Cloudflare Browser Run
The facts below are what Cloudflare publishes about Cloudflare Browser Run, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From Cloudflare Browser Run's own pricing page, checked 1 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Workers Paid | — | Minimum charge of $5 USD per month for an account; Browser Run usage beyond its included limits is additionally billed. · 200 concurrent browsers per account default · 3 new browser instances per second · 60-second browser timeout · 30 Quick Actions requests per second · 10 browser hours per month included, then $0.09 per additional hour; 10 concurrent browsers included, then $2.00 per additional browser |
| Workers Free | Free | 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 · 10 minutes of browser use per day at no charge |
The facts
Each one read from Cloudflare Browser Run's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Audience
- The documented use cases include browser automation, web scraping, testing, content generation, AI-powered extraction, site-wide crawling, and AI-agent browsing.checked 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.checked 1 Oct 2026
- 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.checked 1 Oct 2026
- Deployment
- cloudchecked 23 Sep 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.checked 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.checked 1 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- Puppeteer, Playwright, Chrome DevTools Protocol (CDP), Stagehand, Cloudflare Workerschecked 23 Sep 2026
- 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 CDPchecked 23 Sep 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.checked 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.checked 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.checked 1 Oct 2026
- Outputs
- It can capture Markdown, screenshots, PDFs, snapshots, links, HTML elements, structured data, and crawled web content.checked 1 Oct 2026
- Product
- Browser Run runs headless Chrome on Cloudflare’s global network for browser automation, web scraping, testing, and content generation.checked 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.checked 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.checked 1 Oct 2026
- Support
- Cloudflare directs users with unanswered questions to its Workers community Discord.checked 1 Oct 2026
Where it runs
- 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.checked 1 Oct 2026
The company
- Maker
- Cloudflare was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.checked 1 Oct 2026
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