Browserless vs Figranium
Browserless and Figranium are both browser automation software. Browserless is open source under a license set out in its repository, with 14k GitHub stars. Figranium is open source under GPL-3.0, with 784 GitHub stars.
Which to pick
- Pick Browserless when
- You need a shared pool of headless browsers as a service for scraping or PDF generation, self-hosted or in Browserless's cloud.
- Pick Figranium when
- Non-developers on your team need to set up repeatable browser tasks or scrapes without writing Playwright code.
Side by side
Runs headless Chrome, Firefox and WebKit in Docker behind a WebSocket and REST API that Puppeteer and Playwright connect to, with session queueing and endpoints for screenshots and PDFs.
A self-hosted app for building browser automations from visual blocks such as click, type and wait, then running them on a schedule or through an HTTP API with screenshots and recordings kept.
The licence is free only for non-commercial use; commercial self-hosting needs a paid licence.
It is under a year old, GPL-3.0, and its sponsor list of residential proxy sellers shows it leans toward scraping.
Production-ready
Experimental
Self-hosted server and cloud service
Self-hosted server
TypeScript, Node.js and Docker
TypeScript, React, Express, PostgreSQL and Playwright
Open source, license unclear on GitHub
Open source, GPL-3.0 (strong copyleft)
GitHub could not read the license. Check it in the repository before reusing any code.
Use inside your business is unrestricted, but anything you distribute that includes it must be released under the same license.
14k GitHub stars
784 GitHub stars
Established: started 9 years ago, latest release v2.59.0.
Young: started 10 months ago, latest release v0.22.0.
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Both sides were judged on 2026-11-06 from each project's README and GitHub data. License, age and popularity lines are worked out directly.