Open Source Alternatives to Browserbase

Browser Operator

BSD-3-Clause

Privacy-focused AI browser with intelligent agents for research, analysis, and workflow automation. Features unified memory, compliance guardrails, and seamless integrations.

Browser Use

MIT

Python library that lets AI agents browse the web by giving them real browser control, DOM access, and the ability to interact with any website.

Lightpanda

AGPL-3.0

Purpose-built headless browser that delivers 10x faster performance and 10x lower memory usage compared to Chrome headless for web automation and AI workflows.

Skyvern

AGPL-3.0

Transform manual browser tasks into automated workflows using AI. Handle complex forms, CAPTCHAs, 2FA, and data extraction across any website at scale.

Steel

Apache-2.0

Open-source browser API designed for AI agents. Run headless browsers with built-in CAPTCHA solving, proxy support, and session management. Quick setup in under 1s.

Crawl4AI

Apache-2.0

Open-source web crawler and scraper that produces clean, structured output optimized for LLMs, RAG pipelines, and AI agents. Supports async crawling, CSS/XPath/LLM extraction, and stealth browser control.

Firecrawl

AGPL-3.0

API for AI agents to search, scrape, crawl, and interact with the live web, returning clean Markdown, structured JSON, or screenshots from any page.