Ranking

The Best AI Automation Tools (2026)

The best tools to automate with AI in your agency: workflows, scraping, browser agents and visual builders. Sorted by popularity.

Resources on the automation topic, sorted by GitHub stars.

1
n8n (platform)
Repo
Open source automation platform with native AI: connect apps and build workflows without Zapier/Make.
General★198k
2
MarkItDown
Repo
Converts PDF, Word, Excel and more to clean Markdown, ready for your LLM. From Microsoft.
General★169k
3
Firecrawl
Repo
Turns any website into clean data ready for your AI: scraping, crawling and extraction into Markdown.
General★155k
4
Langflow
Repo
A visual builder for AI flows and agents, drag and drop. An n8n-style open source alternative for LLMs.
General★152k
5
Dify
Repo
An open source platform to build agentic AI apps and workflows (RAG, chatbots, agents) with a visual UI.
General★150k
6
Browser Use
Repo
Let your AI agent control the browser: it fills in forms, navigates and extracts, all on its own.
General★106k
7
Paperclip (agent team orchestration)
Repo
Open source server and dashboard for running a team of agents like a company: goals, org chart, budgets and costs on one board.
General★82k
8
n8n-workflows (collection)
Repo
Huge collection of ready-to-import n8n workflows, gathered from the community and the official site.
General★56k
9
Flowise
Repo
A visual (low-code) builder for agents and LLM flows, drag and drop.
General★55k
10
LiteLLM
Repo
One format (OpenAI-style) to call 100+ LLM models. Proxy and cost control.
General★55k

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Do I need to know how to code?+

Not always. There are no-code options (n8n, Flowise) and others for developers. Each listing states the level.