Alternatives to browser-use
browser-use is an agent skill by browser-use: Direct browser control via CDP for web interaction: automation, scraping, testing, screenshots, and site/app work. If it doesn't fit your setup, these 12 agent skills cover similar ground. They are ordered by how closely they match browser-use and by our rank, which weighs adoption, freshness and documentation; money never changes the order. cloud leads the list (repository has 119K stars; active in the last 30 days). 2 of them are published by the company behind the product. Each entry shows data reasons to switch, and you can open a side-by-side comparison with browser-use.
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browser-use
Direct browser control via CDP for web interaction: automation, scraping, testing, screenshots, and site/app work.
12 alternatives
Ordered by how closely each matches browser-use (shared product, category or stated alternative) and by rank.
- 1cloud
browser-use
Documentation reference for using Browser Use Cloud — the hosted API and SDK for browser automation.
- Repository has 119K stars
- Active in the last 30 days
★ 119KLast active Oct 17, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 2e2e-cucumber-playwright
langgenius
Use when writing, changing, or reviewing Cucumber and Playwright tests under `e2e/`, including feature files, step definitions, support code, scenario tags…
- Largest repository here (159,418 stars)
- Active in the last 30 days
★ 159.4KLast active Oct 23, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 3playwright-cli
VoltAgent
Automates browser interactions for web testing, form filling, screenshots, and data extraction.
- Repository has 10.9K stars
- Active in the last 30 days
★ 10.9KLast active Sep 28, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 4playwright-validation
open-metadata
Use when validating UI changes in a branch require Playwright E2E testing.
- Repository has 15.6K stars
- Active in the last 30 days
★ 15.6KLast active Oct 21, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 5playwright-test
open-metadata
Generate robust, zero-flakiness Playwright E2E tests following OpenMetadata patterns.
- Repository has 15.6K stars
- Active in the last 30 days
★ 15.6KLast active Oct 21, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 6sitemap-audit
nowork-studio
XML sitemap audit — find and fix the sitemap problems that quietly waste crawl budget and slow indexing.
- Repository has 4.1K stars
- Active in the last 30 days
★ 4.1KLast active Oct 9, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 7playwright-recording
digitalsamba
Record browser interactions as video using Playwright.
- Repository has 2.3K stars
- Active in the last 30 days
★ 2.3KLast active Oct 21, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 8browser-harness
davidondrej
Direct browser control via CDP.
- Repository has 4.2K stars
- Active in the last 30 days
★ 4.2KLast active Oct 18, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 9agentic-test-creation
trezor
Discovery-first workflow for writing a new Playwright e2e test from a user story, feature description or bug report.
- Repository has 1.1K stars
- Active in the last 30 days
★ 1.1KLast active Oct 21, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 10webapp-testing
snykOfficial
Toolkit for interacting with and testing local web applications using Playwright.
- Published by the vendor
- Supports Python
★ 3.2KLast active Oct 20, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 11slack
vercel-labsOfficial
Interact with Slack workspaces using browser automation.
- Published by the vendor
★ 44.5KLast active Oct 22, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 12dev-browser
SawyerHood
Browser automation with persistent named pages via the dev-browser CLI.
- Repository has 6.7K stars
- Open source (MIT)
★ 6.7KLast active Sep 4, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
BFreshness: B–Security: not graded yet
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