---
title: Airtop
slug: airtop
url: "https://toolweight.com/options/airtop"
homepage: "https://www.airtop.ai"
categories: browser-automation-apis
last_verified: 2026-07-01
license: CC-BY-4.0
---

# Airtop

> Natural-language browser API, describe the page, skip the selectors

Airtop exposes a cloud browser whose primary interface is language: you ask a window a question or tell it to act, and it returns structured data rather than a DOM. Sessions carry profiles for authenticated sites and a live view for human sign-in. It is the furthest from raw CDP of the agent-oriented hosts, which is either the entire point or a lock-in risk depending on your tolerance.

## Identity

|  |  |
| --- | --- |
| Name | Airtop |
| Company | Airtop |
| One-liner | Natural-language browser API, describe the page, skip the selectors |
| Site | https://www.airtop.ai |
| Docs | https://docs.airtop.ai |
| Founded | 2024 |
| Funding | Seed |
| Open source | No |
| Compared in | 1 |

## Where it is compared

### [Browser APIs](https://toolweight.com/compare/browser-automation-apis)
Ranked **#5 of 13** on default weights.
| Field | Value | Confidence | Verified | Source | Note |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Anti-bot pass rate | - | Unknown | - | - | Panel not yet run. |
| Stealth mode | ● | Inferred | 2026-07-01 | - | - |
| CAPTCHA solving | ● | Vendor-claimed | 2026-07-01 | https://docs.airtop.ai/guides/how-to/solving-captchas | - |
| Residential proxy | included | Inferred | - | - | Proxy egress is bundled into session pricing rather than sold by the GB. |
| Cold start | - | Unknown | - | - | - |
| CDP endpoint | ◐ | Inferred | - | - | Playwright/Puppeteer attachment is documented, but the natural-language API is the intended interface. |
| Playwright | ● | Vendor-claimed | 2026-07-01 | https://docs.airtop.ai/guides/how-to/automation-frameworks/playwright | - |
| Puppeteer | ● | Inferred | - | - | - |
| Session persistence | ● | Vendor-claimed | 2026-07-01 | https://docs.airtop.ai/guides/how-to/saving-a-profile | - |
| Live view | ● | Vendor-claimed | 2026-07-01 | https://docs.airtop.ai/guides/how-to/creating-a-live-view | - |
| Session replay | ◐ | Inferred | - | - | - |
| Max concurrency | - | Unknown | - | - | - |
| File downloads | ◐ | Inferred | - | - | - |
| Chrome extensions | - | Unknown | - | - | - |
| Browser regions | - | Unknown | - | - | - |
| Agent API | ● | Vendor-claimed | 2026-07-01 | https://docs.airtop.ai/guides/how-to/ai/page-interactions | Page-query and act calls are the primary API; you describe intent, not selectors. |
| MCP server | ● | Inferred | - | - | - |
| Human handoff | ● | Inferred | 2026-07-01 | - | Live view is explicitly positioned for human sign-in during a run. |
| Pricing model | per-hour | Inferred | - | - | Metered per browser-minute in practice. |
| Per browser-hour | - | Unknown | - | - | - |
| Free tier | ● | Inferred | - | - | - |
| GitHub stars | - | Unknown | - | - | - |
| Funding stage | seed | Community-reported | - | - | - |
| Open-source core | ○ | Inferred | - | - | - |
| Positioning | Give an AI agent a browser it can use in plain English | Inferred | - | - | - |
| Launched | 2024 | Inferred | - | - | - |

**Verdict.** The highest-level abstraction here: ask a window a question, get structured data, never write a selector. That is a real productivity gain on messy sites and a real lock-in, because none of it ports. Best treated as an extraction service you can drop into rather than the foundation of your automation layer.

## Alternatives

- [Anchor Browser](https://toolweight.com/options/anchor-browser), Cloud browsers built around authenticated sessions and human takeover
- [Apify](https://toolweight.com/options/apify), Actor platform for scraping and agents, with Crawlee as the open-source core
- [Bright Data Browser API](https://toolweight.com/options/bright-data-browser-api), CDP browsers on a 70M+ residential IP network with challenge handling built in
- [Browserbase](https://toolweight.com/options/browserbase), Managed headless browsers for AI agents, with Stagehand as the SDK
- [Browserless](https://toolweight.com/options/browserless), Self-hostable headless Chrome service; BrowserQL for bot-heavy sites
- [Cloudflare Browser Rendering](https://toolweight.com/options/cloudflare-browser-rendering), Puppeteer and Playwright bindings for Workers, plus REST render endpoints
- [Hyperbrowser](https://toolweight.com/options/hyperbrowser), Agent-first browsers with hosted scrape, crawl and CUA endpoints
- [Kernel](https://toolweight.com/options/kernel), Fast-starting browsers plus a runtime for deploying browser agents
- [Self-hosted Playwright](https://toolweight.com/options/playwright-self-hosted), The baseline: run Chromium in your own container and own everything
- [ScrapingBee](https://toolweight.com/options/scrapingbee), One-call HTML API with JavaScript rendering and premium proxy tiers
- [Steel.dev](https://toolweight.com/options/steel-dev), Open-source browser API for AI agents, hosted or self-run
- [ZenRows](https://toolweight.com/options/zenrows), Scraper API plus a CDP scraping browser on a shared residential pool

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