# Airtop (slim)

> Airtop runs cloud browser sessions that an agent controls through a REST API, Node and Python SDKs, natural-language page calls, or Puppeteer, Playwright and Selenium connections. The same company sells Agent Builder, a no-code product for scheduled web agents.

- Full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/airtop.md (~8,200 tokens) · this version ~1,930 tokens · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/airtop.json · canonical https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/airtop
- Index: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt · API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json · Updated: 2026-10-08

**C · 55.3/100 · rank #511 of 722 · #11 in Browser automation · not agent-ready · confidence medium**


Assessment: The cloud browser API has a public OpenAPI 3.1 document, Markdown docs, natural-language page calls with a per-call credit cap, and a status page with no incident in the last 90 days. Credit rates for browser time, proxy traffic and AI calls are not published, and the developer changelog's last entry is dated 3 September 2025.

## Facts

- Kind: HTTP API · vendor: Switchboard Visual Technologies, Inc. (dba Airtop) · category: Browser automation · legal entity: Switchboard Visual Technologies, Inc. (dba Airtop) · provenance 80/100
- Endpoint: `https://api.airtop.ai/api` (HTTP)
- Auth: API key · pricing: Freemium · x402: no · licence: Proprietary cloud service under Airtop's terms of use. The Node and Python SDKs are MIT per npm and PyPI
- Probe metrics: not measured yet (probes haven't run)
- Surface graded: The cloud browser REST API at https://api.airtop.ai/api/v1, with its SDKs and CDP connections. Agent Builder, Mark and the webhook API that triggers built agents are described but not graded
- API: OpenAPI 3.1, 31 paths and 39 operations under /v1. Sessions, Windows (load, click, type, hover, scroll, scrape, screenshot, page query, paginated extraction, monitor, form filling), Profiles, Automations, Files and async request status
- Automation frameworks: Puppeteer and Playwright over the session's `cdpWsUrl`, Selenium over its `chromedriverUrl`, each with the API key as a Bearer header
- Free tier: 1,000 credits a month, 3 simultaneous sessions, 1 deployed agent. A one-time signup grant of 10,000 credits per the pricing page or 30,000 per the billing guide
- Concurrency: 3 simultaneous sessions on Free and Starter, 30 on Professional, 100 on Enterprise. No request rate limit found in the reviewed documentation
- Session limits: Idle timeout 10 minutes by default, `timeoutMinutes` from 1 to 10,080. Billed in 30-second increments. Start-up usually takes seconds and can take about a minute when capacity is short
- Errors: JSON envelope with `data`, `meta`, `errors` and `warnings`. Issues carry `message`, `code`, `reason` and `details`. AI calls report `meta.status` as success, partial or failure. CDP connection errors 400, 401, 404, 422 and 503 are tabled in the docs
- SDKs: Node `@airtop/sdk` 0.1.47 on npm (6 November 2025), with a 1.0.0-alpha2 line last published 1 July 2026. Python `airtop` 0.0.49 on PyPI (23 April 2025), Python 3.8 or later. Both MIT
- Proxies and CAPTCHAs: Integrated residential proxy by country with sticky IPs for up to 30 minutes, or a custom proxy. Built-in CAPTCHA solver with `solveCaptcha: true`, or a Chrome extension
- Logins: Live View lets a person log in and pass two-factor checks in an embedded browser. Profiles save cookies and local storage, encrypted at rest with AES-256 per the docs
- Observability: Optional session recording, one video per window, viewable in the portal or through the Files API. Per-call credit usage in every AI response
- Other routes: n8n, Make and Zapier connectors, and an Agent Skill (`npx skills add airtop-ai/airtop-skill`) that lists and runs Agent Builder agents
- Security: Airtop states SOC 2 Type II and HIPAA compliance, with the SOC 2 report on request or on the Enterprise plan. Vanta trust centre at trust.airtop.ai. No security.txt
- Region: The privacy policy says the services are hosted in the United States. No region setting was found in the session configuration
- Prices: Starter plan $29 per month (plan); Professional plan $189 per month (plan); Enterprise plan $558 per month (plan)

- Scores: Reliability 69, Performance pending, Schema & documentation 76, Agent ergonomics 65, Security & auth 46, Payments & pricing 25, Task success pending, Maintenance & community 24, Transparency & trust 61 · total over the 7 assessed categories
- Why: Reliability, Graded as a hosted service, on the cloud browser API. · Schema & documentation, OpenAPI 3.1 at docs.airtop.ai/openapi.json with 31 paths and 39 operations and a Bearer scheme (25). · Agent ergonomics, AI calls return an answer shaped by the prompt and an optional `outputSchema`, with `costThresholdCredits` and `timeThresholdSeconds` to bou… · Security & auth, API keys from the portal, sent as a Bearer header on REST, CDP and Selenium, so no secret travels in a URL. · Payments & pricing, No x402, MPP or L402, and an unauthenticated request returned 401 (0). · Maintenance & community, Graded on the browser API. · Transparency & trust, A closed service with published terms of use (effective 28 July 2025).
- Sources: 43, open questions: 10, both in the full twin
- Capabilities: browser.control, browser.hosted, browser.debug, web.scrape, scraping.proxies, scraping.anti-bot
- JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/airtop.json
- Verify (for the vendor): the badge `https://www.anchorterminal.com/badges/airtop.svg` or a link to https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/airtop from a page on airtop.ai or one of its subdomains, or the README of github.com/airtop-ai/airtop-node-sdk, then `POST https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/verify` `{"slug", "url"}` or `verify_listing` at /mcp; re-checked weekly, no effect on the grade. Snippets in the full twin.

## Before you call it

1. Terminate every session with `DELETE /v1/sessions/{id}`. Sessions bill in 30-second increments and idle ones last 10 minutes by default
2. Set `costThresholdCredits` on AI calls and read `meta.usage.credits` afterwards. Credit rates are not published, so measure them
3. Use `page-query` with `configuration.outputSchema` for structured output. `prompt-content` and `summarize-content` are deprecated
4. When calling REST without the SDK, poll session status until `running` before creating a window. Only the SDK waits for you
5. Airtop's integrated proxy cannot reach LinkedIn, ticketing sites and some banks and streaming services. Bring a custom proxy for those

## Connect

```bash
npm i -s @airtop/sdk
```

```bash
curl -X POST https://api.airtop.ai/api/v1/sessions -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_AIRTOP_API_KEY" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{}'
```
Full config and headless snippets are in the full page. Through letme (picks today, calling later): https://letme.dev/airtop

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