Best Headless Browsers for Playwright
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Compare the Top Headless Browsers that integrate with Playwright as of October 2025
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This a list of Headless Browsers that integrate with Playwright. Use the filters on the left to add additional filters for products that have integrations with Playwright. View the products that work with Playwright in the table below.
What are Headless Browsers for Playwright?
A headless browser is a web browser that operates without a graphical user interface (GUI), allowing tasks to be performed programmatically instead of through direct user interaction. It processes web pages, including rendering and executing JavaScript, just like a standard browser but works entirely in the background. This makes it a valuable tool for tasks such as web scraping, automated testing, and performance analysis. By running without a visual interface, headless browsers are faster and more resource-efficient than traditional browsers. They are widely used in automation workflows to interact with and analyze web content seamlessly. Compare and read user reviews of the best Headless Browsers for Playwright currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.
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Google Chrome
Google
Connect to the world on the browser built by Google. Google builds powerful tools that help you connect, play, work and get things done. And all of it works on Chrome. With Google apps like Gmail, Google Pay, and Google Assistant, Chrome can help you stay productive and get more out of your browser. -
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Mozilla Firefox
Mozilla
Mozilla Firefox is a free, open-source web browser developed by the Mozilla Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to internet health and privacy. Designed to prioritize user privacy and security, Firefox offers features like Total Cookie Protection, which provides outstanding privacy by default. The browser includes tools such as Firefox View, allowing users to see tabs open on other devices and access recent history, and built-in PDF editing capabilities, enabling form edits directly within the browser. Available across various platforms, including Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, and iOS, Firefox ensures a consistent and secure browsing experience. Its commitment to user-centric development and transparency makes it a preferred choice for those seeking a trustworthy alternative to proprietary browsers.Starting Price: Free -
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Chromium
The Chromium Project
Chromium is an open-source browser project that aims to build a safer, faster, and more stable way for all Internet users to experience the web.Starting Price: Free -
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Bright Data
Bright Data
Bright Data is the world's #1 web data, proxies, & data scraping solutions platform. Fortune 500 companies, academic institutions and small businesses all rely on Bright Data's products, network and solutions to retrieve crucial public web data in the most efficient, reliable and flexible manner, so they can research, monitor, analyze data and make better informed decisions. Bright Data is used worldwide by 20,000+ customers in nearly every industry. Its products range from no-code data solutions utilized by business owners, to a robust proxy and scraping infrastructure used by developers and IT professionals. Bright Data products stand out because they provide a cost-effective way to perform fast and stable public web data collection at scale, effortless conversion of unstructured data into structured data and superior customer experience, while being fully transparent and compliant.Starting Price: $0.066/GB -
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Steel.dev
Steel.dev
Steel is an open source browser API that lets you control fleets of browsers in the cloud. From large-scale scrape jobs to fully autonomous web agents, Steel makes it easy to run browser automation in the cloud. Spin up on-demand browser sessions with a simple API call. Built-in CAPTCHA solving that keeps your automation flowing. Simple controls to never worry about getting flagged as a bot again. The average session starts in less than 1s when the client is in the same region. Run for a minute or several hours, each session can run up to 24 hours. Save and inject cookies and local storage to pick up where you left off. Easily run your Puppeteer, Playwright, or Selenium in the cloud. Session Viewer lets you view and debug live or recorded sessions.Starting Price: $99 per month -
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Stagehand
Stagehand
Stagehand is an AI-driven web browsing framework that enhances Playwright's capabilities, enabling developers to automate browsers using natural language instructions. Built by Browserbase, it introduces three intuitive APIs, act, extract, and observe, on top of Playwright's base page class, facilitating web automation through straightforward commands. For instance, developers can navigate to a webpage, identify elements like search bars, extract specific data such as product prices, and perform actions like adding items to a cart, all through natural language directives. This approach simplifies the creation of durable, self-healing, and repeatable web automation workflows, reducing the complexity and fragility often associated with traditional methods. Stagehand is fully compatible with existing Playwright code, allowing for seamless integration into current projects. By leveraging AI, it offers a more intuitive and efficient way to handle browser automation tasks.Starting Price: Free -
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Surfsky
Surfsky
Surfsky.io is the ultimate platform for web scraping, data collection, and automation, designed to bypass the most advanced anti-bot systems. Our cutting-edge technology ensures seamless, undetectable browsing and scalable data extraction for businesses of all sizes. Our proprietary technology outperforms competitors like Browserbase, Undetect, and ZenRows by offering superior bypassing capabilities for CAPTCHA, WAFs, and bot detection systems. With Surfsky, developers, analysts, and data-driven enterprises can effortlessly gather structured data, automate interactions, and execute web-based workflows without interruptions. Surfsky is built for developers, offering API-first architecture, seamless integration with popular automation frameworks, and highly customizable browser automation features. Our cloud-based infrastructure ensures maximum scalability and reliability, allowing users to deploy scraping solutions at any scale.Starting Price: $199/month -
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Browserbase
Browserbase
Headless browsers that work everywhere, every time. Control fleets of stealth browsers to build reliable browser automation. Focus on your code with autoscaled browser instances, and best-in-class stealth features. Run hundreds of browsers with powerful resources to power uninterrupted long-running sessions. Work with headless browsers as you do with your browser with live access, replay, and full tools featuring logs and networks. Build and run undetectable automation with configurable fingerprinting, automatic captcha solving, and proxies. The best AI agents are built with Browserbase, navigating the most complex web pages, undetected. With a few lines of code, enable your AI agent to interact with any web pages, undetected and at scale. At any time, leverage the live session view feature to let humans help in completing complex tasks. Leverage Browserbase’s infrastructure to power your web scraping, automation, and LLM applications.Starting Price: $39 per month
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