AI · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Workflow Use – Deterministic, self-healing browser automation (RPA 2.0)
Hey HN – Gregor & Magnus here again. A few months ago, we launched Browser Use (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43173378), which let LLMs perform tasks in the browser using natural language prompts. It was great for one-off tasks like booking flights or finding products—but we soon realized enterprises have somewhat different needs: They typically have one workflow with dynamic variables (e.g., filling out a form and downloading a PDF) that they want to reliably run a million times without breaking. Pure LLM agents were slow, expensive, and unpredictable for these…
Workflow Use is a browser automation tool that converts recorded user actions into deterministic scripts with dynamic variables, designed for enterprises needing reliable, repetitive task execution. Users manually… 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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Automate your work on any website
2021 · browserflow.app · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, we're building Skyvern (https://www.skyvern.com), an open-source tool that uses LLMs and computer vision to help companies automate browser-based workflows. You can see some examples here: https://github.com/Skyvern-AI/skyvern#real-world-examples-of... and there's a demo video at https://github.com/Skyvern-AI/skyvern#demo, along with some instructions on running it locally. We provide a natural-language API to automate repetitive manual workflows that happen within the companies' backoffices. You can check out our code and play with…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, We’ve been building browser agents for a while. In production, we kept converging on the same pattern: deterministic scripts for the happy path, agents only for edge cases. So we built Demonstrate Mode. The idea is simple: You perform your workflow once in a remote browser. Notte records the interactions and generates deterministic automation code. How it works: - Record clicks, inputs, navigations in a cloud browser - Compile them into deterministic code (no LLM at runtime) - Run and deploy on managed browser infrastructure Closest analog is Playwright codegen but: - Infrastructure…
2025 · notte.cc · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, I made Browser-Use, an open-source tool that lets (all Langchain supported) LLMs execute tasks directly in the browser just with function calling. It allows you to build agents that interact with web elements using natural language prompts. We created a layer that simplifies website interaction for LLMs by extracting xPaths and interactive elements like buttons and input fields (and other fancy things). This enables you to design custom web automation and scraping functions without manual inspection through DevTools. Hasn't this been done a lot of times? Good question, as a general…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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BrowserAgent▲544Browser-based AI agents - unlimited runs, fixed cost
2025 · browser-use.com · its alternatives →
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So, it feels like this should exist. But I couldn't find it. So I tried to build it. Agentflow lets you run complex LLM workflows from a simple JSON file. This can be as little as a list of tasks. Tasks can include variables, so you can reuse workflows for different outputs by providing different variable values. They can also include custom functions, so you can go beyond text generation to do anything you want to write a function for. Someone might say: "Why not just use ChatGPT?" Among other reasons, I'd say that you can't template a workflow with ChatGPT, trigger it with different…
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Heym▲83Self-hosted AI workflow automation with agents, RAG, and MCP
Apr 2026 · heym.run · its alternatives →
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Surgeflow▲685Automate your browser tasks with a single command
Dec 2025 · surgeflow.ai · its alternatives →
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Browzer▲441Build any automation with a click - the n8n alternative
Aug 2026 · trybrowzer.com · its alternatives →
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Control the web with prompts (open source)
2025 · browser-use.com · its alternatives →
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AI workflows for streamlined software development lifecycle
2024 · fine.dev · its alternatives →
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Turn your best AI prompts into one-click tools in Chrome
Apr 2026 · blog.google · its alternatives →
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Create and customize any project workflow with Generative AI
2023 · taskade.com · its alternatives →
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I spent a few hours last weekend testing whether AI can replace code by executing directly. Built a contact manager where every HTTP request goes to an LLM with three tools: database (SQLite), webResponse (HTML/JSON/JS), and updateMemory (feedback). No routes, no controllers, no business logic. The AI designs schemas on first request, generates UIs from paths alone, and evolves based on natural language feedback. It works—forms submit, data persists, APIs return JSON—but it's catastrophically slow (30-60s per request), absurdly expensive ($0.05/request), and has zero UI…
Nov 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Simplex is an SDK that provides low-level functions you can use to create reliable web automations using code and natural language. Here's a quick video to show you how it works: https://www.loom.com/share/8d27d0f9e0f34c77a81b0ac770151c12 A couple weeks ago, we needed a way to automatically find 3D assets from the internet for one of our work contracts. We didn’t need an AI to choose all the steps for us autonomously — we knew generally what the flow to find items should be and just needed some intelligence to handle different webpage formats. Playwright couldn’t easily…
2025 · simplex.sh · its alternatives →
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Hey, HN community, We're so excited to share Automatisch with HN finally. Automatisch is an open-source workflow automation tool, an alternative to Zapier. Together with my co-founder (@barinali), we have been working on it for about 15 months and have started getting early adopters. Automatisch is a workflow automation tool that lets you connect different web services like Slack, Github, Twitter, and more to automate your business processes. For example, you can build automation that gets all new tweets, including the "open source" phrase, and post them to the Slack channel you specified.…
2023 · automatisch.io · its alternatives →
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LLMWare▲358Dev tool to make AI apps to deploy privately or locally
2024 · llmware.ai · its alternatives →
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We built a white-labeled workflow builder that platforms can embed to offer automation capabilities to their users: - JavaScript code action sandboxing - Native UI experience - Custom action support - Simple integration We're bootstrapped and focused on making workflow automation accessible to more platforms. Demo: https://youtu.be/wVspgI27x9A Product Hunt launch: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/embed-workflow
2023 · embedworkflow.com · its alternatives →
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