The best stagehand alternatives

firecrawl

firecrawl/firecrawl

The context API to search, scrape, and interact with the web at scale. 🔥

Choose firecrawl if…

• GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 suits your use better than MIT License
• you want the more widely starred option (201.3k)
• you specifically need ai-crawler or ai-scraping

Shares ai, ai-agents, data-extraction, web-scraping with stagehand.

maxun

getmaxun/maxun

Turn any website into a structured API. Extract, automate, search and monitor the web.

Choose maxun if…

• GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 suits your use better than MIT License
• you specifically need api or automation

Shares agents, browser-automation, data-extraction, playwright with stagehand.

steel-browser

steel-dev/steel-browser

🔥 Open Source Browser API for AI Agents & Apps. Steel Browser is a batteries-included browser sandbox that lets you automate the web without worrying about infrastructure.

Choose steel-browser if…

• Apache License 2.0 suits your use better than MIT License
• you prefer a smaller, narrower project to a large one
• you specifically need ai-tools or browser-use

Shares ai, ai-agents, browser-automation, playwright with stagehand.

page-agent

alibaba/page-agent

JavaScript in-page GUI agent. Control web interfaces with natural language.

Choose page-agent if…

• you specifically need agent or javascript

Shares ai, ai-agents, browser-automation, typescript with stagehand.

nanobrowser

nanobrowser/nanobrowser

Open-source AI agent for web automation. Use your real, logged-in browser to automate daily tasks.

Choose nanobrowser if…

• Apache License 2.0 suits your use better than MIT License
• you want something your agent can install directly rather than a library to wire up yourself
• you specifically need agent or ai-tools

Shares ai-agents, browser-agent, browser-automation, cdp with stagehand.

crawl4ai

unclecode/crawl4ai

Official Crawl4AI Cloud: a hosted web scraping, extraction, and search API for AI agents. Free API key, 1,000 credits a month, no card. Fully open source: this repo is the Apache-2.0 crawler that powers it, and you can self-host it.

Choose crawl4ai if…

• you would rather work in Python than TypeScript
• Apache License 2.0 suits your use better than MIT License
• you want the more widely starred option (87.3k)
• you specifically need crawl4ai-cloud or crawler

Shares ai, ai-agents, data-extraction, playwright with stagehand.

voltagent

VoltAgent/voltagent

AI Agent Engineering Platform built on an Open Source TypeScript AI Agent Framework

Choose voltagent if…

• you prefer a smaller, narrower project to a large one
• you specifically need ai-agents-framework or aiagentframework

Shares agents, ai, ai-agents, typescript with stagehand.

agent-native

BuilderIO/agent-native

A framework for building agentic apps

Choose agent-native if…

• you prefer a smaller, narrower project to a large one
• you specifically need agent-framework or agent-native

Shares agents, ai, ai-agents, typescript with stagehand.

browser-use

browser-use/browser-use

Agents that use the browser.

Choose browser-use if…

• you would rather work in Python than TypeScript
• you want the more widely starred option (120.8k)
• you specifically need ai-tools or browser-use

Shares ai-agents, browser-automation, playwright, python with stagehand.

ai-website-cloner-template

JCodesMore/ai-website-cloner-template

Clone any website with one command using AI coding agents

Choose ai-website-cloner-template if…

• you would rather work in JavaScript than TypeScript
• you want something your agent can install directly rather than a library to wire up yourself
• you want the more widely starred option (39.1k)
• you specifically need ai-tools or automation

Shares ai, ai-agents, typescript, web-scraping with stagehand.

composio

ComposioHQ/composio

Composio powers 1000+ toolkits, tool search, context management, authentication, and a sandboxed workbench to help you build AI agents that turn intent into action.

Choose composio if…

• you want something your agent can install directly rather than a library to wire up yourself
• you specifically need agentic-ai or aiagents

Shares agents, ai, ai-agents, python with stagehand.

moli

lexmount/moli

Best headless browser for AI agents. Lite, Fast, High-Compatibility. Built in Rust

Choose moli if…

• you would rather work in Rust than TypeScript
• Apache License 2.0 suits your use better than MIT License
• you specifically need ai-tools or browser

Shares ai-agents, browser-automation, cloud-browser, playwright with stagehand.