Remote browsers for automation · Early access
Launch Chrome, Edge, Brave, Firefox, Camoufox, WebKit and more on Linux, or browsers on hardware Android phones and iOS WebView. One API call returns a WebSocket URL; drive it with Playwright from any language. Buy dedicated or shared threads, metered to the second — or start on the free Community plan.
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# 1. ask for a browser POST https://starter.cdpfleet.com/chrome/session x-api-key: cdpf_•••••••••••• { "proxy": "http://user:pass@your-proxy:8080", "channel": "beta", "headless": "new" } 200 OK { "sessionId": "46903d7c-87d2-4320-b85b-cf109c0ec984", "wsUrl": "wss://router01.cdpfleet.com/session/46903d7c-…", "resource_class": "linux_headless", "weight": 1 }
# 2. drive it with Playwright browser = await chromium.connect(wsUrl, { headers: { "x-api-key": key } }) page = await browser.newPage()
Pick the engine per request and the release channel per session. The versions below are read from the fleet itself, and nodes update as vendors ship. All browsers in detail →
| Browser | Engine | Channels & versions | Endpoint |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chromium family | |||
| Google ChromeOfficial Google build | Chromium | stable156.0.8078.47beta157.0.8103.15dev158.0.8106.0pinned155.0.8059.84pinned154.0.8037.97 |
/chrome/session |
| Microsoft Edge | Chromium | stable156.0.4314.42beta157.0.4341.10dev158.0.4344.0 |
/edge/session |
| Brave | Chromium | stable1.98.60beta1.98.47 |
/brave/session |
| Opera | Chromium | stable138.0.6044.24developer139.0.6051.0 |
/opera/session |
| Naver WhaleNaver’s Chromium browser | Chromium | stable5.39.412.57 |
/whale/session |
| Yandex Browser | Chromium | stable26.8.1.1111 |
/yandex/session |
| ChromiumPlaywright build | Chromium | build148.0.7778.96 |
/chromium/session |
| PatchrightStealth-patched Chromium | Chromium | release1.60.2 |
/patchright/session |
| RebrowserStealth-patched Chromium · Playwright 1.52 clients | Chromium | release1.52.0 |
/rebrowser/session |
| Gecko family | |||
| CamoufoxBased on Firefox source; not affiliated with Mozilla | Gecko | stable156.0.1-beta.34pinned152.0.4pinned150 |
/camoufox/session |
| FirefoxPlaywright build — based on Firefox source; not affiliated with Mozilla | Gecko | build150.0.2 |
/firefox/session |
| WebKit family | |||
| WebKitPlaywright build | WebKit | build26.4 |
/webkit/session |
{"channel": "beta"} or {"channel": "dev"}
Headless or headful (virtual display) on every engine
Per-session proxies: HTTP, SOCKS5, pools, per-host rules, live swap
Playwright or CDP — your choice. Drive Linux sessions with Playwright's browserType.connect(wsUrl) in Node, Python, Java, .NET or Go, or launch Chrome, Edge, Brave, Opera, Yandex or Chromium with "cdp": true and use Puppeteer, connectOverCDP or any CDP client. Android sessions speak CDP too.
Android sessions run on real Android hardware; iOS sessions run in an iOS WebView. Either way the page is rendered by the phone's own browser engine — not a desktop browser pretending to be one. Phone engines in detail →
Real Android phones — hardware, not emulators — that you drive over CDP with Playwright's connectOverCDP or Puppeteer.
Country presets match locale, timezone and GPS to your exit IP, so the phone doesn't contradict its own network.
Android in detail →An iOS WebView, driven through cdpfleet's session API, not Playwright or Puppeteer.
Pages always render as a phone. Apple's own sites (apple.com, iCloud) load empty through a proxy — open them without one.
iOS WebView in detail →A thread is a slot for a running browser. Buy them dedicated — reserved for continuous use — or shared, where each thread adds browser-minutes to your account pool. Either way, time is metered to the second. How threads work →
Reserved capacity for continuous, always-on workloads. No daily minutes, no hourly limit and no leases: a browser can run for as long as you need it, up to 24 hours per session.
