AI · alternatives · 2026

24 alternatives to Pluno

Browser agent that’s 10x faster than Claude

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.

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   Claude Web Search▲661

   Claude can now search the web

   2025 · claude.com · its alternatives →

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   Use Claude Code to Query 600 GB Indexes over Hacker News, ArXiv, etc.▲397

   Paste in my prompt to Claude Code with an embedded API key for accessing my public readonly SQL+vector database, and you have a state-of-the-art research tool over Hacker News, arXiv, LessWrong, and dozens of other high-quality public commons sites. Claude whips up the monster SQL queries that safely run on my machine, to answer your most nuanced questions. There's also an Alerts functionality, where you can just ask Claude to submit a SQL query as an alert, and you'll be emailed when the ultra nuanced criteria is met (and the output changes). Like I want to know when somebody posts about…

   Dec 2025 · exopriors.com · its alternatives →

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   Agent 37▲401

   Hey HN, I noticed there are 1,000+ MCP skills on GitHub with zero way for creators to charge for them. So I built Agent37. Selling Claude skills today means asking customers to download your skill, set up Claude Code on their laptops, configure MCP servers, and pray it works. No trial, no updates, often you're just handing over the source. Agent37 lets creators upload a skill, share a link, and anyone can try it instantly (no Claude account needed). Built-in Stripe, creators keep 80%. Looking for feedback on the approach. Would you use something like this?

   Mar 2026 · agent37.com · its alternatives →

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   Smooth CLI – Token-efficient browser for AI agents▲109

   Hi HN! Smooth CLI (https://www.smooth.sh) is a browser that agents like Claude Code can use to navigate the web reliably, quickly, and affordably. It lets agents specify tasks using natural language, hiding UI complexity, and allowing them to focus on higher-level intents to carry out complex web tasks. It can also use your IP address while running browsers in the cloud, which helps a lot with roadblocks like captchas (https://docs.smooth.sh/features/use-my-ip). Here’s a demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62jthcU705k Docs start at…

   Feb 2026 · docs.smooth.sh · its alternatives →

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   Claude in Chrome▲491

   Let Claude see, click, type, and navigate in your browser

   Dec 2025 · claude.ai · its alternatives →

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   Freebuff▲310

   Free coding agents to kill Claude, Cursor, Replit, and Devin

   Aug 2026 · freebuff.com · its alternatives →

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   Bullet▲240

   Hi HN, excited to be sharing this with you guys today. TL;DR: Bullet is a fast coding agent. At our company, we were burning hours waiting on agent runs. The models weren’t the problem. The agent loops around them were slow (unnecessary planning, oversized context, repeated searches, and serial tool calls). So we built Bullet as a passion project, the goal being to help you iterate faster, without giving up quality: - It automatically selects the model and reasoning level for each prompt. - It runs independent searches, reads, and commands in parallel. - It uses targeted code search instead…

   Aug 2026 · codewithbullet.com · its alternatives →

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   Agent Browser▲149

   I've built a browser agent harness that outperforms Browser Code on their own benchmark (BU Bench v1), on success rate, speed and cost. Browser Agent: 88% success rate, $5.37, 32,694 seconds Browser Code: 78% success rate, $8.34, 47,970 seconds For browser agents to become ubiquitous, they need to be faster, cheaper, and more reliable. The harness was built with token efficiency in mind (and uses 91% fewer tokens than Browser Code) to reduce the compute and VRAM budget necessary to fine tune a small, specialised model. Because browser agent inference is intermittent, a small specialised…

   Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   Smooth – Faster, cheaper browser agent API▲54

   Hey there HN! We're Antonio and Luca, and we're excited to introduce Smooth, a state-of-the-art browser agent that is 5x faster and 7x cheaper than Browser Use (https://docs.circlemind.co/performance). We built Smooth because existing browser agents were slow, expensive, and unreliable. Even simple tasks could take minutes and cost dollars in API credits. We started as users of Browser Use, but the pain was obvious. So we built something better. Smooth is 5x faster, 7x cheaper, and more reliable. And along the way, we discovered two principles that make agents actually work.…

   2025 · smooth.sh · its alternatives →

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    Claude Code on the web▲443

