Anchor Browser alternative: Browserberg compared
Both run Chromium for agents. They differ on where your session data is processed, whether the product helps you evade bot detection, and what happens to your credentials.
What Anchor Browser is
Anchor Browser
Anchor is our closest strategic neighbour and the comparison we take most seriously. Saved identities, OmniConnect, SSO and VPN integration, live control, ISO 27001 and SOC 2, and an on-premises option. They reached the authenticated-automation thesis before we did.
Where Anchor Browser is the better fit
A comparison page that never recommends the competitor is an advert, not a comparison.
- Anchor Browser
- Anchor is further along than we are on several fronts: ISO 27001 and SOC 2 exist today, OmniConnect covers integrations we have not built, and their on-prem story is mature. If you need those now rather than in two quarters, take Anchor.
Browserberg and Anchor Browser, side by side
Competitor figures come from Anchor Browser's published pricing and documentation on the date below. Where a figure is a vendor's own claim rather than an independent measurement, it says so.
| Browserberg | Anchor Browser | |
|---|---|---|
| Where sessions run | EU bare metal (OVHcloud) | US-operated; on-prem offered |
| Bot posture | Authenticated-first, no stealth | Authenticated/internal systems |
| Price per browser hour | EUR 0.08–0.09/hr | USD 0.05/hr + USD 0.01 creation + egress |
| Free tier | 5 hours | Free tier |
| Credential vault | Yes — encrypted, site-scoped, never in model context | Yes — saved identities |
| Human takeover | Yes — live view with single-writer lease | Yes — live control |
As of 2026-08-30 · Competitor details come from each vendor's published pricing page on that date.
Where Browserberg is the better fit
Still a US vendor
On-premises deployment answers where the browsers run. It does not answer who the counterparty is, which is the question a CLOUD Act review actually asks.
Pricing is hard to predict
Per-session creation charges plus hourly plus egress means the bill depends on session churn and page weight, both of which are properties of the sites you automate rather than of your plan.
Reliability figure is self-reported
Their 97.3% session reliability is a vendor number. So are most numbers in this category, including some of ours — which is why we are building a reproducible public benchmark instead.
Migrating from Anchor Browser
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Map saved identities onto vault records
The concepts line up closely. Check how each credential is scoped, because our release is bound to the registrable site.
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Re-test the portals that use a second factor
TOTP and photoTAN paths are the ones worth re-running by hand before you cut over.
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Ask both vendors the same compliance questions
Certifications, sub-processors, jurisdiction, retention. The answers differ in ways a feature table does not show.
Questions people actually ask
Does an on-premises deployment solve the CLOUD Act question?
It solves where the browsers run. It does not change who your counterparty is, and a US-incorporated vendor remains subject to US legal process regardless of where the software executes. Whether that matters is your legal team's call, not ours.
How does your vault differ from saved identities?
The mechanism we care about is placeholder indirection: the model sees a token, the page receives the secret, and the plaintext never enters a prompt or an LLM provider's logs. Release is scoped to the registrable site, so a credential for one portal cannot be released on another.
You are behind Anchor on certifications. Why choose you?
Because of jurisdiction, and only if jurisdiction is what your evaluation turns on. If it is not, Anchor is further along and we would rather say so than waste your quarter.
Other comparisons
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Browserbase
Browserbase is the category leader and the most complete managed offering: Stagehand as an MIT-licensed SDK, contexts, replays, an MCP server, SOC 2 and HIPAA, and a founding seat on Cloudflare's Signed Agents programme.
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Browserless
Browserless is the mature headless-browser service in the category: Puppeteer, Playwright and Selenium support, a REST API, BrowserQL, an MCP server, a self-hostable Docker image, and SOC 2, HIPAA and GDPR compliance.
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Steel
Steel is the open-source answer to Browserbase: Apache-2.
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Hyperbrowser
Hyperbrowser leads with stealth.
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Kernel
Kernel is the cheapest serious option and the most infrastructure-shaped: unikernel and microVM isolation, sessions that can run for 72 hours, browser pools, per-second billing and ISO 27001.
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Browser Use Cloud
Browser Use is the benchmark leader and the cheapest per hour in the category: 84.
Settle it with your own script
Five browser hours free, no card. Point an existing Playwright or Puppeteer script at our endpoint and compare the result yourself.