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Obscura
★ 21kUltra-lightweight headless browser written in Rust for AI agents and scraping — a drop-in replacement for headless Chrome with Puppeteer/Playwright support.
Obscura does the job of Browserbase, Browserless and ZenRows, self-hosted. It is Apache-2.0-licensed, so you can do essentially what you like with it, and it installs in about one command. Browserbase bills $39/mo for it. 21k stars on GitHub.
Open-source replacement for Browserbase, Browserless, ZenRows.
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
- Self-hosting
- Easy
- The paid one costs
- $39/mo
- GitHub stars
- 21k
Is it actually a replacement?
We have not written a verdict on Browserbase or Browserless or ZenRows yet, so this page says what Obscura is rather than judging what you would give up. When that product gets a page, this one will link to it.
Obscura questions
Is Obscura open source?
Yes — it is released under Apache-2.0.
Can I self-host Obscura?
Yes — we rate it easy to self-host.
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