Browser automation MCP servers
Find MCP servers that control Chrome, Firefox, or a cloud browser: Playwright, Puppeteer, and hosted options compared by trust score and transport.
What to know about Browser automation MCP servers
Browser automation is one of the largest shelves in the MCP catalog. The servers fall into three groups: wrappers around Playwright or Puppeteer that launch a local headless browser, bridges that attach to the Chrome window you already have open, and hosted browser platforms that run sessions in the cloud and return screenshots or page snapshots over HTTP.
The main difference between them is how the agent sees the page. Some servers send the accessibility tree as text, which is cheap and works with any model. Others send screenshots and expect a vision-capable model to pick coordinates. Accessibility snapshots are usually faster and more reliable for forms and navigation, while screenshots help with canvas-heavy apps and visual checks.
Before you install one, check whether it can reuse your logged-in profile. That is convenient, but it also gives the agent your cookies. A fresh profile or a dedicated test account is the safer default, and hosted options let you keep browsing traffic off your own machine entirely.
Browser automation MCP servers
The 12 strongest of 685 matching servers. Servers that name the topic directly come first, then by trust score.
- 72Trust score 72 of 100, Good
moontide
by konni-arcadia · JavaScript
Early: Claude steers live music by writing Strudel code played in a browser page
RegistryLicenseQualityMaintenanceLicense: C. AGPL-3.0 is a strong copyleft license: derived works must use the same license.Quality: Not graded. No README or tool list has been captured yet.Maintenance: A. Last commit or release 21 days ago. - 70Trust score 70 of 100, Good
Kitsune
by junyeong-nero · Python
Let your coding agent use the Firefox, Zen, or LibreWolf browser you already have open.
RegistryLicenseQualityMaintenanceLicense: A. MIT is a permissive open source license.Quality: Not graded. No README or tool list has been captured yet.Maintenance: A. Last commit or release 4 days ago. - 69Trust score 69 of 100, Good
browser-gateway
by browser-gateway · TypeScript
AI browser tools with Chrome CDP. Navigate, screenshot, interact. Multi-provider failover.
RegistryLicenseQualityMaintenanceLicense: A. MIT is a permissive open source license.Quality: Not graded. No README or tool list has been captured yet.Maintenance: A. Last commit or release 22 days ago. - 69Trust score 69 of 100, Good
Proxy MCP for Playwright, Figma, DevTools, Shopify Dev, Context7 — fewer tokens, caching
RegistryLicenseQualityMaintenanceLicense: A. MIT is a permissive open source license.Quality: Not graded. No README or tool list has been captured yet.Maintenance: A. Last commit or release 8 days ago. - 69Trust score 69 of 100, Good
mcp
by extensiondev · TypeScript
Build, run, inspect, and publish browser extensions from any MCP client. 38 tools, 13 browsers.
RegistryLicenseQualityMaintenanceLicense: A. Apache-2.0 is a permissive open source license.Quality: Not graded. No README or tool list has been captured yet.Maintenance: A. Last commit or release 4 days ago. - 69Trust score 69 of 100, Good
Charts and dashboards as images for AI agents. No browser, same data same bytes. Local and free.
RegistryRemoteLicenseQualityMaintenanceLicense: C. AGPL 3.0 is a strong copyleft license: derived works must use the same license.Quality: Not graded. No README or tool list has been captured yet.Maintenance: Not graded. No commit or release date has been recorded. - 68Trust score 68 of 100, Good
Accessibility-tree browser for AI agents: read pages, log in, extract data, run tasks.
RegistryLicenseQualityMaintenanceLicense: A. MIT is a permissive open source license.Quality: Not graded. No README or tool list has been captured yet.Maintenance: A. Last commit or release 24 days ago. - 68Trust score 68 of 100, Good
MCP Browser Extension
by mehmoodqureshi · TypeScript
Drive your real Chrome over MCP: real logins and cookies, multi-tab automation, deny-all by default.
RegistryLicenseQualityMaintenanceLicense: A. MIT is a permissive open source license.Quality: Not graded. No README or tool list has been captured yet.Maintenance: A. Last commit or release 10 days ago. - 68Trust score 68 of 100, Good
Play with your app's design in the browser: load a build, turn the knobs, export the code.
RegistryLicenseQualityMaintenanceLicense: A. MIT is a permissive open source license.Quality: Not graded. No README or tool list has been captured yet.Maintenance: A. Last commit or release 19 days ago. - 68Trust score 68 of 100, Good
ai-browser
by glittering · JavaScript
Visible Electron browser driven by a semantic accessibility tree: 17 MCP tools, no screenshots.
RegistryLicenseQualityMaintenanceLicense: A. MIT is a permissive open source license.Quality: Not graded. No README or tool list has been captured yet.Maintenance: A. Last commit or release 7 days ago. - 68Trust score 68 of 100, Good
Ask the human for API keys in a browser page and write them to .env. The model only sees key names.
RegistryLicenseQualityMaintenanceLicense: A. MIT is a permissive open source license.Quality: Not graded. No README or tool list has been captured yet.Maintenance: A. Last commit or release 18 days ago. 
67Trust score 67 of 100, GoodNexusBrowser
by pironjulien · JavaScript
Your real Chrome in background tabs (Windows; needs the NexusBrowser bridge and extension).
RegistryLicenseQualityMaintenanceLicense: A. MIT is a permissive open source license.Quality: Not graded. No README or tool list has been captured yet.Maintenance: A. Last commit or release 18 days ago.
How to install one
- Compare the shortlist. moontide leads this topic. Open two or three listings and compare their tools, transport, and required API keys.
- Copy the config for your client. Each listing has an install guide, for example Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, or VS Code. The client guides show where each config file lives.
- Scope credentials, then restart. Use the narrowest token or folder the server needs, restart the client, and check that the new tools appear.
Browser automation MCP questions
Should I pick a Playwright or a Puppeteer based MCP server?
Playwright servers support Chromium, Firefox, and WebKit and ship accessibility snapshots out of the box, so they are the common default. Puppeteer servers are Chromium-only but light and well understood. Either works for most agent tasks; pick the one with the higher trust score and recent releases.
Do browser MCP servers need a visible browser window?
No. Most run headless by default and only open a window when you pass a flag. Running headed is useful while you watch the agent work for the first time, then switch back to headless for routine runs.
When is a hosted browser server worth it?
When you need many parallel sessions, residential IPs, or CAPTCHA handling, or when your client cannot launch local processes. Hosted servers connect over a URL, so they also work in web clients. Filter for them on the remote servers page.