Amazon Nova Act vs Stagehand
Amazon Nova Act (Amazon (AWS)) and Stagehand (Browserbase) side by side on public data, as of Oct 6, 2026.
Stagehand has 34.2x the weekly package downloads of Amazon Nova Act (2.5M against 71.7K). Stagehand has 27.8x the GitHub stars of Amazon Nova Act (25.5K against 918). Over the last 30 days downloads moved -41% for Amazon Nova Act and +16% for Stagehand. Stagehand shipped 7 stable releases in the past 90 days.
Side-by-side numbers
| Metric | Amazon Nova Act | Stagehand |
|---|---|---|
| Pulse Score | 23 | 58 |
| Overall rank | #111 | #20 |
| Downloads, last 7 days | 71.7K | 2.5M |
| Downloads, 7-day change | down 3.5% | up 13.4% |
| Downloads, 30-day change | down 41.0% | up 16.5% |
| VS Code installs | — | — |
| Marketplace rating | — | — |
| GitHub stars | 918 | 25.5K |
| Homebrew installs, 30 days | — | — |
| Hacker News mentions, 30 days | 0 | 17 |
| Latest stable release | 3.4.187.0 · 5mo ago | 3.7.3 · 39d ago |
| Stable releases, 90 days | 0 | 7 |
| Terminal-Bench (best run) | — | — |
| Price | Usage-based | Free + $20/mo |
| License | Apache-2.0 | MIT |
| First released | March 2025 | October 2024 |
| Interfaces | API, CLI, Web | API |
| Models | Amazon's custom Nova 2 Lite model | Any LLM selected by provider/model string (for example openai/gpt-5.4-mini) with your own API key |
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Amazon Nova Act
AWS service and Apache-2.0 Python SDK for building and running fleets of UI-automation agents that complete browser workflows from natural-language act() calls plus Python code and hand off to a human when needed. Workflows are developed in a web playground, IDE extension or CLI and deployed on AWS.
Pricing: $4.75 per agent hour (human-in-the-loop wait time excluded; parallel agents are billed separately); available in US East (N. Virginia).
Latest release 3.4.187.0:
- Async Nova Act GA: The async NovaAct implementation is now generally available, giving you full asyncio support for concurrent browser automation workflows
- localStorage Session Persistence: Session providers can now optionally restore localStorage on session start, enabling seamless session continuity for apps that store auth tokens (e.g., JWTs) in…
- [CLI] Local File Browsing: You can now pass file:// URLs as the starting page in the CLI. Security options are automatically configured with the parent directory added to allowed file paths
- [CLI] S3 Key Prefix for Workflows: The act workflow create and act workflow deploy CLI commands now accept --s3-key-prefix for organizing workflow artifacts under a custom S3 key prefix
Stagehand
Open-source SDK from Browserbase for building browser agents that mix natural-language actions (act, extract, observe, agent) with code, available in TypeScript, Python and Go and runnable locally or on Browserbase cloud browsers.
Pricing: Stagehand itself is free (MIT). Optional Browserbase cloud browsers: Free $0 (1 browser hour, $5 in model tokens), Developer $20/month (100 hours), Startup $99/month (500 hours), Scale custom; model usage is billed separately.
Latest release 3.7.3:
- #2842 f86e609 Thanks @seanmcguire12! - update the MCP SDK to v1.30 and refresh supporting dependency versions
- #2836 94a0ee4 Thanks @seanmcguire12! - fix cross-frame xpaths building logic for coordinates inside of iframes.