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How much does a cloud browser cost per hour?

Answer first5 cited sourcesUpdated 2026-07-26

One active headless cloud-browser hour costs exactly $0.06000012 at Kernel; comparable published session-time charges are $0.09 at Cloudflare Browser Rendering or ZenRows Scraping Browser, $0.10 at Hyperbrowser, and $0.12 for Browserbase Developer overage, before each product’s other meters and plan conditions. As of July 26, 2026, sources: https://www.kernel.sh/docs/info/pricing, https://developers.cloudflare.com/browser-run/pricing/, https://docs.zenrows.com/first-steps/pricing, https://www.hyperbrowser.ai/docs/pricing, and https://www.browserbase.com/pricing (retrieved July 26, 2026).

Dated price checked 2026-07-26; cited vendor pages are listed below. This is not a live price check.Method

How the hourly figures are calculated

Kernel publishes a headless rate of $0.0000166667 per second. Multiplying that exact displayed rate by 3,600 seconds gives $0.06000012 for one active hour. Its headful rate produces $0.48000096 per hour, and its headful GPU rate produces $2.88000576 per hour. Kernel’s Developer plan includes $5 in monthly credits and says idle browsers and proxy bandwidth are not charged. Source: https://www.kernel.sh/docs/info/pricing (retrieved July 26, 2026).

Cloudflare Browser Rendering includes 10 browser-hours per month with Workers Paid, then lists $0.09 per additional browser-hour. The Free plan allows 10 browser-minutes per day. Direct sessions also have a monthly average-concurrency allowance of 10 on Workers Paid, after which Cloudflare lists $2 per additional unit of average concurrency. Source: https://developers.cloudflare.com/browser-run/pricing/ (retrieved July 26, 2026).

ZenRows Scraping Browser lists $0.09 per session-hour in addition to a per-gigabyte charge. Session time is metered in 30-second increments, so a short session can round up within that interval. Hyperbrowser defines one credit as $0.001 and charges 100 credits per browser hour, which equals $0.10; proxy traffic is a separate 10,000 credits per gigabyte, or $10 per gigabyte. Sources: https://docs.zenrows.com/first-steps/pricing and https://www.hyperbrowser.ai/docs/pricing (retrieved July 26, 2026).

Browserbase’s Developer plan costs $20 per month, includes 100 browser-hours, and lists $0.12 per additional browser-hour. Its Startup plan costs $99 per month, includes 500 hours, and lists $0.10 per additional hour. The overage figure is therefore not the full effective bill for a small workload because the recurring plan price and included allowance still apply. Source: https://www.browserbase.com/pricing (retrieved July 26, 2026).

Hourly prices are comparable only after defining active duration, included hours, rounding, proxy traffic, concurrency, storage, and any per-request fees. A workload that transfers substantial proxy bandwidth can cost more than its session-time line alone, while an included monthly allowance can make the marginal session-time charge zero until that allowance is consumed. Sources: https://www.browserbase.com/pricing, https://docs.zenrows.com/first-steps/pricing, https://www.hyperbrowser.ai/docs/pricing, and https://developers.cloudflare.com/browser-run/pricing/ (retrieved July 26, 2026).

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