KERNEL

KERNEL is browser infrastructure for AI agents and web automations. It runs sandboxed Chromium browsers in the cloud that agents can drive, with the vendor citing spin up in under 30 milliseconds. The company says it is SOC 2 and HIPAA compliant, and describes its browser infrastructure as open source. It is built for developers who build agents that must act on real websites. Listed capabilities include stealth mode with captcha solving and proxy management, managed authentication for agents, vaults and payments that let an agent check out through wallet integrations such as Link by Stripe, GPU acceleration for canvas heavy sites, regional browsers, live session viewing, session replays recorded as mp4 files, a browser telemetry API for debugging errors, file uploads and downloads, and custom extensions. Solution pages cover use cases such as QA agents. Pricing has three self service plans plus usage costs. Free is $0 a month with $5 of monthly credits and 5 concurrent browsers. Hobbyist is $30 a month with $10 of credits and 10 concurrent browsers. Start up is $200 a month with $50 of credits, 150 concurrent browsers, GPU acceleration, regional browsers, and custom proxies. Usage is billed at $0.0000166667 per GB second, with no charge for idle time or proxies. Enterprise adds an SLA, SSO, white labeling, and zero data retention, and is arranged through a demo.