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Stagehand

Open-source SDK adding act, extract and observe AI primitives on top of Playwright

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What Stagehand does

  • Open-source SDK adding act, extract and observe AI primitives on top of Playwright
  • Runs locally with your own model key
  • Optional Browserbase cloud browsers (separate free tier)

Stagehand — straight answers

What is Stagehand?

Stagehand is listed under Browser & Computer-Use Agents, in the AI Agents & Automation category on Flocci AI Tools. Open-source SDK adding act, extract and observe AI primitives on top of Playwright. It is free, with no paid plan attached, and it lives at stagehand.dev.

Is Stagehand free?

Stagehand is listed as fully free — there is no paid tier attached to it in the catalog. That makes it one of the 399 entries on Flocci AI Tools with no upgrade path built in.

What can Stagehand do?

Stagehand does 3 things the catalog singles out: Open-source sdk adding act, extract and observe ai primitives on top of playwright; runs locally with your own model key; optional browserbase cloud browsers (separate free tier).

What is the best free alternative to Stagehand?

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

Browser & Computer-Use Agents
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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Playwright MCP

Browser & Computer-Use Agents
free
  • 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
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