Agentic Index

The best browser and computer-use agents in 2026, ranked

The best browser and computer-use agents of 2026 are Emergence AI, Browserbase, and Browser Use, ranked by verified capability coverage on the Agentic Index. All 45 researched vendors in the category are scored against the same 14 capabilities, and Emergence AI documents the broadest coverage at 12.5 out of 14.

Agentic Index ranks all 45 browser and computer-use agents in its index by verified capability coverage. These are agents that operate web and desktop interfaces directly. Each vendor is scored across the same 14 point taxonomy used throughout the index, most recently verified on 2026-07-22, and this ranking recomputes automatically as new research is verified.

Buyers also search this category as web agents, browser automation agents, computer use agents, and AI browser agents.

Scored on 14 buyer facing capabilities researched from public sources. No vendor pays for placement. How this ranking works

Best browser and computer-use agents by buyer need

Best for direct browser and interface control

Emergence AI

Documents 2.0 of 2 on browser and computer use with tool calling, and 12.5 of 14 overall.

Best for production reliability

Browserbase

Documents 2.0 of 2 on testing and observability, and 12.0 of 14 overall.

Best for regulated and governed deployments

Island

Documents 3.0 of 3 on security, auditability, and human oversight, and 11.0 of 14 overall.

Best for developer extensibility

Browser Use

Documents 2.0 of 2 on APIs, MCP support, and tool calling, and 11.0 of 14 overall.

Each segment names the vendor with the most documented coverage on the criteria that segment depends on, computed from the same research as the ranking below. A vendor appears once, in its strongest segment.

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   E

   Emergence AI12.5 / 14

   Enterprise agentic infrastructure whose autonomous multi agent orchestrator plans, executes, verifies, and iterates across web front ends and enterprise systems, coordinating specialized web and interface agents at machine scale.

   Full coverage on Integrations & Tool Calling and Workflow Orchestration and 9 more.

2. 2

   B

   Browserbase12.0 / 14

   Browser infrastructure platform for AI agents, providing hosted browsers, the Stagehand SDK, and Browserbase MCP integration.

   Full coverage on Browser & Computer Use and Integrations & Tool Calling and 9 more. No documented coverage on Knowledge Grounding & RAG.

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   B

   Browser Use11.0 / 14

   Open-source library and cloud platform enabling AI agents to browse and interact with web pages autonomously.

   Full coverage on Model Flexibility & Routing and Deployment & Data Residency and 7 more. No documented coverage on Knowledge Grounding & RAG.

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   I

   Island11.0 / 14

   The enterprise browser as agent control plane: build and run governed autonomous agents with per agent permissions, human approval gates, real time DLP on MCP data flows, per invocation SIEM audit logs, and model agnostic provider choice.

5. 5

   A

   Agent Zero10.5 / 14

   Open-source multi-agent framework with its own Linux-VM agent, subordinate agents, and dynamic tool creation.

   Full coverage on Integrations & Tool Calling and Workflow Orchestration and 5 more.

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   A

   Automat AI10.5 / 14

   Managed AI agents that operate computers visually to replace legacy RPA, running any app (SAP, Citrix, portals) without APIs and self healing when UIs change, built by forward deployed engineers.

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   Viktor10.5 / 14

   AI coworker that lives in Slack and Teams, connects to thousands of tools, and executes real work autonomously.

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   A

   Airtop10.0 / 14

   Cloud browsers for AI agents that compile plain English workflows into deterministic agents: runs on schedules or triggers, self-heals broken runs, persists authenticated profiles, and supports Live View human takeover. SDKs, REST APIs, and a builder agent named Mark.

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   Push Security10.0 / 14

   Security platform that uses browser telemetry and autonomous agents to detect and stop identity attacks.

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    A

    Asteroid9.5 / 14

    Supervised browser and computer use agents for regulated back offices: a frontier model drives the portal, then the agent compiles its own deterministic script and can even discover the private API underneath. Graph based, self healing, HIPAA ready, with live human supervision. YC W25.

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    C

    Convey9.5 / 14

    Platform to train, ship, and manage enterprise grade AI workers.

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    T

    Twin9.5 / 14

    Autonomous AI employee: agents plan, choose tools, and execute across 50,000 apps and websites plus a proprietary browser agent for API-less portals, triggered by email, call, schedule, or webhook, with approval gates on irreversible actions. Proven at scale via Qonto's Invoice Operator for 500,000+ SMBs.

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    B

    Bardeen9.0 / 14

    AI automation platform that scrapes, enriches, and acts on web data via browser-based agents.

