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24 alternatives to Haku

Mac + browser automation for AI agents — 85% fewer tokens

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier.

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    Freu AI▲295

    Automate any Mac app with $0 recurring run cost

    May 2026 · its alternatives →

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    Incredible is a desktop app for macOS and Windows that works on your computer. It performs tasks directly in your browser, files, and apps. It navigates sites you’re signed into, fills forms, sends emails, updates spreadsheets, and moves information between apps like Gmail, HubSp

    Dec 2025 · incredible.one · its alternatives →

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    Browser-based AI agents - unlimited runs, fixed cost

    2025 · browser-use.com · its alternatives →

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    Browser MCP connects AI applications to your browser so you can automate tasks using AI. Supported by Claude, Cursor, VS Code, Windsurf, and more.

    2025 · browsermcp.io · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN! I built Browser AI after getting frustrated with the official Playwright MCP server in Claude Code. If you've used it, you know the pain: - 20+ separate tools that Claude has to juggle (click, fill, navigate, wait_for_selector, etc.) - Context window explosions from verbose screenshot data and DOM snapshots - Constant tool selection errors where Claude picks the wrong tool or forgets parameters Browser AI wraps Playwright MCP with a single natural language interface. Instead of Claude managing dozens of tools, you get one: browser_ai.execute. Just tell it what you want in plain…

    Nov 2025 · aibrowser.surf · its alternatives →

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    Web browser automation for AI agents

    Jun 2026 · browseract.com · its alternatives →

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    Beam.winfree tier, from $7/mo▲377

    Run AI agents on one Mac and use its windows on another

    4d ago · beam.win · its alternatives →

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    kuku▲539

    Your open-source, local second brain for every AI

    Jan 2026 · kuku.mom · its alternatives →

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    I've been building computer-use tools for a while, and I quietly launched this about a month ago (122 Stars on GH). I figured it was worth sharing here. Over the last few months, a lot of computer-use agents have come out: Codex, Claude Code, CUA, and others. Most of them seem to work roughly like this: 1. Take a screenshot 2. Have the model predict pixel coordinates 3. Click x,y 4. Take another screenshot 5. Repeat That works, but it's slow, expensive in tokens, and fragile. If the UI shifts a few pixels, things break. And the model still doesn't know what any element actually is. But the…

    May 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Build AI agents. Share org-wide. 100+ Tools&MCP

    2025 · docs.zencoder.ai · its alternatives →

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    The first AI agent that can operate your browser.

    2023 · hyperwriteai.com · its alternatives →

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    Open-source browser automation for local AI agents

    May 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN, I forked chromium and built agent-browser-protocol (ABP) after noticing that most browser-agent failures aren’t really about the model misunderstanding the page. Instead, the problem is that the model is reasoning from a stale state. ABP is designed to keep the acting agent synchronized with the browser at every step. After each action (click, type, etc), it freezes JavaScript execution and rendering, then captures the resulting state. It also compiles the notable events that occurred during that action loop, such as navigation, file pickers, permission prompts, alerts, and downloads,…

    Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    HeyZoku▲91

    Orchestrate an army of coding agents with your voice.

    Jul 2026 · heyzoku.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN! We built a browser-based agent that runs inside an authenticated web app, watches how the app calls its own APIs, and automatically turns those into agent tools. You can think of it as an auto-generated MCP server that self-updates as the host app changes. The result is a skilled AI assistant that actually integrates deeply with any product (not just chat and RAG) with minimal effort. Check out these short demos below that show the agent in software you're probably familiar with: - Jira: https://demo.frigade.com/hn?skill=jira - Spotify:…

    Jul 2026 · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN! We’ve been building an MCP server to help AI-assisted web app developers by using browser agents to test whether changes made by an AI inside an editor actually work. We've been testing it on scenarios like verifying new flows in a UI, or checking that sending a chat request triggers a response. The idea is to let your coding agent both code and evaluate if what it did was correct. Here’s a short demo with Cursor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AoQK-bwR0w When building apps, we found the hardest part of AI-assisted coding isn’t the coding—it’s tedious point-and-click…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Kaiku▲79

    The task tracker your AI agents already know how to use

    27d ago · kaiku.tech · its alternatives →

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    Open-source Computer Use MCP for AI agents

    May 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Native Safari browser automation for AI agents. 97 tools via AppleScript — zero overhead, keeps logins, runs silently in background. Drop-in alternative to Chrome DevTools MCP with 40-60% less CPU/heat on Apple Silicon. - achiya-automation/safari-mcp

    Apr 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    jebi▲140

    A supercharged terminal for Mac with built-in local AI

    Jun 2026 · jebi.sh · its alternatives →

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    MCP360▲61

    Hey HN Community, I built MCP360 after spending weeks integrating APIs for an AI agent project. Each tool needed its own setup, auth, billing, and maintenance. When any APIs changed, my integrations broke. I got tired of it. MCP360 is a single gateway giving AI agents access to 100+ tools through one config block. Search engines, web scraping, SEO, e-commerce data, maps, domain tools, and more. Real example: Instead of managing Google Search, web scraping, SERP tracking, and keyword research as 4 separate subscriptions (4 bills, 4 auth systems, 4 points of failure), you connect once. Works…

    2025 · mcp360.ai · its alternatives →

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    Automate browser based workflows with AI. Contribute to Skyvern-AI/skyvern development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    What's up HN! This is Jared and Art. We met on HN and started building together. Over the last few months we've been thinking a lot about how AI agents are going to impact the future. We want agents to be something that's actually useful for normal people as well as the 10x'ers. This lead us to building Meha over the last few months, our first swing at our vision! We saw OpenAI release Operators then we said f*k it let's post. Meha is a desktop app that uses your Chrome browser to execute tasks in the background. It controls your installed Chrome browser and uses LLMs with playwright to plan…

    2025 · meha.ai · its alternatives →

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    Your AI agent is burning 6x more tokens than it needs to just to browse the web. We built OpenBrowser MCP to fix that. Most browser MCPs give the LLM dozens of tools: click, scroll, type, extract, navigate. Each call dumps the entire page accessibility tree into the context window. One Wikipedia page? 124K+ tokens. Every. Single. Call. OpenBrowser works differently. It exposes one tool. Your agent writes Python code, and OpenBrowser executes it in a persistent runtime with full browser access. The agent controls what comes back. No bloated page dumps. No wasted tokens. Just the data your…

    Apr 2026 · openbrowser.me · its alternatives →

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