Browserbase Alternatives for 2026: The Best Tools for Browser Automation at Scale

Written by Laurent Léveillé, Senior Community Manager at Deck

Browserbase has grown from managed remote browsers into a full agent platform, with Browserbase Agents, an Identity product, and session observability. Teams still look for an alternative when their agents log into many user-owned accounts and need credentials and MFA handled without wiring up a separate password manager. Deck is the strongest Browserbase alternative for that job.

What is the best alternative to Browserbase?

Deck is the best Browserbase alternative for teams running AI agents against authenticated enterprise applications. Deck is a computer use agent platform that automates workflows by operating any web interface directly, so the target system never has to expose an API for it to work. Deck Vault stores credentials natively, Deck forwards SMS, email, and authenticator prompts through built-in interactions, and every task returns schema-validated JSON.

The short version of this guide:

• Deck: best overall when agents log into many user accounts and need vaulted credentials, MFA handling, and structured output at scale.
• Anchor Browser: best for deterministic, scripted automation with strong authentication handling.
• Skyvern: best for open-source, LLM-driven prototyping.
• Browserless: best for teams with existing Puppeteer or Playwright scripts.
• Steel: best open-source browser API for teams writing their own agent layer.
• Hyperbrowser: best for scrape-heavy, high-concurrency agent workloads.
• Browser Use: best for developers who want an open-source library that lets an LLM drive a browser.

Keep Browserbase if its Agents product covers your sites and your team already runs 1Password for agent credentials.

Why do teams look for a Browserbase alternative?

Browserbase now offers managed Chromium sessions, the open-source Stagehand framework, and Browserbase Agents, which went GA in June 2026 and return typed results against a schema you define. Its Identity product covers verified agent identity through Web Bot Auth, credential access through 1Password, and session reuse through the Contexts API. That is a strong stack, and three differences still send teams to Deck:

• Credentials depend on a second vendor: Browserbase credential access runs through a 1Password integration, so agent credentials live in your 1Password vault. Deck Vault stores credentials natively, encrypted and scoped per session, with no second vendor.
• MFA runs through a template: Browserbase’s MFA template generates TOTP codes in code your team runs and maintains. Deck forwards SMS, email, authenticator, and push prompts to the user through built-in interactions, and saved login state lets later runs skip repeat prompts when the source allows it.
• Recurring runs across many accounts: Deck triggers run a task on a schedule across every connected credential, skip accounts already handled in a set window, and stream results to webhooks, SQS, Pub/Sub, and other destinations.

The stakes keep rising. Automated traffic passed human traffic for the first time in a decade in 2024, at 51% of all web traffic, according to the 2025 Imperva Bad Bot Report. As automated traffic grows, sites keep adding bot defenses, and agents that log in as real users have to clear them reliably.

What should you look for in a Browserbase alternative?

Six criteria separate a browser you rent from a platform an agent can rely on:

1. Credential vault: the platform stores and injects credentials without exposing them to your backend, and handles MFA and CAPTCHA natively.
2. Source agnosticism: agents operate any web application, including legacy portals, without custom adapters per source.
3. Antibot handling: detection is handled across targets, not only within a partner network.
4. Structured output: every task returns schema-validated JSON instead of raw HTML and screenshots.
5. Workflow infrastructure: scheduling, chaining, retries, and result streaming are built in.
6. Observability: live monitoring and session replay let you debug failures without building a logging layer.

What are the best Browserbase alternatives in 2026?

1. Deck: best overall Browserbase alternative

Deck is production infrastructure for computer use agents that authenticate as real users, operate any software, and return structured results at scale.

• Credential management: Deck Vault encrypts credentials, scopes them per agent session, and never returns them to your backend. Deck handles logins and CAPTCHAs and forwards MFA prompts through built-in interactions.
• Source agnosticism: Deck operates web apps and legacy portals, from payroll platforms like Gusto and ADP to municipal utility sites, without source-specific code.
• Antibot handling: Deck’s stealth mode profiles each source’s bot defenses and updates its approach as the source changes. Enterprise plans add Advanced stealth mode for the most heavily protected sites.
• Deterministic output: you define the schema, and Deck validates every result against it, regardless of how the source looks.
• Workflow infrastructure: tasks run on demand or on schedule, workflows chain them, and results stream to webhooks, SQS, Pub/Sub, and other destinations, with failed deliveries retried automatically.
• Observability: live session monitoring and session replay with timestamped screenshots, reasoning traces, and logs for every run.