Pooled capacity for bursty and scheduled work. Each purchased thread contributes browser-minutes per day to your shared account pool, and you can run as many browsers at once as you have threads.
Usage is threads × seconds. A headful session that runs 3 min 12 s uses 6 min 24 s of thread time. Nothing is rounded up to the minute or the hour.
10 threads of Shared 240 put 2,400 browser-minutes a day in your pool, up to 600 in any rolling hour. Spend them on a few heavy browsers or many light ones. The pool resets at midnight UTC.
Billing starts when your browser is ready and stops the moment either side closes the WebSocket. A session you never connect to ends after 60 seconds.
Start free on the Community plan. Then two paid products: shared threads give you pooled browser-minutes at a low price; dedicated threads reserve capacity that is yours to run continuously. Billed monthly, per thread. Pricing in detail →
Free forever, for trying cdpfleet and small projects: every browser on the fleet, with proxies included. No trial expiry and no charges — you verify a card once, one account per card. Invite-only while we open up: join the waitlist.
The residential proxy can be added as on any plan. Request data from Community sessions may be used to learn which browser setups work on which sites, so don't sign in to accounts on it (Terms, section 4A).
The Community plan in detail →No proxy of your own? Send a cdpfleet-resi token and pick the tier, country, device OS and sticky sessions. One prepaid USD balance pays for every tier, and every account gets $5 free credit. Mix tiers per host: Tier 4 for CDN assets, Tier 1 for the pages that matter.
Available on every plan, including Community. Your own proxies stay free. The residential proxy in detail →
| Community | Shared | Dedicated | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | $1–$4 per thread / month | $5 per thread / month |
| Concurrent browsers | 2 threads | Up to your thread count | Up to your thread count |
| Daily browser-minutes | 60 per thread | Each thread adds its minutes to one account pool | Unlimited |
| Rolling-hour limit | 25% of the daily pool in any 60 minutes | 25% of the daily pool in any 60 minutes | None |
| Session length | Up to 15 minutes | Up to 24 h | Up to 24 h |
| Session leases | Lowest priority, 5-minute leases | 15-minute leases, renewed automatically while shared capacity allows | None — capacity is reserved |
| Idle timeout | 120 s by default, up to 5 min | 120 s by default, up to 10 min | 120 s by default, up to 24 h |
| Launch rate | At least 2 per second and 10 per minute | Threads ÷ 5 per second, threads × 6 per minute (at least 2 and 10) | Twice the shared rate: threads ÷ 5 × 2 per second, threads × 12 per minute |
| Proxies | Included (shared), or your own | Your own, the residential add-on, or the free Community proxy | Your own, the residential add-on, or the free Community proxy |
| Per session | 5 open pages, 3 GB memory | 10 open pages, 4 GB memory | 20 open pages, 8 GB memory |
| Recordings, profiles, keep-alive | Not included | Recordings, and profiles: 20 per thread (at least 100) | Recordings, keep-alive, and profiles: 30 per thread (at least 100) |
| Sizes | One size; invite-only for now | 5–1,000 threads | 5–10,000 threads, custom above |
60 browser-minutes/day contributed to your shared account pool per purchased thread (Shared 60; 120, 240 and 480 likewise). Heavier sessions use minutes faster: a headful browser counts twice.
