# Hyperbrowser vs TinyFish

> TinyFish and Hyperbrowser score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 67.7 (B) and 66.9 (B). Hyperbrowser leads on reliability, payments & pricing and transparency & trust. Both do browser automation. Hyperbrowser accepts x402. TinyFish doesn't. Category scores…

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TinyFish and Hyperbrowser score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 67.7 (B) and 66.9 (B). Hyperbrowser leads on reliability, payments & pricing and transparency & trust. Both do browser automation. Hyperbrowser accepts x402. TinyFish doesn't.

- Hyperbrowser: grade B, 66.9/100, rank #250 of 842. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hyperbrowser.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/hyperbrowser.json
- TinyFish: grade B, 67.7/100, rank #227 of 842. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tinyfish.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/tinyfish.json

## 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 60
- Payments & pricing, 94 against 55
- Transparency & trust, 64 against 59

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

### TinyFish (B)

Good for: Agents that want one account for a goal-driven web agent, a raw CDP browser, and free search and fetch.

Ahead on:
- Schema & documentation, 85 against 68
- Agent ergonomics, 79 against 67
- Security & auth, 57 against 44

Watch for: The terms of 17 August 2026 allow Tiny Fish to train and improve its models on customer data. No opt-out was found in the reviewed pages


## Score by category

| Category | Weight | Hyperbrowser | TinyFish | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 65 | 60 | Hyperbrowser +5 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 68 | 85 | TinyFish +17 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 67 | 79 | TinyFish +12 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 44 | 57 | TinyFish +13 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 94 | 55 | Hyperbrowser +39 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 79 | 80 | TinyFish +1 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 64 | 59 | Hyperbrowser +5 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |
| **Total** | | **66.9 · B** | **67.7 · B** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | Hyperbrowser | TinyFish |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |
| Vendor | S2 Labs Inc. | Tiny Fish, Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.hyperbrowser.ai` | `https://agent.tinyfish.ai` |
| Transports | HTTP, stdio | HTTP |
| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |
| x402 | yes | no |
| Licence | 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 | Proprietary service under Tiny Fish's terms of service. The MCP proxy `@tiny-fish/mcp` and the cookbook are MIT. The SDK packages state no licence in npm or PyPI metadata |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | yes | yes |
| MCP registry | not listed | `ai.tinyfish.agent/web-agent` |
| Last release | 2026-10-08 | 2026-10-07 |
| Terms last updated | couldn't be read | 2026-08-17 |
| Privacy policy last updated | couldn't be read | 2025-12-14 |
| Customer content may train models | couldn't be read | yes |
| Terms restrict automated access | couldn't be read | yes |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | couldn't be read | yes |
| Terms or service can change without notice | couldn't be read | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | couldn't be read | yes |
| Popularity | 89k npm/wk, 73k PyPI/wk | 5.7k npm/wk, 6.5k 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.

**TinyFish.** OpenAPI documents are published for five APIs, errors carry typed codes and request IDs, and Search and Fetch are free within daily allowances. The terms let Tiny Fish train its models on customer data, run creation takes no idempotency keys, and the status page shows an hour or more of downtime on several days for the Browser and Search APIs.

## 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

### TinyFish

1. Check `result` as well as `status`. A run can be `COMPLETED` while the goal failed, with `result.status` set to `failure`
2. Don't retry `POST /v1/automation/run` blindly after a timeout. There are no idempotency keys, so list runs first to avoid duplicates
3. Use `/v1/automation/run-async` or `/run-sse` when a run may need cancelling. Runs started with the synchronous endpoint can't be cancelled
4. Allow 60 seconds for Browser session creation, connect Playwright to `cdp_url` (not `base_url`), and `DELETE` the session when done because billing is per minute
5. Never put passwords in `goal`, which is logged. Pass `use_vault: true` with `credential_item_ids`, or `use_profile: true` for saved login state

## Questions

### Which is better for AI agents, Hyperbrowser or TinyFish?

TinyFish and Hyperbrowser score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 67.7 (B) and 66.9 (B). Hyperbrowser leads on reliability, payments & pricing and transparency & trust.

### Do Hyperbrowser and TinyFish 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 TinyFish without installing anything?

Yes. Hyperbrowser has a hosted endpoint at https://api.hyperbrowser.ai and TinyFish at https://agent.tinyfish.ai.


## For agents

- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hyperbrowser-vs-tinyfish.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hyperbrowser-vs-tinyfish.min.md
- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {"a": "hyperbrowser", "b": "tinyfish"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare hyperbrowser tinyfish`
- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/hyperbrowser.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/tinyfish.json

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