Kernel
Browser InfraTrustedLIVEby Kernel
Kernel offers programmatic browser session lifecycle control with sub-second cold starts on Firecracker microVMs. Standby mode parks sessions cheaply between actions, which suits long-lived authenticated flows. Straightforward per-minute pricing with no bandwidth surprises.
- Provider
- Kernel
- Type
- Browser Infra
- Added
- Feb 2025
- Interface
- Session-level (CDP)
- Trust tier
- trusted
- Egress
- Vendor egress (unverified)
- Evidence
- minimal
- Max session
- 60 min
- Regions
- US
- Pricing
- browser time $0.009/minstandby $0.001/min
- Compliance
- ZDRSOC 2HIPAAPCI-DSS ROC
0.8%
Traffic share
45.3%
Success
26s
Median duration
$0.014/task
Avg $/task
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p95 first action
Success rate over time
Traffic share over time
Pricing
| Model | Native price | Normalized $/run | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| per minute | $0.009/browser-minute | $0.01 | — |
| browser time | $0.009/min | — | — |
| standby | $0.001/min | — | — |
Capability matrix
Capabilities for this runner — extra/gap badges compare against the most common capability set for Browser Infra runners in the catalog.
Login flows
MFA/2FA interactions
CAPTCHA handling
File download
File upload
Form filling
Structured extraction
Vision-based
DOM-based
Stealth/anti-bot
Residential proxies
Persistent sessions
Parallel sessions
Human-in-the-loop
Full evidence
Storage capture
Code sample
Pin this runner via routing: "kernel"
curl -X POST "$BANANA_PEEL_BASE/api/v1/responses" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $BANANA_PEEL_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "banana-peel",
"input": "Extract the title from https://example.com",
"routing": "kernel"
}'