Refresh some copy, add pricing/limits page

juecd · juecd · commit 16239d7cf067 · 2025-07-26T20:07:37.000-07:00
diff --git a/build/browser-frameworks.mdx b/build/browser-frameworks.mdx
@@ -15,10 +15,6 @@ When using Kernel's [app platform](/build/develop), we **co-locate** your code w
 
 To create a browser automation app with Kernel, simply define an app and action that creates a Kernel browser.
 
-<Tip>
-  Install our [sample apps](/quickstart#1-download-the-sample-app) to get up and running with Playwright, Browser Use, Computer Use, or Stagehand!
-</Tip>
-
 ### 1. Create an app and define a browser action
 
 Start by creating your app and defining an action for your browser automation:
@@ -135,13 +131,6 @@ def playwright_script(runtime_context, payload):
 	Make sure to call `browser.close()` at the end of your action to ensure the browser connection is properly closed.
 </Info>
 
-## Browser frameworks: environment variables
-
-Browser frameworks sometimes require environment variables (e.g. LLM API keys). Set them when [deploying](/launch/deploy#environment-variables) your app.
-
-## Next steps
+## Web agent frameworks: environment variables
 
-Once you've created your browser automation app:
-1. [Deploy](/launch/deploy) it on Kernel's cloud platform
-2. Learn how to [invoke](/launch/invoke) your app's actions
-3. Explore [browser configuration options](/launch/browser-persistence) for advanced use cases
+Web agent frameworks sometimes require environment variables (e.g. LLM API keys). Set them when [deploying](/launch/deploy#environment-variables) your app.
diff --git a/build/remote-browsers.mdx b/build/remote-browsers.mdx
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 title: "Remote Browsers"
 ---
 
-Kernel [browsers](/info/unikernels) were designed to be lightweight, fast, and efficient for cloud-based browser automation at scale. They can be used as part of the Kernel [app platform](/build/develop) or connected a **remote service** with Chrome DevTools Protocol.
+Kernel browsers were designed to be lightweight, fast, and efficient for cloud-based browser automation at scale. They can be used as part of the Kernel [app platform](/build/develop) or connected to a **remote service** with Chrome DevTools Protocol.
 
 Remote Kernel browsers have the same capabilities as on our app platform, including:
 - [Browser persistence](/launch/browser-persistence)
diff --git a/careers/backend-engineer.mdx b/careers/backend-engineer.mdx
@@ -3,17 +3,17 @@ title: "Backend Engineer"
 ---
 
 - 🌆 **Location: SF or Cincinnati**
-- 💰 **Salary: &#36;175,000 - &#36;235,000 + 2&#37;+ equity**
+- 💰 **Salary: &#36;175,000 - &#36;235,000 + 2&#37; equity**
 - ⏳ **Years of experience: 5+**
 - 💻 **Skills: Bun / Typescript, Go, Stainless, MySQL (PlanetScale)**
 
 ## About Kernel
 
-We're building *the* developer platform that lets AI agents use real applications, starting with browsers. Our edge is an infrastructure platform that's extensible, observable, and built for scale from day one. We've shipped foundational tech, landed paying customers, and are well-funded while still in stealth.
+We're building *the* developer platform that lets AI agents use applications, starting with browsers. Our edge is an infrastructure platform that's extensible, observable, and built for scale from day one.
 
-Our **serverless platform** handles the hard stuff: autoscaling reliable browser infrastructure, observability, and the messy details of web interaction so developers can focus on what their agents do, not how they do it. **Kernel makes AI tangible, practical, and powerful** — allowing developers to deploy agents that can truly interact with the digital world.
+Our **serverless platform** handles the hard stuff: autoscaling reliable browser infrastructure, observability, and enabling human-in-the-loop interactions in production.
 
-**If you're interested in building critical infrastructure for the next generation of AI applications, we'd love to chat.** One line of code deploys any web agent to our cloud. The rest is up to you.
+**If you're interested in building critical infrastructure for the next generation of AI applications, we'd love to chat.**
 
 ## About the role
 
@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@ As **Founding Backend Engineer** at Kernel, you'll architect and build the core
 - **$1k / mo budget** for LLM usage fees #vibecheck
 - **Daily lunches** on us
 - **Unlimited PTO**
+- 401k + company match
 
 ## Hiring process
 
diff --git a/careers/engineer-new-grad.mdx b/careers/engineer-new-grad.mdx
@@ -3,17 +3,17 @@ title: "Software Engineer - New Grad"
 ---
 
 - 🌆 **Location: Cincinnati**
-- 💰 **Salary: &#36;100,000 - &#36;125,000 + 0.5&#37;+ equity**
+- 💰 **Salary: &#36;100,000 - &#36;125,000 + 0.5&#37; equity**
 - ⏳ **Years of experience: 0+**
 - 💻 **Skills: Bun / Typescript, Go, Stainless, MySQL (PlanetScale)**
 
 ## About Kernel
 
-We're building *the* developer platform that lets AI agents use real applications, starting with browsers. Our edge is an infrastructure platform that's extensible, observable, and built for scale from day one. We've shipped foundational tech, landed paying customers, and are well-funded while still in stealth.
+We're building *the* developer platform that lets AI agents use applications, starting with browsers. Our edge is an infrastructure platform that's extensible, observable, and built for scale from day one.
 
