Vercel has long set the standard for cloud infrastructure. From serverless functions to edge compute, it’s made deploying modern web apps as simple as a single CLI command. With their recent funding announcement and clear focus on becoming the AI Cloud, Vercel is extending that same philosophy — instant, composable infrastructure — to a new generation of intelligent applications.
At Kernel, we share that vision. We believe the next wave of software needs access to the internet to fulfill its promise. AI agents, automations, and autonomous workflows are already beginning to browse, test, and interact with the web the way humans do. Kernel provides the infrastructure that makes this possible: Crazy Fast Browsers-as-a-Service, built for scale, observability, and reliability.
Seamless integration built for developers
Today, we’re excited to announce that Kernel is now available on the Vercel Marketplace.
With this integration, developers can connect their Vercel Functions directly to Kernel’s Browsers-as-a-Service platform in seconds. Once installed, the integration automatically provisions your Kernel API key into your Vercel environment variables with no manual setup required. From there, you can launch a browser in your function with a single call: kernel.browsers.create() and automate anything on the internet. You might automate workflows on dashboards without APIs, gather pricing data across sites, or capture invoices for accounting workflows.
Kernel works out of the box with every major agent and automation framework — including Browser Use, Stagehand, Playwright, Puppeteer, or Computer Use via OpenAI, Anthropic, or Gemini. That means developers can instantly deploy and scale any of these workloads on Vercel using Kernel’s browsers.
Why this matters
Modern AI workloads are increasingly distributed. Agents need browsers to navigate real-world interfaces, and developers need reliable infrastructure to handle scale and state. Kernel provides both.
Our edge lies in delivering browsers that spin up in milliseconds, persist state across workflows, and support human-in-the-loop interactions through Live View and replays. By pairing Kernel’s browser layer with Vercel’s AI-optimized runtime, developers get a complete, production-ready environment for building and deploying autonomous systems.
Together, Kernel and Vercel move us closer to a world where the full stack of the AI Cloud is simply invokable, composable code.
Get started
You can find Kernel on the Vercel Marketplace today.
For documentation, examples, and setup instructions, visit our docs.
If you’re building something ambitious with Kernel and Vercel, we’d love to hear about it — reach out at oss@onkernel.com or join our Discord: https://discord.gg/FBrveQRcud
Catherine
Co-founder & CEO of Kernel