TinyFish

The short version: TinyFish is solid, proven infrastructure if you're building AI agents that need reliable web interaction at real scale — but it's built and priced for companies with production workloads, not a weekend side project.

Against Selenium, Playwright, or Browserless — general browser-automation tools you self-host and maintain — TinyFish's pitch is managed reliability at scale: stealth browser profiles that bypass anti-bot protection, a claimed 89.9% accuracy on industry benchmarks, and enterprise customers like Google and DoorDash already running hundreds of thousands of agents through it monthly. That's a different tier of proof than most competitors in this space can show. The free Search and Fetch APIs are a genuinely low-risk way to try it before committing to the paid Agent ($0.016/step) and Browser ($0.002/minute) tiers. The trade-off is that pay-per-use pricing can add up fast at real agent volume, and the whole product is enterprise-oriented — an indie developer building a small side project will find Playwright or Apify cheaper and simpler for light use. Best fit: teams building production AI agents that need reliable, anti-bot-resistant web access at scale. Weaker fit: hobbyists or small side projects where a free, self-hosted tool like Playwright is more cost-effective.