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The library runs on the owner's machine and launches or connects to a local browser. Site logins live in the browser profile or cookies the script sets. `puppeteer.connect()` to a remote browser uses whatever that endpoint requires.", "pricing": "free", "pricingNotes": "Free and open source under Apache-2.0, with nothing to buy and no hosted service from Google. `npm i puppeteer` downloads Chrome for Testing and chrome-headless-shell at install time (checked 2026-10-14).", "priceSummary": "Free · OSS", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the README, the docs or the source (checked 2026-10-14).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": 95689, "npmWeekly": 11547242, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-14" }, "docsUrl": "https://pptr.dev", "capabilities": [ "browser.control", "browser.debug" ], "tags": [ "official", "local", "open-source", "browser", "sdk", "typescript", "no-auth" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-08", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 70.6, "grade": "BB", "agentReady": true, "rank": 154, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1076, "categoryRank": 5, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 67, "maintenance": 89, "payments": 60, "reliability": 80, "schema": 81, "security": 52, "transparency": 70 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-14" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Puppeteer is a stable, Apache-2.0 library on 25.13.0, with ten releases since 27 July 2026, typed APIs, locators that wait and retry, and accessibility snapshots an agent can read. It has no MCP server or llms.txt of its own, and 10 of the 20 most recent CI runs on main failed between 7 and 13 October 2026.", "bestFor": "Agents that write and run Node.js scripts against Chrome or Firefox.", "strengths": [ "Ten releases from 25.4.0 on 27 July to 25.13.0 on 8 October 2026, each with a changelog generated by release-please", "TypeScript types for the whole API and a generated reference of 643 Markdown pages in the repository", "`page.accessibility.snapshot()` and the Locator API, which waits for elements and retries actions, suit scripted agent use", "Each release pins a tested Chrome for Testing and Firefox version, listed in a public support table", "Typed errors such as `TimeoutError`, `TargetCloseError` and `ConnectionClosedError` let a script tell timeouts from a closed browser" ], "weaknesses": [ "No MCP server, CLI or llms.txt of its own. The docs point agents to the separate chrome-devtools-mcp project", "10 of the 20 most recent CI runs on main, 7 to 13 October 2026, concluded in failure, the newest in Windows Chrome and Firefox jobs", "Page content reaches the agent unfiltered, and the docs have no prompt-injection or untrusted-content guidance", "JavaScript and TypeScript only, with Node.js 22.12 or later required since 25.0.0", "A stale workflow marks unconfirmed bug reports after 14 days and closes them 7 days later" ], "agentNotes": [ "Install with `npm i puppeteer`, which downloads a matching Chrome for Testing. Use `puppeteer-core` to bring your own browser", "Prefer `page.locator()` over `page.$()`. Locators wait for the element to be visible and stable before acting", "Read pages with `page.accessibility.snapshot({interestingOnly: true})` rather than full HTML to keep output short", "Catch `TimeoutError` separately from `TargetCloseError`. The first can be retried, the second needs a new page or browser", "Packages are ESM only since 25.0.0. Use `import puppeteer from 'puppeteer'` rather than `require`" ], "metrics": { "kind": "local", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "BB", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 70.6 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 67, "maintenance": 89, "payments": 60, "reliability": 80, "schema": 81, "security": 52, "transparency": 72 }, "provenanceScore": 68 }, "connect": { "install": "npm i puppeteer" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/browser.control", "tool": "https://letme.dev/puppeteer" }, "area": "developer", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Google LLC", "domain": "pptr.dev", "domainRegistered": "2018-05-23", "domainNote": "pptr.dev is the documentation site for Puppeteer, with a footer reading Copyright 2026 Google, Inc. RDAP gives a registration date of 23 May 2018. The repository is in the puppeteer organisation on GitHub. pptr.dev answers 404 for /.well-known/security.txt.", "endpointOnVendorDomain": null, "terms": "", "privacy": "", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://github.com/puppeteer/puppeteer/blob/main/packages/puppeteer-core/CHANGELOG.md", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-14", "notes": [ "No terms or privacy document governs this software beyond the Apache-2.0 licence, so `terms` and `privacy` are left out. The pptr.dev footer links Google's cookie policy for the site itself." ], "score": 68 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/puppeteer.json" }, "answer": "Puppeteer scores 70.6 (BB) on agent readiness against TinyFish's 67.7 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. TinyFish leads on agent ergonomics and security \u0026 auth.", "b": { "slug": "tinyfish", "name": "TinyFish", "vendor": "TinyFish", "vendorUrl": "https://www.tinyfish.ai", "kind": "http-api", "category": "browser", "summary": "TinyFish is a hosted web agent platform from Tiny Fish, Inc. Agents call it through REST APIs for goal-driven automation, remote browser sessions over CDP, search, fetch and research, or through a remote MCP server with OAuth.