Drive a browser

Kernel

Cloud Chromium browsers for AI agents, controlled over CDP, Playwright or an API, with proxies, logins and replays.

Billing

Pricing model: Monthly plan fee plus usage per second of browser memory; idle (standby) time is free2
Free tier: Developer plan: $0 a month plus usage, with $5 of included credits a month2
Card required for free tier: Not published
Minimum spend: Not published
Billing period: Monthly platform fee; usage billed per second1
Spending caps: Organization and project caps pause new usage at 100%2

Prices

Per browser-hour = price per second x 3,600. Headless 0.0000166667 x 3,600 = $0.06; headful 0.0001333336 x 3,600 = $0.48; headful + GPU 0.0008000016 x 3,600 = $2.88. Headful is the default (features page). Browsers default to 8 GB memory headful.

Headful browser (default), per browser-hour: $0.482
Headless browser, per browser-hour: $0.062
Headful browser + GPU acceleration, per browser-hour: $2.882
Advertised rate (other page): $0.0000166667 per GB-second of browser memory1
App invocation, per hour: $0.24 (0.0000666668 x 3,600)2

Plans

Plan	Monthly cost	Included credits / mo	Concurrent browsers
Developer	Free + usage	$5	5
Hobbyist	$30 + usage	$10	10
Start-Up	$200 + usage	$50	150
Enterprise	Custom	Custom	Custom

Source2Pricing

Pay per call

Machine payments protocol (no account): $0.50 for one stealth, headful browser for 30 minutes23

Read from Kernel (kernel.sh)’s own pages on 2026-11-04. Every number links to the page a value came from. For agents, the same facts as markdown: /tools/drive-a-browser/kernel.md