Best alternatives to Browser Use in 2026

Getting an AI to reliably interact with real websites — clicking buttons, filling forms, reading dynamic content — is much harder than it sounds, and most automation tools either need brittle custom scripts per site or don't handle modern JavaScript-heavy pages well. Browser Use is an open-source library, built on the Playwright browser framework, that lets AI agents control a real browser using natural-language instructions instead of hand-written selectors. It handles form automation, data extraction/scraping, and QA testing, with stealth browsers, anti-detection, CAPTCHA solving, and a residential proxy network spanning 195+ countries for production-scale use. It's ranked #1 on the Odysseys leaderboard with 87.4% success on 200+ long-horizon browser tasks, and supports Claude, GPT, Gemini and custom models. The self-hosted library is free and open-source (106.9k GitHub stars); the managed cloud platform runs a free tier (3 concurrent sessions) up to Dev at $29/month, Business at $299/month and Scaleup at $999/month, plus usage-based session/proxy/LLM costs.