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Selenium is ranked #24 of 63 in browser automation tools on Inferse. It runs on Linux, macOS, Self-hosted, Web, Windows. There is a free plan.

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Purpose: Selenium is a suite of tools for automating web browsers, primarily for testing web applications.selenium.dev · 2 Oct 2026
WebDriver: WebDriver provides language bindings to drive browsers locally or remotely, and is a W3C Recommendation.selenium.dev · 2 Oct 2026
IDE: Selenium IDE is a browser add-on for recording and playing back interactions, and supports Chrome, Firefox, and Edge.selenium.dev · 2 Oct 2026
Grid: Selenium Grid distributes tests across machines and browser and operating system combinations.selenium.dev · 2 Oct 2026
Languages: The main project supports client bindings for .NET/C#, Ruby, Java, Python, and JavaScript.selenium.dev · 2 Oct 2026
Browsers: The documentation lists browser-specific functionality for Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Internet Explorer, and Safari.selenium.dev · 2 Oct 2026
Driver management: Selenium Manager can discover, download, and cache browser releases and drivers for Selenium.selenium.dev · 2 Oct 2026
Deployment: Grid can run in Standalone, Hub and Node, or Distributed configurations; the downloads page also links to Docker and Kubernetes deployment resources.selenium.dev · 2 Oct 2026
CI integrations: The Grid guide names GitHub Actions and Jenkins as examples of CI/CD tools where Grid can be set up.selenium.dev · 2 Oct 2026
Security: The Grid guide warns that Grid must be protected from external access with appropriate firewall permissions because exposure can allow access to infrastructure, internal apps and files, or custom binary execution.selenium.dev · 2 Oct 2026
Grid authentication: The Selenium project says Grid has no authentication by default and advises placing it behind a secure network; it documents ways to secure it.selenium.dev · 2 Oct 2026
Support and community: The project directs contributors to its Developers Group and is a member of the Software Freedom Conservancy, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit.selenium.dev · 2 Oct 2026
Notable limit: The project states that Selenium does not support the latest Opera driver functionality and that the driver is officially unsupported.selenium.dev · 2 Oct 2026
Origins: The project history says Selenium began in 2004 at ThoughtWorks in Chicago, where Jason Huggins built the initial Core mode.selenium.dev · 2 Oct 2026