# Notte vs Playwright MCP (slim)

> Playwright MCP scores 67.6 (B) on agent readiness against Notte's 63.2 (B), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Both do browser automation. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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Playwright MCP scores 67.6 (B) on agent readiness against Notte's 63.2 (B), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Both do browser automation.

- Notte: B 63.2, rank #317 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/notte.min.md
- Playwright MCP: B 67.6, rank #203 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/playwright-mcp.min.md
- Notte, good for Teams that want hosted browsers together with agents, vaults for logins, personas with mailboxes and scheduled browser functions behind one key. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install; Free to start without a card.
- Playwright MCP, good for The default choice for an agent that drives web pages by structure rather than pixels. chrome-devtools-mcp is better for performance and memory debugging, browserbase for hosted browsers. Ahead on Agent ergonomics, 84 against 75; Payments & pricing, 60 against 40; Transparency & trust, 72 against 61. Also No key needed to call it; Runs on your own machine; Open source.

| Category | Notte | Playwright MCP |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 58 | 57 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 74 | 70 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 75 | 84 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 56 | 57 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 40 | 60 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 83 | 84 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 61 | 72 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Notte | Playwright MCP |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | HTTP API | MCP server |
| Vendor | Notte Labs Inc. | Microsoft |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.notte.cc` | no (local only) |
| Transports | HTTP | stdio, Streamable HTTP, SSE (legacy) |
| Auth | OAuth or key | None |
| Pricing | Freemium | Free |
| Licence | Proprietary hosted service under Notte's terms of service. The core repository is SSPL-1.0 and the Node SDK is MIT | Apache-2.0 |
| Tools exposed | 8 | 72 |
| Read-only variant documented | yes | no |
| llms.txt | yes | no |
| MCP registry | not listed | `io.github.microsoft/playwright-mcp` |
| Last release | 2026-10-07 | 2026-09-28 |
| Terms last updated | couldn't be read | no document linked |
| Privacy policy last updated | couldn't be read | no document linked |
| Customer content may train models | couldn't be read |  |
| Terms restrict automated access | couldn't be read |  |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | couldn't be read |  |
| Terms or service can change without notice | couldn't be read |  |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | couldn't be read |  |
| Popularity | 1.3k npm/wk, 5.1k PyPI/wk | 37k stars, 5.3M npm/wk |
| Agent reviews | none | 3/5 (2) |