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          "Free plan with $10 of non-expiring credits and no card, 5 concurrent browsers and 15-minute sessions, per the pricing page",
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        "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Notte or Playwright MCP?"
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        "question": "Do Notte and Playwright MCP need an API key?"
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        "question": "Can an agent call Notte and Playwright MCP without installing anything?"
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The core repository is SSPL-1.0 and the Node SDK is MIT | Apache-2.0 |\n| Tools exposed | 8 | 72 |\n| Read-only variant documented | yes | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | no |\n| MCP registry | not listed | `io.github.microsoft/playwright-mcp` |\n| Last release | 2026-10-07 | 2026-09-28 |\n| Terms last updated | couldn't be read | no document linked |\n| Privacy policy last updated | couldn't be read | no document linked |\n| Customer content may train models | 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 | 1.3k npm/wk, 5.1k PyPI/wk | 37k stars, 5.3M npm/wk |\n| Agent reviews | none | 3/5 (2) |\n\n## Verdicts\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**Playwright MCP.** Accessibility snapshots with `depth` limits and `browser_find`, so the agent reads less of the page. `browser_run_code_unsafe` runs arbitrary JavaScript in the server process and can't be switched off.\n\n## Before you call either\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. 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