Browserless Hosting Live In 5 Minutes

Browserless hosting on xCloud gives your code a self-hosted headless browser service: connect Puppeteer or Playwright to a remote Chromium over WebSocket, or call REST endpoints such as screenshots. Deploy Browserless from the OneClick catalog and xCloud starts the pinned image with one gigabyte of shared memory, generates the API token and publishes the HTTP and WebSocket API over HTTPS on your domain. Every request needs the token, and the licence has commercial terms.

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What is Browserless?

Browserless is a way to deploy headless browsers in Docker. Its README describes parallelism and queueing with configurable concurrency limits, a debug viewer, unforked Puppeteer and Playwright support, fonts and emoji, configurable timeouts, and crash tolerance, so a Chrome crash does not take the service down. Self-hosted Browserless is a self-hosted headless browser service you run yourself instead of a cloud one. It is dual licensed under SSPL-1.0 or a Browserless Commercial License.

On xCloud this template deploys Browserless v2.56.7 as the official Chromium image, pinned by digest, with one gigabyte of shared memory, behind HTTPS with WebSocket upgrades. It is stateless, with no volume or database, and every HTTP and WebSocket request needs the generated token. Upstream's premium cloud features, such as BrowserQL and session replay, are not included.

From Sign-Up to a Live Browser API In Just 3 Easy Steps

A headless browser service normally means a container, shared-memory tuning, a token, a domain and a certificate before the first screenshot. This is the same result without assembling any of it.

Step 01
Sign Up
Create your xCloud account and pick Browserless from the OneClick catalog. Choose your domain and target server. There is nothing else to fill in: xCloud generates the 48-character API token.
Step 02
We Deploy It For You
One click. We bring up the official Browserless v2.56.7 image, pinned by immutable digest, and publish it over HTTPS on your domain.
Step 03
Connect Puppeteer Or Playwright
Copy the API token from the credentials panel. Connect Puppeteer with browserWSEndpoint set to your domain's WebSocket URL plus ?token=, or Playwright with connectOverCDP, or POST to /screenshot?token= to get a PNG. The site root returns 404 by design; the interactive API docs are at /docs/.

Everything Browserless Does, On Your Own Server

The open-source Browserless image runs here: remote Chromium sessions for Puppeteer and Playwright, plus the REST API for screenshots, PDFs, content and scraping.

Puppeteer And Playwright Over WebSocket
Point browserWSEndpoint or connectOverCDP at your domain and drive a real Chromium session remotely.
Screenshots, PDFs And Content By REST
POST a URL to /screenshot, /pdf, /content or /scrape and get the result back without a browser on your side.
Token On Every Request
Authentication is always on: pass the token as ?token= or an Authorization: Bearer header, or get a 401.
Tuned For Heavy Pages
The container runs with 1 GB of shared memory so Chromium does not crash on demanding pages.
Concurrency You Control
CONCURRENT, QUEUED and TIMEOUT are read on every start; raise them only on a larger server, at roughly 500 MB per busy session.
Stateless By Design
Each session starts from a clean browser profile; there is no volume and nothing to migrate.

Everything You Need To Run Your Browser API 24/7

Managed hosting for Browserless, so the parts that keep it online are not your problem.

Browserless v2.56.7 deployed instantly
Official pinned image digest
API token generated for you
Kept behind xCloud nginx on port 3000
Free SSL certificate
Server backups and snapshots
Server security updates included
30+ server locations
Unused balance refunded

What You Can Do With Browserless

Run Puppeteer scripts against a remote Chromium
A developer points puppeteer.connect at the WebSocket URL with the token, so scrapers and test scripts drive a browser on the Cloud VPS instead of installing Chromium on every machine.
Generate screenshots and PDFs through an API
A backend sends a POST to the screenshot endpoint with a URL and gets an image back, rendering pages for previews or reports without keeping a browser in the application server.
Run Playwright tests without local browsers
A team connects Playwright to the Chromium endpoint from CI, caps concurrency with the CONCURRENT and QUEUED settings, and keeps the browser fleet on a server they rent.
Keep scraping infrastructure under your control
A data team runs its own headless browsers so cookies, targets and logs stay on its server, setting its own timeouts and limits, and taking care of the licence terms for commercial use.

Browserless vs Alternatives

Browserbase: Browserbase is a hosted browser-infrastructure service. Browserless here runs as one container on a server you rent, with the token and limits under your control. This page makes no claim about Browserbase's own self-hosting.
Steel Browser: Steel is a separate open-source browser service with its own OneClick page and its own API. Choose this template when your code already speaks Browserless's WebSocket and REST endpoints.
Selenium Grid: Selenium Grid is the established option for distributed browser testing and uses WebDriver. Browserless exposes Chromium to Puppeteer and Playwright, which suits scripts written for those libraries.
Gotenberg: Gotenberg is a separate document-conversion API with its own OneClick page that also drives a browser. It focuses on converting pages and files to PDF rather than offering a general WebSocket browser.