    A new way to delegate coding tasks right from your browser

    2025 · claude.com · its alternatives →

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    Playwright Skill for Claude Code – Less context than playwright-MCP▲189

    I got tired of playwright-mcp eating through Claude's 200K token limit, so I built this using the new Claude Skills system. Built it with Claude Code itself. Instead of sending accessibility tree snapshots on every action, Claude just writes Playwright code and runs it. You get back screenshots and console output. That's it. 314 lines of instructions vs a persistent MCP server. Full API docs only load if Claude needs them. Same browser automation, way less overhead. Works as a Claude Code plugin or manual install. Token limit issue:…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    WOZCODE▲194

    For the last year we've been building an AI mobile app builder. Last week we decided to generalize our agent harness and benchmark it against vanilla Claude Code. Turns out the tools we built for app building were significantly more efficient than the native Claude Code tools. When we ran benchmarks we beat Claude code on speed (~40% faster) , cost (25-55% cheaper) and performance (+17% on Terminal Bench 2.0). Today we're making our agent harness publicly available as a Claude Code plugin. Use code WOZCODE1 to try it for $1 at wozcode.com

    May 2026 · wozcode.com · its alternatives →

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    Vexilo▲86

    Claude Code planner w/ 31 agents, 92 commands, + 121 skills

    May 2026 · vexilo.app · its alternatives →

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    Claude Code Usage Monitor – real-time tracker to dodge usage cut-offs▲245

    I kept slamming into Claude Code limits mid-session and couldn’t find a quick way to see how close I was getting, so I hacked together a tiny local tracker. Streams your prompt + completion usage in real time Predicts whether you’ll hit the cap before the session ends Runs 100 % locally (no auth, no server) Presets for Pro, Max × 5, Max × 20 — tweak a JSON if your plan’s different GitHub: https://github.com/Maciek-roboblog/Claude-Code-Usage-Monitor It’s already spared me a few “why did my run just stop?” moments, but it’s still rough around the edges. Feedback, bug…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    AI Browser▲143

    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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    Glance ▲87

    Real browser for Claude Code Test, Screenshot, Automate

    Mar 2026 · glance.debugbase.io · its alternatives →

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    Open Claude in Chrome▲121

    Claude in Chrome, reverse-engineered and open-source. No domain blocklist. Any Chromium browser. Same 18 MCP tools, same performance. - noemica-io/open-claude-in-chrome

    Apr 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    WebBrain▲117

    The sidebar agent for the rest of us

    Aug 2026 · webbrain.one · its alternatives →

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    Plumbr Browser Agent▲104

    Never lose another customer due to poor website performance

    2017 · its alternatives →

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    Web Speed▲118

    Hey everyone, I've been working on a tool called Web Speed. It takes web pages full of HTML and parses them into an easily readable sitemap for an AI agent. By ensuring the AI doesn't have to analyze the full HTML from the page or screenshots of the page, it makes the agent a lot cheaper and faster. It's MCP-native, so any AI that supports MCP can run it and take control of your browser for you. There are both “normal” and post-auth versions live on GitHub. What I think is the coolest thing about the project is the global cache of sitemaps. When a user visits a site, it takes the sitemap and…

    May 2026 · getwebspeed.io · its alternatives →

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    Crew▲137

    A tiny crew of monsters for your Claude Code agents

    Aug 2026 · crew-deskmates.vercel.app · its alternatives →

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    DevLensPro▲98

    AI-powered debugging for Claude Code. Point, click, fix

    Jan 2026 · devlens.pro · its alternatives →

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    Lamoom▲109

    Run agent apps inside your Claude or sell your own

    Jul 2026 · lamoom.com · its alternatives →

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    Nimbus▲89

    Hi HN, I'm Anil. Nimbus is a desktop browser with an AI agent built into it. The UX is shamelessly inspired by Claude Code: a chat bar at the bottom, an agent log above it, and the webpage itself when its needed. This is mainly a UX experiment for me. And also the reason it isn't a Chrome extension: once you have a chat bar that understands intent, the URL field is redundant. You shouldn't have two places to tell the browser what you want. I didn't want to bolt an agent onto an existing browser's chrome and end up with duplicated controls everywhere — I wanted full freedom to redesign the…

    May 2026 · usenimbus.app · its alternatives →

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