Cloud browsers for AI agents

26 of 36 agent sandboxes are cloud browsers: remote Chromium-class browsers your agent drives over CDP, Playwright or MCP. The lowest published hourly rates are $0.01 (Notte), $0.02 (Browser Use Cloud) and $0.06 (Kernel). 15 add stealth, 16 solve CAPTCHAs, 12 offer a live view for human takeover and 13 ship an MCP server. Kernel allows the longest single session, 72 hours.

26 of 36 sandboxesChecked

StealthCAPTCHA solvingProxiesLive viewRecordingCDPMCP serverSOC 2
Notte$0.011$20.001511001YesYesYesYesYesYesYesType II2026-11-11
Browser Use Cloud$0.021$0.001—1,0001—YesYes—YesYes—Type II2026-11-11
Kernel$0.062$30.0017231503YesYesYesYesYesYesYesType II2026-11-11
Solari Browsers$0.071$20.0012411501YesYesYes—YesYes——2026-11-11
Lightpanda$0.082$19.002—302——No——YesYes—2026-11-11
Steel$0.082$0.002121002YesYesYesYesYesYesYes—2026-11-11
Anchor Browser$0.091$50.001—2001YesYesYesYesYesYesYesType II2026-11-11
Cloudflare Browser Rendering$0.092——2003—————YesYes—2026-11-11
Scrapeless Browser$0.091———YesYesYesYesYesYesYes—2026-11-11
Browserbase$0.101$20.001621001YesYesYesYesYesYesYesType II2026-11-11
Hyperbrowser$0.101$30.001—1001YesYesYesYesYes—Yes—2026-11-11
TinyFish TinyBrowser$0.121$0.001——Yes—YesYes—Yes——2026-11-11
Rebrowser$0.171$49.001—1001YesYes——————2026-11-11
Browserless$0.181$25.001111001—YesYes———YesType II2026-11-11
Surfsky$0.201$0.001—1991YesYesYes——Yes——2026-11-11
BrowserCat$0.211$50.001—1,0001—————Yes——2026-11-11
Airtop—$29.001—1001—YesYesYes———Type II2026-11-11
Alibaba AgentBay Browser————Yes——YesYesYesYes—2026-11-11
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Browser—$0.001821,0003———YesYes———2026-11-11
Azure Playwright Workspaces———1002———YesYesYesYes—2026-11-11
Bright Data Browser API—$0.001——YesYesYes—————2026-11-11
Google Agent Platform Computer Use—————————Yes——2026-11-11
OpenAI Agents API Browser————————————2026-11-11
Oxylabs Agent Browser—$15.001——YesYesYes—YesYesYes—2026-11-11
Scrapfly Cloud Browser—$30.002——YesYesYes—YesYes——2026-11-11
ZenRows Scraping Browser—$19.0010.252———Yes——Yes——2026-11-11

Hourly rates and calculation basis

Pricing method

Usage rates exclude plan fees unless stated. AgentCore is a resource example. Anchor is a calculator input. Read the basis before comparing.

SandboxUSD per hourBasis and required plan
Steel$0.08Vendor-stated $0.08/browser-hour on Scale ($250/mo + usage, $100 monthly usage credits). Launch $0/mo + $0.10/h. Proxy traffic and CAPTCHA extra; stealth Enterprise-only.Vendor source
Hyperbrowser$0.10$0.10/h = 100 credits/h × ($1 ÷ 1,000 credits). Same unit rate on Free, Startup and Scale; Startup $30/mo. Proxy traffic and agent steps extra.Vendor source
Anchor Browser$0.09Calculator input: $0.09/browser-hour, not a rate inferred from the displayed monthly total. Proxy input $8/GB; per-step fees extra. Displayed totals do not reconcile with line-item formulas; confirm a quote. Starter $50/mo uses credit-based task billing.Vendor source
Browserless$0.18$0.18/h = (3,600 s ÷ 30 s/unit) × $0.0015/unit on Scale ($350/mo billed annually). Prototyping: 120 × $0.0020 = $0.24/h. Browser time only; reconnects restart unit rounding; proxy and CAPTCHA units extra.Vendor source
Kernel$0.06$0.06000012/h ≈ $0.06/h = 3,600 × $0.0000166667/s for headless. Headful: 3,600 × $0.0001333336 ≈ $0.48/h; headful + GPU: 3,600 × $0.0008000016 ≈ $2.88/h. Standby not billed; monthly fees separate.Vendor source
Browser Use Cloud$0.02Vendor-stated $0.02/browser-hour, no subscription. Home-IP proxy $5/GB; direct or your own proxy traffic $0.20/GB. Agent/model calls extra.Vendor source
Notte$0.01Vendor-stated $0.01/browser-hour, rounded by billing policy. Browser functions use a separate $0.05/h meter; residential proxies $10/GB and LLM tokens extra. Developer $20/mo.Vendor source
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore BrowserResource exampleExample only: $0.1273/h = 1 vCPU × $0.0895/vCPU-hour + 4 GB × $0.00945/GB-hour at full utilization. The 1 vCPU / 4 GB allocation is from Browser quotas. CPU metered by actual use; not a minimum or flat session rate.Vendor source · Allocation source
BrowserCat$0.21$0.21/h = (3,600 s ÷ 30 s/credit) × $0.00175/credit on Business ($50/mo). Hobby: 120 × $0.0025 = $0.30/h. Optional $300 USDC Scale pack: 120 × $0.0015 = $0.18/h; pack rate excluded from subscription comparison.Vendor source
TinyFish TinyBrowser$0.12$0.12/h = 60 minutes × $0.002/browser-minute. No subscription or monthly minimum; residential proxy routing and anti-bot protection included. Billed by the minute.Vendor source
Solari Browsers$0.07Vendor-stated $0.07/browser-hour on Professional ($200/mo with $200 usage credits). Starter: $20/mo + $0.10/h; Free: $0.15/h. Proxy and CAPTCHA extra. Sales-only Team and Enterprise excluded.Vendor source

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How to read the columns

Methodology
Price per hour $/session-hr
Lowest published usage rate on any self-serve plan, before plan fees, proxies and bandwidth unless the basis includes them. Conversions name their formula and tier. Resource-priced desktops name a published configuration; resource examples without a minimum stay empty.
Paid plan from $/mo
Cheapest published paid plan per month. 0 means pure pay-as-you-go with no plan fee.
Max session h
Longest single session the vendor allows on its top self-serve plan, in hours (minutes divided by 60).
Concurrency sessions
Most concurrent sessions published on a self-serve plan (enterprise 'custom' excluded).
Stealth
Anti-bot-detection or fingerprint management built in.
CAPTCHA solving
Automatic CAPTCHA solving built in.
Proxies
Managed residential or datacenter proxies included or sold as an add-on.
Live view
A live view or embeddable stream of the session, for watching or human takeover.
Recording
Session recording or replay.
CDP
Connect over the Chrome DevTools Protocol (WebSocket URL).
MCP server
An official MCP server for the product.
SOC 2
SOC 2 attestation the vendor states for this product (hyperscalers: the cloud's own report covers the service).