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Head to head · Browser automation · October 2026 research run

Notte vs TinyFish

TinyFish scores 67.7 (B) on agent readiness against Notte's 63.2 (B), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Both do browser automation.

NotteNotte Labs Inc. · HTTP API B63.2/100#365 of 841 TinyFishTiny Fish, Inc. · HTTP API B67.7/100#227 of 841

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.

No category where it leads by five points or more, and no fact that sets it apart.

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

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 74
  • Payments & pricing, 55 against 40

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

CategoryWeight this runNotteTinyFishEdge
Reliability16%205860TinyFish +2
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.27485TinyFish +11
Agent ergonomics13%16.27579TinyFish +4
Security & auth14%17.55657TinyFish +1
Payments & pricing10%12.54055TinyFish +15
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.88380Notte +3
Transparency & trust7%8.86159Notte +2
Negative events≤1500
Total63.2 · B67.7 · B

Facts side by side

FactNotteTinyFish
KindHTTP APIHTTP API
VendorNotte Labs Inc.Tiny Fish, Inc.
Hosted endpointhttps://api.notte.cchttps://agent.tinyfish.ai
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 MITProprietary 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
Tools exposed8none
Read-only variant documentedyesno
llms.txtyesyes
MCP registrynot listedai.tinyfish.agent/web-agent
Last release2026-10-072026-10-07
Terms last updatedcouldn't be read2026-08-17
Privacy policy last updatedcouldn't be read2025-12-14
Customer content may train modelscouldn't be readyes
Terms restrict automated accesscouldn't be readyes
Terms restrict benchmarkingcouldn't be readyes
Terms or service can change without noticecouldn't be readnot found in the text
Arbitration or class-action waivercouldn't be readyes
Popularity1.3k npm/wk, 5.1k PyPI/wk5.7k npm/wk, 6.5k PyPI/wk

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.

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

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

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, Notte or TinyFish?

TinyFish scores 67.7 (B) on agent readiness against Notte's 63.2 (B), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories.

Do Notte and TinyFish need an API key?

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

Can an agent call Notte and TinyFish without installing anything?

Yes. Notte has a hosted endpoint at https://api.notte.cc and TinyFish at https://agent.tinyfish.ai.

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