Anchor (Anchor Browser) alternatives

Anchor Browser provides cloud-hosted Chromium instances optimised for AI agent use — anti-detect, persistent sessions, residential proxies, CAPTCHA handling. Founded 2023, YC W24. $2.6M seed disclosed. Full Anchor (Anchor Browser) record →

  1. 1 e2b AI sandbox & runtime environments

    also in AI sandbox & runtime environments · same memory unit (file) · also offered managed · also has MCP

    OSS ✓ Self-host ✓ Managed ✓ MCP ✓ ★ 15k released 2026-10-26 Apache-2.0 Compare with Anchor (Anchor Browser) →

  2. 2 Coder.com AI sandbox & runtime environments

    also in AI sandbox & runtime environments · same memory unit (file) · also offered managed · also has MCP

    OSS ✓ Self-host ✓ Managed ✓ MCP ✓ ★ 14k released 2026-10-06 AGPL-3.0 (Community); proprietary Premium / AI… Compare with Anchor (Anchor Browser) →

  3. 3 Browserless.io AI sandbox & runtime environments

    also in AI sandbox & runtime environments · same memory unit (file) · also offered managed · also has MCP

    OSS — Self-host ✓ Managed ✓ MCP ✓ ★ 14k SSPL-1.0 + Browserless Commercial License… Compare with Anchor (Anchor Browser) →

  4. 4 Modal Sandboxes AI sandbox & runtime environments

    also in AI sandbox & runtime environments · same memory unit (file) · also offered managed

    OSS ✓ Self-host ✓ Managed ✓ MCP ? ★ 530 released 2026-10-16 Apache-2.0 (client SDK only; platform… Compare with Anchor (Anchor Browser) →

  5. 5 Daytona AI sandbox & runtime environments

    also in AI sandbox & runtime environments · same memory unit (file) · also offered managed · also has MCP

    OSS ✓ Self-host ✓ Managed ✓ MCP ✓ ★ 15 released 2026-10-23 Apache-2.0 (SDKs in daytona/clients; CLI under… Compare with Anchor (Anchor Browser) →

  6. 6 Workato AI (Workflow Bot Builder) AI sandbox & runtime environments

    also in AI sandbox & runtime environments · same memory unit (file) · also offered managed · also has MCP

    OSS ? Self-host — Managed ✓ MCP ✓ Compare with Anchor (Anchor Browser) →

  7. 7 StackBlitz WebContainers AI sandbox & runtime environments ⚠ stale — no commits since 2025-04

    also in AI sandbox & runtime environments · same memory unit (file) · also offered managed

    OSS ? Self-host — Managed ✓ MCP ? ★ 4.7k released 2026-04-14 Compare with Anchor (Anchor Browser) →

  8. 8 CodeSandbox AI AI sandbox & runtime environments ⚠ acquired — acquired by Together AI

    also in AI sandbox & runtime environments · same memory unit (file) · also offered managed

    OSS ? Self-host — Managed ✓ MCP ? Compare with Anchor (Anchor Browser) →

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