[DigitalToday reporter Chi-gyu Hwang (황치규)] Cloudflare has launched Kitesurf, a cloud browser for AI agents. TechCrunch reported on Aug. 7 that Kitesurf is not a Chrome replacement for consumers. It is designed to let AI carry out browser-based tasks such as navigating websites and filling in forms.

Using Kitesurf, developers can build AI software that handles web browsing, form filling and other browser-based work without creating separate browser software themselves.

Kitesurf has different design priorities from browsers for people. Context window management, performance, token costs and scalability matter more than visual elements such as themes, tabs and extensions. Its threat model also differs from existing browsers because it can be exposed to vulnerabilities such as prompt injection attacks.

Kitesurf runs on Cloudflare’s serverless platform, Workers. Cloudflare decided to develop it 12 weeks ago and is offering it for free during the beta period through Browser Run. Browser Run is a service that lets developers control and interact with headless browser instances on Cloudflare’s network through code.

Cloudflare said Kitesurf uses CPU and memory more efficiently than Chromium for common agent tasks such as screenshots and HTML extraction. Developers can use it to run AI agents with less computing resources and cut costs.

Cloudflare said Kitesurf has already passed more than 215,000 web platform tests and is increasing the number of passes by hundreds each week. It also said Kitesurf correctly renders TodoMVC, Wikipedia, Hacker News, the Cloudflare blog and much of the Cloudflare dashboard.