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Best Playwright MCP alternatives

5 tools developers use instead of Playwright MCP, ranked by popularity. 5 offer a free plan and 3 are open source. Updated October 2026.

Free Open source Showing 1–5 of 5
  1. Browser Use logo

    Browser Use

    Free Open source

    Open-source framework that wraps Playwright so an LLM can control a browser from natural-language instructions. Around 117,000 GitHub stars.

  2. Browserbase logo

    Browserbase

    Free plan

    Cloud infrastructure for running headless browsers at scale for AI agents, handling stealth fingerprinting, residential proxies, and CAPTCHA solving.

  3. MultiOn logo

    MultiOn

    Free plan

    Browser agent platform and API for building autonomous web agents that can shop, book, research, and complete multi-step tasks across live websites on a user's behalf.

  4. Skyvern logo

    Skyvern

    Free plan Open source

    Open-source browser automation agent that uses computer vision and LLMs to fill out forms and navigate workflows on websites it has never seen before, without hand-written selectors.

  5. Steel logo

    Steel

    Free plan Open source

    Open-source headless browser API for AI agents with session management, proxies and CAPTCHA handling, available self-hosted or as a cloud service.