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Cloudflare Browser Run
Cloudflare
Plans and prices
Workers Paid
Priced on request
200 concurrent browsers per account default · 3 new browser instances per second · 60-second browser timeout · 30 Quick Actions requests per second
Read 1 Oct 2026 · developers.cloudflare.com
Workers Free
Free
3 concurrent browsers · 1 new browser instance every 20 seconds · 60-second browser timeout · 1 Quick Actions request every 10 seconds
Read 1 Oct 2026 · developers.cloudflare.com
On the record
- 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 · read 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 · read 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 · read 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.developers.cloudflare.com · read 1 Oct 2026
- Deployment
- clouddevelopers.cloudflare.com · read 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.developers.cloudflare.com · read 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 · read 1 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- Puppeteer, Playwright, Chrome DevTools Protocol (CDP), Stagehand, Cloudflare Workersdevelopers.cloudflare.com · read 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 CDPdevelopers.cloudflare.com · read 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.developers.cloudflare.com · read 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 · read 1 Oct 2026
- Maker
- Cloudflare was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.cloudflare.com · read 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 · read 1 Oct 2026
- Outputs
- It can capture Markdown, screenshots, PDFs, snapshots, links, HTML elements, structured data, and crawled web content.developers.cloudflare.com · read 1 Oct 2026
- Product
- Browser Run runs headless Chrome on Cloudflare’s global network for browser automation, web scraping, testing, and content generation.developers.cloudflare.com · read 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 · read 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 · read 1 Oct 2026
- Support
- Cloudflare directs users with unanswered questions to its Workers community Discord.developers.cloudflare.com · read 1 Oct 2026
