Anchor Browser

Anchor Browser (branded as Anchor) is a cloud browser platform for AI agents. It runs managed Chromium sessions, built on its own Chromium fork, that developers control over the Chrome DevTools Protocol with Playwright or Puppeteer, through official Node.js and Python SDKs, through a REST API, or through hosted MCP servers. It is aimed at engineering teams building agents that have to work inside real websites, especially sites that require a login.

Its main differentiator is managed authentication. A team defines an application (a target site), an auth flow and identities (individual accounts). Anchor can discover the login form automatically, follow a preset flow, or let a person sign in manually, and it supports email OTP, TOTP, 1Password and custom MFA. Passing an identity when creating a session starts that session already signed in, and Anchor re-runs the login flow before each session. OmniConnect lets products embed end-user account connection.

Sessions can be watched and controlled through an embeddable live view, which is interactive by default, and are recorded as MP4 video by default. The task API accepts a human-intervention flag and can run Browser Use, OpenAI CUA, Gemini Computer Use or Anchor's own agent. Other documented features include residential proxies, sticky IPs, a VPN option, a stealth mode, CAPTCHA handling on paid plans and versioned automation tasks. Anchor also promotes Action Index, which replays previously successful site workflows as deterministic code; its own Online-Mind2Web write-up reports parity with a frontier model at a far lower cost per task, but those figures are vendor-run single runs.

Pricing combines a monthly plan with usage. The pricing documentation lists Free ($5 in monthly credits), Starter at $50/month, Growth at $2,000/month and custom Enterprise; the homepage also lists a Team plan at $500/month. Overage is $1 per credit, and usage rates cover tasks, browser hours, proxy traffic and AI steps. The Trust Center states SOC 2 Type 2 certification and lists ISO 27001, GDPR, HIPAA and CCPA; on the pricing table, SOC 2, ISO 27001 and GDPR appear from Growth and BAA/HIPAA on Enterprise.

Compared with Browserbase, Steel or Cloudflare Browser Rendering, Anchor puts more emphasis on authenticated, long-lived account access and enterprise deployment options such as bring-your-own-cloud.