Anchor Browser vs Hyperbrowser (2026)

Managed authentication and authenticated applications give agents logged in sessions on outside sites, with MFA, email one time codes and a 1Password integration for credentials. Named integrations connect Anchor to automation tools (n8n, Make, Zapier), agent and browser frameworks (CrewAI, LangChain, Stagehand, Browser Use) and sandboxes (Daytona, CreateOS, Tenki).

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LangChain, LlamaIndex, Stagehand and AI function calling guides give an agent Hyperbrowser's browser, scrape and crawl as tools. HyperAgent's custom actions let a developer add their own tools, and x402 lets agents pay for fetches and searches.

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Automation Tasks are versioned workflows of ordered segments that mix deterministic Playwright code with agentic steps, and they run in Anchor's own runtime. Anchor launches the browser, authenticates, and walks each segment in order, with a workflow graph showing step status. Runs can be synchronous or asynchronous, whole runs retry on a new browser, and a single step can fall back to an AI agent mid-run.

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One API call starts a hosted HyperAgent, Browser Use or model native computer use task (Claude, OpenAI, Gemini, Meta, Grok, Jev) in a managed session. The agent works through its steps, and the customer polls status, reads results or stops it. The open source HyperAgent adds multi page management within one agent. Each task is one agent working through a multi step loop. Hyperbrowser has no workflow composition, step chaining or multi agent execution of its own, and action caching replays one agent's steps.

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Anchor describes Automation Tasks as versioned, repeatable workflows with managed identities, scheduling and session control, but no schedule setting is offered. Runs start with an API call (POST /v2/tasks/{taskId}/run), task settings cover identity, human-in-the-loop, retries and browser configuration with no schedule among them, and webhooks send outbound event notifications instead of starting runs.

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Work starts when a caller creates a session, sandbox, scrape job or agent task through the API or SDKs. No event, schedule, webhook or inbound queue of Hyperbrowser's own starts agent work. Scheduled jobs are a listed use case for action caching replays, but the customer runs the schedule.

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Anchor keeps no knowledge base or retrieval layer over the customer's own content, and has no index, vector store or grounding layer of its own. Its agents and tools read and extract content from live web pages through research tasks, screenshots and file downloads for the customer's own use, which is extraction from the public web, not search over the customer's documents.

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Fetch, search, scrape, crawl and AI extract endpoints turn public web pages into markdown, HTML or structured data for the customer's own pipeline. Hyperbrowser keeps no index, vector store or grounding layer of its own over customer content.

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The agent has no memory of its own with a set scope and lifetime. Between runs, Anchor keeps the browser's state. Managed authentication keeps agents signed in to outside applications through encrypted, session-based authentication, and browser profiles carry a stable identity, including a dedicated sticky IP, across sessions. The browser loads each of these at session start, so they work like a saved browser login, not as context the agent reads to decide.

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Sandboxes carry state forward. A memory snapshot freezes a running sandbox's memory, processes and filesystem, and new sandboxes start from that state. Volumes persist data across sandboxes, so the agent's own code reads the restored state to carry on. A snapshot restores the machine's state whole, and volumes are storage the code reads. There is no separate memory layer with its own scope and lifetime. Browser profiles hold the saved login loaded at session start, and HyperAgent action caching replays recorded actions without LLM calls.

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With human in the loop enabled, the agent pauses and posts an intervention request to a session-specific queue. The customer lists pending requests and sends a response through API endpoints, or subscribes to the intervention.requested webhook, whose payload carries the request ID, the agent's message and a live-view URL for one-click takeover. Automation Task settings switch human-in-the-loop on per task, so a person can review and direct the agent mid-run.

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Every session carries a Live View URL that the customer can embed in its own application. Through it a person can watch and interact with the running browser, and human in the loop interactions are one of its named uses. There is no approval gate, pause primitive or policy guardrail, and the customer's code decides when to hand control to a person.

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SOC 2 Type 2, ISO 27001 and GDPR come from the Growth plan, with a BAA, HIPAA and a DPA on Enterprise, and a trust portal holds the compliance report. SSO and RBAC are on Enterprise, and user roles are part of the account configuration Anchor keeps. Each browser runs in a dedicated virtual machine that is destroyed at session end, with strict tenant isolation, encrypted session-based authentication, and a Zero Data Retention mode that turns off all video and log recording for an account.

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The information security program is aligned with the SOC 2 Trust Services Criteria. It covers independent third party assessments, annual third party penetration testing, encryption at rest and in transit, vulnerability scanning, logging and monitoring, incident response, and backup and recovery. The Enterprise plan lists 'HIPAA/SOC 2', but the Security Commitments say only 'aligned with', so the attestation is unclear. Access controls (least privilege, quarterly access reviews, SSO where available) govern Hyperbrowser's own team. Customer accounts have no SSO, roles or permissions.

