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Sign-ups are open: start free on Community, upgrade from $7.50 a month

Anyone can now create a cdpfleet account — no waitlist, no invite. Start on the free Community plan (a card check, never charged), and move to a paid plan from $7.50 a month when you outgrow it.

2026-11-04

Until 2026-10-28 a cdpfleet account needed an invitation from the waitlist. Since then sign-up is open to everyone: create an account, activate the free Community plan, and you have real browsers in the cloud the same day. This post is what you get for free, what the smallest paid plan adds, and where to start.

Start free on Community

• Sign up free with your email, then choose Verify a card and activate in the dashboard. Stripe checks the card — it is never charged — and one card holds one Community account. There is no trial expiry.
• 2 threads with 60 browser-minutes each per day, reset at midnight UTC: two headless sessions at a time, or one headful (it takes 2 threads). Sessions last up to 15 minutes.
• Every browser on the fleet — Chrome with its channels, Edge, Brave, Opera, Firefox, Camoufox, WebKit and the stealth builds — driven with Playwright from Node.js, Python, Java, C# or Go, over CDP, or from an AI assistant through MCP.
• A proxy included: leave proxy out and the session uses the shared Community proxy, or bring your own. Every account also starts with $5 free credit for the residential proxy.
• Not on Community: recordings, persistent profiles, kept downloads and keep_alive. Free capacity is shared and gives way to paid traffic first (503 community_capacity_full — retry after Retry-After), and request data from Community sessions may be used to learn which setups work (Terms 4A). The whole plan: Community.

The $7.50 entry plan

• Shared 60 with 5 threads: $7.50 a month ($1.50 per thread) — 300 browser-minutes a day, pooled across the threads, with up to a quarter of the day's minutes in any hour.
• What it changes against Community: sessions up to 24 hours instead of 15 minutes, idle timeouts up to 10 minutes, priority over free traffic, your own proxies at full speed, private request data, and recordings, profiles (at least 100) and kept downloads included.
• More minutes per thread: Shared 120 at $2, Shared 240 at $2.50 and Shared 480 at $4 per thread a month; Dedicated threads at $8.50 each run around the clock with reserved capacity and keep_alive. Every size and price: pricing.

Community vs paid, in one place

• /upgrade puts Community and the paid plans side by side — threads, minutes, session length, idle timeout, capacity, per-session limits, proxies and features — and every "upgrade" hint on the site, in the dashboard and in API or MCP limit errors on Community links there.
• Switching is one step in the dashboard's Subscriptions: the paid plan replaces Community at once, and your API keys, proxies and settings stay as they are. A paid plan can move back to Community at the end of its billing period.

Tabs and memory

• Every plan, Community included, allows 50 tabs per session; what limits a session in practice is its memory — 2 GB on Community, 4 GB on shared plans, 6 GB on dedicated. Details and measurements: 50 tabs per session, memory as the ceiling.

Where to start

• From code: the quickstart — an API key and one Playwright program in your language.
• From an AI assistant: MCP setup — add https://cdpfleet.com/mcp to Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Cursor or any MCP client and sign in with OAuth.
• Without an account at all: the free tools at /functions — screenshot, PDF, Markdown, a live remote tab and the raw page, a few runs a day.
• In the dashboard: pick a browser in the code generator and press Launch interactive to try it live before writing any code.