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    F

    Fellou9.0 / 14

    Agentic browser whose Deep Action engine plans multi step web and desktop tasks, shows the editable plan before executing, runs in a sandboxed shadow workspace, and remembers context via Agentic Memory; $160M raised at $530M valuation.

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    Genspark AI Workspace9.0 / 14

    All in one AI workspace built on a Mixture of Agents architecture, where a Super Agent routes each request across many models and more than eighty tools to autonomously produce finished deliverables like cited research Sparkpages, slides, docs, spreadsheets, images, and video, and even makes real phone calls and runs background tasks via its Claw agent.

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    S

    Scrapybara9.0 / 14

    Computer-use and browser agent infrastructure with the Act SDK for web-based agentic automation tasks.

    Full coverage on Workflow Orchestration and APIs, SDKs & MCP Extensibility and 4 more. No documented coverage on Deployment & Data Residency and Knowledge Grounding & RAG.

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    S

    Skyvern9.0 / 14

    Open source browser agent that uses computer vision and language models instead of brittle selectors to complete multi step workflows on any website, with route memorization for deterministic replays.

    Full coverage on Security, Identity & Governance and Deployment & Data Residency and 3 more. No documented coverage on Prebuilt Agents, Templates & Packs.

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    N

    Notte8.5 / 14

    Open core full stack framework and browser infrastructure for building, deploying, and scaling reliable web agents, using a perception layer that turns webpages into natural language action maps.

    Full coverage on Model Flexibility & Routing and APIs, SDKs & MCP Extensibility and 4 more. No documented coverage on Human Oversight & Guardrails and Memory & State Persistence and 1 more.

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    O

    Opera Neon8.5 / 14

    Opera's premium agentic browser: Neon Do executes cross page tasks with real time visibility and takeover controls, Make builds apps and reports in offline cloud VMs, ODRA runs sourced research, all LLM agnostic at a published $19.90/mo.

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    V

    Visualping8.5 / 14

    Website change monitoring agent that renders and visually diffs web pages, uses AI to summarize and classify what changed, and alerts across email, Slack, Teams, and API.

    Full coverage on APIs / SDKs / MCP Extensibility and Browser / Computer-use and 3 more. No documented coverage on Model Flexibility & Routing and Testing, Debugging & Optimization.

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    A

    Anchor Browser8.0 / 14

    Cloud hosted browser infrastructure that lets AI agents operate real web interfaces, navigating, authenticating, filling forms, and extracting data on sites that have no API.

    Full coverage on Security, Identity & Governance and Integrations & Tool Calling and 3 more. No documented coverage on Human Oversight & Guardrails and Testing, Debugging & Optimization and 1 more.

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    K

    Kernel8.0 / 14

    Browsers as a service for AI agents: millisecond spin ups, persistent session state, live take-control views and replays, any-framework support plus an MCP server, and an agent runtime that turns agents into HTTPS endpoints. $22M from Accel and YC.

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    N

    Narada8.0 / 14

    Agentic process-automation and computer-use platform built on Large Action Models.

    Full coverage on Integrations & Tool Calling and Workflow Orchestration and 2 more. No documented coverage on Knowledge Grounding & RAG and Observability & Auditability.

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    P

    Perplexity Comet8.0 / 14

    AI native, agentic web browser from Perplexity, built on Chromium, where an assistant lives natively in the sidebar, knows which tab you are on, retains context across your session and tabs, and takes actions on your behalf like booking a flight, filling a form, comparing prices across tabs, or running Deep Research.

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    Runner H8.0 / 14

    Autonomous web agent and orchestration platform from H Company that drives browsers with a vision language model, coordinating specialized sub agents to complete multi step tasks from natural language.

    Full coverage on Integrations & Tool Calling and Workflow Orchestration and 2 more. No documented coverage on Memory & State Persistence and Prebuilt Agents, Templates & Packs.

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    Steel8.0 / 14

    Open source browser API for AI agents that runs cloud or self hosted Chromium sessions with anti detection, session persistence, and a live session viewer.

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    Tinyfish8.0 / 14

    Enterprise infrastructure for AI web agents that navigate, authenticate, extract, and transact across hundreds of live sites in parallel through a single Model Context Protocol native API.

    Full coverage on Integrations & Tool Calling and Workflow Orchestration and 2 more. No documented coverage on Prebuilt Agents, Templates & Packs and Model Flexibility & Routing.

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    Claude for Chrome7.5 / 14

    Anthropic's browser agent: a Chrome side panel that navigates, clicks, and fills forms with CDP level control, records actions into reusable scheduled shortcuts, bridges to Claude Code and Desktop, and leads the category on safety posture (high risk action approvals, site permissions, published prompt injection defenses). Beta on all paid plans.

