Claude for Chrome
https://claude.com/resources/articles/claude-for-chrome
Anthropic's Chrome extension (Claude in Chrome) letting Claude act inside the user's own browser. Research preview Aug 2025; beta for all Max users Nov 2025; on all paid plans since Dec 2025. Distinct from the Computer Use API.
Active · Verified 2026-10-29 · fresh as of 2026-10-29 · 59 cited facts, 0 with a third-party source · 3 recorded changes · Suggest a correction
At a glance
- Tier
- T1
- Section
- Computer-use & desktop agents
- Latest release
- not applicable — not OSS fix
- License
- not applicable — not OSS fix
- GitHub
- not applicable — no GitHub repo fix
- Pricing
- Not on Free; included in Pro ($20/mo, $17 annual), Max (from $100/mo), Team and Enterprise vendor fix
- Funding
- Anthropic (parent) — $65B Series H at $965B post-money (2026-05-28); S-1 filed for a proposed IPO (2026-10-26) vendor fix
- Freshness
- 2026-10-29 fix
- Layer
- agent-infra repo fix
- Licensing
- commercial vendor fix
- Deployment locus
- computer-use vendor fix
When to use
Optimised for: Letting Claude act inside the user's logged-in Chrome rather than a fresh sandbox
Anti-fit: Claude Max preview only; Chrome only; prompt-injection risk model still maturing
Pros & cons
Pros
First-party Anthropic agent inside the user's real browser; safety paper shipped at launch.
Cons
Claude Max preview only; Chrome-only; runs inside user's logged-in sessions (privacy surface).
Claims & capabilities
Anthropic Chrome extension; preview Aug-2025; Claude Max ($100-200/mo) only; prompt-injection safety paper shipped at launch
Technical surface
- API surface
- Chrome extension UI; underlying API = Anthropic Messages
- Backend storage
- Anthropic-managed session state; local extension storage
- Deployment
- Managed-only — Chrome extension in the user's browser; model runs in Anthropic cloud
- Embedding model
- not applicable — not a memory product
- Multi-tenancy
- Single-tenant per Claude account
- MCP
- Claude supports MCP servers (caller-side)
- A2A
- searched not found
- OpenTelemetry
- searched not found
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- Browser Use T1
Python library that turns any LLM into a browser agent — extracts DOM into a structured representation the LLM can act on (rather than pure screenshot). Browser Use Inc. raised $17M seed Q1 2025 (Felicis); cloud product at cloud.browser-use.com. Project is one of the most-starred browser-agent OSS repos.
- Stagehand T1
Open-source browser-automation framework by Browserbase (TypeScript core plus Python and Go SDKs). Mixes Playwright-style code with natural-language act/extract/observe; pairs with Browserbase Cloud.
- Hyperbrowser T2
Cloud-hosted headless browser API tuned for AI agents — captcha solving, stealth mode, session recordings. Y Combinator S24; pitched as a faster / cheaper Browserbase alternative. Used as substrate by agents that need browser execution but don't want to run their own Chromium fleet.
- UI-TARS T2
ByteDance Seed's open-source GUI-agent foundation model — released Jan 2025; trained end-to-end on screenshot → action pairs. Comes with UI-TARS-Desktop (Electron app) that runs the model against the user's screen. SOTA on OSWorld at release; weights on HuggingFace.
- Anthropic Computer Use T1
Anthropic's API-surface capability that lets Claude control a virtual desktop — see screenshots, type, click. Launched 2024-10 as a public beta. Not a finished IDE itself; it's the substrate that other harnesses (and Anthropic's own Claude apps) use to operate a computer.
- Skyvern T2
Open-source autonomous browser agent that uses computer vision + LLMs to navigate websites. Workflow-based: agents follow recorded plans that adapt to layout changes. Skyvern Inc. raised $4.5M seed (Sep-2024, Felicis lead). Self-hostable; cloud version on skyvern.com.
