Life & fun · alternatives · 2026

This product enables users to run Chrome Headless directly from their browser in the cloud. It allows developers and automation enthusiasts to execute browser automation tasks without installing software locally. The… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Use Chrome Headless in the Cloud from the Browser launched in 2019; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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   Chromeless▲334

   Headless Chrome automation on AWS Lambda

   2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   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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   Cloud browser – headless Chrome and image maps▲69

   2019 · cloudbrowser.website · its alternatives →

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   Browser Use Cloud▲379

   Control the web with prompts (open source)

   2025 · browser-use.com · its alternatives →

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   browserless.io▲143

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

   2023 · browserless.io · its alternatives →

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   Open-source app to turn headless Chrome into a normal browser▲64

   💚🇺🇸🗽Secure remote browsing anywhere, any way you like it. - GitHub - BrowserBox/BrowserBox: 💚🇺🇸🗽Secure remote browsing anywhere, any way you like it.

   2019 · github.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 →

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   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 →

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   Puppet Master▲137

   Headless Chrome as a service

   2019 · its alternatives →

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    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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    Serverless Browser Automation▲5

    Cloud Functions to take control of a Headless Browser

    2020 · testingbot.com · its alternatives →

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    browserless▲11

    The only headless browser service.

    2018 · browserless.io · its alternatives →

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    Open-source Docker image to run Chrome browsers in your cloud▲20

    If you’ve ever worked with web scraping or automation using Puppeteer or Playwright, you know that running Chrome can be tricky. While headless mode (Chrome with no display) often works, some page elements only render in headed mode, forcing you to run Chrome with a display. This usually means bloating your Dockerfile with complex dependencies like xvfb. Updating your server or Lambda container to handle this can increase costs and lead to dependency hell. The Solution: I’ve built a streamlined solution—a Docker image that runs Chrome with all its necessary dependencies and exposes a FastAPI…

    2024 · hub.docker.com · its alternatives →

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    Serverless Cloud▲283

    Build full stack apps better and faster than everyone else

    2022 · serverless.com · its alternatives →

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    Run Puppeteer on AWS Lambda▲75

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

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Browserless.io now has a scraping API▲14

    You can now scrape information off of page, powered by headless chrome, using browserless.io in the cloud. Docs for this feature are here: https://docs.browserless.io/docs/scrape.html, and we even include helpful debugging information like screenshots, network calls and more.

    2019 · its alternatives →

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    GoLess - Browser Automation▲111

    One click task automation

    2023 · goless.com · its alternatives →

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    Chromely – Lightweight Alternative to Electron for .NET and .NET Core▲143

    Build Cross Platform HTML Desktop Apps on .NET using native GUI, HTML5, JavaScript, CSS, Owin, AspNetCore (MVC, RazorPages, Blazor) - chromelyapps/Chromely

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    RemoteHQ 2.0▲172

    Multiplayer cloud-based Chrome browser

    2022 · 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 →

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    Spider Free▲354

    Turn websites into organized data without code.

    2019 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →

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    Open Browser Use▲112

    Open-source browser automation for local AI agents

    May 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Lightpanda, an open-source headless browser in Zig▲319

    We’re Francis and Pierre, and we're excited to share Lightpanda (https://lightpanda.io), an open-source headless browser we’ve been building for the past 2 years from scratch in Zig (not dependent on Chromium or Firefox). It’s a faster and lighter alternative for headless operations without any graphical rendering. Why start over? We’ve worked a lot with Chrome headless at our previous company, scraping millions of web pages per day. While it’s powerful, it’s also heavy on CPU and memory usage. For scraping at scale, building AI agents, or automating websites, the overheads are…

    2025 · 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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