Scrapybara alternatives
The 6 alternatives below are grouped by kind of sandbox, and each says what it does differently from Scrapybara. Start from whatever made you look: missing GPUs, session limits, self-hosting, pricing or isolation.
Why teams look beyond Scrapybara
A compact computer-use desktop API with good tooling, but undocumented isolation and pricing and a parent company that has pivoted make it one to evaluate carefully.
- Isolation technology, pricing, regions and compliance are not documented
- The company has publicly moved on to a new product (Capy); long-term support of the Scrapybara API is unclear
- Stopping an instance deletes all data; no snapshot or image feature is documented
Scrapybara alternatives, by kind
Browser and desktop sandboxes
Hosted browsers and full desktops that computer-use agents click, type and browse in.
Browserbase
Hosted headless Chromium sessions for web agents, driven over CDP with Playwright, Puppeteer, Selenium or the Stagehand SDK, with Contexts for persisted logins and four regions.
- Isolated Chromium session
How it differs: Web agents that need managed Chromium at scale with persisted logins and stealth. A mature managed-Chromium service for web agents, with strong SDK and framework coverage but an undocumented isolation boundary.
Cua
Open-source computer-use infrastructure: Linux sandboxes as gVisor containers and macOS or Windows sandboxes as VMs, run locally, in your own cloud account or as shared "Spaces".
- gVisor container or VM
- Open source
- Self-hostable
- Pause/resume
How it differs: Teams that want open-source computer-use sandboxes on their own Macs, servers or cloud accounts, including macOS VMs on Apple silicon. The broadest open-source option for computer-use sandboxes across macOS, Linux and Windows, now firmly a self-run toolkit after the hosted cloud shut down.
Hyperbrowser
Credit-billed cloud Chrome sessions with profiles, stealth and captcha solving, plus one-shot agent runs (Claude Computer Use, OpenAI CUA, Browser Use) and separate VM-based code sandboxes.
- Isolated browser instance
How it differs: Agents that need cheap browser hours with a built-in path to run computer-use models as one-shot tasks. A credit-priced browser cloud with the broadest built-in agent-model support, held back by thin isolation and compliance documentation.
Kasm Workspaces
Container-streamed Linux desktops and browsers, self-hosted or as Kasm SaaS, with a Developer API and a free Community Edition that Kasm now also positions for agentic AI.
- Docker container
- Self-hostable
- GPU
How it differs: Organisations that already run browser-streamed desktops and want to give agents the same isolated, policy-controlled containers. A mature container-streaming VDI platform whose Developer API can hand agents isolated desktops, best suited to teams that already operate it.
Kernel
Browsers for agents where each Chromium runs in its own Unikraft unikernel VM, with standby that stops billing, profiles, and open-source images under Apache-2.0.
- Unikernel VM per browser
- Open source
- Self-hostable
- GPU
- Pause/resume
How it differs: Agents that need fast, hypervisor-isolated browsers with pay-only-while-active billing. Hypervisor-isolated browsers with standby billing and open images, the most transparent isolation story among the closed clouds.
Orgo
Always-on cloud Linux and Windows desktops for AI agents, each an isolated VM billed by the second, with a computer-use API, MCP server, SSH, clone and fork.
- Isolated VM (hypervisor not named)
- GPU
- Pause/resume
How it differs: Agents that keep a persistent cloud desktop running around the clock with a browser, terminal and SSH. A persistent-desktop service for computer-use agents with unusually transparent per-second pricing, though isolation details are thin.
Scrapybara vs alternatives
| Sandbox | Isolation | Open source | Self-host / BYOC | Cold start (vendor) | Max session | Snapshots / pause | GPU | SDKs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scrapybara | Not documented | No | No / No | <1 s (claimed) | 1 h default, configurable | No / Yes | No | Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, REST API, MCP server, CLI |
| Browserbase | Isolated Chromium session | No | No / No | <2 s (claim) | 6 h (15 min Free) | No / No | No | Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, REST API, MCP server |
| Cua | gVisor container or VM | Yes | Yes / No | Not documented | Until destroyed | Yes / Yes | Not documented | Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Rust, CLI, MCP server |
| Hyperbrowser | Isolated browser instance | No | No / No | <500 ms (claim) | Up to 12 h | No / No | No | Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, CLI, REST API, MCP server |
| Kasm Workspaces | Docker container | No | Yes / No | Not documented | Admin-defined | No / Not documented | Yes | REST API |
| Kernel | Unikernel VM per browser | Yes | Yes / No | ~30 ms p50 (claim) | Up to 72 h | Yes / Yes | Yes | JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, Go, CLI, REST API, MCP server |
| Orgo | Isolated VM (hypervisor not named) | No | No / No | Seconds (claimed) | Unlimited (paid) | Yes / Yes | Yes | Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, REST API, CLI, MCP server |
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Agent Sandboxes. (2026). Scrapybara alternatives. agentsandboxes.org. Last reviewed November 9, 2026. https://agentsandboxes.org/alternatives/scrapybara/
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