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Playwright MCP

Official Microsoft MCP server exposing Playwright browser control to any MCP client

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What Playwright MCP does

  • Official Microsoft MCP server exposing Playwright browser control to any MCP client
  • Uses accessibility snapshots instead of screenshots/vision, faster and more deterministic
  • 36k+ GitHub stars, Apache-2.0 licensed

Playwright MCP — straight answers

What is Playwright MCP?

Playwright MCP is listed under Browser & Computer-Use Agents, in the AI Agents & Automation category on Flocci AI Tools. Official Microsoft MCP server exposing Playwright browser control to any MCP client. It is free, with no paid plan attached, and it lives at github.com.

Is Playwright MCP free?

Playwright MCP is listed as fully free — there is no paid tier attached to it in the catalog. That makes it one of the 396 entries on Flocci AI Tools with no upgrade path built in.

Can I use Playwright MCP in a browser, or is there an app?

Playwright MCP needs to be installed or self-hosted — it doesn't run in a browser tab. It is available on the command line and self-hosting.

What can Playwright MCP do?

Playwright MCP does 3 things the catalog singles out: Official microsoft mcp server exposing playwright browser control to any mcp client; uses accessibility snapshots instead of screenshots/vision, faster and more deterministic; 36k+ github stars, apache-2.0 licensed.

What is the best free alternative to Playwright MCP?

Alibaba Page Agent is the closest free alternative: it sits in the same Browser & Computer-Use Agents sub-category and is free. Amazon Nova Act SDK, BrowserOS and MagenticLite also start free. The full list is on the alternatives page.

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Browser Use

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freemium
  • Open-source library to run browser agents locally for free
  • Hosted agent API billed per token + browser-hour
  • Managed browser infrastructure for scaling agents
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Browserbase

Browser & Computer-Use Agents
freemium
  • Free tier: 1 browser-hour/month, 3 concurrent browsers, 3 agent runs
  • Creator of Stagehand, an AI-native browser automation framework
  • Agent identity management for logging into restricted sites
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Skyvern

Browser & Computer-Use Agents
freemium
  • Vision+LLM based automation that survives UI/DOM changes (no brittle selectors)
  • 22,700+ GitHub stars, self-hostable via Docker
  • Used by 500+ enterprises for workflow automation on arbitrary sites
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Steel.dev

Browser & Computer-Use Agents
freemium
  • Open-source browser API for fleets of cloud browsers
  • Free launch tier with one-time starting credits, no card required
  • Built-in auto-CAPTCHA solving and proxy management, sessions up to 24h
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Firecrawl

Browser & Computer-Use Agents
freemium
  • Converts any site into clean LLM-ready markdown/structured data
  • Free tier: 1,000 credits/month, no card required
  • Crawl, scrape, map and search endpoints purpose-built for RAG/agent pipelines
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Simular

Browser & Computer-Use Agents
freemium
  • Sai: always-on computer-use agent operating a private cloud virtual desktop
  • 72.6% success on computer-use benchmarks, above reported human baseline
  • Works across desktop GUI, APIs, terminals, and code, not just browser tasks
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