Companies in the category 'Browser Automation'
These are companies that provide open source tools for automating web browser interactions and tasks.
Open source browser infrastructure for AI agents
Kernel is a commercial open source company providing browser-as-a-service infrastructure for AI agents. The platform spins up sandboxed Chromium instances in under 30 milliseconds, manages authentication on behalf of agents, solves CAPTCHAs, handles residential proxies for stealth mode, and provides session recording and live observability. Kernel is built on open source unikernel technology and is used by companies including Cash App, Framer, and thousands of developer teams. The company was founded in 2025, graduated from Y Combinator Summer 2025, and raised $22 million in Seed and Series A funding led by Accel.
Managed headless browser infrastructure
Browserless provides managed headless browser infrastructure that allows developers to run browser automation workloads without managing the underlying Chrome or Firefox instances. The platform supports Puppeteer and Playwright integrations via a WebSocket endpoint, and also offers a proprietary BrowserQL query language for bypassing bot detectors and CAPTCHAs. Browserless is available as a cloud service, a self-hosted Docker image under the SSPL-1.0 license, and as a private enterprise deployment.
AI browser automation framework
Browserbase is the company behind Stagehand, an AI browser automation framework that makes it easy for developers and agents to control a browser reliably.
Open-source AI web agent framework
LaVague is an open-source Large Action Model framework for building and deploying AI web agents that automate web interactions. The framework enables developers to create agents that can navigate websites, perform data entry, automate test writing, and retrieve information from SaaS platforms using natural language instructions. LaVague agents are composed of a World Model and an Action Engine that together translate objectives into browser actions using Selenium or Playwright drivers. The company also offers LaVague QA, a dedicated tool for QA engineers that converts Gherkin specifications into automated test code.
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