Playwright AlternativesAutomated Testing Tools and other similar apps like Playwright

Apps similar to Playwright include Browser MCP, which is free and open source. Other options are Cockroach Browser, Selenium, BrowserBook and Geb. There's no shortage of Web Testing Tools like Playwright, with more than 25 alternatives for the web, Windows, Mac, Linux and self-hosting.

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  1. Browser MCP icon
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    Browser MCP is a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that allows clients like VS Code, Claude, Cursor, and Windsurf to automate your browser.

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    • Google Chrome
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  2. Cockroach Browser is a local-first browser runtime for AI agents. It exposes authenticated, policy-bounded Chromium sessions, observations, snapshots, captures, network evidence, audits, and governed action proposals through CLI, HTTP, and MCP interfaces.

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  3. Selenium icon
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    Selenium is a suite of tools specifically for testing web applications. It provides a playback tool for authoring functional tests across most modern web browsers, without the need to learn a test scripting language (Selenium IDE).

    115 Selenium alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • JavaScript
    • Java
    • Ruby
    • Python
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  4. BrowserBook icon
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    AI-driven environment for designing, deploying, and scaling deterministic browser automations, featuring a Jupyter-style notebook, built-in coding agent with DOM access, version control, secure authentication management, scalable hosted browsers, and self-healing automation.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
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  5. Geb icon
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    Apache Geb: Very Groovy Browser Automation.

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    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
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  6. Cypress icon
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    Cypress is a front end automated testing tool created for the modern web. Cypress is built on a new architecture and runs in the same run-loop as the application being tested. As a result Cypress provides better, faster, and more reliable testing for anything that runs in a...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
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  7. QANode icon
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    Visual test automation platform that lets teams design and run automated tests for any type of system using node-based workflows, scripting and powerful execution tools.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Mac
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  8. Keploy icon
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    Keploy is an open-source API and end-to-end testing framework that generates tests and mocks from application traffic for backend services.

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Visual Studio Code
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Docker
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  9. DogQ icon
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    DogQ is a user-friendly no-code web testing automation platform designed to help all skill level users test their web products. DogQ lets users perform their tasks easily and quickly, and collaborate with the team to ensure quality with speed.

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
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  10. DoesQA icon
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    DoesQA is the most powerful web test automation tool: end-to-end testing for every web journey, from sign-up to checkout, with no code to write or maintain. Write steps in plain language or branch real user forks on a visual canvas.

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
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  11. puppeteer icon
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    Puppeteer is a Node library which provides a high-level API to control headless Chrome or Chromium over the DevTools Protocol. It can also be configured to use full (non-headless) Chrome or Chromium.

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  12. CasperJS icon
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    CasperJS is an open source navigation scripting & testing utility written in Javascript for the PhantomJS WebKit headless browser and SlimerJS (Gecko).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Discontinued

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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