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An agent-focused cloud Chromium with captcha solving, managed logins and US hosting against a fleet of twelve real browsers: per-browser and per-hour fees plus $0.20/GB even through your own proxy (higher plans only), or flat threads with free traffic through any proxy. Prices, limits and features side by side.

Anchor Browser runs a Chromium fork in the cloud for AI agents and automation: each browser in its own VM, reached over CDP with Playwright or Puppeteer, with captcha solving, managed authentication (MFA included), profiles, extensions, recordings and hosted MCP servers, plus natural-language "web tasks", recorded Automation Tasks and a sessionless Web Unlocker — all on credits, hosted in the US by default. cdpfleet is a fleet of twelve real desktop browsers — Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Brave, Opera, Naver Whale, Yandex Browser, Chromium, Patchright, Rebrowser, Camoufox, Firefox and WebKit — launched with one HTTPS call and driven over the Playwright protocol or CDP from five languages, on threads you buy. Anchor bundles more agent features; cdpfleet gives you more browsers and keeps traffic through your own proxies free. This page also sets Anchor's one-call tools next to cdpfleet Functions, jobs and monitors.

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Browsers12 — Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Brave, Opera, Naver Whale, Yandex Browser, Chromium, Patchright, Rebrowser, Camoufox, Firefox, WebKit. Chrome with stable, beta and dev channels and pinned previous majors; Camoufox with pinned versions.One Chromium fork (version not published), headful by default; an "extra stealth" patched build on the Growth plan.
How you connectPlaywright protocol (connect(wsUrl), client 1.60) from Node.js, Python, Java, C# and Go — or "cdp": true for a cdpUrl (Puppeteer, connectOverCDP). SDKs for Node.js, Python and Go (C# and Java build from source).CDP (connectOverCDP, Puppeteer); TypeScript and Python SDKs; REST and OS-level mouse/keyboard control.
Ending a sessionClosing the connection ends the session and the billing; an unused session ends after 60 seconds.Disconnecting doesn't end it: it runs until the idle timeout (5 minutes by default) or a stop call.
Session lengthUp to 24 h (shared threads: also capped by your remaining daily minutes). Idle timeout 120 s by default, up to 10 min on shared threads and 24 h on dedicated.A maximum duration — 180 minutes by default in the timeout guide, 20 in the API reference — and an idle timeout (5 minutes); both can be disabled.
Browser timeFree Community plan: 2 threads, 60 browser-minutes per thread a day, 15-minute sessions, proxies included. Per second, as thread-seconds. Shared: $0.02–$0.05 per browser-hour at full use; dedicated $0.01/hour ($8.50/month for a browser around the clock). A headful session takes 2 threads.$0.01 per browser created plus $0.05 per browser-hour by the minute (docs; the pricing page's calculator uses $0.09/hour). Plans: Free ($5 credits/month), Starter $50/month, Team $500/month (on the pricing page only), Growth $2,000/month, Enterprise. A recorded Automation Task run costs a flat $0.10 if it succeeds (or its infrastructure cost, if higher).
Traffic through your own proxiesFree on every plan — HTTP, HTTPS or SOCKS5, single, pools or per-host rules, with live swap. Or the cdpfleet residential proxy, 4 tiers from $0.50 to $5/GB.From the Team plan by the pricing page, from Growth by the docs' plan table — and still $0.20/GB (the same applies with no proxy at all).
Residential proxycdpfleet residential: 4 tiers from $0.50/GB ($5/GB at Tier 1), $5 free credit, by country, device OS and sticky session.$8/GB, country/region/city targeting (geolocation from Starter up); dedicated sticky IPs on profiles.
ConcurrencyThe threads you buy: 5 to 10,000 (more on request).Free 5, Starter 25, Team 50 (pricing page), Growth 200, Enterprise 500+.
StealthReal browsers by default (genuine Chrome, Edge, Brave…), headful by default, and three stealth builds — Patchright, Rebrowser, Camoufox (compare them)."Extra stealth" on Growth (needs their proxy); unique fingerprints on Enterprise.
Captcha solvingNot built in. Use any solver through Playwright, or hand over to a person with live view.Built in from Starter (vision plus extensions, Cloudflare included); needs a proxy or profile.
Watching a sessionLive view with human takeover — Watch / Take control in the dashboard, or a link from the API — and Launch interactive: open any browser on a start page straight into live view from the dashboard's code generator (start_url over the API). Session recordings as MP4 (480p free, 720p or 1080p on a plan), and JPEG frames to your code with page.screencast.Embeddable live view (read-only and one-time-URL options); MP4 recordings on by default, data kept 7 days on Free and Starter (30 days on Team, by the pricing page).
Persistence and loginsPersistent profiles keep cookies, local storage and IndexedDB between sessions (paid plans); Playwright storageState; keep_alive to reconnect to the same browser on dedicated threads. No extensions.Profiles, managed authentication with MFA (email OTP, TOTP, 1Password), Chrome extensions, persistent file volumes.
Scraping in one callFunctions: screenshot, PDF, Markdown, scrape (HTML, Markdown, text, links, screenshot, XHR calls, cookies; wait_for, actions, extract by CSS selector), map, geo compare and a live tab — in a pooled browser, or in a browser and device of your choice on paid plans. Billed like a session (one thread while the call runs, one per country for geo compare); the Community proxy and your own proxies cost nothing extra. Free tools at /functions.Web Unlocker (POST /v1/tools/fetch/webpage): one URL in, rendered HTML out (PDFs and other files as they are), from a stealth Chromium behind a residential proxy, with Cloudflare, reCAPTCHA, FunCaptcha, DataDome, Kasada, Akamai and PerimeterX challenges solved; $0.005 per successful fetch, failures free, 2,000 a minute, about two minutes at most, outside the concurrent-browser limit. No country choice, Markdown, actions or extraction on that endpoint, and neither pricing page lists it. A "Get Webpage Content" tool for Markdown is listed on the session-control page, but its API reference page returns 404 and the SDK doesn't include it.
Crawling and bulkJobs on paid plans: batch (any number of URLs), crawl and map, with no size or time limit — runs continue past the 24-hour session limit by themselves; results as JSON lines or a zip archive, kept 14 days; stop and resume; signed webhooks. Plus watch (live XHR/WebSocket/DOM events), warmup and monitors (scheduled change detection with diffs).No crawl, map or bulk-scrape endpoint. Batch sessions start up to 1,000 browsers in one call (the same page also says 5,000) that you then drive yourself; Automation Tasks — a flow recorded or described once, compiled to Playwright with an AI fallback — run by API at $0.10 a successful run and report through signed webhooks. No schedule API or change detection in the docs.
Screenshots and PDFsScreenshot (PNG/JPEG, viewport or full page) and PDF Functions — a text PDF from a Chromium-based browser.POST /v1/tools/screenshot returns a PNG — viewport or full height, quality and wait settings — standalone or on a running session (for a signed-in page); POST /v1/tools/page-pdf renders a page as a PDF with paper size, margins, header and footer. No separate price is published for either.
Agent toolingA hosted MCP server at cdpfleet.com/mcp — add it in Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini and sign in with OAuth — or npx cdpfleet-mcp; SDKs for Node.js, Python and Go.Hosted MCP servers (api.anchorbrowser.io/v1/mcp, OAuth or API key): web tasks, saved automations, managed logins and sessions, plus one for step-by-step browser control and one for "Actions", deterministic per-site recipes that run without an LLM. Natural-language web tasks at $0.01–$0.10 a step by model tier ($0.01 with your own model key), computer-use integrations (Anthropic, OpenAI, Gemini and others), TypeScript and Python SDKs.
Where the browser runsServers in the EU (Germany and Finland); your proxy decides where traffic exits.US by default; EU, Asia and Australia from Growth by the docs (Enterprise by the pricing page); any region or on-premise on Enterprise.
Examples89 cases run on production in five languages, all on GitHub with their output.Docs guides and SDK references in TypeScript and Python.