Sources (58 cited facts, 0 third-party)
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- What it is Consumer browser-agent extension (Chrome) — Anthropic vendor
- What it does & what's distinct Anthropic's Chrome extension (Claude in Chrome) letting Claude act inside the user's own… vendor
- Claims / benefits Anthropic Chrome extension; preview Aug-2025; Claude Max ($100-200/mo) only; prompt-inje… vendor
- Modalities text + DOM + screen images vendor
- Created 2025-08 vendor
- Mindshare Front-page HN / Verge / TechCrunch coverage Aug 2025 vendor
- Funding Anthropic (parent) — $65B Series H at $965B post-money (2026-05-28); S-1 filed for a pro… vendor
- Customers / scale Claude Max subscribers (preview) vendor
- Pricing Not on Free; included in Pro ($20/mo, $17 annual), Max (from $100/mo), Team and Enterprise vendor
- Compliance SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001 (Anthropic parent) vendor
- Data handling Watch-list / takeover mode for sensitive sites; opt-out from training vendor
- Deployment Managed-only — Chrome extension in the user's browser; model runs in Anthropic cloud vendor
- HQ US (Anthropic, San Francisco) vendor
- Founders / pedigree Anthropic — Dario + Daniela Amodei vendor
- Performance Prompt-injection eval published with launch vendor
- API surface Chrome extension UI; underlying API = Anthropic Messages vendor
- Backend storage Anthropic-managed session state; local extension storage vendor
- Multi-tenancy Single-tenant per Claude account vendor
- Encryption TLS in transit; AES-256 at rest vendor
- SSO / RBAC via Claude / Anthropic Console vendor
- Tombstoning User can clear sessions vendor
- Namespace primitives per-Claude-account / per-browser-profile vendor
- Forgetting policy Sessions ephemeral; cross-session memory if user opts in (Claude Memory) vendor
- MCP support Claude supports MCP servers (caller-side) vendor
- Validated verticals consumer web research, shopping, scheduling vendor
- Time to running <5min (Chrome extension install) vendor
- Anti-fit Claude Max preview only; Chrome only; prompt-injection risk model still maturing vendor
- Optimised for Letting Claude act inside the user's logged-in Chrome rather than a fresh sandbox vendor
- Adjacent infrastructure Chrome; Anthropic Computer Use API; Claude Memory vendor
- Pros First-party Anthropic agent inside the user's real browser; safety paper shipped at laun… vendor
- Cons Claude Max preview only; Chrome-only; runs inside user's logged-in sessions (privacy sur… vendor
- Project & sources anthropic.com/news/claude-for-chrome vendor
- obs-langsmith no vendor
- obs-opentelemetry no vendor
- obs-datadog no vendor
- obs-helicone no vendor
- obs-weave no vendor
- obs-langfuse no vendor
- obs-arize no vendor
- obs-custom Consumer browser extension — no observability surface vendor
- cost-token-budget no vendor
- cost-prompt-caching no vendor
- cost-semantic-caching no vendor
- cost-batching no vendor
- cost-model-routing no vendor
- cost-streaming-only no vendor
- cost-observability-cost-attribution no vendor
- eval-langsmith-evals no vendor
- eval-braintrust no vendor
- eval-weights-and-biases-agent no vendor
- eval-helicone-evals no vendor
- eval-custom-test-harness no vendor
- eval-human-loop no vendor
- eval-production-traffic-replay no vendor
- architecture-deployment-locus computer-use vendor
- licensing-bucket commercial vendor
- positioning-platform-vs-product product vendor
- taxonomy-three-layer-rollup agent-infra repo
What changed
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- 2026-10-29
- Homepage “https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-for-chrome” → “https://claude.com/resources/articles/claude-for-chrome”
- 2026-10-28
- Funding / ownership “Anthropic parent — $13.7B raised Sep-2025; ~$170B val” → “Anthropic (parent) — $65B Series H at $965B post-money (2026-05-28); S-1 filed for a proposed IPO (2026-10-26)” source
- 2026-10-26
- Pricing “Bundled with Claude Max ($100-200/mo)” → “Not on Free; included in Pro ($20/mo, $17 annual), Max (from $100/mo), Team and Enterprise” source
- Deployment “Chrome extension (consumer side) + Anthropic cloud” → “Managed-only — Chrome extension in the user's browser; model runs in Anthropic cloud” source
Related systems
References (1)
- Anthropic Claude (foundation models) depends on at runtime — adjacent-infrastructure cell: Chrome; Anthropic Computer Use API; Claude Memory