At a glance
- Playwright has 38,159 GitHub stars; 2 of the 19 alternatives have more (Chrome DevTools and UI-TARS Desktop).
- Most-starred alternative: Chrome DevTools (53,561 stars).
- 9 of the 19 are tagged official (published by the vendor or the MCP project); 10 are in the official MCP Registry.
- Archived: Browserbase and Puppeteer. No push in over 12 months: Browser MCP.
Comparison
| Server | Description | Stars | Last push | Status | Official registry | Tagged |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Playwright ↗ | Official Microsoft Playwright MCP server for browser automation. | 38,159 | 2026-10-08 | Active | Yes | official |
| Chrome DevTools ↗ | Official Chrome DevTools MCP server for inspecting and controlling Chrome. | 53,561 | 2026-10-15 | Active | Yes | official |
| UI-TARS Desktop ↗ | ByteDance's open multimodal agent stack for GUI and browser control, built on MCP. | 39,279 | 2026-10-09 | Active | — | — |
| Lightpanda ↗ | Headless browser built from scratch for AI agents and automation, with a native MCP server. | 36,514 | 2026-10-15 | Active | — | — |
| SeleniumBase ↗ | Official SeleniumBase MCP server for browser automation, testing, and web scraping in CDP Mode. | 13,069 | 2026-10-13 | Active | Yes | official |
| Browser MCP ↗ | MCP server that lets agents control a local browser. | 7,185 | 2025-04-24 | Stale | — | community |
| Playwright (ExecuteAutomation) ↗ | Community Playwright MCP server for browser automation, screenshots, and API testing. | 5,666 | 2025-12-13 | Active | — | — |
| Invisible Playwright ↗ | Playwright browser-agent MCP server with anti-bot-detection measures. | 2,750 | 2026-10-13 | Active | Yes | community |
| JSHook ↗ | Search-first JavaScript reverse-engineering workspace with browser and debugging tools. | 2,045 | 2026-10-10 | Active | Yes | community |
| OpenTabs ↗ | Lets agents call web apps' own APIs through your signed-in browser tabs instead of clicking. | 984 | 2026-10-03 | Active | — | — |
| Auto Browser ↗ | MCP-native browser agent that gives AI a real browser with a human in the loop. | 905 | 2026-10-13 | Active | — | — |
| Unbrowse ↗ | Official Unbrowse MCP server that turns websites into APIs: read pages and run site tasks. | 791 | 2026-10-12 | Active | Yes | official |
| Hyperbrowser ↗ | Official Hyperbrowser MCP server for cloud browser automation sessions. | 789 | 2025-11-20 | Active | — | official |
| Firefox DevTools ↗ | Official Firefox DevTools MCP server to control and debug Firefox: navigate, fill forms, inspect. | 490 | 2026-10-14 | Active | Yes | official |
| SHAFT ↗ | Official SHAFT MCP server for test-automation browser control, capture, and failure diagnosis. | 414 | 2026-10-14 | Active | Yes | official |
| Oya Browser ↗ | Official Oya Browser MCP server: read pages as numbered markdown, click, type, and handle tabs. | 353 | 2026-10-14 | Active | Yes | official |
| BrowserStack ↗ | Official BrowserStack MCP server for cross-browser and device testing. | 155 | 2026-10-15 | Active | Yes | official |
| Steel ↗ | Official Steel MCP server to drive Steel cloud browser sessions for navigation and scraping. | 58 | 2026-09-09 | Active | — | official |
| Browserbase ↗ | Browserbase cloud browser MCP server for remote automation sessions. | 3,399 | 2026-07-20 | Archived | Yes | community |
| Puppeteer ↗ | Archived reference browser automation MCP server using Puppeteer. | — | — | Archived | — | — |
Stars are for each server's own repository; servers that share a monorepo show "—". Tagged: official (published by the vendor or the MCP project) or community, as tagged in this directory. Status: Archived = the GitHub repo is archived; Stale = no push in the 12 months before the stats refresh. Sorted by stars, archived last. More in all browser MCP servers.