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Head to head · Browser automation · October 2026 research run

Hyperbrowser vs Notte

Hyperbrowser scores 66.9 (B) on agent readiness against Notte's 63.2 (B), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Notte leads on schema & documentation, agent ergonomics and security & auth. Both do browser automation. Hyperbrowser accepts x402. Notte doesn't.

HyperbrowserS2 Labs Inc. · HTTP API B66.9/100#205 of 629 NotteNotte Labs Inc. · HTTP API B63.2/100#285 of 629

Which one, for what

Hyperbrowser B

Good for Agents that need a cloud browser by the minute plus cheap fetch and search, especially wallet-holding agents with no account.

Ahead on

  • Reliability, 65 against 58
  • Payments & pricing, 94 against 40

Also in its favour

  • An agent can pay per call over x402, with no account
  • Runs on your own machine

Watch 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

Notte B

Good for Teams that want hosted browsers together with agents, vaults for logins, personas with mailboxes and scheduled browser functions behind one key.

Ahead on

  • Schema & documentation, 74 against 68
  • Agent ergonomics, 75 against 67
  • Security & auth, 56 against 44

Watch 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

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runHyperbrowserNotteEdge
Reliability16%206558Hyperbrowser +7
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.26874Notte +6
Agent ergonomics13%16.26775Notte +8
Security & auth14%17.54456Notte +12
Payments & pricing10%12.59440Hyperbrowser +54
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.87983Notte +4
Transparency & trust7%8.86461Hyperbrowser +3
Negative events≤1500
Total66.9 · B63.2 · B

Facts side by side

FactHyperbrowserNotte
KindHTTP APIHTTP API
VendorS2 Labs Inc.Notte Labs Inc.
Hosted endpointhttps://api.hyperbrowser.aihttps://api.notte.cc
TransportsHTTP, stdioHTTP
AuthOAuth or keyOAuth or key
PricingFreemiumFreemium
x402yesno
LicenceProprietary service under S2 Labs' terms of service. The Node and Python SDKs and the MCP server are MIT, and HyperAgent is AGPL-3.0Proprietary hosted service under Notte's terms of service. The core repository is SSPL-1.0 and the Node SDK is MIT
Tools exposednone8
Read-only variant documentednoyes
llms.txtyesyes
Last release2026-10-082026-10-07
Terms last updatedcouldn't be readcouldn't be read
Privacy policy last updatedcouldn't be readcouldn't be read
Customer content may train modelscouldn't be readcouldn't be read
Terms restrict automated accesscouldn't be readcouldn't be read
Terms restrict benchmarkingcouldn't be readcouldn't be read
Terms or service can change without noticecouldn't be readcouldn't be read
Arbitration or class-action waivercouldn't be readcouldn't be read
Popularity89k npm/wk, 73k PyPI/wk1.3k npm/wk, 5.1k PyPI/wk

Verdicts

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.

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.

Before you call either

Hyperbrowser

  1. 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
  2. Save the x402 creation response. It holds the only copy of the connection tokens, and managementToken is what stops the session
  3. Stop sessions explicitly in cleanup code. Browser time bills per second until the timeout
  4. Use Fetch at $0.001 a page for static pages and keep browser sessions for pages that need interaction
  5. Add &keepAlive=true to wsEndpoint to reconnect after a CDP disconnect. Treat that URL as a secret because it carries the session token

Notte

  1. Send Authorization: Bearer $NOTTE_API_KEY to https://api.notte.cc. A person creates the key in the console at console.notte.cc first
  2. 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
  3. Use https://api.notte.cc/mcp for browser work. Function and agent administration tools are only on https://api.notte.cc/mcp/full
  4. Back off on 429 and on 529, which means the cluster has too many sessions. The SDKs do not retry rate limits for you
  5. Download session replays within 24 hours. The recordings page says they are deleted after that

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, Hyperbrowser or Notte?

Hyperbrowser scores 66.9 (B) on agent readiness against Notte's 63.2 (B), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Notte leads on schema & documentation, agent ergonomics and security & auth.

Do Hyperbrowser and Notte need an API key?

Both take an API key or an OAuth sign-in. An agent can also pay Hyperbrowser per call over x402, with no account.

Can an agent call Hyperbrowser and Notte without installing anything?

Yes. Hyperbrowser has a hosted endpoint at https://api.hyperbrowser.ai and Notte at https://api.notte.cc.

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