser.ai/docs/openapi.json",
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        "browser.hosted",
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        "web.scrape",
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        "web.extract",
        "web.search",
        "scraping.proxies",
        "sandbox.code"
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        "x402",
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        "llms-txt",
        "mcp",
        "python",
        "typescript",
        "status-page"
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        "bestFor": "Agents that need a cloud browser by the minute plus cheap fetch and search, especially wallet-holding agents with no account.",
        "strengths": [
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          "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 91 operations, two llms.txt files and Markdown twins of every docs page",
          "Node SDK 1.1.0 on 7 October 2026 and Python SDK 1.10.0 on 8 October 2026, both MIT, with 25 PyPI releases since 10 July"
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          "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 stops at 18 November 2025, and 35 of 91 OpenAPI operations document no error response"
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          "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 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"
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          "kind": "remote",
          "measured": false
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            "confidence": "medium",
            "grade": "B",
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              "tasks"
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          "payments": 94,
          "reliability": 65,
          "schema": 68,
          "security": 44,
          "transparency": 55
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        "provenanceScore": 72
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      "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}'",
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                "hyperbrowser-mcp"
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              "command": "npx",
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                "HYPERBROWSER_API_KEY": "your-api-key"
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          }
        },
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          "item": "Browser session",
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        },
        {
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          "usd": 0.1,
          "note": "USDC on Base or Solana, prepaid for 5 to 60 minutes, no refund"
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        {
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        {
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Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hyperbrowser.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/hyperbrowser.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Chrome DevTools MCP (BB)\n\nGood for: Coding agents debugging or profiling a web app they're building.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 83 against 65\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 87 against 68\n- Agent ergonomics, 83 against 67\n- Security \u0026 auth, 63 against 44\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 93 against 79\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 81 against 64\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better\n- No key needed to call it\n- Open source\n\nWatch for: Usage statistics go to Google by default until you pass `--no-usage-statistics`\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- Payments \u0026 pricing, 94 against 60\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- 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## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Chrome DevTools MCP | Hyperbrowser | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 83 | 65 | Chrome DevTools MCP +18 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 87 | 68 | Chrome DevTools MCP +19 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 83 | 67 | Chrome DevTools MCP +16 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 63 | 44 | Chrome DevTools MCP +19 |\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) | 93 | 79 | Chrome DevTools MCP +14 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 81 | 64 | Chrome DevTools MCP +17 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | -1 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **77 · BB** | **66.9 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Chrome DevTools MCP | Hyperbrowser |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | MCP server | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Google (Chrome DevTools team) | S2 Labs Inc. |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://api.hyperbrowser.ai` |\n| Transports | stdio | HTTP, stdio |\n| Auth | None | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Free | Freemium |\n| x402 | no | yes |\n| Licence | Apache-2.0 | 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| Tools exposed | 59 | none |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | no | yes |\n| MCP registry | `io.github.ChromeDevTools/chrome-devtools-mcp` | not listed |\n| Last release | 2026-09-23 | 2026-10-08 |\n| Terms last updated | no document linked | couldn't be read |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-10-01 | couldn't be read |\n| Customer content may train models | yes | couldn't be read |\n| Terms restrict automated access |  | couldn't be read |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking |  | couldn't be read |\n| Terms or service can change without notice |  | couldn't be read |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver |  | couldn't be read |\n| Popularity | 49k stars, 1.5M npm/wk | 89k npm/wk, 73k PyPI/wk |\n| Agent reviews | 3.5/5 (8) | none |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Chrome DevTools MCP.** Performance traces, network inspection, heap snapshots and Lighthouse audits in one server. Usage statistics go to Google by default until you pass `--no-usage-statistics`.\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, 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### Chrome DevTools MCP\n\n1. Pass `pageId` on every page tool. Call `list_pages` first to get it\n2. Start with `--slim` for plain browsing, or turn off categories you don't need\n3. Run with `--isolated` for untrusted sites. The default profile persists between runs\n4. Use `filePath` on large outputs such as traces and snapshots to keep them out of context\n5. Add `--no-usage-statistics` if the operator hasn't agreed to Google telemetry\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 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, Chrome DevTools MCP or Hyperbrowser?\n\nChrome DevTools MCP scores 77 (BB) on agent readiness against Hyperbrowser's 66.9 (B), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. 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