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Cloudflare Browser Run
by Cloudflare
What Cloudflare Browser Run is
Cloudflare Browser Run provides hosted headless Chrome for browser automation, web scraping, testing, content generation, and AI-powered extraction. Quick Actions handle stateless tasks such as screenshots, PDFs, and scraping, while Browser Sessions offer direct control through Puppeteer, Playwright, Chrome DevTools Protocol, or Stagehand. Outputs can include Markdown, screenshots, PDFs, snapshots, links, HTML elements, structured data, and crawled content. Browser Run connects with Workers, Durable Objects, Queues, and Cloudflare’s wider developer platform. Live View lets users watch and interact with a remote session for debugging, monitoring, or human intervention. Guardrails can limit requests to permitted hostnames for Puppeteer, Playwright, and CDP sessions, but not Quick Actions. Sessions close after one minute of inactivity by default, with that timeout extendable to 10 minutes. Requests are identified as bot traffic, and allowlisting them on a customer website requires an Enterprise plan. A free Workers plan is available; the paid plan has a $5 USD monthly account minimum.
Who it suits
Browser Run suits developers and teams building browser automation, scraping, testing, content-generation, or AI extraction workflows. It is also aimed at users who want managed browser sessions integrated with Cloudflare’s developer platform.
What it does well
- Offers Quick Actions and directly controlled browser sessions.
- Supports Puppeteer, Playwright, CDP, and Stagehand.
- Live View enables real-time session inspection and interaction.
- A free Workers plan is listed.
What to know first
- Requests are identified as bot traffic.
- Website allowlisting requires an Enterprise plan.
- Sessions close after one minute inactive by default.
- Local development does not support requests over 1 MB.
Plans
| Plan | Billed and limits | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Workers Paid | 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 | On request |
| Workers 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 | Free |
As developers.cloudflare.com lists them, read 1 Oct 2026. The maker's own page has the final word.
Verdict
Browser Run provides hosted Chrome with both stateless actions and controllable sessions, plus several output formats and Cloudflare integrations. Check the bot identification, allowlisting requirement, and session limits against your target sites and workflow.
Facts from Cloudflare's own pages
- 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, 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, 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, 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, 1 Oct 2026
- Deployment
- cloud · developers.cloudflare.com, 23 Sept 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, 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, 1 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- Puppeteer, Playwright, Chrome DevTools Protocol (CDP), Stagehand, Cloudflare Workers · developers.cloudflare.com, 23 Sept 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 CDP · developers.cloudflare.com, 23 Sept 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, 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, 1 Oct 2026
- Maker
- Cloudflare was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. · cloudflare.com, 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, 1 Oct 2026
- Outputs
- It can capture Markdown, screenshots, PDFs, snapshots, links, HTML elements, structured data, and crawled web content. · developers.cloudflare.com, 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, 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, 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, 1 Oct 2026
- Support
- Cloudflare directs users with unanswered questions to its Workers community Discord. · developers.cloudflare.com, 1 Oct 2026
- Support
- community, docs · developers.cloudflare.com, 23 Sept 2026
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