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The cheapest per-hour cloud browser for AI agents against a fleet of real browsers: one stealth Chromium over CDP at $0.02/hour plus traffic fees, or twelve browsers over Playwright or CDP with free traffic through your own proxies. Prices, limits and features side by side.

Browser Use is best known for its open-source agent library; Browser Use Cloud adds hosted browsers for it and for anyone else: a hardened, stealth-by-default Chromium you reach over CDP with Playwright or Puppeteer, residential proxies in 195+ countries switched on by default, automatic captcha solving, profiles, a live URL, recordings and an agent API billed by model tokens. 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 paper Browser Use is the cheaper hour; what you pay in total depends on traffic, session length and which browser the site needs to see. For one-call tasks this page sets Browser Use's agent runs next to cdpfleet Functions, jobs and monitors.

cdpfleetBrowser Use Cloud
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: a managed, hardened Chromium fork with stealth always on (randomised canvas, WebGL, fonts and navigator per session); it can't be turned off.
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 or any CDP client (CDP & Puppeteer).CDP only: Playwright connectOverCDP or Puppeteer connect on cdpUrl; Python and TypeScript SDKs. Selenium is not supported.
Ending a sessionClosing the connection ends the session and the billing; an unused session ends after 60 seconds.Closing the CDP connection does not stop the browser or its billing — you must call the stop API, or it runs (and bills) until its timeout, 60 minutes by default.
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.60 minutes by default, 4 hours at most.
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.$0.02 per browser-hour, rounded up to whole minutes with a one-minute minimum. Prepaid credits from $5; $1 free once.
Traffic through your own proxiesFree — HTTP, HTTPS or SOCKS5, single, pools or per-host rules, with live swap and per-host traffic stats. Or the cdpfleet residential proxy, 4 tiers from $0.50 to $5/GB.$0.20 per GB through a custom proxy — the same as direct traffic with no proxy.
Residential proxycdpfleet residential: 4 tiers from $0.50/GB ($5/GB at Tier 1), $5 free credit, by country, device OS and sticky session; optional — every session can use your own proxy instead.$5/GB, on by default (US residential unless you choose a country or turn it off), 195+ countries.
ConcurrencyThe threads you buy: 5 to 10,000 (more on request).Grows with lifetime spend: 10 sessions at $0, 50 from $100, 250 from $1,000, 500 from $5,000, 1,000 from $25,000; more on Enterprise.
StealthReal browsers by default (genuine Chrome, Edge, Brave…), headful by default, and three stealth builds — Patchright, Rebrowser, Camoufox. See headless tells.Stealth Chromium fork with per-session fingerprints, ad and cookie-banner blocking.
Captcha solvingNot built in. Use any solver through Playwright.Automatic and included in the price, on by default (solveCaptchas turns it off).
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.A live URL per session, and optional recordings with a download link.
Persistence and extensionsPersistent 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 keep browser state between sessions; up to 3 Chrome extensions (Manifest V3) per session.
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.No scrape, Markdown, screenshot or PDF endpoint in the Cloud API: a one-off page goes through an agent run (model tokens plus browser time) or your own code in a browser session. A fetch-use Python SDK that returns Markdown, structured data or HTML was announced on the blog in June 2026; it isn't in the docs and has no published price.
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 batch API. Agent runs can be scheduled in the dashboard (no schedule endpoint in the v4 API reference); signed webhooks report v2 task and v3 session status; no change detection.
Screenshots and PDFsScreenshot (PNG/JPEG, viewport or full page) and PDF Functions — a text PDF from a Chromium-based browser.No screenshot or PDF endpoint: take them with your own code in a session, or ask an agent.
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.The Browser Use agent as a service (API v4) with a JSON-schema result and rerunnable scripts. Their own models are priced per token — a median of $0.006 a task on the fast ones, by Browser Use's site — and other providers' models through your own key at cost + 20%, plus browser and traffic charges; the docs put a typical successful task with Claude Opus 4.7 at $1.64 on V4 ($0.87 on V3, $0.70 on V2). A hosted MCP server (api.browser-use.com/v3/mcp, Bearer key) runs v3 agents; a CLI.
Where the browser runsServers in the EU (Germany and Finland); your proxy decides where traffic exits.US by default; an EU deployment in Frankfurt.
Examples89 cases run on production in five languages, all on GitHub with their output.Agent library examples and quickstarts in Python and TypeScript.

Browser Use Cloud facts from its public pricing page and documentation, checked on 9 November 2026; list prices in USD. Tell us if something is out of date.

Which one, when

Pick Browser Use Cloud if…

  • You run Browser Use agents and want the browser, proxies, captcha solving and model billing in one place.
  • Your sessions are short and light on traffic, so $0.02/hour with per-minute billing is the whole bill.
  • You want extensions out of the box.

Pick cdpfleet if…

  • Your traffic goes through your own proxies — it costs nothing extra here, against $0.20/GB there.
  • You want a page as Markdown, a scrape, a screenshot or a PDF in one deterministic call, or crawls, batch jobs and monitors, without paying for an agent's tokens.
  • The site must see a specific real browser or version: Chrome channels and pinned majors, Edge, Brave, Firefox, WebKit, Camoufox — or you need stealth off.
  • Sessions run longer than 4 hours, or around the clock on a flat-priced dedicated thread.
  • You want the Playwright protocol in Java, C# or Go, or per-second billing that stops the moment the connection closes.
  • 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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