Tech riderRev. 1 Oct 2026
Cloudflare Browser Run
by Cloudflare
- 1Runs onAPI, Web
- 2CostsFree plan
- 3Browser enginesone
- 4Language supportmultiple
- 5Cloud executionYes
- 6Self-hosted optionNo
- 7Parallel runs10 runs
7 lines stated Written from the maker's own pages: developers.cloudflare.com

Overview
Cloudflare Browser Run is ranked #41 of 63 in browser automation tools on Specifiction. It runs on API, Web. There is a free plan.
Cloudflare Browser Run plans and pricing
All plansWorkers Free Not published Custom price 10 minutes browser time per day · 3 concurrent browsers developers.cloudflare.com · 23 Sept 2026
Workers Paid Not published 10 browser hours per month included, then $0.09 per additional hour; 10 concurrent browsers included, then $2.00 per additional browser 200 concurrent browsers per account default · 3 new browser instances per second · 60-second browser timeout · 30 Quick Actions requests per second developers.cloudflare.com · 1 Oct 2026
Workers Free Free 10 minutes of browser use per day at no charge 3 concurrent browsers · 1 new browser instance every 20 seconds · 60-second browser timeout · 1 Quick Actions request every 10 seconds · 5 crawl jobs per day · 100 pages per crawl developers.cloudflare.com · 1 Oct 2026
Compared on browser automation tools
- Free plan
- Yesdevelopers.cloudflare.com
- Paid from
- $5/modevelopers.cloudflare.com
- Browser engines
- onedevelopers.cloudflare.com
- Language support
- multipledevelopers.cloudflare.com
- Cloud execution
- Yesdevelopers.cloudflare.com
- Self-hosted option
- Nodevelopers.cloudflare.com
- Parallel runs
- 10 runsdevelopers.cloudflare.com
Facts
- Deployment
- clouddevelopers.cloudflare.com · 23 Sept 2026
- Support
- community, docsdevelopers.cloudflare.com · 23 Sept 2026
- Integrations
- Puppeteer, Playwright, Chrome DevTools Protocol (CDP), Stagehand, Cloudflare Workersdevelopers.cloudflare.com · 23 Sept 2026
- Product
- Browser Run runs headless Chrome on Cloudflare’s global network for browser automation, web scraping, testing, and content generation.developers.cloudflare.com · 1 Oct 2026
- Outputs
- It can capture Markdown, screenshots, PDFs, snapshots, links, HTML elements, structured data, and crawled web content.developers.cloudflare.com · 1 Oct 2026
- Integration methods
- Quick Actions provide stateless single-request tasks, while Browser Sessions provide direct control through Puppeteer, Playwright, Chrome DevTools Protocol, or Stagehand.developers.cloudflare.com · 1 Oct 2026
- Scale
- Cloudflare says Browser Run provides instant access to a global pool of browsers with low cold-start time and can scale to thousands of browsers.developers.cloudflare.com · 1 Oct 2026
- Cloud platform
- Browser sessions run on Cloudflare’s edge network, and Browser Run integrates with Workers, Durable Objects, Queues, and the wider Cloudflare developer platform.developers.cloudflare.com · 1 Oct 2026
- Live View
- Live View lets users see and interact with a remote Browser Run session in real time for debugging, monitoring, or human intervention.developers.cloudflare.com · 1 Oct 2026
- Guardrails
- Guardrails restrict a browser session’s HTTP and HTTPS requests to permitted hostnames and apply to Puppeteer, Playwright, and CDP sessions but not Quick Actions.developers.cloudflare.com · 1 Oct 2026
- Bot identification
- Browser Run requests are always identified as bot traffic by Cloudflare, and allowlisting Browser Run on a customer website requires an Enterprise plan.developers.cloudflare.com · 1 Oct 2026
- Outbound IPs
- Browser Run requests originate from Cloudflare’s global network, do not support per-request IP rotation, and use Cloudflare IP ranges.developers.cloudflare.com · 1 Oct 2026
- Local development
- Local development does not support requests larger than 1 MB, and headful Chrome mode is available experimentally for visual debugging.developers.cloudflare.com · 1 Oct 2026
- Session limits
- Browser sessions have no fixed maximum lifetime while active, but close after one minute of inactivity by default and can extend inactivity timeout to up to 10 minutes.developers.cloudflare.com · 1 Oct 2026
- Audience
- The documented use cases include browser automation, web scraping, testing, content generation, AI-powered extraction, site-wide crawling, and AI-agent browsing.developers.cloudflare.com · 1 Oct 2026
- Maker
- Cloudflare was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.cloudflare.com · 1 Oct 2026
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Where it ranks on Specifiction
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Sources
- developers.cloudflare.com/browser-run/· checked 23 Sept 2026
- developers.cloudflare.com/browser-run/faq/· checked 1 Oct 2026
- developers.cloudflare.com/browser-run/features/live-view/· checked 1 Oct 2026
- developers.cloudflare.com/browser-run/features/guardrails/· checked 1 Oct 2026
- developers.cloudflare.com/browser-run/limits/· checked 1 Oct 2026
- cloudflare.com/our-story/· checked 1 Oct 2026
- developers.cloudflare.com/browser-run/pricing/· checked 23 Sept 2026