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An Automation Task run shows a steps panel that streams per-segment logs with timestamps, an Agent Logs section wherever an AI agent completed a step, and a workflow graph marking each segment's status. The Runs tab keeps every past execution, and View run replays it against the session recording. Sessions are recorded to MP4 by default and served through the API and web UI, console logs can be turned on, and a session history endpoint lists past sessions. Retention is configurable down to a Zero Data Retention mode.

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Every session is recorded. Web recordings (rrweb) capture DOM changes, interactions and network requests for replay, and MP4 video recordings are available too. Both are fetched through the API, and every session has a live view. Data retention runs by plan, with 7 days on Free, 30 on Startup and Scale, and 180 or more on Enterprise. A customer can replay what the agent did in the browser. There is no structured log of each agent action, no audit log separate from the recording and no export to a monitoring system.

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Region choice depends on the plan. Free and Starter run in the US, Growth adds the EU, Asia and Australia, and Enterprise can use any region. By default, infrastructure is hosted in the United States, with customer data processed and stored in AWS us-east-2 (Ohio), and EU-based infrastructure is available for organizations that need it.

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Customers choose a region for each browser session from a published list of us-central, us-east, us-west, europe-west and asia-south. Production data is hosted in United States databases unless otherwise agreed in writing. There is no self hosted option.

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Starting points come in two forms. Task examples cover form filling, buyer intent, configuration collection and research, and a library of guides shows how to automate named business applications such as NetSuite, SAP S/4HANA, Salesforce and ServiceNow, and US federal forms such as IRS Form W-7, Form I-9 and VA Form 21-526EZ, with Playwright. Each guide is a set of setup steps and a script that a developer adapts, examples to build from, not a catalog of agents ready to adopt.

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A templates gallery offers ready to run sample projects built on the Hyperbrowser APIs, such as a news sentiment aggregator, product review analyzer, shopping recommenders, and API servers wrapping Hacker News, Product Hunt and Craigslist, among others. An examples repository sits alongside. A developer clones and adapts these projects, and there is no catalog of agents a customer adopts as they are.

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Customers choose the model behind Anchor's own agent. Perform-web-task takes an agent parameter, browser-use by default, openai-cua or gemini-computer-use, and AI steps are priced by the tier of the model used. Bring Your Own Keys lets a project store its own provider keys for OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Azure or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint and opt in per request, and Anchor's default model applies otherwise.

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The customer chooses the model behind the hosted agents. Each task starts with a chosen agent, either HyperAgent, Browser Use or a model native computer use agent from Anthropic (Claude), OpenAI (CUA), Google (Gemini), Meta, xAI (Grok) or Jev. Each is billed by its own model's tokens or steps, and HyperAgent supports OpenAI, Anthropic and Google Gemini models as configured providers.

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Anchor can be called from outside through a REST API at api.anchorbrowser.io, authenticated by API key, that covers browser sessions, session history, AI tasks, automation tasks, agent access and webhooks. SDKs exist for JavaScript (npm anchorbrowser) and Python, alongside a hosted MCP server for any user with an API key and an open source MCP server.

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A REST API makes the platform callable from outside, covering sessions, profiles, extensions, sandboxes, volumes, snapshots, fetch, search, scrape, crawl, extract and agent tasks, with a full API reference. Official Python (pip install hyperbrowser) and Node.js (@hyperbrowser/sdk) SDKs sit alongside it, with the hx CLI for sandboxes and an open source MCP server.

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Automation Tasks are versioned, so a draft is test-run with real inputs before it replaces the live version, and every run carries a status and per-step results. Workflow self-healing analyzes a run whose deterministic step failed and creates a new draft version for the customer to review, turning what the agent completed at run time into a stronger workflow. There are no scored test cases.

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Agents run on the platform, but it does not score them. There are no fixtures, scoring, quality gates or comparison of agent runs. Session recordings and live view serve for debugging, and action caching replays recorded actions deterministically to cut cost.

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Running real browsers for agents is the core product. Headful Chromium sessions run in dedicated virtual machines that an agent drives through CDP with Playwright or Puppeteer, through Anchor's own browser agent, or through Anthropic, OpenAI, Gemini and Yutori computer-use agents. Sessions come with OS-level mouse and keyboard control, stealth, proxies, CAPTCHA solving and authenticated sessions.

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The product is a real cloud browser that agents operate. Agents drive cloud browser sessions through Playwright, Puppeteer or Selenium, use computer actions (click, type, scroll, screenshot), or run as hosted computer use agents from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Meta, xAI and Jev. Stealth, proxies, CAPTCHA solving, profiles and extensions support production use.

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