# Puppeteer vs TinyFish (slim)

> Puppeteer scores 70.6 (BB) to TinyFish's 67.7 (B) for browser automation. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

- Full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/puppeteer-vs-tinyfish.md (~2,600 tokens) · this version ~730 tokens · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/puppeteer-vs-tinyfish.json · canonical https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/puppeteer-vs-tinyfish
- Index: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt · API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json · Updated: 2026-10-14

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 & auth. Both do browser automation.

- Puppeteer: BB 70.6, rank #154 of 1076 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/puppeteer.min.md
- TinyFish: B 67.7, rank #258 of 1076 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tinyfish.min.md
- Puppeteer, good for Agents that write and run Node.js scripts against Chrome or Firefox. Ahead on Reliability, 80 against 60; Payments & pricing, 60 against 55; Maintenance & community, 89 against 80; Transparency & trust, 70 against 59. Also Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better; No key needed to call it; Open source.
- TinyFish, good for Agents that want one account for a goal-driven web agent, a raw CDP browser, and free search and fetch. Ahead on Agent ergonomics, 79 against 67; Security & auth, 57 against 52. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install; Free to start without a card.

| Category | Puppeteer | TinyFish |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 80 | 60 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 81 | 85 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 67 | 79 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 52 | 57 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 60 | 55 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 89 | 80 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 70 | 59 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Puppeteer | TinyFish |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | SDK + MCP | HTTP API |
| Vendor | Google | TinyFish |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://agent.tinyfish.ai` |
| Transports |  | HTTP |
| Auth | None | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Free | Freemium |
| 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 |
| llms.txt | no | yes |
| MCP registry | not listed | `ai.tinyfish.agent/web-agent` |
| Last release | 2026-10-08 | 2026-10-07 |
| Terms last updated | no document linked | 2026-08-17 |
| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | 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 | 96k stars, 11.5M npm/wk | 5.7k npm/wk, 6.5k PyPI/wk |