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Notte vs Tilion for browsers inside a multi-user app

Your application opens browsers on behalf of different customers, each with separate website accounts. Compare Notte and Tilion on the mechanism this job needs, the work that would move and a specific acceptance case.

The workflow decision

For browsers inside a multi-user app, the useful comparison is whether Notte or Tilion can meet the following outcome: Each browser returns its own expected tenant identity, including after saved state is restored in a later session.

Tenant identity and stored browser state must follow the application user. Browser concurrency is shared capacity; it is not authorization to share one user's profile with another.

A proposed acceptance case

Two application users connect accounts on the same website. Their tasks run in parallel and must return results from the correct account every time.

This is an evaluation design, not a claim that this workflow has been executed successfully on every provider.

Part of the testRequired observation
Controlled inputTwo authorized test accounts with visibly different tenant identifiers and separate application users.
Pass conditionEach browser returns its own expected tenant identity, including after saved state is restored in a later session.
Negative caseDeliberately supply the other user's connection reference in a controlled test. The application must reject the mismatch before taking an account-changing action.
Evidence to retainApplication user ID, expected tenant, provider resource references and verified tenant, without credential values.

Documented mechanisms, side by side

These labels describe product mechanisms. The linked source and the acceptance case determine whether a mechanism meets this workflow's requirement.

RequirementNotteTilion
Saved browser stateDocumentedNot established
Credential handlingDocumentedNot established
Website sign-inDocumentedNot established

Sources: docs.notte.cc [1] ↗docs.notte.cc [2] ↗tilion.com [3] ↗

Website login

Notte: Vaults substitute credential placeholders in supported browser actions outside the model context. Managed Auth checks requested saved connections before automation. Personas supply an inbox and optional phone number for verification workflows.

Tilion: The reviewed public material does not establish managed website authentication, credential fill or verification handling. Treat those as open requirements to validate with the provider, not as absent features.

Sources: docs.notte.cc [1] ↗tilion.com [2] ↗

What survives a session

Notte: Profiles save cookies, local storage and session storage. Sessions start with fresh state by default. Persisting a profile writes state back when the session ends; a running session can also save its state explicitly.

Tilion: The reviewed public homepage does not establish profile save/restore behavior. Ask for a documented state contract and test the same signed-in workflow across two separate sessions before relying on persistence.

Sources: docs.notte.cc [1] ↗tilion.com [2] ↗

Pricing model

Notte: The public usage rates are $0.01 per browser-hour, $0.05 per Function-hour and $10 per GB of managed proxy traffic. Paid plans return their price as usage credits. Price the relevant meters and plan eligibility for the workload.

Tilion: Arena provides an estimated usage rate for its test. The reviewed public homepage does not establish a self-serve production plan, allowances or overage terms. Obtain those terms before quoting a monthly bill.

Sources: notte.cc [1] ↗tilion.com [2] ↗

What should change the choice?

Notte's profiles, vaults and managed connections are relevant when account resources need to follow an application user. Your own application still has to enforce the user-to-resource mapping.

Tilion: The reviewed Tilion homepage offers a waitlist and contact route. Arena's tested integration is useful evidence about a run, but a purchasing or migration decision still needs a documented access, state and execution contract; those unknowns must remain visible beside Notte's public docs.

Retain the current integration if its account isolation is already verified and the proposed replacement does not simplify a concrete ownership problem. A different profile object name is not an isolation improvement.

Sources: docs.notte.cc [1] ↗docs.notte.cc [2] ↗notte.cc [3] ↗tilion.com [4] ↗

The cost boundary

Use the same attempted work and eligible account capacity in both estimates. The browser-hour rate does not include every proxy, execution or identity meter, and the cost of an incomplete job is still part of the workflow budget.

The workload evidence should include: Application user ID, expected tenant, provider resource references and verified tenant, without credential values.

Sources: notte.cc [1] ↗tilion.com [2] ↗

Make a bounded pilot

Start two users' workflows in parallel and verify the account identity, connection ownership and resulting artifacts independently.

Use the same authorized account, input and final-state check in each configuration. Treat a missing product contract as an open question; do not turn an undocumented capability into an unsupported claim or a successful test result.

  • Inventory user-to-profile and user-to-connection mappings without copying secret values into the inventory.
  • Establish target resources separately for each test user.
  • Compare tenant identity after parallel runs and a later restored session before expanding the canary.

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