Deck is SOC 2 Type II certified, PCI DSS Level 1 compliant, GDPR compliant, and HIPAA ready.

2. Anchor Browser: best for deterministic, auth-first automation

Anchor Browser uses AI to plan browser tasks and then runs them deterministically, falling back to AI at runtime only when needed. Its OmniConnect product, built with 1Password Unified Access, re-logs agents in automatically when a session drops mid-task, and Anchor offers automated CAPTCHA bypass and Cloudflare verified browser agents.

Anchor is a strong pick for teams already standardized on 1Password. Deck stores credentials natively with no second vendor and returns schema-validated output on every task.

3. Skyvern: best for open-source agent prototyping

Skyvern uses LLMs and computer vision to drive a browser without brittle selectors. The open-source version (AGPL-3.0) is free to self-host, and Skyvern Cloud is the managed offering.

Self-hosting means running LLM costs and browser infrastructure yourself. Deck runs as one managed platform with credential vaulting, antibot handling, and observability included.

4. Browserless: best for existing Puppeteer and Playwright stacks

Browserless provides hosted Chrome over WebSocket for Puppeteer and Playwright, a self-hosting option, and BrowserQL. It now offers Authenticated Profiles and a 1Password-backed Autologin that fills TOTP codes.

Browserless is strongest when you already have scripts and want somewhere reliable to run them. Deck replaces the scripts themselves, with agents that read each page at runtime and return validated JSON.

5. Steel: best open-source browser API for agent builders

Steel is an open-source (Apache-2.0) browser API built for AI agents. Steel Cloud adds persistent profiles, a live session viewer, and a Credentials API, currently in beta, that injects credentials and TOTP codes.

Steel is a browser layer for teams writing their own agent logic. Deck provides the agent, the schema validation, and the scheduling on top.

6. Hyperbrowser: best for scrape-heavy agent workloads

Hyperbrowser runs cloud browsers for AI agents with stealth mode, proxies, CAPTCHA solving, profiles, and session recordings, plus the HyperAgent framework for natural-language actions.

Hyperbrowser is strongest on high-concurrency scraping and research agents. For logins across many user accounts with SMS or email MFA, Deck stores the credentials and handles the MFA prompts inside the platform.

7. Browser Use: best open-source library for LLM browser control

Browser Use is an open-source library that lets an LLM drive a browser, plus Browser Use Cloud with hosted agents, stealth browsers, a 1Password integration, and TOTP generation from a secret you supply.

Browser Use is a fast way for developers to give a model browser control. Deck adds schema-validated output on every run and forwards SMS, email, and authenticator prompts to the user without per-site secret setup.

How does Browserbase compare to Deck?

Both platforms now run managed agents. Deck is the choice when those agents log into many user-owned accounts and need credentials and MFA handled without a second vendor.

FAQ

Can Browserbase handle login flows and MFA?

Partly. Browserbase connects to 1Password for credentials, persists sessions through its Contexts API, and offers a TOTP template your team implements. Deck stores credentials natively in Deck Vault and forwards SMS, email, authenticator, and push prompts through built-in interactions.

What is Stagehand and how does it relate to Browserbase?

Stagehand is an open-source (MIT) AI browser automation framework from the Browserbase team. It gives developers act, extract, and observe primitives for controlling a browser with natural language, in TypeScript, Python, and Go. Deck covers the same navigation needs plus credential management and scheduling as a managed platform.

Is Deck a drop-in replacement for Browserbase?

Deck operates at the agent level, not the raw browser level. Moving from Browserbase sessions to Deck replaces custom authentication, parsing, and scheduling code rather than porting it.

Does Deck support parallel agent execution?

Yes. Deck provisions isolated sandbox sessions in seconds and runs agents in parallel across credentials, sources, and timezones, with concurrency limits set by plan.