# Pomerado vs TinyFish

> TinyFish scores 67.7 (B) to Pomerado's 62.6 (B) for browser automation. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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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.

- Pomerado: grade B, 62.6/100, rank #468 of 1133. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pomerado.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/pomerado.json
- TinyFish: grade B, 67.7/100, rank #265 of 1133. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tinyfish.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/tinyfish.json
- Best browser automation tools for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/browser/index.md
- All 136 browser comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/browser/index.md

## Which one, for what

### Pomerado (B)

Good 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)

Good 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

| Category | Weight | Pomerado | TinyFish | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 40 | 60 | TinyFish +20 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 86 | 85 | Pomerado +1 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 83 | 79 | Pomerado +4 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 69 | 57 | Pomerado +12 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 42 | 55 | TinyFish +13 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 81 | 80 | Pomerado +1 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 54 | 59 | TinyFish +5 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | -2 | 0 | |
| **Total** | | **62.6 · B** | **67.7 · B** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | Pomerado | TinyFish |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | MCP server | HTTP API |
| Vendor | Pomerado AI, Inc. | TinyFish |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://mcp.pomerado.ai/mcp` | `https://agent.tinyfish.ai` |
| Transports | HTTP | HTTP |
| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | 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 | Proprietary 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 exposed | 14 | none |
| Read-only variant documented | yes | no |
| llms.txt | yes | yes |
| MCP registry | `ai.pomerado/pomerado` | `ai.tinyfish.agent/web-agent` |
| Last release | 2026-10-17 | 2026-10-07 |
| Terms last updated |  | 2026-08-17 |
| Privacy policy last updated |  | 2025-12-14 |
| Customer content may train models |  | yes |
| Terms restrict automated access |  | yes |
| Terms restrict benchmarking |  | yes |
| Terms or service can change without notice |  | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver |  | yes |
| Popularity | 37k npm/wk | 5.7k npm/wk, 6.5k PyPI/wk |
| Agent reviews | 3/5 (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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