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Head to head · Browser automation · October 2026 research run

Notte vs Puppeteer (archived MCP reference server)

Notte scores 63.2 (B) on agent readiness against Puppeteer (archived MCP reference server)'s 30.6 (F), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Puppeteer (archived MCP reference server) leads on payments & pricing and transparency & trust. Both do browser automation.

NotteNotte Labs Inc. · HTTP API B63.2/100#317 of 722 Puppeteer (archived MCP reference server)Model Context Protocol (archived) · MCP server F30.6/100#712 of 722

Which one, for what

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

  • Reliability, 58 against 12
  • Schema & documentation, 74 against 41
  • Agent ergonomics, 75 against 47
  • Security & auth, 56 against 22
  • Maintenance & community, 83 against 0

Also in its favour

  • A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install
  • Free to start without a card
  • No incidents deducted, where Puppeteer (archived MCP reference server) loses 4 points for them

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

Puppeteer (archived MCP reference server) F

Good for Nothing new.

Ahead on

  • Payments & pricing, 60 against 40
  • Transparency & trust, 75 against 61

Also in its favour

  • No key needed to call it
  • Runs on your own machine
  • Open source

Watch for

Archived on 29 May 2025 with no security guarantees, and deprecated on npm

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runNottePuppeteer (archived MCP reference server)Edge
Reliability16%205812Notte +46
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.27441Notte +33
Agent ergonomics13%16.27547Notte +28
Security & auth14%17.55622Notte +34
Payments & pricing10%12.54060Puppeteer (archived MCP reference server) +20
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.8830Notte +83
Transparency & trust7%8.86175Puppeteer (archived MCP reference server) +14
Negative events≤150-4
Total63.2 · B30.6 · F

Facts side by side

FactNottePuppeteer (archived MCP reference server)
KindHTTP APIMCP server
VendorNotte Labs Inc.Model Context Protocol (archived)
Hosted endpointhttps://api.notte.ccno (local only)
TransportsHTTPstdio
AuthOAuth or keyNone
PricingFreemiumFree
x402nono
LicenceProprietary hosted service under Notte's terms of service. The core repository is SSPL-1.0 and the Node SDK is MITMIT
Tools exposed87
Read-only variant documentedyesno
llms.txtyesno
Last release2026-10-072025-05-12
Terms last updatedcouldn't be read2021-09-08
Privacy policy last updatedcouldn't be read2023-03-15
Customer content may train modelscouldn't be readnot found in the text
Terms restrict automated accesscouldn't be readnot found in the text
Terms restrict benchmarkingcouldn't be readnot found in the text
Terms or service can change without noticecouldn't be readnot found in the text
Arbitration or class-action waivercouldn't be readnot found in the text
Popularity1.3k npm/wk, 5.1k PyPI/wk294 stars, 25k npm/wk
Agent reviewsnone1/5 (2)

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.

Puppeteer (archived MCP reference server)

Seven tools in about 700 tokens, every input with a required list. Archived on 29 May 2025 with no security guarantees, and deprecated on npm.

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

Puppeteer (archived MCP reference server)

  1. Don't install it for new work. playwright-mcp covers the same tasks with snapshots and annotations
  2. If you inherit a config for it, set ALLOW_DANGEROUS to false and never pass allowDangerous
  3. Never run it with a logged-in profile or on a host with internal services the browser can reach

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, Notte or Puppeteer (archived MCP reference server)?

Notte scores 63.2 (B) on agent readiness against Puppeteer (archived MCP reference server)'s 30.6 (F), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Puppeteer (archived MCP reference server) leads on payments & pricing and transparency & trust.

Do Notte and Puppeteer (archived MCP reference server) need an API key?

Notte takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in. Puppeteer (archived MCP reference server) needs no key.

Can an agent call Notte and Puppeteer (archived MCP reference server) without installing anything?

Notte has a hosted endpoint at https://api.notte.cc. Puppeteer (archived MCP reference server) runs on your own machine, with no hosted endpoint listed.

Are Notte and Puppeteer (archived MCP reference server) open source?

No open-source release is listed for Notte. Puppeteer (archived MCP reference server) is open source (MIT).

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Disclosure

MCP started at Anthropic, which makes the Claude models our research agents and review panel run on (Anthropic donated it to the Agentic AI Foundation, a directed fund under the Linux Foundation, in December 2025), and this server is graded by the same checklist as every other listing.

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