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tinyfish", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tinyfish.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tinyfish.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/tinyfish.json", "repo": "https://github.com/tinyfish-io/tinyfish-mcp-server", "license": "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", "transports": [ "http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://agent.tinyfish.ai", "packages": [ { "registry": "pypi", "name": "tinyfish" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@tiny-fish/sdk" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@tiny-fish/cli" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@tiny-fish/mcp" } ], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "Self-serve API key from agent.tinyfish.ai/api-keys, sent in the `X-API-Key` header on every REST call. Keys are shown once and can be deleted, and no scopes were found. The MCP server at `https://agent.tinyfish.ai/mcp` uses OAuth 2.1 with a browser sign-in, or a key as a Bearer token for clients without OAuth. No sales approval is needed.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "Search and Fetch are free up to 12,000 requests and 1,000 URLs a day. Agent runs cost $0.016 a step and Browser sessions $0.002 a minute, drawn from a prepaid wallet with a $10 minimum top-up and no subscription. New accounts start with $8 of wallet funds and need no card, so an agent's owner can start without a contract. Enterprise is by contract (https://www.tinyfish.ai/pricing).", "priceSummary": "$0.016 / call", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402 or L402 in the docs or the OpenAPI documents. `POST /v1/wallet/top-up` accepts the Machine Payments Protocol with a Stripe Shared Payment Token to refill the prepaid wallet ($10 to $500), for accounts in a gradual rollout and with an API key (https://docs.tinyfish.ai/agent-payments.md, checked 2026-10-08).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": 5721, "pypiWeekly": 6540, "asOf": "2026-10-08" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.tinyfish.ai", "llmsTxt": "https://docs.tinyfish.ai/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://agent.tinyfish.ai/v1/openapi/main", "registryName": "ai.tinyfish.agent/web-agent", "capabilities": [ "browser.control", "browser.hosted", "web.extract", "web.fetch", "web.search", "search.research", "scraping.proxies", "scraping.anti-bot" ], "tags": [ "official", "hosted", "freemium", "no-card", "prepaid", "mpp", "openapi", "llms-txt", "mcp", "oauth", "api-key", "python", "typescript", "cli", "webhooks", "status-page", "pre-1.0" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-07", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 67.7, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 258, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1076, "categoryRank": 8, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 79, "maintenance": 80, "payments": 55, "reliability": 60, "schema": 85, "security": 57, "transparency": 59 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-08" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "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.", "bestFor": "Agents that want one account for a goal-driven web agent, a raw CDP browser, and free search and fetch.", "strengths": [ "OpenAPI 3.0 documents for the Agent, Browser, Fetch, Search and Research APIs, plus `llms.txt`, `llms-full.txt` and a Markdown twin of every docs page", "Search and Fetch are free up to 12,000 requests and 1,000 URLs a day, and new accounts start with $8 of wallet funds with no card", "Errors carry a code, a message, optional `details` and a `request_id`. Search and Fetch 429s carry `Retry-After` and `X-RateLimit-*` headers", "Remote MCP server at `https://agent.tinyfish.ai/mcp` with OAuth 2.1, listed in the official MCP registry as `ai.tinyfish.agent/web-agent`", "Vault credentials from 1Password or Bitwarden are opt-in per run and can be limited with `credential_item_ids`. The docs say the agent never sees the passwords", "A valid security.txt and a disclosure policy (v1.1, 15 September 2026) with safe harbour and response times" ], "weaknesses": [ "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", "The status page shows downtime of an hour or more on six days for the Browser API and five for the Search API between 11 July and 8 October 2026, with no incident write-ups", "No idempotency keys on run or session creation. The docs say retrying a failed request may create duplicate runs", "API keys have no scopes and no read-only mode was found. No prompt-injection guidance was found in the API docs", "No retention periods, public DPA or subprocessor list on the pages we could read. The trust centre is drawn by script and was unread", "The Pulse changelog's newest entry is 22 