Alternatives

Alternatives to Smooth

6 Browser Automation for Agents rivals, ranked by the same evidence-graded leaderboard — Smooth itself ranks #7 with a PA Score of 16/100. Every “beats Smooth on” below comes from a judged head-to-head round with cited evidence — see the methodology.

#1
Steel
Steel, Inc.
PA Score 41/100vs Smooth →
coverage
35.3/100
Beats Smooth on: Self-host the core product · Download a machine-readable API spec (OpenAPI or equivalent)
#2
Skyvern
Skyvern AI, Inc.
PA Score 31/100vs Smooth →
coverage
32.3/100
Beats Smooth on: Connect an agent via an official MCP server · Self-host the core product
#3
Hyperbrowser
Hyperbrowser (S2 Labs, Inc.)
PA Score 30/100vs Smooth →
coverage
29.4/100
Beats Smooth on: Connect an agent via an official MCP server · Connect my existing Playwright, Puppeteer, or CDP automation code to the product's browsers instead of rewriting it
#4
Stagehand
Browserbase, Inc.
PA Score 28/100vs Smooth →
coverage
31.1/100
Beats Smooth on: Connect an agent via an official MCP server · Drive the page through DOM-understanding action primitives (act/click/type on described elements) that survive selector and layout changes
#5
Notte
Notte Labs
PA Score 24/100vs Smooth →
coverage
26.9/100
Beats Smooth on: Connect an agent via an official MCP server · Connect my existing Playwright, Puppeteer, or CDP automation code to the product's browsers instead of rewriting it
#6
Browser Use
Browser Use, Inc.
PA Score 23/100vs Smooth →
coverage
29.3/100
Beats Smooth on: Self-host the core product · Run the agent against a local browser on my own machine for development, without any cloud account

Adjacent arenas

Top-ranked products from arenas whose story taxonomies overlap Browser Automation for Agents's — worth a look if your real problem sits next door.

OpenHands

Top-ranked in Software Factory · PA Score 50/100

shares: Pricing limits, Scale parallelism

Full leaderboard: Browser Automation for Agents arena →