Bottom line: Notte is a developer platform for browser automation. It runs cloud browsers with stealth, CAPTCHA solving and proxies, lets an AI agent work through a website, and turns the result into a function you can call as an API or run on a schedule. On AppSumo it sells three tiers, $69, $159 and $379 once, read on 29 October 2026, and the listing’s countdown runs to 5 November 2026. The detail most buyers miss: every tier gets the same 100 browser hours a month, and that’s the line the founders say renews. The LLM credits ($0, $100 or $300) and the bonus hour banks are one-time. Proxy bandwidth and LLM tokens are what cost money, and they come out of credits. The listing shows 3.8 stars from 25 reviews, and the guarantee line reads “Plus members are covered by our We Got Your Back guarantee.” Every tier is refundable for 60 days.
Best for: developers and AI agencies who already write Python or Playwright, and want hosted, harder-to-block browsers for scraping and form-filling without paying a monthly bill.
Think twice if: you want a no-code point-and-click scraper, you need predictable monthly costs with heavy proxy use, or your LLM key isn’t on OpenRouter.
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Updated 29 October 2026. This Notte review rests on what we read that day: the Notte listing on AppSumo, including all three tiers, the deal terms, the founders’ posts, 20 of its 25 reviews and its recent questions, and Notte’s own pricing page with its plans, usage rates and limits. We haven’t run browser sessions or built functions with it, so we describe the plans, the billing and what buyers report, not success rates.
Notte review at a glance
| What we checked | What the pages say |
|---|---|
| AppSumo tiers | $69, $159, $379 once; no stacking |
| Browser hours a month | 100 on every tier |
| Bonus browser hours (one-time) | 0, 8,000, 24,000 |
| Anything API LLM credits | $0, $100, $300 (one-time, per the founders) |
| Browser concurrency | 25, 50, 100 |
| Deal maps to | “All future Developer Plan updates” |
| Notte’s own Developer plan | $20 a month, $20 credits a month |
| Refund | Refundable up to 60 days |
| AppSumo guarantee | “Plus members are covered by our We Got Your Back guarantee” |
| Listing rating | 3.8 from 25 reviews (16 five-taco, 6 one-taco) |
| Deal ends | Countdown to 5 November 2026 |
What Notte does
Notte is built for people who write code. The listing’s own FAQ shows a Python example that opens a session through the notte_sdk client, with options for headless mode, CAPTCHA solving, proxies, viewport size and a timeout. If you’ve never written a script, that example tells you who the product is for. The listing files it under Developer Tools and Web Scraping, and names developers and AI agencies as the best fit.
The pieces described on the listing:
- Anything API. You describe a browser task in plain language, and Notte “will engineer the workflow and deploys a function for you.” Later runs can skip the browser, which the listing says means faster runs and lower infrastructure costs.
- Functions. Deploy a script as a serverless endpoint, schedule it on cron, or call it over the API.
- Sessions and debugging. A live viewer for browser sessions, steps and logs, replay of Chrome DevTools Protocol events, and tracking of downloads, uploads, cookies and timelines.
- Recovery. Hybrid workflows that mix scripted steps with AI reasoning, plus “adaptive fallback logic” for when pages change.
- Logins. Encrypted credential vaults, personas with real emails and phone numbers for automated two-factor authentication, and session profiles so agents stay logged in across runs.
- Recording. Record a workflow once and convert it into an automation script.
Notte’s pricing page says core features, “including proxies, vaults, personas, sessions, functions, and agents, are available across plans,” and that plans “mainly change credits and operational limits.” The company was founded on 25 January 2025 in San Francisco, lists a team of 1-10 at pre-seed stage on AppSumo, and its own site says it’s backed by Y Combinator.
One FAQ detail is easy to skip: CAPTCHA solving “is currently supported only when using browser_type='firefox'.” When you plan a scraper around a CAPTCHA-protected site, build it on Firefox from the start.
The thing most people miss: what renews and what doesn’t
Each AppSumo card lists four numbers. Here’s how the founders explained them on the listing.
On 24 August 2026, Lucas from Notte answered a buyer asking which lines refresh. The $300 of LLM credits on Tier 3 are “one-time, no monthly refresh.” The 100 browser hours a month: “this is the only line that refreshes.” The 24,000 hours are “a one-time allocation on top of your monthly hours, and it never expires.” The cards now label that line “Bonus browser hours (one-time),” which is clearer than the earlier wording buyers complained about.
