The Browserless platform

One browser platform. Five ways to drive it.

BrowserQL, Puppeteer, Playwright, REST, or MCP. Pick the interface that fits the task. They all run on the same managed, stealth-ready browsers, so your automation scales without the infrastructure burden.

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The runtime under everything

Every Browserless API, whether GraphQL, WebSocket, HTTP, or MCP, connects to the same managed browser fleet. We call it Browsers as a Service: a pool of Chromium, Chrome, Firefox, and WebKit instances kept patched, isolated, and ready to launch in any of three regions.

Five interfaces

BrowserQL Browsers as a Service REST APIs MCP & AI Self-Hosted

Runtime capabilities

StealthCAPTCHA solvingResidential proxiesPersistent sessionsLiveURLRegional endpoints

Browsers as a Service

Managed Chromium, Chrome, Firefox, and WebKit fleet

Stealth, CAPTCHA solving, residential proxies, persistent sessions, and LiveURL are runtime features, not API features. Turn them on per request, with a URL flag or a single mutation, and they work the same whether you're sending a GraphQL mutation, a curl request, or a Puppeteer connect.

One runtime. Different ways to talk to it. Same reliability across all of them.

Five interfaces

Five ways to drive a browser

Same runtime. Different control plane. Pick the one that matches your stack and how much control you want.

BrowserQL

GraphQL for stealth-first automation.

Best for: Bypassing sophisticated bot detection and CAPTCHAs at scale.

Declarative mutations: goto, click, type, solve
Built-in stealth, CAPTCHA solving, and human-like behavior
Web IDE for building queries before you ship them

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Browsers as a Service

Puppeteer and Playwright, in the cloud.

Best for: Existing Puppeteer/Playwright code that needs to run somewhere reliable.

Drop-in WebSocket endpoint, no rewrites
Persistent sessions, LiveURL handoff, regional load balancing
Stealth and proxy options as URL flags

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REST APIs

One HTTP call, one result.

Best for: Screenshots, PDFs, content extraction, and one-off scrapes.

13 endpoints including /smart-scrape, /screenshot, /pdf, /search, /crawl
No browser libraries required, works from any language
Cascading fallbacks built into /smart-scrape

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MCP & AI

Give your agent a real browser.

Best for: AI agents, Claude/Cursor/Windsurf workflows, and LLM automation.

Hosted MCP server with Browser Agent + 8 REST tools
Stateful sessions that survive across tool calls
Integrations: Browser Use, Stagehand, LangChain, Vercel AI SDK

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Self-Hosted

Same APIs. Your infrastructure.

Best for: Data sovereignty, air-gapped environments, and regulated industries.

Docker image: Chrome, Chromium, Firefox, WebKit, Edge
Open-source or licensed Enterprise builds
OpenTelemetry, NGINX load balancing, custom proxies

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Not sure where to start?

Pick the task. We'll point you at the right surface.

Bypass bot detection or solve CAPTCHAsBrowserQL Run my existing Puppeteer or Playwright code in the cloudBrowsers as a Service Take a screenshot, generate a PDF, or scrape one pageREST APIs Give an AI agent a browser it can navigate across turnsMCP & AI Build a stealth-first scraper that hands off to PlaywrightBrowserQL to BaaS Keep all browser traffic inside my own VPC or on-premSelf-Hosted

What you get on every surface

These aren't features of one API. They're features of the managed runtime, and they work the same across BrowserQL, BaaS, REST, and MCP. Self-hosted deployments bring their own proxies and load balancing.

Stealth & CAPTCHA solving

Hide automation signals, solve reCAPTCHA and Cloudflare automatically.

Residential proxies

Route through real residential IPs to avoid blocks, opt in per request.

Persistent sessions

Reconnect to the same browser across requests, and keep cookies and local storage alive between sessions with authenticated profiles.

LiveURL handoff

Hand a session to a human for verification or interaction, then resume automation.

Regional endpoints

San Francisco, London, Amsterdam. Pick the closest, or distribute across all three.

SOC 2 + 99.9% uptime

Production-grade reliability with automatic failover and SOC 2 Type II controls.

AI-ready

Built for the AI era

AI agents need browsers that don't get blocked, don't lose state between tool calls, and don't crash under load. Browserless gives your agent that browser.

The hosted Browserless MCP Server drops into Claude Desktop, Cursor, VS Code, and Windsurf with one config block. Nothing to install. Or use Browserless directly inside Browser Use, Stagehand, LangChain, Vercel AI SDK, or the Claude Agent SDK. Every framework that matters has a path through.

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{
  "mcpServers": {
    "browserless": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.browserless.io/mcp",
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_TOKEN_HERE"
      }
    }
  }
}

docker run --rm -p 3000:3000 \
  -e "TOKEN=YOUR_TOKEN" \
  ghcr.io/browserless/chromium

Self-hosted

Or run it yourself

Same APIs. Your infrastructure. The open-source Browserless image runs Puppeteer, Playwright, and the REST APIs inside your own VPC, on-prem, or in an air-gapped environment.

The licensed Enterprise image adds the rest of the platform: BrowserQL, session recording, the live debugger, and advanced webhooks, with OpenTelemetry and NGINX load balancing for production. All of it backed by the same SOC 2 Type II audited company.

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Used by teams shipping browser automation at scale

“We were hosting our own Puppeteer-driven smoke testing service, which required specialized operational attention to maintain and scale. We began looking for third-party hosted solutions so that we could focus our attention on building and supporting our core products, and Browserless fit the bill.”

Christopher Zhen

Software Engineer, Samsara

“Browserless helped us focus on the problem we were trying to solve, and less on scaling an automation infrastructure. Browserless's developer focused approach has been a key to us bringing our product to market at the speed we were able to do so. Joel and team are some of the most customer-centric partners I've worked with.”

Scott Weinert

Co-Founder & CTO, Atomic

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