Dev tools · alternatives · 2026

24 alternatives to Puppet Master

Headless Chrome as a service

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Puppet Master launched in 2019; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1. 1
   Getting started with Puppeteer and Chrome Headless for Web Scraping▲142

   Getting started with Puppeteer and Chrome Headless for Web Scraping - emadehsan/thal

   2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

2. 2
   Chromeless▲334

   Headless Chrome automation on AWS Lambda

   2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

3. 3
   browserless.io▲143

   The full-code, no-ops tool for browser automation

   2023 · browserless.io · its alternatives →

4. 4
   Headless Recorder v1.0, get Playwright/Puppeteer scripts without coding▲135

   2021 · chrome.google.com · its alternatives →

5. 5
   Chromeless – Headless Chrome Automation on AWS Lambda▲385

   🖥 Chrome automation made simple. Runs locally or headless on AWS Lambda. - schickling/chromeless

   2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   Headless Recorder▲224

   Chrome extension that records your browser interactions and generates a Playwright or Puppeteer script. - GitHub - checkly/headless-recorder: Chrome extension that records your browser interactions and generates a Playwright or Puppeteer script.

   2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

7. 7
   Run Puppeteer on AWS Lambda▲75

   Chromium Binary for AWS Lambda and Google Cloud Functions - alixaxel/chrome-aws-lambda

   2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

8. 8
   Ready-to-use API to convert any web page to PDF using headless Chrome▲129

   Loads a web page in headless Chrome using Puppeteer and prints it to PDF. The input is a JSON object and output is a PDF file.

   2017 · apify.com · its alternatives →

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   Headless Chrome Crawler▲172

   Distributed crawler powered by Headless Chrome. Contribute to yujiosaka/headless-chrome-crawler development by creating an account on GitHub.

   2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

10. 10
    BrowserBird▲99

    Low code browser automation builder and serverless puppeteer

    2021 · browserbird.com · its alternatives →

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    OpenFaaS template for headless Chrome and Puppeteer▲41

    OpenFaaS template for headless Chrome and Puppeteer - GitHub - alexellis/openfaas-puppeteer-template: OpenFaaS template for headless Chrome and Puppeteer

    2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Serverless Browser Automation▲5

    Cloud Functions to take control of a Headless Browser

    2020 · testingbot.com · its alternatives →

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    Browserless v9 – browser driver on top of puppeteer▲6

    The headless Chrome/Chromium performance driver for Node.js

    2021 · browserless.js.org · its alternatives →

14. 14
    Puppeteer API▲139

    Convert your website into an API

    2020 · its alternatives →

15. 15
    Owl Browser▲145

    I've been working on browser automation infrastructure for a while and kept hitting the same ceiling: Playwright and Puppeteer are great for scripting but fall apart when you need stealth at scale. Cloud-based solutions like Browserbase work but you're sending all your data to a third party and can't control the environment. So we built Owl Browser, a self-hosted Chromium-based engine that runs in a single Docker container. The core technical problem we tried to solve was fingerprint consistency. Most browser automation tools either ignore fingerprinting entirely or apply surface-level…

    Jan 2026 · owlbrowser.net · its alternatives →

16. 16PS
    Puppeteer scripts in the Browser, DevTools on remote pages▲52

    2021 · pptrconsole.com · its alternatives →

17. 17UC
    Use Chrome Headless in the Cloud from the Browser▲16

    2019 · webautomation.guru · its alternatives →

18. 18
    Puppeteer Cloud Testing▲91

    Run automated Puppeteer tests in the cloud

    2023 · testingbot.com · its alternatives →

19. 19
    Anna Assistant▲137

    Your personal assistant on Google Chrome

    2018 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →

20. 20
    Puppetron – Puppeteer (Headless Chrome)-based Rendering Solution▲9

    Puppeteer (Headless Chrome Node API)-based rendering solution. - cheeaun/puppetron

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Web scraping that just works with OpenFaaS with Puppeteer▲145

    Learn how to scrape webpages using Puppeteer and Serverless Functions built with OpenFaaS.

    2020 · openfaas.com · its alternatives →

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    Puppeteer-Cluster – Run Headless Chrome Instances in Parallel▲14

    Puppeteer Pool, run a cluster of instances in parallel - thomasdondorf/puppeteer-cluster

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    HeadlessTesting▲4

    Chrome as a Service - Generate Screenshots and PDFs

    2020 · testingbot.com · its alternatives →

24. 24
    Relay by Puppet▲58

    Easy workflow automation for cloud infrastructure

    2021 · puppet.com · its alternatives →

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