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Obscura hosting on xCloud lets you deploy Obscura, a lightweight headless browser, as a remote endpoint that Puppeteer and Playwright scripts connect to. xCloud runs the pinned Obscura 0.2.4 image behind a small Caddy gateway, generates a 64-character access token, and publishes the CDP WebSocket over HTTPS on your domain. It has no web interface; your scripts are the clients.

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What is Obscura?

Obscura is a lightweight headless browser engine written in Rust. It runs page JavaScript in V8 and speaks the Chrome DevTools Protocol, and upstream positions it as a drop-in replacement for headless Chrome with Puppeteer and Playwright, for web scraping and AI agents. Run on your own server it is a self-hosted Obscura, a remote headless browser your scripts reach over a WebSocket instead of a hosted browser service such as Browserless. It is licensed under Apache-2.0.

On xCloud the template deploys Obscura 0.2.4 from a community image pinned by digest, with a small Caddy gateway as the only published service. There is no database and no volume, so browser state is not kept across restarts. Every request needs the generated bearer token, and pages cannot reach private or internal addresses unless you change that setting.

From Sign-Up to a Live Obscura Install In Just 3 Easy Steps

Self-hosting a remote headless browser normally means a gateway, a domain, a certificate and an access token before a single script can connect. This is the same result without assembling any of it.

Step 01
Sign Up
Choose Obscura Browser from the xCloud OneClick catalog and select a domain. There are no extra fields — xCloud generates the credentials.
Step 02
We Deploy It For You
One click. We bring up the pinned Obscura 0.2.4 image behind a small Caddy gateway and publish the CDP endpoint over HTTPS on your domain.
Step 03
Point Your CDP Client At The Endpoint
Save the access token, then point Puppeteer, Playwright or another CDP client at the wss:// endpoint shown in the credentials, sending the token as an Authorization Bearer header.

Everything Obscura Does, On Your Own Server

Obscura runs in full here — the same remote CDP browser tooling as any hosted scraping or automation service, on infrastructure you control.

Drive It From Puppeteer, Playwright Or Any CDP Client
Connect to a remote headless browser over a secure WebSocket for scraping, rendering and automation jobs.
Very Small Footprint
Measured about 15-18 MB of memory at idle and after a simple page round-trip.
Token-Protected By Default
A 64-character access token is generated at install; unauthenticated and wrong-token requests are refused.
Private-Network Guard Built In
A built-in guard blocks navigation to private, link-local and cloud-metadata addresses by default.
No Sessions To Manage
Sessions are ephemeral — nothing is kept across an xCloud Restart, and there is no data to lose.
Suited To Scraping And Rendering Jobs
Run scraping, page rendering and automation jobs that should not run on your own machine.

Everything You Need To Run Your Headless Browsing 24/7

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

Obscura 0.2.4 deployed instantly
Generated 64-character access token
Private-network guard blocks internal addresses
Free SSL certificate
Server backups and snapshots
Server security updates included
30+ server locations
Unused balance refunded

What You Can Do With Obscura

Render JavaScript pages for a scraper
A developer points a Puppeteer or Playwright script at the remote endpoint so pages that need JavaScript are rendered on the server, not on a laptop.
Keep automation off your own machine
Run long scraping and page-rendering jobs on a dedicated Cloud VPS, so they do not compete with your desktop for memory or a stable connection.
Give a team one shared browser endpoint
Share a single wss:// address and token across CI jobs and scripts, and rotate the token in one place when someone leaves.
Fetch pages without exposing the internal network
Run jobs that load untrusted pages with private, link-local and cloud-metadata addresses blocked by default.

Obscura vs Alternatives

Browserless: Browserless has its own OneClick page. In an Obscura alternative to Browserless comparison, Obscura here serves only the CDP endpoint, and upstream builds it as a lightweight Rust engine.
Headless Chrome: Upstream describes Obscura as a drop-in replacement for headless Chrome with Puppeteer and Playwright, and notes its engine may differ from Chromium on long-tail CSS, some Web APIs and font rendering.
Crawl4AI: Crawl4AI has its own OneClick page. It is a crawling service, whereas Obscura is the browser your own scripts drive over CDP.
Firecrawl: Firecrawl has its own OneClick page. Obscura offers no scraping API of its own here; you write the Puppeteer or Playwright script that uses the browser.

Simple Pricing. Everything Included.

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

Cloud VPS 6 GB

Cloud VPS 16 GB

More concurrent CDP sessions.

$59.99per month

16 GB RAM
6 vCPU cores
200 GB NVMe SSD
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Cloud VPS 24 GB

Obscura alongside a whole self-hosted stack.

$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. Obscura itself is Apache-2.0 licensed software, separate from the server it runs on.

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Priced per connected server, so your rate adjusts automatically as you add or remove servers. You pay your own provider for the server itself.

Self-managed hosting

Ready To Own Your Headless Browser?

Obscura 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 Obscura free?

Yes. Obscura is released under Apache-2.0, so the engine carries no licence fee. The only cost is the Cloud VPS that hosts it and its Caddy gateway, which does the work of rendering the pages your scripts request.

How much RAM does Obscura need?

The manifest floor is 512 MB RAM, one core and 2 GB disk. We sell the 6 GB tier for concurrent browser sessions; QA measured only about 15-18 MB idle, but each open page and its V8 heap adds to that.

Can you self-host Obscura with Docker?

Yes, and this template is Obscura Docker hosting without the setup: the 0.2.4 image pinned by digest runs on a private network behind a Caddy gateway, with a generated token and HTTPS on your domain. Only the gateway is published.

How do I connect Puppeteer to Obscura?

Connect Puppeteer to the wss:// endpoint from your credentials and send the token as an Authorization Bearer header. Use the WebSocket address directly, because the HTTP discovery routes advertise an internal address that clients outside the server cannot reach.

Is Obscura a replacement for headless Chrome?

Upstream describes it as a drop-in replacement for headless Chrome with Puppeteer and Playwright, but also notes its engine may differ from Chromium on long-tail CSS, some Web APIs and font rendering. Test your own scripts before you rely on it.

Is a self-hosted Obscura endpoint secure?

Every request needs the bearer token, and requests carrying an Origin header from a web page are refused. Anyone holding the token can drive the browser and make the server fetch pages, so keep it private and rotate it in the environment if it leaks.

Can pages reach my internal network?

Not by default. Private, link-local and cloud-metadata addresses are blocked, so a page cannot reach services on this server. Private-network access is an optional environment setting; leave it off unless you need it, because it exposes internal services.

Does Obscura keep sessions or cookies?

No. The install has no volumes, so cookies, localStorage and sessions are not kept across a restart. There is nothing persistent to back up except your own copy of the access token and any environment settings you changed.

How do I upgrade Obscura?

You remain on Obscura 0.2.4 until you adopt a newer template version. With no volume to copy, keep a note of any environment values you changed and your access token, then read upstream's release notes. After a redeploy, every client reconnects with the same token.

Does Obscura have a web interface?

No. It only serves the CDP control plane, so opening the address in a normal browser shows nothing useful. You drive it from Puppeteer, Playwright or another CDP client, authenticating with the generated token instead of an account.

Is this the Obscura cloud service?

No. This page gives you a private Obscura on a dedicated Cloud VPS that you control, running the open-source engine. It is not Obscura Cloud, the hosted version upstream says it is working on, so no third party sits between your scripts and the browser, and you hold the access token yourself.

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.