Four days later a Tier 3 buyer wrote: “I thought I was purchasing renewable credits and browser hours not a fixed amount.” Honestly, that reaction is the reason this section exists.
Now the part that doesn’t line up. In September the same team member gave two answers that describe a monthly credit. To a Tier 2 buyer on 10 September: “You have $20 of Notte credits that renew monthly, and those cover everything.” To a buyer comparing tiers on 17 September: “the $20 (Tier 2) and $100 (Tier 3) credits renew monthly, full amount, no rollover of unused credits, same as our published plans.” Neither number is printed on the AppSumo cards. So the pages we read disagree on whether AppSumo buyers get a monthly dollar credit on top of the 100 hours. Turns out this matters more than the hour count, and we’d ask support in writing before you buy a higher tier.
Why the hours are the cheap part
Notte’s pricing page sets its usage rates: browser sessions at $0.01 an hour, browser functions at $0.05 an hour, residential proxies at $10 per GB, and LLM tokens at “Token price” with “No Notte markup.” A founder reply on 31 August quoted top-ups at “$0.05/browser hour,” so “$10 gets you 200 additional browser hours.”
Run those rates against the cards. At $0.01 an hour, 100 browser hours a month is $1 of browsing. At the $0.05 top-up rate, it’s $5. That’s what the recurring part of every tier is worth in Notte’s own money.
The costs that grow fast are elsewhere. A Tier 2 buyer posted their 30-day usage on 9 September: browsing $3.60 across 782 sessions and 150 hours, LLM $28.07, proxy $27.52, total $59.20. They wrote that they’d “have to refund” because they couldn’t “set any caps, nor predict expenditure.” In practice, LLM tokens and proxy bandwidth are the bill, and the browser hours are a rounding error.
Worked examples with the published rates
A nightly price check without proxies. Say a function visits 30 product pages a night and the runs total about 3 browser hours a month. That fits inside 100 hours with room to spare, and a September reviewer said the deal lets you “run browsers completely free if you don’t use proxies.” If the function was built once and later runs skip the LLM, Tier 1 could carry this for a long time.
The same job behind residential proxies. Suppose each night’s run pulls 50 MB through Notte’s proxies. That’s about 1.5 GB a month, which is $15 at $10 per GB, every month, from credits rather than hours. Tier 1 has $0 of LLM credits and the cards don’t print a monthly dollar credit, so you’d be topping up or bringing your own proxy.
An agent that reasons on every run. If an AI agent decides each step, every run spends LLM tokens. The buyer above spent $28.07 on LLM in a month. On Tier 2, that would use the $100 one-time credit in under four months; on Tier 3, the $300 lasts under a year at that rate.
The bonus banks, priced. Tier 2’s 8,000 one-time hours are $80 of browsing at the $0.01 session rate, or $400 at the $0.05 top-up rate. Tier 3’s 24,000 hours are $240 or $1,200 on the same two rates. They never expire, per the founders, so they suit bursty scraping more than steady daily use.
Don’t forget that the 100 monthly hours don’t stack across codes: the terms say “No codes, no stacking,” and a founder confirmed that “buying extra tier 1 codes won’t add usage to your account.”
| Plan | Price |
|---|---|
| License Tier 1 Developers with their own OpenRouter key |
$69 once |
| License Tier 2 Building functions with the Anything API |
$159 once |
| License Tier 3 Agencies running many sessions |
$379 once |
One-time prices on AppSumo, read 29 October 2026; no stacking, upgrades only until the deal ends on 5 November 2026. Notte's own site lists Free ($10 credits once), Developer $20 a month and Startup $100 a month with matching monthly credits, and usage at $0.01 per browser-session hour, $0.05 per function hour, $10 per GB of residential proxy and LLM tokens at cost.
Prices checked Oct 29, 2026 on Notte’s own pricing page. Lifetime deals are listings that can end or change, so check the live listing before you buy.
The three tiers
| AppSumo tier | Price (29 Oct 2026) | LLM credits | Hours a month | One-time hours | Concurrency |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| License Tier 1 | $69 once | $0 | 100 | 0 | 25 |
| License Tier 2 | $159 once | $100 | 100 | 8,000 | 50 |
| License Tier 3 | $379 once | $300 | 100 | 24,000 | 100 |
Every card ticks “BYO key” and “BYO proxy.” The listing shows Tier 1 at $69 against a struck-through $240, labelled “-71%,” and its plan data lists $480 and $960 as the original prices for Tiers 2 and 3. Those are the listing’s figures, not savings we’d count on. Tiers 2 and 3 were added later: the founder’s post updated on 18 August 2026 says “Notte just went from one tier to three.”