Simple Pricing. Everything Included.

Dedicated Cloud VPS sizes, pre-configured for Browserless hosting. Pick the one that fits, and resize any time.

Cloud VPS 6 GB

Cloud VPS 16 GB

More RAM for more concurrent Chromium sessions and heavier pages.

$59.99per month

16 GB RAM
6 vCPU cores
200 GB NVMe SSD
30 TB
Unlimited

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Cloud VPS 24 GB

Browserless alongside the apps and pipelines that call it.

$84.99per month

24 GB RAM
8 vCPU cores
300 GB NVMe SSD
30 TB
Unlimited

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Every size is a dedicated Cloud VPS we provision, patch, monitor and restore. Billed monthly with no lock-in — delete the server and the unused balance comes back to your account. Browserless itself is dual-licensed by Browserless under SSPL-1.0 or a commercial licence; closed-source commercial or CI use needs a licence from browserless.io.

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Self-managed hosting

Ready To Run Your Own Browser API?

Browserless on xCloud runs on a dedicated Cloud VPS that we provision, patch, monitor and restore. Deploy faster. Own the server. Stay in control.

Fast Provisioning
Deploy faster using an xCloud Managed Server built with optimized stacks and high-speed SSDs.
Enterprise-grade security
Protect your infrastructure with a free SSL certificate and more advanced security features at no additional cost.
Intuitive Control Panel
From Server creation to application deployment, everything can be managed from our intuitive control panel.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Feel free to contact us with any questions or concerns you may have.

Is Browserless free to self-host?

Not unconditionally. The README states the licence as SSPL-1.0 or a Browserless Commercial License, and says that using it to build commercial sites, applications or closed-source CI systems needs a purchased commercial licence, while compatible open-source use is allowed. Read the licence file at the pinned v2.56.7 tag and decide before use; this is not legal advice.

Can you run Browserless with Docker?

Yes, and this Browserless Docker hosting template does it for you: the official ghcr.io/browserless/chromium image, pinned by digest and published for amd64 and arm64, runs as one container on your own server, not in a Browserless cloud account, with HTTPS and WebSocket upgrades in front of port 3000.

How much RAM does Browserless need?

The template manifest asks for 2048 MB of RAM, 2 CPU cores and 8 GB of disk as a floor, and the container gets 1 GB of shared memory so Chromium does not crash on heavy pages. Each concurrent session uses memory. This page sells the 6 GB tier, which leaves headroom for several sessions.

How do I connect Puppeteer to Browserless?

Use puppeteer-core's connect with the Puppeteer WebSocket URL from the credentials panel, wss://your-domain?token=TOKEN. Upstream's README shows this pattern with unforked Puppeteer. The URL contains the token, so keep it out of logs and client-side code, and rotate TOKEN if it leaks.

Does Browserless work with Playwright?

Yes for Chromium: upstream documents connecting standard Playwright to the service, and this template ships the Chromium image. Upstream says Firefox and WebKit need its separate firefox or multi images, which this template does not use, so only Chromium sessions are available here.

Does Browserless need an API token?

Yes, and it is always set. Every HTTP and WebSocket request must carry it as a token query parameter or an Authorization Bearer header, and a request without it gets 401; only the /docs/ pages are open. Never blank TOKEN, because an empty value turns authentication off and leaves the browser API open to anyone.

Can Browserless take screenshots and PDFs?

The template's README shows a POST to the screenshot endpoint with a URL returning a PNG, and the API reference at /docs/ lists the other REST endpoints. Upstream lists some features, such as BrowserQL, session replay and residential proxying, as premium cloud or enterprise features that are not part of this install.

How many sessions can Browserless run at once?

That is set by CONCURRENT and QUEUED, read on every start, with TIMEOUT capping session length. Edit them in the Environment editor, redeploy, and give clients the new TOKEN if you change it. Size the server for your concurrency, because each Chromium session uses memory and CPU.

What is the difference between Browserless and Steel?

They are separate projects with separate APIs. Steel has its own OneClick page. This template runs Browserless, which exposes Chromium to unforked Puppeteer and Playwright over WebSocket and offers REST endpoints. This page does not rank the two, so test your own workload.

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Does Browserless store anything?

No. It is stateless, with no volume and no database, and each session starts from a clean browser profile, so there is nothing to back up beyond your own environment values and token. Keep TOKEN, CONCURRENT, QUEUED and TIMEOUT in your notes, and take a backup of anything your scripts save elsewhere.

How do I upgrade Browserless?

Upgrades are not automatic. The template pins v2.56.7 by immutable digest, and new installs use that release while existing sites are left alone. When a newer template version is published, read the upstream release notes and adopt that version. Since nothing is stored, there is no volume to back up first; moving only restarts sessions.

Can I cancel anytime?

Yes. There is no lock-in — cancel any time. Hosting is billed monthly and charged for what you actually use, so when you delete the server the unused balance is refunded to your account, less up to 10% in payment-processing fees.