| Shared, per month | 5 threads | 10 threads | 25 threads | 50 threads | 100 threads | 500 threads | 1,000 threads |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shared 60$1 / thread · 60 browser-minutes/day per thread | $5300 min/day · 75 min/hour | $10600 min/day · 150 min/hour | $251,500 min/day · 375 min/hour | $503,000 min/day · 750 min/hour | $1006,000 min/day · 1,500 min/hour | $50030,000 min/day · 7,500 min/hour | $1,00060,000 min/day · 15,000 min/hour |
| Shared 120$1.50 / thread · 120 browser-minutes/day per thread | $7.50600 min/day · 150 min/hour | $151,200 min/day · 300 min/hour | $37.503,000 min/day · 750 min/hour | $756,000 min/day · 1,500 min/hour | $15012,000 min/day · 3,000 min/hour | $75060,000 min/day · 15,000 min/hour | $1,500120,000 min/day · 30,000 min/hour |
| Shared 240$2.50 / thread · 240 browser-minutes/day per thread | $12.501,200 min/day · 300 min/hour | $252,400 min/day · 600 min/hour | $62.506,000 min/day · 1,500 min/hour | $12512,000 min/day · 3,000 min/hour | $25024,000 min/day · 6,000 min/hour | $1,250120,000 min/day · 30,000 min/hour | $2,500240,000 min/day · 60,000 min/hour |
| Shared 480$4 / thread · 480 browser-minutes/day per thread | $202,400 min/day · 600 min/hour | $404,800 min/day · 1,200 min/hour | $10012,000 min/day · 3,000 min/hour | $20024,000 min/day · 6,000 min/hour | $40048,000 min/day · 12,000 min/hour | $2,000240,000 min/day · 60,000 min/hour | $4,000480,000 min/day · 120,000 min/hour |
Unlimited browser-minutes on reserved capacity. Need more than 10,000 threads? Contact sales for a custom quote.
| Dedicated threads | 5 | 10 | 25 | 50 | 100 | 500 | 1,000 | 2,500 | 5,000 | 10,000 | More than 10,000 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dedicated$5 / thread / month | $25 | $50 | $125 | $250 | $500 | $2,500 | $5,000 | $12,500 | $25,000 | $50,000 | CustomContact sales |
What one browser-hour costs, cheapest first.
| Service | Per browser-hour |
|---|---|
| cdpfleet Communityfree · 2 threads × 60 min/day, invite-only | Free |
| cdpfleet Dedicatedrunning 24/7 | $0.0072.9× cheaper than the lowest listed |
| cdpfleet Shared 480all 480 min/day used | $0.0171.2× cheaper than the lowest listed |
| Browser Use | $0.020 |
| cdpfleet Shared 240all 240 min/day used | $0.021 |
| cdpfleet Shared 120all 120 min/day used | $0.025 |
| cdpfleet Shared 60all 60 min/day used | $0.033 |
| Anchor+ $0.01 per session | $0.050 |
| Kernel (headless) | $0.060 |
| Steel Scale | $0.080 |
| Cloudflareafter the included allowance | $0.090 |
| Steel Launch | $0.10 |
| Hyperbrowser | $0.10 |
| Browserbase Startupoverage | $0.10 |
| Browserbase Developeroverage | $0.12 |
| Browserlessoverage | $0.18–$0.24 |
cdpfleet: effective price when the whole allowance is used, for a headless browser (headful counts twice), 30-day month. Other services: approximate list prices as of September 2026; they change, so check each provider. Names are trademarks of their owners.
See a browser before you write code, and step in when your code gets stuck.
In the dashboard's code generator, pick a browser, proxy and options, enter a start page and click Launch interactive: the browser opens in your dashboard with full mouse and keyboard control. The same settings are one click away as code. Over the API it's "start_url".
Any running session can be watched or taken over — by you, a teammate or a person solving a captcha — while your code keeps running. VNC for headful browsers, a screencast for headless Chromium.
Live view in detail →Every session can be recorded and replayed from the dashboard, and persistent profiles keep logins, cookies and local storage between sessions — sign in once, reuse it from code.
Recordings → Profiles →Four steps and no browser infrastructure on your side. How it works in detail →
POST to the engine you want with your API key.
POST /camoufox/session
You get back a single-use WebSocket URL.
wss://router01.cdpfleet.com/…
Use it like a local browser: pages, contexts, network interception, screenshots.
firefox.connect(wsUrl)
Closing the socket frees the browser at once. Every session's start and end is in your usage log.
await browser.close()
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