-Our **serverless platform** handles the hard stuff: autoscaling reliable browser infrastructure, observability, and the messy details of web interaction so developers can focus on what their agents do, not how they do it. **Kernel makes AI tangible, practical, and powerful** — allowing developers to deploy agents that can truly interact with the digital world.
+Our **serverless platform** handles the hard stuff: autoscaling reliable browser infrastructure, observability, and enabling human-in-the-loop interactions in production.
 
-**If you're interested in building critical infrastructure for the next generation of AI applications, we'd love to chat.** One line of code deploys any web agent to our cloud. The rest is up to you.
+**If you're interested in building critical infrastructure for the next generation of AI applications, we'd love to chat.**
 
 ## About the role
 
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ As **New Grad Software Engineer** at Kernel, you'll build the core systems that
 - **$1k / mo budget** for LLM usage fees #vibecheck
 - **Daily lunches** on us
 - **Unlimited PTO**
+- 401k + company match
 
 ## Hiring process
 
diff --git a/careers/infra-engineer.mdx b/careers/infra-engineer.mdx
@@ -3,17 +3,17 @@ title: "Infrastructure Engineer"
 ---
 
 - 🌆 **Location: SF or Cincinnati**
-- 💰 **Salary: &#36;175,000 - &#36;235,000 + 2&#37;+ equity**
+- 💰 **Salary: &#36;175,000 - &#36;235,000 + 2&#37; equity**
 - ⏳ **Years of experience: 5+**
 - 💻 **Skills: Distributed systems, Nomad, microVMs, unikernels, WebRTC, serverless**
 
 ## About Kernel
 
-We're building *the* developer platform that lets AI agents use real applications, starting with browsers. Our edge is an infrastructure platform that's extensible, observable, and built for scale from day one. We've shipped foundational tech, landed paying customers, and are well-funded while still in stealth.
+We're building *the* developer platform that lets AI agents use applications, starting with browsers. Our edge is an infrastructure platform that's extensible, observable, and built for scale from day one.
 
-Our **serverless platform** handles the hard stuff: autoscaling reliable browser infrastructure, observability, and the messy details of web interaction so developers can focus on what their agents do, not how they do it. **Kernel makes AI tangible, practical, and powerful** — allowing developers to deploy agents that can truly interact with the digital world.
+Our **serverless platform** handles the hard stuff: autoscaling reliable browser infrastructure, observability, and enabling human-in-the-loop interactions in production.
 
-**If you're interested in building critical infrastructure for the next generation of AI applications, we'd love to chat.** One line of code deploys any web agent to our cloud. The rest is up to you.
+**If you're interested in building critical infrastructure for the next generation of AI applications, we'd love to chat.**
 
 ## About the role
 
@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ As **Founding Infrastructure Engineer** at Kernel, you'll architect and build th
 - **$1k / mo budget** for LLM usage fees #vibecheck
 - **Daily lunches** on us
 - **Unlimited PTO**
+- 401k + company match
 
 ## Hiring process
 
diff --git a/careers/intro.mdx b/careers/intro.mdx
@@ -4,11 +4,11 @@ title: "Join Us!"
 
 ## About Kernel
 
-We're building *the* developer platform that lets AI agents use real applications, starting with browsers. Our edge is an infrastructure platform that's extensible, observable, and built for scale from day one. We've shipped foundational tech, landed paying customers, and are well-funded while still in stealth.
+We're building *the* developer platform that lets AI agents use applications, starting with browsers. Our edge is an infrastructure platform that's extensible, observable, and built for scale from day one.
 
-Our **serverless platform** handles the hard stuff: autoscaling reliable browser infrastructure, observability, and the messy details of web interaction so developers can focus on what their agents do, not how they do it. **Kernel makes AI tangible, practical, and powerful** — allowing developers to deploy agents that can truly interact with the digital world.
+Our **serverless platform** handles the hard stuff: autoscaling reliable browser infrastructure, observability, and enabling human-in-the-loop interactions in production.
 
