6 Free Alternatives to OpenAI's Browser Operator

OpenAI Pro subscribers in the US now have access to Operator, an agentic web browser that can perform digital tasks for you. For everyone else, here's 6 alternatives:

Browser by CognosysAI - Free open source operator in development but available to try now.

Browser Use - YC backed AI web operator with free and open source tiers available in addition to pro-versions ($30/m)

Smooth Operator - Free web based and local operator that can control not just the browser but the whole computer.

Open Operator - Open source and free alternative to OpenAI's Operator agent developed by Browserbase.

Stagehand - Browser automation framework from browserbase. Stagehand offers 3 API's to interact with Playwright, creating the building blocks for agentic browsers that use natural language.

Skyvern - Another Ycombinator backed AI powered browser that automates repetitive and mundane tasks on the web using AI language models and computer vision.

Rtrvr AI - Easily automate web tasks and extract data with natural language commands in the browser.
 

All the operators above are all still in development and not particularly fast but will give you a better understanding of how operators work and what opportunities they will bring to automation.

For those who have access to OpenAI's Operator or want to learn more you can see more information here.

We’ll keep updating this list of free agentic operators as new projects are published.