Pricing & Limits

With Kernel, you only pay for what you use and nothing more. You don’t pay for idle time thanks to Standby Mode, and you’re never charged for proxies. Our goal is to be cost-effective, scalable, and transparent.

Managed infrastructure

Feature	Developer (free + usage)	Hobbyist ($30 / mo + usage)	Start-Up ($200 / mo + usage)	Enterprise
Price per gb-second ($)	0.0000166667	0.0000166667	0.0000166667	Custom
Headless browsers resource	1 gb	1 gb	1 gb	1 gb
Headful browsers resource	8 gb	8 gb	8 gb	8 gb
Free usage credits / mo	$5	$10	$50	Custom
Extended browser timeouts	✅	✅	✅	✅
Browser live view	✅	✅	✅	✅
Configurable browser viewports	✅	✅	✅	✅
Managed stealth mode	✅	✅	✅	✅
Computer controls API	✅	✅	✅	✅
Browser replays	❌	7 days	30 days	Custom
Browser profiles	❌	✅	✅	✅
Managed auth profiles	❌	✅	✅	✅
File uploads & downloads	❌	✅	✅	✅
Configurable browser extensions	❌	❌	✅	✅
Configurable & BYO proxies	❌	❌	✅	✅
Browser pools	❌	❌	✅	✅
Support	Discord	Discord	Email	Shared Slack
SOC2 compliance	✅	✅	✅	✅
HIPAA compliance (BAA)	❌	❌	❌	✅

Note: Included monthly credits apply to usage costs only.

Reserved browsers (browser pools)

With Browser Pools, you pay the standard usage-based price per GB-second while browsers run, plus a small disk space charge when they are idle.

	Headful	Headless
Disk price per GB/hour	$0.001	$0.001
Disk allocation per browser	4 GB	1 GB
Example: 50 browsers idle/month	$144/month	$36/month

Note: Disk space charges are waived for Enterprise plan customers.

Concurrency limits

Feature	Developer (free + usage)	Hobbyist ($30 / mo + usage)	Start-Up ($200 / mo + usage)	Enterprise
Reserved browsers (browser pools)	0	0	100	Custom
On-demand browsers	5	10	50	Custom
Invocations	5	10	50	Custom
Invocations (per-app)	5	10	20	Custom
Managed auth profiles	N/A	3	20	Custom

Note: Limits are org-wide by default unless stated otherwise. Managed auth profiles refer to the number of active auth profiles that Kernel maintains using your stored Credentials or 1Password connection.