-**If you're interested in building critical infrastructure for the next generation of AI applications, we'd love to chat.** One line of code deploys any web agent to our cloud. The rest is up to you.
+**If you're interested in building critical infrastructure for the next generation of AI applications, we'd love to chat.**
 
 ## Open roles
 
diff --git a/docs.json b/docs.json
@@ -50,11 +50,11 @@
             {
               "group": "Browsers",
               "pages": [
+                "launch/browser-headless",
                 "launch/browser-persistence",
+                "launch/browser-stealth",
                 "launch/browser-authentication",
-                "launch/browser-headless",
                 "launch/browser-standby",
-                "launch/browser-stealth",
                 "launch/browser-termination"
               ]
             }
@@ -99,6 +99,7 @@
           "group": "Info",
           "pages": [
             "info/concepts",
+            "info/pricing",
             "info/unikernels"
           ]
         },
diff --git a/info/pricing.mdx b/info/pricing.mdx
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+---
+title: "Pricing & Limits"
+---
+
+With Kernel, you only pay for what you use and nothing more. Our goal is to be cost-effective, scalable, and transparent.
+
+## Managed infrastructure
+
+| Feature | Developer (free + usage) | Start-Up ($200 / mo + usage) | Enterprise |
+| --- | --- | --- | --- |
+| Price per gb-second | $0.0000166667 | $0.0000166667 | Custom |
+| Headless browsers resource | 1 gb | 1 gb | 1 gb |
+| Headful browsers resource | 8 gb | 8 gb | 8 gb |
+| Free credits / mo | $5 | $50 | Custom |
+| Browser persistence | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
+| Browser live view & logs | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
+| Browser replays | ❌ | ✅ | ✅ |
+| File uploads & downloads | ❌ | ✅ | ✅ |
+| Configurable browser extensions | ❌ | ✅ | ✅ |
+| BYO images & storage mounts | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ |
+| SOC2 compliance | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
+| HIPAA compliance (BAA) | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ |
+
+## Limits
+
+| Feature | Developer (free + usage) | Start-Up ($200 / mo + usage) | Enterprise |
+| --- | --- | --- | --- |
+| Log & replay retention | 30 days | 30 days | Custom |
+| Concurrent browsers | 5 | 50 | Custom |
+| Concurrent invocations | 5 | 50 | Custom |
+| Persistent browsers | 5 | 50 | Custom |
diff --git a/introduction.mdx b/introduction.mdx
@@ -5,22 +5,40 @@ description: "Infrastructure as-a-service for browser automations, web agents, a
 
 Kernel is a powerful serverless platform that enables developers to deploy and scale browser automations without worrying about infrastructure.
 
-## Why use Kernel?
+- **Integrated browser environment** - Seamlessly create and connect your web agent to our cloud-based browsers on-demand
+- **Parallel scaling** - Run concurrent browsers on-demand; we scale with you
+- **Securely isolated** - Kernel browsers are sandboxed in individual isolated virtual machines
+- **State persistence** - Maintain browser sessions across invocations, preserving cookies, auth tokens, and history
+- **Live debugging** - View and interact with browser sessions in real-time using our Live View
+- **Replays** - Review past browser session videos
+- **Simple, predictable pricing** - Pay only for the resources you use without pre-defining infrastructure requirements
 
-- **Local to production in seconds** - No configurations, no production pipelines. Deploy and run your code on our platform in the same amount of time it takes to type `bun run dev`.
-- **Turn any agent into an API** - Kernel's platform turns every agent you write into an API that you can invoke from anywhere.
-- **Parallel scaling** - Run thousands of concurrent browsers on-demand; we scale with you.
-- **Securely isolated, easily observable** - Your code runs in isolated virtual machines, and we provide the tools you need to inspect and debug them.
-- **Simple, predictable pricing** - Pay only for the resources you use, without pre-defining infrastructure requirements.
+## How to use Kernel
 
-## Browser support
+There are two ways to use the Kernel platform:
+### 1. Deploy and invoke your web agent on our platform
 
-Our platform provides first-class support for browser-based workloads. For developers building web automations, AI agents, or any browser-dependent application, Kernel offers specialized capabilities:
+Kernel's platform allows you to to [deploy](/launch/deploy) your app's code to our cloud. This allows you to co-locate your browser automation or web agent directly alongside the browser it controls in the cloud, minimizing latency and connection issues common with other platforms.
 
