- The newest Chromium, 152. The engine, its features, and the version it reports all step up to the current major, so you stay current with what real browsers ship.
- Windows persona, another deep pass — the fonts your browser reports now line up the same way everywhere a site can read them. Coverage is broader and more accurate, and more of your graphics and…
- The macOS persona on 152 — its graphics, text, and media are refreshed for the new engine. It runs on Linux and macOS only, not on Windows. Select it with --fingerprint-platform=macos, and install…
- A more reliable proxy connection — the proxy connection mode now works across more setups, and a rare connection hang is fixed. Enable it alongside your --proxy-server with…
CloakBrowser by CloakHQ
Recently added on Oct 6, 2026. Usage numbers are live; the description, category and pricing were filled in from public metadata and have not been checked by an editor yet.
Pulse Score
41 / 100
Rank #81 of 258
Downloads, last 7 days
289K
down 25.3% vs previous week
Downloads, last 30 days
1.2M
down 26.0% vs previous 30 days
GitHub stars
31.9K
about +27 a day
Latest release
152.0.7977.82.1-pro
13d ago · 2 in 30 days
Price
Free (OSS)
checked Oct 6, 2026
Overview
Stealth Chromium that passes every bot detection test. Drop-in Playwright replacement with source-level fingerprint patches. 30/30 tests passed.
CloakBrowser was downloaded 289K times from npm and PyPI in the week ending Oct 4, 2026, down 25.3% on the week before and down 26.0% over the last 30 days compared with the 30 before. The GitHub repository has 31.9K stars, 845 of them added in the last 30 days. The latest stable release is 152.0.7977.82.1-pro, published Sep 23, 2026; there were 2 stable releases in the past 30 days. It was mentioned in 2 Hacker News posts and comments over the last 30 days.
CloakBrowser usage and attention over time
Download the raw daily series: cloakbrowser.csv
Install CloakBrowser
| npm | npm install cloakbrowser |
|---|---|
| PyPI | pip install cloakbrowser |
These commands use the packages tracked on this page. The vendor may recommend a different installer.
Key facts
| Maker | CloakHQ |
|---|---|
| First released | February 2026 |
| License | MIT |
| Main language | Python |
| Open issues and PRs | 239 |
Pricing
Open source under the MIT licence; check the website for any paid hosted plans.
, checked Oct 6, 2026. Prices change often; confirm before you buy.
Pulse Score breakdown
Adoption55
Community63
Attention0
Momentum24
Each component is scored 0 to 100 from public signals; a dash means no data for it. Methodology.
CloakBrowser news and signals
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CloakBrowser downloads up 45% in a week
354K npm and PyPI downloads in the 7 days to Sep 26, against 245K the week before.
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CloakBrowser 152.0.7977.82.1-pro released
The newest Chromium, 152. The engine, its features, and the version it reports all step up to the current major, so you stay current with what real browsers ship.; Windows persona, another deep pass — the fonts your browser reports now line up the same way…
What changed: recent CloakBrowser releases
8 stable releases in the last 90 days · Full changelog
- A second identity: the macOS persona. Alongside the Windows persona, the Mac persona is now a coherent identity of its own, lined up with real Mac hardware across graphics, media, fonts, text,…
- A more precise Windows persona — more of it matches real Windows hardware across the finer graphics and text signals the strictest sites read.
- A stronger proxy connection — a better way of connecting through your proxy that clears sites and providers that previously blocked every proxy. Off by default; enable it alongside your…
- Portable cookies — copy a profile between machines with its logins intact. Turn it on from the first launch with --fingerprint-portable-cookies.
- More faithful Windows-persona rendering — a closer match to real Windows across a wider range of fonts and sizes.
- Broader rendering consistency, so it holds up on more sites.
- Deeper hardware coherence — your GPU, WebGL, and the finer signals tied to them now line up as one machine, so nothing about your hardware contradicts the rest of your identity.