June 2026, and the Python and TypeScript SDKs are 0.x with no public source repository found" ], "agentNotes": [ "Check `result` as well as `status`. A run can be `COMPLETED` while the goal failed, with `result.status` set to `failure`", "Don't retry `POST /v1/automation/run` blindly after a timeout. There are no idempotency keys, so list runs first to avoid duplicates", "Use `/v1/automation/run-async` or `/run-sse` when a run may need cancelling. Runs started with the synchronous endpoint can't be cancelled", "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", "Never put passwords in `goal`, which is logged. Pass `use_vault: true` with `credential_item_ids`, or `use_profile: true` for saved login state" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "B", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 67.7 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 79, "maintenance": 80, "payments": 55, "reliability": 60, "schema": 85, "security": 57, "transparency": 32 }, "provenanceScore": 85 }, "connect": { "install": "pip install -U tinyfish", "http": "curl -X POST https://agent.tinyfish.ai/v1/automation/run -H \"X-API-Key: $TINYFISH_API_KEY\" -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" -d '{\"url\": \"https://example.com\", \"goal\": \"Extract the page title\"}'", "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http tinyfish https://agent.tinyfish.ai/mcp", "config": { "mcpServers": { "tinyfish": { "url": "https://agent.tinyfish.ai/mcp" } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/browser.control", "tool": "https://letme.dev/tinyfish" }, "sameCompany": [ "tinyfish-search" ], "area": "developer", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Agent step", "unit": "call", "usd": 0.016, "note": "Model inference, residential proxy and anti-bot handling included per the pricing page" }, { "item": "Browser session", "unit": "browser-hour", "usd": 0.12, "note": "Billed at $0.002 a minute" }, { "item": "Search", "unit": "1k-requests", "usd": 0, "note": "Free up to 12,000 requests a day, 30 a minute" }, { "item": "Fetch", "unit": "1k-pages", "usd": 0, "note": "Free up to 1,000 URLs a day, 150 a minute" }, { "item": "Monitor run", "unit": "call", "usd": 0.005, "note": "Per completed run, failed runs free, per the MCP docs" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Tiny Fish, Inc.", "domain": "tinyfish.ai", "domainRegistered": "2023-02-06", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://www.tinyfish.ai/terms", "privacy": "https://www.tinyfish.ai/privacy-policy", "statusPage": "https://agent.tinyfish.ai/status", "changelog": "https://www.tinyfish.ai/pulse", "securityTxt": "valid", "checked": "2026-10-08", "notes": [ "The terms of service, effective 17 August 2026, name Tiny Fish, Inc., a Delaware corporation at 4410 El Camino Real, Los Altos, CA 94022, cover the APIs and the wallet, and choose California law.", "The privacy policy, effective 14 December 2025, names TinyFish Inc. in Cupertino, California, and covers the website, products and services.", "The APIs answer at agent.tinyfish.ai, api.browser.tinyfish.ai, api.search.tinyfish.ai and api.fetch.tinyfish.ai. The docs' example `cdp_url` is on a tinyfish.io subdomain, the vendor's second domain.", "www.tinyfish.ai/.well-known/security.txt gives a contact, a policy link and an expiry of 1 September 2027.", "RDAP for tinyfish.ai gives a registration date of 2023-02-06.", "Pulse, the product changelog, has its newest entry dated 22 June 2026. Current release dates come from npm and PyPI.", "The same GitHub organisation, tinyfish-io, publishes AgentQL, which is a separate product and isn't graded here." ], "score": 85 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tinyfish.json", "live": { "slug": "tinyfish", "probe": { "target": "https://agent.tinyfish.ai", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-14T09:42:10.533544047Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 200, "lastMs": 666, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 653, "p95ms24h": 806, "samples24h": 248, "samples30d": 1258, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-09", "probes": 169, "ok": 169 }, { "date": "2026-10-10", "probes": 247, "ok": 247 }, { "date": "2026-10-11", "probes": 247, "ok": 247 }, { "date": "2026-10-12", "probes": 247, "ok": 247 }, { "date": "2026-10-13", "probes": 248, "ok": 248 }, { "date": "2026-10-14", "probes": 100, "ok": 100 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://agent.tinyfish.ai/status", "indicator": "unknown", "summary": "no machine-readable status found", "checkedAt": "2026-10-14T08:54:01.309910508Z" }, "versions": [ { "registry": "mcp-registry", "name": "ai.tinyfish.agent/web-agent", "version": "1.0.1", "seenAt": "2026-10-14T04:18:30.41681267Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@tiny-fish/cli", "version": "0.50.0", "seenAt": "2026-10-13T23:29:07.352810498Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@tiny-fish/mcp", "version": "0.1.0", "seenAt": "2026-10-13T23:29:09.337994021Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@tiny-fish/sdk", "version": "0.8.0", "seenAt": "2026-10-13T23:29:07.128188404Z" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "tinyfish", "version": "0.9.0", "released": "2026-09-29", "seenAt": "2026-10-13T23:29:07.016216449Z" } ], "githubStars": 