-- **Integrated browser environment** - Seamlessly create and interact with our cloud-based browsers on-demand
-- **State persistence** - Maintain browser sessions across invocations, preserving cookies, auth tokens, and history
-- **Standby mode** - Restart browser instances in 20 milliseconds or less
-- **Live debugging** - View and interact with browser sessions in real-time
-- **Replays** - Review past browser sessions for debugging and analysis
+Follow our [quickstart guide](/quickstart) to get started.
+
+### 2. Connect to remote browsers via Chrome DevTools Protocol
+
+For developers who already have browsers automations in production but want to use Kernel's cloud-based browsers, you can quickly spin up [remote browsers](/build/remote-browsers) and connect to them with the Chrome DevTools Protocol:
+
+<CodeGroup>
+
+```typescript Typescript/Javascript
+import { Kernel } from '@onkernel/sdk';
+const kernel = new Kernel();
+const kernelBrowser = await kernel.browsers.create();
+const browser = await chromium.connectOverCDP(kernelBrowser.cdp_ws_url);
+```
 
-Our co-located architecture places your application code directly alongside the browser in the cloud, minimizing latency and connection issues common with other platforms. The best part is that all of this happens without you needing to configure Kubernetes, manage Docker containers, or wrangle AWS. We handle the infrastructure.
+```python Python
+import kernel
+client = Kernel()
+kernel_browser = client.browsers.create()
+browser = await chromium.connectOverCDP(kernel_browser.cdp_ws_url)
+```
+</CodeGroup>
diff --git a/launch/invoke.mdx b/launch/invoke.mdx
@@ -21,11 +21,7 @@ See [developing](/build/develop#parameters) to learn how to access the payload i
 
 ## Return values
 
-If your action specifies a [return value](/build/develop#return-values), the invocation returns its value to the command line once it completes.
-
-<Info>
-    Return payloads have a max response limit size of 64kb. Use an S3 bucket for larger data processing.
-</Info>
+If your action specifies a [return value](/build/develop#return-values), the invocation returns its value once it completes.
 
 ## Invoking via API/SDK
 
diff --git a/quickstart.mdx b/quickstart.mdx
@@ -2,13 +2,17 @@
 title: "Quickstart"
 ---
 
-This quickstart guide will help you create, deploy, and run your first app on Kernel. You'll launch a simple browser automation app using Playwright, Browser Use, Computer Use, or Stagehand.
+This quickstart guide will help you deploy and invoke your first browser automation on Kernel. You'll launch a simple app using Playwright, Computer Use, or a web agent framework like Browser Use.
+
+<Info>
+    If you're looking to quickly swap your existing browser provider with Kernel browsers, follow the instructions [here](/build/remote-browsers).
+</Info>
 
 ## Prerequisites
 
 - `brew` for the Kernel CLI
 - `npm` or `pnpm` to generate a sample Kernel app
-- A [Kernel account and authentication setup](/reference/api-keys)
+- A [Kernel account](https://dashboard.onkernel.com)
 
 > **Note:** You can also deploy and invoke apps using the [Kernel MCP server](/mcp) from AI assistants (Cursor, Goose, Claude, etc.).
 
@@ -107,11 +111,9 @@ kernel invoke python-cu cu-task --payload '{"query": "Search for the top 3 resta
 
 Nice work! With Kernel, you:
 
-1. Developed an app that uses Playwright, Browser Use, Computer Use, or Stagehand
+1. Developed an app that uses Playwright, Computer Use, or a web agent framework like Browser Use
 2. Deployed and invoked it in the cloud
 
-Our instant deployment capabilities mean you can iterate rapidly and get the benefits of using Kernel's cloud platform without disrupting your development flow.
-
 From here, you can:
 
 - Explore [observability](/observability/logs) tools to monitor your invocations.
diff --git a/reference/api-keys.mdx b/reference/api-keys.mdx
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 ---
-title: "API Keys"
+title: "Authentication"
 ---
 
 ## Authentication Methods

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`@@ -50,11 +50,11 @@`
`50`	`50`	`{`
`51`	`51`	`"group": "Browsers",`
`52`	`52`	`"pages": [`
	`53`	`+ "launch/browser-headless",`
`53`	`54`	`"launch/browser-persistence",`
	`55`	`+ "launch/browser-stealth",`
`54`	`56`	`"launch/browser-authentication",`
`55`		`- "launch/browser-headless",`
`56`	`57`	`"launch/browser-standby",`
`57`		`- "launch/browser-stealth",`
`58`	`58`	`"launch/browser-termination"`
`59`	`59`	`]`
`60`	`60`	`}`
`@@ -99,6 +99,7 @@`
`99`	`99`	`"group": "Info",`
`100`	`100`	`"pages": [`
`101`	`101`	`"info/concepts",`
	`102`	`+ "info/pricing",`
`102`	`103`	`"info/unikernels"`
`103`	`104`	`]`
`104`	`105`	`},`