Browser automation buyers have to sort through agent browsers, headless browser services, MCP servers, scraping utilities, and testing agents that often sound similar. This June 2026 ToolVitals view uses the supplied tool data to compare Browser Automation Tools by health score, shipping score, openness_label, license_label, GitHub stars, ToolVitals score, and status.
The ranking includes open/source-visible tools only. Tools are ordered by ToolVitals score first, with GitHub stars used only as a secondary popularity signal when scores are tied.
Rankings
| Rank | Tool | Openness | License | Health | Shipping | GitHub Stars | Score | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Agent Browser | OSI-approved OSS | Apache-2.0 | 95 | 88 | 35783 | 94 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 2 | Browserless | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 88 | 90 | 1817 | 92 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 3 | Libretto | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 85 | 95 | 648 | 92 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 4 | CloakBrowser | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 90 | 84 | 25605 | 90 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 5 | web-agent-bridge | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 79 | 92 | 5 | 89 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 6 | Safari MCP | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 81 | 89 | 111 | 88 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 7 | Vessel Browser | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 79 | 95 | 90 | 88 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 8 | OpenDevBrowser | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 76 | 93 | 11 | 88 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 9 | spider | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 82 | 83 | 2542 | 87 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 10 | Actionbook | OSI-approved OSS | Apache-2.0 | 90 | 73 | 1559 | 87 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 11 | BotBrowser | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 84 | 73 | 2483 | 84 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 12 | Dorabot | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 81 | 75 | 234 | 84 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 13 | openbrowser-ai | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 74 | 76 | 232 | 80 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 14 | Simprint | OSI-approved OSS | AGPL-3.0 | 71 | 83 | 448 | 79 | 🟢 Good |
| 15 | Stagehand | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 78 | 52 | 487 | 75 | 🟢 Good |
| 16 | Kernel | OSI-approved OSS | Apache-2.0 | 78 | 51 | 934 | 74 | 🟢 Good |
| 17 | Jshook MCP | OSI-approved OSS | AGPL-3.0 | 70 | 63 | 1641 | 73 | 🟢 Good |
| 18 | testzeus-hercules | OSI-approved OSS | AGPL-3.0 | 78 | 46 | 1041 | 73 | 🟢 Good |
| 19 | Kernel MCP Server | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 72 | 61 | 30 | 73 | 🟢 Good |
| 20 | Steel Browser | OSI-approved OSS | Apache-2.0 | 79 | 36 | 7157 | 71 | 🟢 Good |
| 21 | OpenTabs | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 66 | 62 | 653 | 71 | 🟢 Good |
| 22 | carbonyl-agent | OSI-approved OSS | AGPL-3.0 | 50 | 82 | 9 | 69 | 🟢 Good |
| 23 | HeadlessX | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 62 | 46 | 1956 | 67 | 🟢 Good |
| 24 | Kaboom Browser AI Devtools MCP | OSI-approved OSS | AGPL-3.0 | 56 | 57 | 61 | 67 | 🟢 Good |
| 25 | Kuma Studio | OSI-approved OSS | Apache-2.0 | 62 | 63 | 31 | 67 | 🟢 Good |
| 26 | OpenBrowser | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 60 | 47 | 0 | 65 | 🟢 Good |
| 27 | Brightdata MCP | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 71 | 24 | 2446 | 64 | 🟢 Good |
| 28 | AIPex | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 57 | 27 | 1209 | 59 | 🟡 Fair |
| 29 | Parchi | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 49 | 39 | 538 | 58 | 🟡 Fair |
| 30 | Blast | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 56 | 14 | 775 | 52 | 🟡 Fair |
| 31 | serverless-nodriver | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 59 | 14 | 2 | 51 | 🟡 Fair |
| 32 | Playwright CLI | OSI-approved OSS | Apache-2.0 | 59 | 14 | 1 | 51 | 🟡 Fair |
| 33 | HyperAgent | OSI-approved OSS | AGPL-3.0 | 49 | 14 | 1422 | 48 | 🟡 Fair |
| 34 | ZenoClaw | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 44 | 14 | 1 | 45 | 🟡 Fair |
| 35 | Bytebot | OSI-approved OSS | Apache-2.0 | 33 | 0 | 11050 | 37 | 🔴 Needs Attention |
| 36 | Browserable | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 26 | 0 | 1192 | 33 | 🔴 Needs Attention |
| 37 | ScraperAI | OSI-approved OSS | GPL-3.0 | 28 | 0 | 410 | 29 | 🔴 Needs Attention |
| 38 | f4rmhouse | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 23 | 0 | 2 | 29 | 🔴 Needs Attention |
| 39 | Uiautodev | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 24 | 0 | 505 | 28 | 🔴 Needs Attention |
Top 3 Highlights
Agent Browser ranks first with a ToolVitals score of 94, the highest score in the set. It also has the largest GitHub star count among the ranked tools at 35,783 stars, with a health score of 95 and shipping score of 88. Its openness_label is “OSI-approved OSS” and its license_label is “Apache-2.0”.
Browserless ranks second with a ToolVitals score of 92 and the strongest shipping score among the top two at 90. Its description is focused on headless Chrome use cases such as screenshots, PDFs, and text extraction. Its openness_label is “OSI-approved OSS” and its license_label is “MIT”.
Libretto also scores 92, tying Browserless on ToolVitals score, but ranks third because it has fewer GitHub stars. Its shipping score of 95 is the highest in the full ranked set, while its health score is 85. Its openness_label is “OSI-approved OSS” and its license_label is “MIT”.
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