Cypress From $67/mo · Free plan 9.2 Visit Cloudflare Browser Run
By Cloudflare · developers.cloudflare.com
Spec sheet
- Product
- Browser Run runs headless Chrome on Cloudflare’s global network for browser automation, web scraping, testing, and content generation.Read 1 Oct 2026 · developers.cloudflare.com
- Audience
- The documented use cases include browser automation, web scraping, testing, content generation, AI-powered extraction, site-wide crawling, and AI-agent browsing.Read 1 Oct 2026 · developers.cloudflare.com
- Deployment
- cloudRead 23 Sep 2026 · developers.cloudflare.com
- Integrations
- Puppeteer, Playwright, Chrome DevTools Protocol (CDP), Stagehand, Cloudflare WorkersRead 23 Sep 2026 · developers.cloudflare.com
- Support
- Cloudflare directs users with unanswered questions to its Workers community Discord.Read 1 Oct 2026 · developers.cloudflare.com
- Maker
- Cloudflare was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.Read 1 Oct 2026 · cloudflare.com
- 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.Read 1 Oct 2026 · developers.cloudflare.com
- 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.Read 1 Oct 2026 · developers.cloudflare.com
- Data retention
- For Quick Actions except crawl, Puppeteer, Playwright, and CDP, Cloudflare processes submitted content ephemerally and discards it after the response; crawl results are stored for 14 days and opt-in session recordings for 30 days.Read 1 Oct 2026 · developers.cloudflare.com
- 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.Read 1 Oct 2026 · developers.cloudflare.com
- Integration methods
- Quick Actions provide stateless single-request tasks, while Browser Sessions provide direct control through Puppeteer, Playwright, Chrome DevTools Protocol, or Stagehand.Read 1 Oct 2026 · developers.cloudflare.com
- Key features
- Headless Chrome browser sessions hosted on Cloudflare's global network · Quick Actions for screenshots, PDFs, scraping, and other stateless browser tasks · Direct browser control through Puppeteer, Playwright, CDP, or Stagehand · Extract page content as Markdown, HTML elements, links, snapshots, or structured data · Crawl web content across multiple pages with asynchronous results · AI-powered structured data extraction through natural-language prompts · Connect to browser sessions from external environments using CDPRead 23 Sep 2026 · developers.cloudflare.com
- Live View
- Live View lets users see and interact with a remote Browser Run session in real time for debugging, monitoring, or human intervention.Read 1 Oct 2026 · developers.cloudflare.com
- Local development
- Local development does not support requests larger than 1 MB, and headful Chrome mode is available experimentally for visual debugging.Read 1 Oct 2026 · developers.cloudflare.com
- Outbound IPs
- Browser Run requests originate from Cloudflare’s global network, do not support per-request IP rotation, and use Cloudflare IP ranges.Read 1 Oct 2026 · developers.cloudflare.com
- Outputs
- It can capture Markdown, screenshots, PDFs, snapshots, links, HTML elements, structured data, and crawled web content.Read 1 Oct 2026 · developers.cloudflare.com
- 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.Read 1 Oct 2026 · developers.cloudflare.com
- 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.Read 1 Oct 2026 · developers.cloudflare.com
- Support
- community, docsRead 23 Sep 2026 · developers.cloudflare.com
Plans and prices
Workers Paid Price 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 Minimum charge of $5 USD per month for an account; Browser Run usage beyond its included limits is additionally billed. Read 1 Oct 2026 · developers.cloudflare.com
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 Read 1 Oct 2026 · developers.cloudflare.com
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