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DimensionOpen ChatGPT AtlasAn open-source, free alternative to ChatGPT Atlas.Playwright MCPMicrosoft's official Playwright-based browser automation MCP serverChrome DevTools MCPThe Chrome team's official MCP server exposing Chrome DevTools capabilities to AI assistants
FMRS33 / 100 · D78 / 100 · B76 / 100 · B
Reliability2 / 2013 / 2013 / 20
Security and permissions7 / 2012 / 2012 / 20
Maintenance5 / 2018 / 2017 / 20
Documentation9 / 2018 / 2017 / 20
Setup experience10 / 2017 / 2017 / 20
Best for
  • Developers experimenting with browser automation.
  • Users who want AI browser capabilities in Chrome, Edge, or Electron.
  • Users who need access to Composio integrations.
  • Scenarios where an AI assistant needs to actually drive a browser to complete a task
  • Web automation testing and end-to-end verification
  • Frontend developers who want AI-assisted web debugging and performance analysis
  • Scenarios that need browser automation and performance diagnostics in the same tool
Not for
  • Users seeking a documented MCP server transport or standard client configuration.
  • Users unwilling to provide a Google API key.
  • Production environments requiring confirmed official maintenance or a known license.
  • Simple static-text scraping (a lightweight scraper is a better fit)
  • Environments sensitive to browser resource usage that can't run a full browser engine
  • Cases that only need to scrape page text without performance analysis or complex interaction (a lighter scraping tool is a better fit)
Required permissions
  • Requires browser-extension access to perform screenshots, clicks, typing, scrolling, and navigation on web pages.
  • Requires a Google API key; Tool Router mode additionally requires an optional Composio API key.
  • May access user-controlled web content and data from configured integrations.
  • Requires installing and running a browser engine (Chromium/Firefox/WebKit) locally or on a server
  • browser_navigate can visit any URL; browser_evaluate can run arbitrary JavaScript in the page context
  • Requires a local Chrome browser instance to run
  • navigate_page can visit any URL; type_text/fill_form and similar tools can enter arbitrary content into the page
Risks and side effects
  • Browser automation may perform sensitive actions; the project provides confirmation dialogs for actions such as checkout and payment.
  • The handling risk for API keys, web content, and integration data depends on configuration and usage.
  • The license is listed as unknown, so specific commercial or redistribution rights should not be assumed.
  • browser_evaluate executing arbitrary scripts carries risk if a malicious page is visited — restrict to trusted sites or an isolated environment
  • Long-running browser instances consume significant memory and CPU
  • Browser automation tools can access and manipulate the content of open pages — use only in a trusted development/test environment
  • performance_start_trace and similar tracing tools continuously record browser activity — avoid leaving them running on pages containing sensitive information
Supported clientsClaude Desktop, Claude Code, VS Code, Cursor, Windsurf, JetBrains, Zed, Cline, Amp, Kiro, LM Studio, Antigravity, GooseClaude Code, VS Code, Cursor, Windsurf, JetBrains, Cline, Amp, Kiro, Antigravity
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