Pick Director if
ops and analysts who know the workflow (“download last month’s invoices”) but do not want to start in Playwright.
Read the Director pageDirector vs Stagehand
Our take
Pick Director if ops and analysts who know the workflow (“download last month’s invoices”) but do not want to start in Playwright. Pick Stagehand if developers who already write Playwright and want self-healing prompts on top. Skip Director if teams that already write Stagehand locally, or that need a scrape-to-markdown API (Firecrawl). Skip Stagehand if people who want a hosted no-code agent (Manus) or a
Stagehand
open-source AI browser SDK
Best for
Director Automate a website without writing Playwright first
Stagehand Drive a page with natural-language primitives
Free plan
Director $0 · /mo. 3 concurrent; 1 browser hour; 3 Agent runs; 1,000 Search; 1,000 Fetch
Stagehand $0 · mIT. You bring a model key and Chrome
Lowest paid
Director Developer $20/mo
Stagehand Developer $20/mo
Next step up
Director Startup $99/mo
Stagehand Startup $99/mo
Coding agent
Director Live browser session
Stagehand
Runs where
Director Local; you host it
Stagehand
Watch out
Director Director hours are Browserbase hours
Stagehand Local is free
Last checked
Director 2026-10-22 · docs.browserbase.com/account/billing
Stagehand 2026-10-22 · browserbase.com/pricing
Which one, then?
Pick Stagehand if
developers who already write Playwright and want self-healing prompts on top.
Read the Stagehand page