9, "npmWeekly": 4947, "pypiWeekly": 7336, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://tinyfish.ai/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "valid", "expires": "2027-09-01T00:00:00.000Z", "checkedAt": "2026-10-13T15:45:29.43740721Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://docs.tinyfish.ai/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-13T14:12:42.52193176Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "tinyfish.ai", "registered": "2023-02-06", "source": "https://rdap.identitydigital.services/rdap/domain/tinyfish.ai", "checkedAt": "2026-10-11T13:18:05.343879069Z" }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-14T09:42:10.533544047Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "SDK + MCP", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Google", "b": "TinyFish", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "no (local only)", "b": "https://agent.tinyfish.ai", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "", "b": "HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "None", "b": "OAuth or key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Free", "b": "Freemium", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "Apache-2.0", "b": "Proprietary service under Tiny Fish's terms of service. 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TinyFish leads on agent ergonomics and security \u0026 auth.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Puppeteer or TinyFish?" }, { "answer": "No hosted endpoint is listed for Puppeteer. TinyFish has a hosted endpoint at https://agent.tinyfish.ai.", "question": "Can an agent call Puppeteer and TinyFish without installing anything?" }, { "answer": "Puppeteer is open source (Apache-2.0). No open-source release is listed for TinyFish.", "question": "Are Puppeteer and TinyFish open source?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 80 against 60", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 55", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 89 against 80", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 70 against 59" ], "also": [ "Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better", "No key needed to call it", "Open source" ], "goodFor": "Agents that write and run Node.js scripts against Chrome or Firefox.", "slug": "puppeteer", "watchFor": "No MCP server, CLI or llms.txt of its own. The docs point agents to the separate chrome-devtools-mcp project" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Agent ergonomics, 79 against 67", "Security \u0026 auth, 57 against 52" ], "also": [ "A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install", "Free to start without a card" ], "goodFor": "Agents that want one account for a goal-driven web agent, a raw CDP browser, and free search and fetch.", "slug": "tinyfish", "watchFor": "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" } ], "job": { "capability": "browser.control", "name": "Browser automation" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-browser-vs-puppeteer.json", "title": "agent-browser vs Puppeteer", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-browser-vs-puppeteer" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-browser-vs-tinyfish.json", "title": "agent-browser vs TinyFish", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-browser-vs-tinyfish" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/airtop-vs-puppeteer.json", "title": "Airtop vs Puppeteer", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/airtop-vs-puppeteer" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/airtop-vs-tinyfish.json", "title": "Airtop vs TinyFish", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/airtop-vs-tinyfish" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/anchor-browser-vs-puppeteer.json", "title": "Anchor Browser 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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." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/puppeteer-vs-tinyfish", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/puppeteer-vs-tinyfish.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/puppeteer-vs-tinyfish.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/puppeteer-vs-tinyfish.min.md" }, "markdown": "Puppeteer scores 70.6 (BB) on agent readiness against TinyFish's 67.7 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. TinyFish leads on agent ergonomics and security \u0026 auth. Both do browser automation.\n\n- Puppeteer: grade BB, 70.6/100, rank #154 of 1076. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/puppeteer.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/puppeteer.json\n- TinyFish: grade B, 67.7/100, rank #258 of 1076. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tinyfish.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/tinyfish.json\n- Best browser automation tools for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/browser/index.md\n- All 120 browser comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/browser/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Puppeteer (BB)\n\nGood for: Agents that write and run Node.js scripts against Chrome or Firefox.