ARTEMIS vs Stagehand
ARTEMIS (Google) and Stagehand (Browserbase) side by side on public data, as of Oct 6, 2026.
Stagehand has 2.3x the GitHub stars of ARTEMIS (25.5K against 11K). Stagehand shipped 7 stable releases in the past 90 days.
Side-by-side numbers
| Metric | ARTEMIS | Stagehand |
|---|---|---|
| Pulse Score | 48 | 58 |
| Overall rank | #49 | #21 |
| Downloads, last 7 days | — | 2.5M |
| Downloads, 7-day change | — | up 13.4% |
| Downloads, 30-day change | — | up 16.5% |
| VS Code installs | — | — |
| Marketplace rating | — | — |
| GitHub stars | 11K | 25.5K |
| Homebrew installs, 30 days | — | — |
| Hacker News mentions, 30 days | 0 | 17 |
| Latest stable release | — | 3.7.3 · 39d ago |
| Stable releases, 90 days | 7 | |
| Terminal-Bench (best run) | — | — |
| Price | Free (OSS) | Free + $20/mo |
| License | Apache-2.0 | MIT |
| First released | August 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 |
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ARTEMIS
An agent that takes natural-language instructions and carries out multi-step tasks and test workflows on Android devices or emulators through ADB using multimodal models, with an MCP server so coding assistants can drive devices.
Pricing: Free Apache-2.0 software; users supply their own multimodal model API keys.
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.