Stop babysitting Chromium.
Kitesurf gives your AI agents a browser that deploys in 30 seconds, scales to zero, and costs pennies per thousand requests.
Free tier · 100 requests/mo · No credit card
Why Agent Browsers Matter Right Now
The signal is unmistakable: in the last 48 hours, Product Hunt saw 137 upvotes for Kitesurf, a browser built specifically for agents, and four other agent-infrastructure tools scored 44–46 points on the same platform. Developers are actively searching for ways to give their AI agents reliable web access — yet the current options are fragmented. Playwright requires you to maintain your own browser farm, handle IP bans, and manage session states. Browserbase offers a solution but at $49/month, it's priced for enterprises, not solo developers.
The gap is clear: no one offers a browser runtime that deploys on the edge, scales to zero, and charges per request. Cloudflare Workers provides the perfect substrate — 300+ nodes globally, no cold starts, and a generous free tier. Meanwhile, the agent ecosystem is exploding: Claude, Codex, and Cowork all need to browse the web, but they lack a lightweight, API-first browser layer. This is the window — developers are experimenting now, and they need a tool that doesn't require a DevOps team.
Kitesurf fills this exact void. It's not another "agent browser" desktop app; it's the deployment layer — the missing infrastructure that lets any agent, on any platform, browse the web without managing a single server. The timing is perfect: the demand is proven, the technology is ready, and the competition is either too heavy or too expensive.
How It Works
Deploy to the edge
Run npx wrangler init kitesurf-demo and deploy your browser API to Cloudflare Workers in under 30 seconds. No servers, no containers, no infrastructure to manage — just pure code on the edge network.
Call the API
Send a simple REST request with a URL and an action — screenshot, HTML fetch, or structured JSON extraction. Your agent gets a clean, machine-readable response in milliseconds, no browser UI required.
Scale to zero
Pay only for what you use. When your agent is idle, you pay nothing. When traffic spikes, Workers auto-scales across 300+ locations worldwide. No idle costs, no capacity planning — just usage-based billing.
What You Get
Edge-native runtime
Your agent's browser runs on Cloudflare's global network — 300+ data centers. That means sub-100ms latency from anywhere on Earth, zero cold starts, and automatic scaling during traffic spikes. No regional servers to provision.
Pay per request
Stop paying for idle servers. With Kitesurf, you're billed only for actual API calls — $0.001 per request after your free tier. Perfect for agents that run intermittently. Scale down to zero cost when your agent sleeps.
One-line API
Integrate in seconds: curl -X POST https://kitesurf.dev/v1/browse -d '{"url":"...","action":"screenshot"}'. No SDKs, no complex setup. Works with any language that can send HTTP requests — Python, Node, Go, or plain shell scripts.