Airtop vs Hyperbrowser

Airtop

Most browser-agent tooling falls over the moment a site needs a login; Airtop is built around that case, with a credential vault, proxies and CAPTCHA handling as first-class features. Compiling a plain-English description into deterministic code rather than replaying clicks is the right architectural bet for anything that has to run daily. The credit model is the blind spot — four published tiers, no published definition of a credit.

Pros

• +Authenticated browsing with a built-in password vault, proxies and CAPTCHA handling
• +Plain-English workflows compile to reusable deterministic code rather than brittle recordings
• +REST and GraphQL APIs, webhooks, plus n8n, Make, Zapier, Claude and Codex integrations
• +Up to 100 concurrent cloud sessions, with SOC 2 Type II and HIPAA compliance claimed

Cons

• −Credit consumption is never defined on the pricing page, so tier sizing is guesswork
• −The step from Starter to Professional is $29 to $189 a month with nothing between
• −The SOC 2 Type 2 report is only offered on the $558/month Enterprise tier
• −No legal entity name is published; the privacy policy lists only a San Jose mail-drop address

Hyperbrowser

Hyperbrowser is infrastructure and is priced like it: a published per-unit rate card down to $0.001 a page, a free tier of 5,000 credits, and $30 and $100 plans that are really prepaid usage. Sessions, scraping endpoints and agent runners share one credit balance, which makes cost modelling straightforward until proxies enter the picture - proxy data at $10 a gigabyte will dominate any scraping bill.

Pros

• +Full per-unit price list published on the pricing page, down to $0.001 a page
• +A free tier of 5,000 credits - $5 of usage - is enough to run a real test
• +Connects with Playwright, Puppeteer or Selenium, so existing scripts move over unchanged
• +Stealth mode, proxy routing, multi-region sessions, static IPs, profiles and recordings are built in
• +Agent runners (HyperAgent, Browser Use) bill through the same credit balance

Cons

• −Proxy data at $10 per GB can dwarf every other line on the invoice
• −The $30 and $100 plans are usage buckets, not flat fees - a heavy month spills past the included credits
• −No company name, country or team is published on the site
• −Everything is SDK and API driven; there is nothing for a non-developer to click

Is Airtop cheaper than Hyperbrowser?

On published entry prices, Airtop starts lower — $29/mo against $30/mo for Hyperbrowser. Entry price is the lowest paid plan as we last verified it; what each plan includes differs.

Does Airtop or Hyperbrowser have a free tier?

Both: Airtop has a free tier, and Hyperbrowser has a free tier.

Which has a public API, Airtop or Hyperbrowser?

Both ship a public API, so either can be built on; the fact table above shows the platforms each one runs on.