Picking a tier
Tier 1 at $69 suits a developer with their own OpenRouter key who mostly runs scripted functions. If you’ve already got an OpenRouter account, this is the tier we’d look at first. You get 25 concurrent browsers and 100 hours a month, and you pay LLM and proxy costs yourself.
Tier 2 at $159 adds $100 of LLM credits, an 8,000-hour bank and 50 concurrent browsers. It’s the tier for someone who’ll lean on the Anything API to build functions and wants a starting balance for it.
Tier 3 at $379 suits an agency running many sessions at once. A 7 October reviewer on Tier 3 said their “monthly spend is close to zero” against what they paid before for daily real-estate listing checks. Most people won’t need 100 browsers at once; if you’ve got a single workflow, skip the top tier.
The deal vs Notte’s own plans
Notte’s own pricing page, read on 29 October 2026:
| Notte’s own plan | Price | Credits | Browser concurrency | Session length | BYO keys and proxy |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | $10 once, no expiry | 5 | 15 min | No |
| Developer | $20 a month | $20 a month, expire each cycle | 25 | 120 min | No |
| Startup | $100 a month | $100 a month, expire each cycle | 100 | 300 min | Yes, BYO proxy $0.20 per GB |
| Enterprise | Custom | Custom | Custom | Custom | Keys, proxies, cloud |
The deal terms promise “All future Developer Plan updates.” Tier 1’s concurrency of 25 matches Developer. But two things on the AppSumo cards go beyond the Developer plan as Notte prints it: Tiers 2 and 3 offer 50 and 100 concurrent browsers, and every tier ticks BYO key and BYO proxy, which Notte’s table marks “No” for Developer and “Yes” only from Startup. A buyer asked on 29 September whether Tier 3 “permanently” includes Startup-level features; we found no answer on the listing.
The simple sums: $69 is about three and a half months of Developer, $159 is about eight months, and $379 is under four months of Startup. Those comparisons only hold if the AppSumo tiers carry a matching monthly credit, which is exactly the point the founders’ answers disagree on.
BYO key: included, but check how
BYO key has the longest trail of complaints. On 18 May 2026 a one-taco reviewer said the ticked feature wasn’t shipped for AppSumo buyers. The founder, Sam, replied that “this is a console bug, not a missing feature.” A later answer said BYOK “shipped on May 18.”
Two limits came out afterwards. First, BYOK means an OpenRouter key: “we do require an OpenRouter key to enable it,” per an answer on 31 August. Second, on 17 September Lucas said direct custom router support “isn’t on our roadmap and probably won’t be in the near future.” Then on 28 October a Tier 2 buyer wrote that they couldn’t find BYO key or BYO proxy settings anywhere in the console. That question had no reply when we read the page. If you’ve bought a tier mainly to bring your own proxy, don’t trust the tick alone: find the setting in your first week, while the refund is still easy.
What buyers report
The listing shows 3.8 from 25 ratings: 16 five-taco, 1 four, 1 three, 1 two and 6 one. The split is wide, and the dates tell a story.
The launch was rough. Most one-taco reviews come from May and June 2026. A 13 June reviewer said building two simple functions “burned through the entire tier subscription.” A 26 June reviewer couldn’t log in because the magic link never arrived, and said emails to support went unanswered; a founder replied on 6 July. A 7 June two-taco review from a developer of 20 years described sessions timing out and logins not persisting.
Recent reviews are warmer. A 16 September review from a California attorney said Notte pulled data from a court-docket site where UiPath and Octoparse failed, and that the CEO joined the call. The 7 October Tier 3 reviewer moved from Browser Use Cloud because bandwidth there “added up fast.” Their one ask: “stay in business.”
Replies can be slow. Several May and June questions got their first answer on 24 August, with apologies like “sorry for the slow reply here.” The listing says the team is “Expected to respond within 24 hours.” Founders point buyers to a Slack community as the fastest channel.
Hidden code is by design. A June buyer found that after AI optimisation, a function’s code was hidden in the console. The answer: “that’s not a bug, it’s how AI-optimized functions work by design.” Edits go through the Anything API agent instead.
Top-up minimum dropped. A buyer complained in June about a $100 minimum top-up. The August reply says “We’ve since added a $10 topup option.”
The terms
The deal terms read:
- “Lifetime access to Notte.”
