Browsers & Computer Use
9 browsers & computer use tools you can use instead of Browserless, 4 of them open source. Summaries come from each vendor's own site. Links checked Oct 29, 2026.
Cloud browser automation platform: connect Puppeteer, Playwright or Selenium to managed headless browsers, or use BrowserQL, REST APIs and an MCP server for scraping, screenshots, PDFs and AI-driven browsing. Self-hosting available, with a paid license for commercial use.
At a glance
| Tool | What it does | Open source | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anchor Browser | Infrastructure for computer-use agents that automate web tasks at scale. | No | Browserless vs Anchor Browser |
| Browser Use | Open-source browser agent library plus hosted remote browsers for AI agents. | Yes | Browserless vs Browser Use |
| Browserbase | Hosted headless browsers for agents, with session control and an MCP server. | No | Browserless vs Browserbase |
| Hyperbrowser | Cloud Chrome sessions, isolated sandboxes, and web data APIs for agents. | No | Browserless vs Hyperbrowser |
| Kernel | Browser infrastructure for web agents with reusable sessions and fast spin-up. | No | Browserless vs Kernel |
| Lightpanda | Open-source headless browser written from scratch in Zig for automation, crawling and AI agents: runs JavaScript without graphical rendering, works with Puppeteer and Playwright over CDP, with a hosted cloud option. | Yes | Browserless vs Lightpanda |
| Pickle Browser | Local browser that opens real pages for agents, shows its work on your machine, and needs no account. | No | Browserless vs Pickle Browser |
| Stagehand | SDK for browser agents with a Playwright-style API and self-healing selectors. | Yes | Not compared yet |
| Steel | Open-source browser API for running fleets of cloud browsers for agents. | Yes | Not compared yet |
Browsers & Computer Use
Infrastructure for computer-use agents that automate web tasks at scale.
Open-source browser agent library plus hosted remote browsers for AI agents.
Hosted headless browsers for agents, with session control and an MCP server.
Cloud Chrome sessions, isolated sandboxes, and web data APIs for agents.
Browser infrastructure for web agents with reusable sessions and fast spin-up.
Open-source headless browser written from scratch in Zig for automation, crawling and AI agents: runs JavaScript without graphical rendering, works with Puppeteer and Playwright over CDP, with a hosted cloud option.
Local browser that opens real pages for agents, shows its work on your machine, and needs no account.
SDK for browser agents with a Playwright-style API and self-healing selectors.
Open-source browser API for running fleets of cloud browsers for agents.
FAQ
Agent Stack Directory lists 9 other browsers & computer use tools: Anchor Browser, Browser Use, Browserbase, Hyperbrowser, Kernel, Lightpanda, Pickle Browser, Stagehand, Steel.
Yes. Among the alternatives we list, these are marked open source: Browser Use, Lightpanda, Stagehand, Steel.
Cloud browser automation platform: connect Puppeteer, Playwright or Selenium to managed headless browsers, or use BrowserQL, REST APIs and an MCP server for scraping, screenshots, PDFs and AI-driven browsing. Self-hosting available, with a paid license for commercial use. (Summary based on browserless.io, link checked 2026-10-29.)