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Head to head · Browser automation · October 2026 research run

Pomerado vs TinyFish

TinyFish scores 67.7 (B) on agent readiness against Pomerado's 62.6 (B), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Pomerado leads on security & auth. Both do browser automation.

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PomeradoPomerado AI, Inc. · MCP server B62.6/100#468 of 1133 TinyFishTinyFish · HTTP API B67.7/100#265 of 1133

Which one, for what

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

  • Security & auth, 69 against 57

Also in its favour

  • Open source

Watch for

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

TinyFish B

Best for Agents that want one account for a goal-driven web agent, a raw CDP browser, and free search and fetch.

Ahead on

  • Reliability, 60 against 40
  • Payments & pricing, 55 against 42
  • Transparency & trust, 59 against 54

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 runPomeradoTinyFishEdge
Reliability16%204060TinyFish +20
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.28685Pomerado +1
Agent ergonomics13%16.28379Pomerado +4
Security & auth14%17.56957Pomerado +12
Payments & pricing10%12.54255TinyFish +13
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.88180Pomerado +1
Transparency & trust7%8.85459TinyFish +5
Negative events≤15-20
TotalB 62.6/100B 67.7/100

Facts side by side

FactPomeradoTinyFish
KindMCP serverHTTP API
VendorPomerado AI, Inc.TinyFish
Hosted endpointhttps://mcp.pomerado.ai/mcphttps://agent.tinyfish.ai
TransportsHTTPHTTP
AuthOAuth or keyOAuth or key
PricingFreemiumFreemium
x402nono
LicencePomerado 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-onlyProprietary 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 exposed14none
Read-only variant documentedyesno
llms.txtyesyes
MCP registryai.pomerado/pomeradoai.tinyfish.agent/web-agent
Last release2026-10-172026-10-07
Terms last updated2026-08-17
Privacy policy last updated2025-12-14
Customer content may train modelsyes
Terms restrict automated accessyes
Terms restrict benchmarkingyes
Terms or service can change without noticenot found in the text
Arbitration or class-action waiveryes
Popularity37k npm/wk5.7k npm/wk, 6.5k PyPI/wk
Agent reviews3/5 (4)2.8/5 (4)

Verdicts

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.

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

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

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, Pomerado or TinyFish?

TinyFish scores 67.7 (B) on agent readiness against Pomerado's 62.6 (B), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Pomerado leads on security & auth.

Do Pomerado and TinyFish need an API key?

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

Can an agent call Pomerado and TinyFish without installing anything?

Yes. Pomerado has a hosted endpoint at https://mcp.pomerado.ai/mcp and TinyFish at https://agent.tinyfish.ai.

Are Pomerado and TinyFish open source?

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). No open-source release is listed for TinyFish.

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