Nextbrowser vs. Gaffa

Nextbrowser is a free, open-source browser automation platform that connects AI agents with browser profiles, online accounts, proxies, and reusable workflows. It is designed to let AI agents perform browser-based work directly rather than requiring every automation to depend on an official platform API. Users can connect agents such as Claude Code, Codex, OpenClaw, and Antigravity CLI to their Nextbrowser workspace. After connecting an agent, users select the browser profile, proxy, skills, schedule, and other tools required for a workflow before providing the agent with instructions. Nextbrowser can be used for research, public advertising intelligence, competitive monitoring, web scraping, outreach, ecommerce, price monitoring, developer QA, SEO link building, social media monitoring, account workflows, and LLM optimization. Its research capabilities can search websites, read pages, extract structured information, compare public campaigns, and record findings from landing pages and advertising libraries. Recurring workflows can be scheduled to run while the desktop application is open, allowing agents to continue handling repetitive browser tasks with limited manual intervention. For account-based workflows, Nextbrowser provides encrypted credential handling and lets users log in through a remote browser without directly sharing passwords with their AI agents. The platform also includes anti-fingerprinting technology, residential proxy support, and functionality for maintaining multiple accounts on the same website. Because workflows operate through browser sessions, Nextbrowser can perform actions such as posting, commenting, engagement, and data collection without being limited to functionality exposed through an official API. By combining AI agents, browser automation, account profiles, scheduling, and workflow configuration in one environment, Nextbrowser is designed for teams and individuals that want AI to execute recurring web-based operational tasks.

Gaffa is an API for web scraping and browser automation that gives developers control over real, full browsers with a single request, no headless-browser setup, proxy management, or infrastructure scaling required. Pages render with full JavaScript support by default, matching exactly what a real user would see. The platform covers the full range of automation needs: scraping, AI-powered data extraction into structured JSON using custom schemas, full-page screenshots, PDF export, infinite-scroll scraping, automated form filling, and converting webpages into clean Markdown for AI and LLM workflows. Reliability is built in through a rotating residential proxy network and automatic CAPTCHA and anti-bot handling, so requests succeed even against protected sites. Pricing follows a transparent, credit-based model tied to browser execution time and bandwidth, making costs predictable as usage scales. Gaffa is aimed at AI engineers, data-driven teams, and developers who need dependable, large-scale web data without the overhead of running their own scraping infrastructure.