- “All future Developer Plan updates.”
- “If Plan name changes, deal will be mapped to the new Plan name with all accompanying updates.”
- “No codes, no stacking—just choose the plan that’s right for you.”
- “You must activate your license within 60 days of purchase.”
- “Ability to upgrade between 3 license tiers while the deal is available.”
- “Ability to downgrade between 3 license tiers within 60 days of purchase.”
The listing says “Refundable up to 60 days” and “Plus members are covered by our We Got Your Back guarantee.” The countdown says the deal ends on 5 November 2026, so upgrades between tiers are only possible until then.
Notte vs Browse AI and UiPath
The listing names Browse AI and UiPath as alternatives. We didn’t price either for this review. The difference the pages make clear is the audience: Notte’s listing, FAQ and SDK examples are written for developers, and several reviewers call the learning curve steep, while the attorney above said UiPath couldn’t reach the site Notte handled. Buyers also mention Browser Use Cloud and Browserbase as tools they moved from; we didn’t read those vendors’ pages, so we make no claims about their prices or limits.
Common mistakes with the Notte deal
Reading the bonus hours as monthly. They’re one-time. Only the 100 hours a month recur, per the founders.
Ignoring proxy and LLM costs. They come out of credits, not hours. One buyer’s month was $3.60 of browsing and $55.59 of LLM and proxy.
Buying Tier 1 for the Anything API. It has $0 of LLM credits. When you want the agent to build functions, you’ll need your own OpenRouter key or a top-up.
Expecting any LLM key to work. BYOK runs through OpenRouter only.
Planning to stack codes. You can’t. Upgrade tiers before 5 November instead, and don’t forget that downgrades are only allowed within 60 days of purchase.
Skipping the Firefox detail. CAPTCHA solving needs browser_type='firefox', per the listing’s FAQ. When you build on Chromium first, you may have to redo the work.
Who Notte suits
A developer replacing a self-hosted headless browser. Tier 1 with your own OpenRouter key, for scripted jobs.
An AI agency building scrapers for clients. Tier 2 or 3, for concurrency and the one-time banks.
Someone automating a site with no API. A vacation-rental reviewer in May built a guest-form-to-cleaner-task flow “in a few hours.”
A non-coder who wants a visual scraper. Skip the deal; the listing is pitched at developers, and in practice the reviews that went well mostly came from people who already write code.
How to test it inside the refund window
- Ask support in writing whether your tier gets a monthly dollar credit, and how much.
- Find BYO key and BYO proxy in the console on day one, and connect your OpenRouter key.
- Build one real function against your hardest target site, with proxies on, and read the usage screen after a week.
- Check session persistence on a site that needs a login, using session profiles or a vault.
- Work out your monthly bill from the usage screen before day 60, and upgrade before 5 November if you need to.
What we couldn’t check
We didn’t run sessions, build functions or measure success rates. We couldn’t settle whether AppSumo tiers carry a monthly dollar credit, since founder answers in August and September differ. We couldn’t confirm the session length, vault and persona limits on AppSumo tiers, which the cards don’t state, or whether Tier 3 includes Startup-plan features. The 28 October BYO settings question was unanswered when we read it.
FAQ: Notte questions
Is Notte a one-time payment on AppSumo?
Yes. License Tier 1 is $69, Tier 2 is $159 and Tier 3 is $379, once, read on 29 October 2026. The countdown runs to 5 November 2026.
Do Notte’s browser hours renew every month?
The 100 browser hours a month renew, per a founder answer on 24 August 2026. The 8,000 and 24,000 bonus hours and the LLM credits are one-time.
Does the Notte deal include bring your own key?
Every card ticks BYO key and BYO proxy. The founders say BYOK requires an OpenRouter key, and a buyer reported on 28 October that they couldn’t find the settings.
Is the Notte deal refundable?
Yes, up to 60 days. The listing says Plus members are covered by AppSumo’s We Got Your Back guarantee.
The verdict
Notte packs a lot into one developer platform: stealth browsers, CAPTCHA solving, vaults, recording and serverless functions. The recent reviews from people running real scrapers are good. But the deal is harder to judge than its cards suggest, because the recurring part is 100 browser hours, worth a few dollars at Notte’s own rates, while the real costs sit in LLM tokens and proxy bandwidth. Get a written answer on monthly credits and test BYO key on day one. Buy Tier 1 if you bring your own keys, and only go higher if the one-time banks fit how you work.
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