Browser automation moved from testing into agent infrastructure: an agent that can open a page, read it and act on it needs a browser it can drive reliably and cheaply.
Every website is an API if you are willing to drive a browser, and in 2026 that stopped being a workaround and became a design choice — agents interact with systems that will never publish an interface, and the browser is the interface.
Cost is what separates the projects here. A full Chromium per session is fine for ten tasks and ruinous for ten thousand, so several entries below are attempts to strip the browser down to what an agent actually needs. The rest handle the parts that break: sessions, anti-bot friction, and pages that render nothing without JavaScript.
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Updated: 2026-08-17