Anchor Browser facts from its public pricing page and documentation, checked on 10 November 2026; list prices in USD. Tell us if something is out of date.

Which one, when

Pick Anchor Browser if…

  • You build agents that need captcha solving, managed logins with MFA and extensions out of the box.
  • Your sessions are short and light, so per-browser and per-hour credits are cheaper than reserving threads.
  • You need compliance paperwork (SOC 2, ISO 27001) or on-premise hosting.
  • You want rendered HTML from bot-protected pages at $0.005 a successful fetch without managing sessions, or recorded flows that rerun at $0.10 a run.

Pick cdpfleet if…

  • You want Markdown, a scrape with actions, a screenshot or a PDF in one call from a chosen country and browser, or crawls, batch jobs and monitors.
  • Your traffic goes through your own proxies — free here on every plan, only on the higher plans and at $0.20/GB there.
  • The site must see a specific real browser or version — Chrome channels, Edge, Brave, Firefox, WebKit, Camoufox — not one Chromium fork.
  • You want the Playwright protocol from Java, C# or Go, or sessions that stop billing the moment the connection closes.
  • You run browsers around the clock on a flat-priced dedicated thread.
  • You want to start free — the Community plan includes proxies — and try a browser in live view before writing any code.

Try it

The quickstart is one HTTPS call and five lines of Playwright; the code builder writes the launch for any browser and option set in your language.

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