The best steel-browser alternatives

stagehand

browserbase/stagehand

The SDK to extract data and interact with any site on the web. Get started with Claude Code, Codex, Eve, Mastra, and more.

Choose stagehand if…

• MIT License suits your use better than Apache License 2.0
• you want the more widely starred option (26.0k)
• you specifically need agents or browser-agent

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

page-agent

alibaba/page-agent

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

Choose page-agent if…

• MIT License suits your use better than Apache License 2.0
• you want the more widely starred option (29.7k)
• you specifically need agent or javascript

Shares ai, ai-agents, browser-automation, mcp with steel-browser.

nanobrowser

nanobrowser/nanobrowser

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

Choose nanobrowser if…

• you want something your agent can install directly rather than a library to wire up yourself
• you want the more widely starred option (14.3k)
• you specifically need agent or automation

Shares ai-agents, ai-tools, browser-automation, browser-use with steel-browser.

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
• you want the more widely starred option (87.3k)
• you specifically need crawl4ai-cloud or crawler

Shares ai, ai-agents, llm, mcp with steel-browser.

OpenCLI

jackwener/OpenCLI

Make Any Website into CLI & Use your logged-in browser by AI agent.

Choose OpenCLI if…

• you would rather work in JavaScript than TypeScript
• you want the more widely starred option (31.0k)
• you specifically need ai-agent or cli

Shares ai-agents, ai-tools, browser-automation, browser-use with steel-browser.

voltagent

VoltAgent/voltagent

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

Choose voltagent if…

• MIT License suits your use better than Apache License 2.0
• you specifically need agents or ai-agents-framework

Shares ai, ai-agents, llm, mcp with steel-browser.

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 Apache License 2.0
• you want the more widely starred option (201.3k)
• you specifically need ai-crawler or ai-scraping

Shares ai, ai-agents, llm with steel-browser.

browser-use

browser-use/browser-use

Agents that use the browser.

Choose browser-use if…

• you would rather work in Python than TypeScript
• MIT License suits your use better than Apache License 2.0
• you want the more widely starred option (120.8k)
• you specifically need llm or playwright

Shares ai-agents, ai-tools, browser-automation, browser-use with steel-browser.

paperclip

paperclipai/paperclip

The open-source app everyone uses to manage agents at work

Choose paperclip if…

• MIT License suits your use better than Apache License 2.0
• you want something your agent can install directly rather than a library to wire up yourself
• you want the more widely starred option (113.4k)
• you specifically need acpx or agent-orchestration

Shares ai-agents, ai-tools, llm, mcp with steel-browser.

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…

• MIT License suits your use better than Apache License 2.0
• you want something your agent can install directly rather than a library to wire up yourself
• you want the more widely starred option (31.1k)
• you specifically need agentic-ai or agents

Shares ai, ai-agents, llm, mcp with steel-browser.

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
• you want the more widely starred option (23.5k)
• you specifically need browser or cloud-browser

Shares ai-agents, ai-tools, browser-automation, headless-browser with steel-browser.

browser-harness

browser-use/browser-harness

Browser Harness | Self-healing harness that enables LLMs to complete any task.

Choose browser-harness if…

• you would rather work in Python than TypeScript
• MIT License suits your use better than Apache License 2.0
• you want the more widely starred option (19.0k)
• you specifically need ai-agent or browser-agent

Shares browser-automation, browser-use, llm, playwright with steel-browser.