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    Manus7.5 / 14

    Autonomous general AI agent from Butterfly Effect that runs inside a cloud based virtual computer, taking a high level goal and independently planning and executing multi step tasks, browsing real websites, writing and running code, analyzing data, and returning finished deliverables like reports, spreadsheets, slides, and working web apps.

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    Minded7.5 / 14

    Workflow automation trained from screen recordings: record once in Chrome, get a reusable team browser agent with scheduling, webhooks, API orchestration, SSO, permissions, and audit trails. Free extension plus paid workspace tiers.

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    Simular7.5 / 14

    AI agent that operates desktop and web software autonomously to complete knowledge work tasks.

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    Autotab7.0 / 14

    General AI agent that uses a mouse and keyboard like a person to do real work in a secure local browser, learning workflows by watching demonstrations and feedback.

    Full coverage on Workflow Orchestration and Browser & Computer Use. No documented coverage on Prebuilt Agents, Templates & Packs and Model Flexibility & Routing.

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    Hyperbrowser7.0 / 14

    Cloud headless browser infrastructure for AI agents with stealth, proxy rotation, and CAPTCHA solving, plus the open source HyperAgent framework and an MCP server.

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    MultiOn7.0 / 14

    Web agent platform enabling AI to browse the internet and complete multi-step tasks autonomously.

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    Brave Leo AI Browsing6.5 / 14

    Brave's privacy first browser agent: autonomous multi step browsing in an isolated profile with alignment checking and zero data retention, BYOM local model support, and the category's most documented security architecture; early access since May 2026.

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    Bright Data Agent Browser6.5 / 14

    Bright Data's cloud browser for agents: GUI Chromium fleets on 400M+ rotating IPs with autonomous CAPTCHA solving across every major challenge system, drop-in CDP compatibility, an MCP server, per-session fingerprints, and audit logs. The unlocking layer as agent infrastructure.

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    Axiom.ai6.0 / 14

    No code browser automation tool and Chrome extension for building bots that scrape, fill forms, and move data across websites, buildable by clicking, coding, or describing to Claude.

    Full coverage on APIs, SDKs & MCP Extensibility. No documented coverage on Knowledge Grounding & RAG and Human Oversight & Guardrails and 1 more.

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    Pine AI6.0 / 14

    Autonomous consumer agent that makes calls, sends emails, and uses the computer to negotiate bills and disputes.

    Full coverage on Workflow Orchestration and APIs, SDKs & MCP Extensibility. No documented coverage on Knowledge Grounding & RAG and Security, Identity & Governance and 2 more.

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    Orby AI5.0 / 14

    Generative process automation platform built on a proprietary Large Action Model that observes how people work, then generates code to automate enterprise workflows. Acquired by Uniphore in 2026.

    Full coverage on Workflow Orchestration and Browser & Computer Use. No documented coverage on Security, Identity & Governance and Deployment & Data Residency and 4 more.

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    AgentQL4.5 / 14

    A self-healing query language for the web: natural language selectors that find elements by meaning, survive layout changes, and return structured JSON or Playwright locators. SDKs, REST API, MCP server, and framework integrations — the semantic selector layer beneath agents.

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    Astral4.5 / 14

    Browser based AI marketing agent that operates social platforms like a human to monitor, engage, and run outreach and DM campaigns without using platform APIs.

    Full coverage on Browser / Computer-use. No documented coverage on Observability & Auditability and Model Flexibility & Routing and 4 more.

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    CopyCat AI4.5 / 14

    AI powered robotic process automation that builds no code browser agents combining intelligent agentic steps with precise deterministic actions to automate legacy web portals that lack APIs.

    Full coverage on Browser & Computer Use. No documented coverage on Human Oversight & Guardrails and Security, Identity & Governance and 4 more.

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    Sigma Browser4.5 / 14

    Privacy first agentic browser: an in-site agent that logs in, clicks, and completes multi step tasks with approve-before-submit control, plus Eclipse, a local on-device LLM with no cloud processing. Freemium, cross platform.

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    Induced AI4.0 / 14

    Cloud native browser automation platform that turns plain English into human like web navigation using visual reasoning, automating repetitive back office workflows on sites that lack integrations.

    Full coverage on Browser & Computer Use. No documented coverage on Security, Identity & Governance and Observability & Auditability and 5 more.

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    Lightpanda3.0 / 14

    A headless browser engine written from scratch in Zig for agents: ~11x faster and ~9x lighter than headless Chrome, CDP compatible with Playwright and Puppeteer, open source with a drop-in managed cloud. The engine layer of the agent browser stack; currently beta.