Puppeteer is open-source node library for chrome. ToolCenter is a broader API platform — Managed tools + MCP under a single bearer token, plus an MCP server for AI agents. Here's how they compare and when to switch.
Every compare page on this site starts the same way: a shipping team hit a billing wall, or outgrew a single-purpose API. Here's what they find on the other side.
Running headless Chrome at scale is a full-time job. Delegate it.
Screenshot, PDF, scrape — already productized as endpoints.
No AWS bills. €9/mo covers 10k calls incl. crawl + capture.
We're not pretending otherwise — if these are your core needs, Puppeteer is a great product.
Drop your Puppeteer key, swap the base URL, ship. Our free tier covers 100 calls — enough to evaluate before you commit. No credit card.