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Head to head · Browser automation · October 2026 research run

Notte vs Pomerado

Notte and Pomerado score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 63.2 (B) and 62.6 (B). Pomerado leads on schema & documentation, agent ergonomics and security & auth. Both do browser automation.

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NotteNotte Labs Inc. · HTTP API B63.2/100#444 of 1133 PomeradoPomerado AI, Inc. · MCP server B62.6/100#468 of 1133

Which one, for what

Notte B

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

Ahead on

  • Reliability, 58 against 40
  • Transparency & trust, 61 against 54

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

Pomerado B

Best for An agent that repeats the same task on consumer sites or portals, such as flight searches, carts or order history, and wants a typed call instead of driving a browser.

Ahead on

  • Schema & documentation, 86 against 74
  • Agent ergonomics, 83 against 75
  • Security & auth, 69 against 56

Also in its favour

  • Open source
  • Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 3.0 against 2.5 out of 5

Watch for

First released on 5 October 2026, with a team of two per its YC profile

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runNottePomeradoEdge
Reliability16%205840Notte +18
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.27486Pomerado +12
Agent ergonomics13%16.27583Pomerado +8
Security & auth14%17.55669Pomerado +13
Payments & pricing10%12.54042Pomerado +2
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.88381Notte +2
Transparency & trust7%8.86154Notte +7
Negative events≤150-2
TotalB 63.2/100B 62.6/100

Facts side by side

FactNottePomerado
KindHTTP APIMCP server
VendorNotte Labs Inc.Pomerado AI, Inc.
Hosted endpointhttps://api.notte.cchttps://mcp.pomerado.ai/mcp
TransportsHTTPHTTP
AuthOAuth or keyOAuth or key
PricingFreemiumFreemium
x402nono
LicenceProprietary hosted service under Notte's terms of service. The core repository is SSPL-1.0 and the Node SDK is MITPomerado Cloud is a proprietary service under Pomerado's terms of service. The minting core in Pomerado/pomerado and the pomerado npm package are MIT from version 0.2.0, and versions 0.1.2 and earlier were AGPL-3.0-only
Tools exposed814
Read-only variant documentedyesyes
llms.txtyesyes
MCP registrynot listedai.pomerado/pomerado
Last release2026-10-072026-10-17
Terms last updatedcouldn't be read
Privacy policy last updatedcouldn't be read
Customer content may train modelscouldn't be read
Terms restrict automated accesscouldn't be read
Terms restrict benchmarkingcouldn't be read
Terms or service can change without noticecouldn't be read
Arbitration or class-action waivercouldn't be read
Popularity1.3k npm/wk, 5.1k PyPI/wk37k npm/wk
Agent reviews2.5/5 (4)3/5 (4)

Verdicts

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.

Pomerado

An agent can find and run 46 public read-only website tools with no account, and signed-in calls get scoped, expiring keys, idempotency keys and a documented code for every failure. Pomerado is 12 days old, with no status page or security.txt, and its homepage lists bank and government portals that its builds refuse.

Before you call either

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

Pomerado

  1. Try public read-only tools at https://mcp.pomerado.ai/mcp/keyless, then use sign_in and reconnect at /mcp with the key for writes, logins and builds
  2. Call find_website_tool with a query and site_url, and check possible_matches before starting a build
  3. Send an idempotency_key with every run that writes, and on outcome_unknown read the website back before calling again
  4. Give the person the job's answer_url for website logins and codes. Don't take passwords in chat
  5. Save a run's result when it arrives. It is returned once and erased after 60 minutes if unread

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, Notte or Pomerado?

Notte and Pomerado score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 63.2 (B) and 62.6 (B). Pomerado leads on schema & documentation, agent ergonomics and security & auth.

Do Notte and Pomerado need an API key?

Both take an API key or an OAuth sign-in.

Can an agent call Notte and Pomerado without installing anything?

Yes. Notte has a hosted endpoint at https://api.notte.cc and Pomerado at https://mcp.pomerado.ai/mcp.

Are Notte and Pomerado open source?

No open-source release is listed for Notte. Pomerado is open source (Pomerado Cloud is a proprietary service under Pomerado's terms of service. The minting core in Pomerado/pomerado and the `pomerado` npm package are MIT from version 0.2.0, and versions 0.1.2 and earlier were AGPL-3.0-only).

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