What is a cloud browser agent?
A browser that runs in a data center rather than on your machine. It is signed into nothing of yours, so reaching your accounts means handing over your sessions.
A cloud browser agent is an AI agent that drives a browser on a provider’s infrastructure rather than on your machine. You send a task, a browser spins up in a data center, does the work, and returns the result.
Everything about the shape follows from the browser being somewhere else, including the fact that it is signed into none of your accounts. Strawberry runs on your own macOS or Windows machine and works in the sessions already in your browser, so the work happens where your logins already are.
| Question | Cloud browser agent | Local agentic browser |
|---|---|---|
| Where the browser runs | Vendor infrastructure | Your own machine |
| Access to your logins | Needs sessions or credentials transferred | Uses sessions already in your browser |
| Runs with the lid closed | Yes | Yes, with Keep Awake |
| Parallel jobs | Many at once | Bounded by your machine |
| What sites see | Data-center address, unfamiliar device | Your usual device and network |
What is the login problem?
A browser in a data center is not signed into anything of yours.
To work in your Gmail, your CRM or your analytics it needs your session, which in practice means credentials entered on a remote machine, a session token handed over, or a login completed live while you watch.
Sites notice too. Unfamiliar data-center addresses trigger verification prompts, device checks and occasional lockouts, and two-factor codes need somewhere to arrive. A companion in Strawberry works in the browser you are already signed into, so none of that applies. The mechanics are at how do AI agents log into websites.
What is a cloud browser agent good at?
Public-web work at scale and on a schedule: twenty research tasks in parallel, a crawl that takes six hours, a monitoring job that must run whether or not you own a computer today. Manus and Genspark are the well-known names in the category as of this writing, and that is the work the cloud shape is built around.
It also suits developers embedding browser work in a product, where the extraction runs as part of a service rather than as somebody’s task.
Cloud or local: where the work lives
Ask where your logins are. Work behind them, in your real accounts, with actions that touch a system of record, happens on your own machine in Strawberry, and real runs shows what comes back. Work on the open web that needs no credentials at all can run anywhere.
The full breakdown is at cloud browser agents vs local agentic browsers, and what changes once credentials are involved is at do AI agents work behind logins.
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