Alternatives to stagehand
stagehand is an agent framework by browserbase: SDK for browser agents with act, observe and extract calls, used from TypeScript and Python to automate sites and pull out structured data. If it doesn't fit your setup, these 12 agent frameworks cover similar ground. They are ordered by how closely they match stagehand and by our rank, which weighs adoption, freshness and documentation; money never changes the order. Pi Agent Core leads the list (more GitHub stars (117.6K)). Each entry shows data reasons to switch, and you can open a side-by-side comparison with stagehand.
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stagehand
SDK for browser agents with act, observe and extract calls, used from TypeScript and Python to automate sites and pull out structured data.
12 alternatives
Ordered by how closely each matches stagehand (shared product, category or stated alternative) and by rank.
- 1Pi Agent Core
Earendil
Minimal TypeScript agent harness with an agent runtime, multi-provider LLM API, terminal UI and coding agent CLI that users extend themselves.
- More GitHub stars (117.6K)
★ 117.6K↓ 5.1M/wkLast active Oct 24, 2026Compare →
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 2LlamaIndex
LlamaIndex
Open-source Python toolkit for RAG and agents over your own data, with event-driven workflows and 300+ integration packages.
- More GitHub stars (52.6K)
★ 52.6K↓ 1.4M/wkLast active Oct 14, 2026Compare →
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 3CopilotKit
CopilotKit
Open-source SDK that connects AI agents to app front ends with chat UI, generative UI, shared state and human approvals; creator of the AG-UI protocol.
- 38.2K GitHub stars
- Active in the last 30 days
★ 38.2K↓ 286.2K/wkLast active Oct 24, 2026Compare →
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 4ADK for Go
Google
Code-first Go toolkit for building agents with a tool ecosystem, composable multi-agent systems and Cloud Run deployment.
- 8.9K GitHub stars
- Active in the last 30 days
★ 8.9KLast active Oct 23, 2026
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 5LangChain
LangChain
Python framework of interoperable components and integrations for building agents and LLM apps, with LangGraph and Deep Agents layered above it.
- More GitHub stars (148.4K)
★ 148.4K↓ 37.3M/wkLast active Oct 24, 2026Compare →
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 6CrewAI
CrewAI
Open-source Python framework for multi-agent workflows, with role-based Crews and event-driven Flows.
- More GitHub stars (60.1K)
★ 60.1K↓ 644.6K/wkLast active Oct 24, 2026Compare →
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 7Vercel AI SDK
Vercel
TypeScript toolkit for AI apps and agents with a unified provider API, streaming, UI hooks and a wrapper for running established agent harnesses.
- 27.5K GitHub stars
- Active in the last 30 days
★ 27.5KLast active Oct 23, 2026
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 8LangChainGo
LangChainGo
Go implementation of LangChain for writing LLM-based programs from composable building blocks.
- 9.7K GitHub stars
- Active in the last 30 days
★ 9.7KLast active Oct 22, 2026
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 9AutoGen
Microsoft
Archived Microsoft Python framework for multi-agent apps; Microsoft directs new users to Microsoft Agent Framework.
- More GitHub stars (61.5K)
★ 61.5K↓ 89K/wkLast active Oct 16, 2026Compare →
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 10blades
go-kratos
Go framework for multimodal AI agents with models, tools, memory, middleware, chains and structured output.
- Open source (MIT)
- For Go
★ 819Last active May 7, 2026
CFreshness: C–Security: not graded yet - 11
Open-source Python and TypeScript SDK for model-driven agents, with tools, MCP, multi-agent patterns and streaming.
- 8.9K GitHub stars
- Active in the last 30 days
★ 8.9K↓ 8.9M/wkLast active Oct 24, 2026
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 12GitHub Copilot SDK
GitHub
Multi-language SDKs for embedding the GitHub Copilot agent runtime, with planning, tool calls and file edits, in your apps.
- Supports C# and Java
★ 10.6K↓ 1.2M/wkLast active Oct 24, 2026
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet
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