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 80 against 60\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 55\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 89 against 80\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 70 against 59\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better\n- No key needed to call it\n- Open source\n\nWatch for: No MCP server, CLI or llms.txt of its own. The docs point agents to the separate chrome-devtools-mcp project\n\n### TinyFish (B)\n\nGood for: Agents that want one account for a goal-driven web agent, a raw CDP browser, and free search and fetch.\n\nAhead on:\n- Agent ergonomics, 79 against 67\n- Security \u0026 auth, 57 against 52\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install\n- Free to start without a card\n\nWatch 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\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Puppeteer | TinyFish | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 80 | 60 | Puppeteer +20 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 81 | 85 | TinyFish +4 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 67 | 79 | TinyFish +12 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 52 | 57 | TinyFish +5 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 60 | 55 | Puppeteer +5 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 89 | 80 | Puppeteer +9 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 70 | 59 | Puppeteer +11 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **70.6 · BB** | **67.7 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Puppeteer | TinyFish |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | SDK + MCP | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Google | TinyFish |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://agent.tinyfish.ai` |\n| Transports | | HTTP |\n| Auth | None | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Free | Freemium |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Apache-2.0 | 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 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | no | yes |\n| MCP registry | not listed | `ai.tinyfish.agent/web-agent` |\n| Last release | 2026-10-08 | 2026-10-07 |\n| Terms last updated | no document linked | 2026-08-17 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | 2025-12-14 |\n| Customer content may train models | | yes |\n| Terms restrict automated access | | yes |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | | yes |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | | not found in the text |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | | yes |\n| Popularity | 96k stars, 11.5M npm/wk | 5.7k npm/wk, 6.5k PyPI/wk |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Puppeteer.** Puppeteer is a stable, Apache-2.0 library on 25.13.0, with ten releases since 27 July 2026, typed APIs, locators that wait and retry, and accessibility snapshots an agent can read. It has no MCP server or llms.txt of its own, and 10 of the 20 most recent CI runs on main failed between 7 and 13 October 2026.\n\n**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.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Puppeteer\n\n1. Install with `npm i puppeteer`, which downloads a matching Chrome for Testing. Use `puppeteer-core` to bring your own browser\n2. Prefer `page.locator()` over `page.$()`. Locators wait for the element to be visible and stable before acting\n3. Read pages with `page.accessibility.snapshot({interestingOnly: true})` rather than full HTML to keep output short\n4. Catch `TimeoutError` separately from `TargetCloseError`. The first can be retried, the second needs a new page or browser\n5. Packages are ESM only since 25.0.0. Use `import puppeteer from 'puppeteer'` rather than `require`\n\n### TinyFish\n\n1. Check `result` as well as `status`. A run can be `COMPLETED` while the goal failed, with `result.status` set to `failure`\n2. Don't retry `POST /v1/automation/run` blindly after a timeout. There are no idempotency keys, so list runs first to avoid duplicates\n3. Use `/v1/automation/run-async` or `/run-sse` when a run may need cancelling. Runs started with the synchronous endpoint can't be cancelled\n4. 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\n5. Never put passwords in `goal`, which is logged. Pass `use_vault: true` with `credential_item_ids`, or `use_profile: true` for saved login state\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Puppeteer or TinyFish?\n\nPuppeteer scores 70.6 (BB) on agent readiness against TinyFish's 67.7 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. TinyFish leads on agent ergonomics and security \u0026 auth.\n\n### Can an agent call Puppeteer and TinyFish without installing anything?\n\nNo hosted endpoint is listed for Puppeteer. TinyFish has a hosted endpoint at https://agent.tinyfish.ai.\n\n### Are Puppeteer and TinyFish open source?\n\nPuppeteer is open source (Apache-2.0). No open-source release is listed for TinyFish.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/puppeteer-vs-tinyfish.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/puppeteer-vs-tinyfish.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"puppeteer\", \"b\": \"tinyfish\"}`. 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