---
title: Anchor Browser
slug: anchor-browser
url: "https://toolweight.com/options/anchor-browser"
homepage: "https://anchorbrowser.io"
categories: browser-automation-apis
last_verified: 2026-07-01
license: CC-BY-4.0
---

# Anchor Browser

> Cloud browsers built around authenticated sessions and human takeover

Anchor's premise is that the hard part of agent browsing is not evasion but authentication. It leans on persistent identity profiles, Chrome extension support so password managers work, and a live view designed for a human to step in and clear a 2FA prompt before handing control back. Everything else, CDP, Playwright, stealth, proxies, is present but secondary to that story.

## Identity

|  |  |
| --- | --- |
| Name | Anchor Browser |
| Company | Anchor Browser |
| One-liner | Cloud browsers built around authenticated sessions and human takeover |
| Site | https://anchorbrowser.io |
| Docs | https://docs.anchorbrowser.io |
| Founded | 2024 |
| Funding | Seed |
| Open source | No |
| Compared in | 1 |

## Where it is compared

### [Browser APIs](https://toolweight.com/compare/browser-automation-apis)
Ranked **#1 of 13** on default weights.
| Field | Value | Confidence | Verified | Source | Note |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Anti-bot pass rate | - | Unknown | - | - | Panel not yet run. |
| Stealth mode | ● | Vendor-claimed | 2026-07-01 | https://docs.anchorbrowser.io/essentials/stealth | - |
| CAPTCHA solving | ● | Inferred | - | - | - |
| Residential proxy | metered-extra | Inferred | - | - | Proxy egress available from the vendor and billed separately. |
| Cold start | - | Unknown | - | - | - |
| CDP endpoint | ● | Vendor-claimed | 2026-07-01 | https://docs.anchorbrowser.io | - |
| Playwright | ● | Vendor-claimed | 2026-07-01 | https://docs.anchorbrowser.io/integrations/open-source/playwright | - |
| Puppeteer | ● | Vendor-claimed | 2026-07-01 | https://docs.anchorbrowser.io/integrations/open-source/puppeteer | - |
| Session persistence | ● | Vendor-claimed | 2026-07-01 | https://docs.anchorbrowser.io/essentials/managed-authentication | Identity profiles are the core product, not a feature flag. |
| Live view | ● | Vendor-claimed | 2026-07-01 | https://docs.anchorbrowser.io/advanced/browser-live-view | - |
| Session replay | ● | Inferred | - | - | - |
| Max concurrency | - | Unknown | - | - | - |
| File downloads | ● | Inferred | - | - | - |
| Chrome extensions | ● | Vendor-claimed | 2026-07-01 | https://docs.anchorbrowser.io/advanced/extensions | Explicitly supports password-manager extensions for agent logins. |
| Browser regions | - | Unknown | - | - | - |
| Agent API | ◐ | Inferred | - | - | Task-style endpoints exist but the browser, not the agent loop, is the product. |
| MCP server | ● | Inferred | - | - | - |
| Human handoff | ● | Vendor-claimed | 2026-07-01 | https://docs.anchorbrowser.io/agentic-browser-control/human-in-the-loop | Designed around a human clearing 2FA mid-session and handing control back. |
| Pricing model | per-hour | Inferred | - | - | - |
| Per browser-hour | - | Unknown | - | - | Advertised rates changed during 2025; left null rather than guessed. |
| Free tier | ● | Inferred | - | - | - |
| GitHub stars | - | Unknown | - | - | - |
| Funding stage | seed | Community-reported | - | - | - |
| Open-source core | ○ | Inferred | - | - | - |
| Positioning | Cloud browser that keeps your agent logged in | Inferred | - | - | - |
| Launched | 2024 | Inferred | - | - | - |

**Verdict.** The best answer if your agent's blocker is a login wall rather than a bot wall. Profiles, extension support and a takeover flow designed for 2FA make it the least painful place to run authenticated automation. Thinner than Browserbase everywhere else, and small enough that vendor risk is real.

## Alternatives

- [Airtop](https://toolweight.com/options/airtop), Natural-language browser API, describe the page, skip the selectors
- [Apify](https://toolweight.com/options/apify), Actor platform for scraping and agents, with Crawlee as the open-source core
- [Bright Data Browser API](https://toolweight.com/options/bright-data-browser-api), CDP browsers on a 70M+ residential IP network with challenge handling built in
- [Browserbase](https://toolweight.com/options/browserbase), Managed headless browsers for AI agents, with Stagehand as the SDK
- [Browserless](https://toolweight.com/options/browserless), Self-hostable headless Chrome service; BrowserQL for bot-heavy sites
- [Cloudflare Browser Rendering](https://toolweight.com/options/cloudflare-browser-rendering), Puppeteer and Playwright bindings for Workers, plus REST render endpoints
- [Hyperbrowser](https://toolweight.com/options/hyperbrowser), Agent-first browsers with hosted scrape, crawl and CUA endpoints
- [Kernel](https://toolweight.com/options/kernel), Fast-starting browsers plus a runtime for deploying browser agents
- [Self-hosted Playwright](https://toolweight.com/options/playwright-self-hosted), The baseline: run Chromium in your own container and own everything
- [ScrapingBee](https://toolweight.com/options/scrapingbee), One-call HTML API with JavaScript rendering and premium proxy tiers
- [Steel.dev](https://toolweight.com/options/steel-dev), Open-source browser API for AI agents, hosted or self-run
- [ZenRows](https://toolweight.com/options/zenrows), Scraper API plus a CDP scraping browser on a shared residential pool

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