- Windows-persona graphics match real Windows hardware more precisely.
- Broader, more accurate Windows 11 font coverage.
- Proxied requests send the same cache headers as stock Chrome.
- Chromium 151 base — the entire fingerprint patch set has been ported onto the new engine and re-validated against reference data. Current major, current behavior.
- Sharper Windows identity — corrected speech-synthesis voice sets, connected-media reporting, and screen and display characteristics, all matched against real-world reference data.
- Intel graphics identities now cross-platform — coherent Intel GPU personas that were previously Windows-only now render correctly on Linux as well, with graphics capabilities kept aligned as one…
- More coherent network identity — network behavior tracks a real browser more closely across direct, proxied, and located sessions, and starts up with a quieter background-request profile.
- More reliable session handling — cleaner release of concurrent sessions and steadier local license handling.
- Broader Windows hardware identities — expanded the available hardware profiles while keeping graphics, CPU, memory, and display characteristics aligned as one plausible machine.
- Closer Windows fidelity — improved text measurements, font availability, locale coverage, platform-specific path behavior, and headed window geometry.
- Stronger cross-context consistency — browser identity now stays aligned more reliably across top-level pages, nested frames, storage contexts, automation overrides, and repeated rendering.
- More coherent network identity — improved behavior across IPv4, IPv6, dual-stack, direct, proxied, and automatically located sessions.
- Better runtime reliability — strengthened extension and worker compatibility, interrupted-session cleanup, local license diagnostics, and connectivity through proxy-dependent environments.
- More stable native Linux profiles — reduced unnecessary variation across seeds when the selected persona matches the host platform.
CloakBrowser alternatives
| # | Agent | Pulse | Downloads 7d | 7d | 30d | VS Code installs | Stars | Latest release | Price | Last 90 days | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 |
Browser UseBrowser Use |
60 | 2.4M | up 16.3% | — | — | 117K+88/day | 0.13.1032d ago | Free | ||
| 21 |
StagehandBrowserbase |
58 | 2.5M | up 13.4% | up 16.5% | — | 25.5K+15/day | 3.7.339d ago | Free + $20/mo | ||
| 49 |
ARTEMISGoogle |
48 | — | — | — | — | 11K+64/day | — | Free (OSS) | — | |
| 144 |
SkyvernSkyvern AI |
28 | 5,699 | up 0.3% | down 14.8% | — | 23.1K+8/day | 1.0.555d ago | Free + $29/mo | ||
| 154 |
NanobrowserNanobrowser team |
25 | — | — | — | — | 14K+21/day | 0.2.04d ago | Free | ||
| 158 |
Perplexity CometPerplexity AI |
24 | — | — | — | — | — | — | Free | ||
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CloakBrowser FAQ
How much does CloakBrowser cost?
Open source under the MIT licence; check the website for any paid hosted plans.
Is CloakBrowser open source?
Yes. CloakBrowser is open source, released under the MIT license.
How popular is CloakBrowser?
CloakBrowser was downloaded 289K times from npm and PyPI in the week ending Oct 4, 2026, down 25.3% on the week before and down 26.0% over the last 30 days compared with the 30 before. The GitHub repository has 31.9K stars, 845 of them added in the last 30 days. The latest stable release is 152.0.7977.82.1-pro, published Sep 23, 2026; there were 2 stable releases in the past 30 days.
What is the latest version of CloakBrowser?
The latest stable release we track is 152.0.7977.82.1-pro, published on Sep 23, 2026.
What are the alternatives to CloakBrowser?
The closest alternatives in the same category by Pulse Score are Browser Use, Stagehand, ARTEMIS, Skyvern.
Where these numbers come from
npm: cloakbrowser. PyPI: cloakbrowser. GitHub: cloakhq/cloakbrowser. Site rank: cloakbrowser.dev on the Tranco list. See data sources for how each one is collected.
Product facts and pricing were checked against: cloakbrowser.dev, github.com, npmjs.com, pypi.org.