BrowserSkill vs Stagehand
BrowserSkill (Tencent) and Stagehand (Browserbase) side by side on public data, as of Oct 10, 2026.
Stagehand has 3.0x the GitHub stars of BrowserSkill (25.6K against 8,521). BrowserSkill shipped 18 stable releases in the past 90 days. Stagehand shipped 7 stable releases in the past 90 days.
Side-by-side numbers
| Metric | BrowserSkill | Stagehand |
|---|---|---|
| Gid Score | 46 | 59 |
| Overall rank | #79 | #31 |
| Downloads, last 7 days | — | 2.1M |
| Downloads, 7-day change | — | down 10.8% |
| Downloads, 30-day change | — | up 29.0% |
| VS Code installs | — | — |
| Marketplace rating | — | — |
| GitHub stars | 8,521 | 25.6K |
| Homebrew installs, 30 days | — | — |
| Hacker News mentions, 30 days | 0 | 17 |
| Latest stable release | 0.3.2 · 10d ago | 3.7.3 · 43d ago |
| Stable releases, 90 days | 18 | 7 |
| Terminal-Bench (best run) | — | — |
| Price | Free (OSS) | Free + $20/mo |
| License | MIT | MIT |
| First released | June 2026 | October 2024 |
| Interfaces | — | API |
| Models | Any LLM selected by provider/model string (for example openai/gpt-5.4-mini) with your own API key |
Trends
BrowserSkill
Let AI agents use your real, logged-in browser without interrupting your work. CLI + extension for browser automation across any shell-capable AI agent.
Pricing: Open source under the MIT licence; check the website for any paid hosted plans.
Latest release 0.3.2:
- fix(geometry): unify cross-frame coordinates and screenshot conversion | 统一跨 frame 坐标与截图转换
- refactor(observation): decouple DOM processing from capture orchestration | 解耦 DOM 处理与采集流程
- refactor(observation): unify cross-frame capture coordination and data ownership | 统一跨 frame 采集协调与数据归属
- fix(observation): validate DOM identity across capture phases | 校验跨采集阶段的 DOM 身份一致性
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.