Best Open-Source Browser Automation Agents (2026)
Open-source browser automation, web-scraping and computer-use agents with public GitHub repositories that you can inspect, self-host or run locally. Below are the top 25 of 53 matching tools in the AgentScout directory, ranked.
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How we ranked: Ranked by GitHub stars as recorded on each AgentScout listing (link checks 2026-10-25). Tools without a tracked public repo come after, in alphabetical order. Stars measure developer popularity, not quality or fit for your job, so read each listing before you choose. No paid placements.
Quick answer: the top picks on this list, ranked by GitHub stars and listing maturity, are Browser Use, Scrapling and Crawl4AI, out of 25 tools listed below. At a glance: 25 open-source, 25 free or freemium and 22 local or self-hosted across 25 link-checked tools (last verified ).
Verified on : every tool link on this page was checked by our daily link check. No paid placements.
Ranked comparison (top 10)
| # | Tool | Pricing | Best for | Open source | Runs locally | GitHub stars |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Browser Use | Open source + cloud | automate the browser | Yes | Self-hosted | 117,912 |
| 2 |  Scrapling | Open source | automate the browser, build an agent | Yes | Self-hosted | 88,372 |
| 3 |  Crawl4AI | Open source | automate the browser, research the web | Yes | Self-hosted | 85,667 |
| 4 |  Chrome DevTools MCP | Open source | write code, automate the browser | Yes | Self-hosted | 53,681 |
| 5 |  UI-TARS-desktop | Open source | automate the browser, control a computer | Yes | Self-hosted | 39,297 |
| 6 |  Playwright MCP | Open source | automate the browser, connect tools via MCP | Yes | Self-hosted | 38,115 |
| 7 |  Lightpanda | Open source + cloud | automate the browser, automate workflows | Yes | Self-hosted | 36,657 |
| 8 |  CloakBrowser | Open source | automate the browser | Yes | Self-hosted | 32,280 |
| 9 |  ScrapeGraphAI | Open source + cloud | automate the browser, build an agent | Yes | Self-hosted | 31,882 |
| 10 |  OpenCLI | Open source | automate the browser, research the web | Yes | Self-hosted | 30,335 |
1. Browser Use
Library that lets AI agents control a web browser.
Pricing (as stated): Open source + paid cloud · Mature
2. Scrapling
Python web-scraping framework with fast HTTP requests, stealth browsers, adaptive parsing and concurrent crawling, plus an MCP server for agents.
Pricing (as stated): Open source · Mature
3. Crawl4AI
Open-source crawler that turns websites into clean, LLM-ready Markdown for agents and RAG pipelines.
Pricing (as stated): Open source · Mature
4. Chrome DevTools MCP
Official MCP server that lets coding agents control and inspect a live Chrome browser through DevTools for debugging and performance work.
Pricing (as stated): Open source · Mature
5. UI-TARS-desktop
ByteDance's open-source multimodal agent stack, including a desktop app and Agent TARS for controlling computers and browsers.
Pricing (as stated): Open source · Mature
6. Playwright MCP
Microsoft's MCP server giving agents browser control via Playwright.
Pricing (as stated): Open source · Mature
7. Lightpanda
Headless browser written from scratch in Zig for AI agents and automation, built for speed and low memory rather than forked from Chromium.
Pricing (as stated): Open source + cloud · Mature
8. CloakBrowser
Chromium build with source-level fingerprint patches, used as a drop-in Playwright or Puppeteer replacement for agent browsing.
Pricing (as stated): Open source · Mature
9. ScrapeGraphAI
Python library that uses LLMs and graph logic to build scraping pipelines: describe the data you want and it extracts it from websites or documents.
Pricing (as stated): Open source + cloud · Mature
10. OpenCLI
Turns websites into CLI commands and lets agents use your logged-in browser.
Pricing (as stated): Open source · Mature
11. Cua
Open-source infrastructure for computer-use agents: sandboxes, drivers across operating systems and benchmarks.
Pricing (as stated): Open source + cloud · Mature
12. Page Agent
JavaScript in-page agent that controls web interfaces from natural language instructions.
Pricing (as stated): Open source · Mature
13. Stagehand
Browser automation framework mixing code with natural-language actions.
Pricing (as stated): Open source · Mature
14. Moli
Lightweight Rust headless browser for AI agents that fetches pages, searches and extracts content, usable via CLI, CDP or WebDriver.
Pricing (as stated): Open source · Mature
15. Browser Harness
Agent skill from the Browser Use team that lets Claude Code, Codex or Cursor drive your own logged-in Chrome to click, type, read pages and download files.
Pricing (as stated): Open source · Mature
16. Maxun
Turns websites into structured APIs with no-code robots for extraction and monitoring.
Pricing (as stated): Open source + cloud · Mature
17. Browser Use Web UI
Gradio web interface for the Browser Use agent that runs AI browser automation tasks with many LLM providers and your own browser.
Pricing (as stated): Open source · Mature
18. Midscene.js
Vision-driven UI automation and E2E testing framework where a GUI agent carries out natural-language steps on web, mobile and desktop apps.
Pricing (as stated): Open source · Mature
19. Nanobrowser
Open-source Chrome extension agent that automates web tasks in your own browser.
Pricing (as stated): Open source · Mature
20. BrowserOS
Open-source agentic browser that runs AI agents locally.
Pricing (as stated): Open source · Mature
21. Agent-S
Open agentic framework that uses computers like a human through the GUI.
Pricing (as stated): Open source · Mature
22. Google ARTEMIS
Google's tool that turns natural-language instructions into Android automation.
Pricing (as stated): Open source · Mature
23. RobotGo
Go library for cross-platform desktop automation and AI computer use that controls mouse, keyboard, screen, windows and processes.
Pricing (as stated): Open source · Mature
24. Magentic-UI
Microsoft Research's experimental human-in-the-loop agent that works across the browser and local files.
Pricing (as stated): Open source · Mature
25. UFO
Microsoft's desktop agent framework that operates Windows apps and orchestrates multi-device tasks as task graphs.
Pricing (as stated): Open source · Mature
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Facts come from our directory listings; pricing is as each maker states it and GitHub stars are as recorded on each listing. Check official sites before you choose.