Vendors / Steel
Steel
Named in 17 of 50 AI answers across 1 category in September 2026. Best position: Browser automation for agents, 34% answer share, ranked #9, named first in 0%.
34%
Best share Browser automation for agents
What Steel is
Steel is an open-source browser API for developers building browser automations. It is intended for teams creating AI agents, web scraping workflows, RPA, sales automation, QA processes, and customer-service agents. It offers a $0 per-month launch plan plus usage, a $250 per-month scale plan plus usage, and custom enterprise pricing plus usage.
Steel creates on-demand cloud browser sessions through an API. Developers can connect Puppeteer, Playwright or Selenium to these browsers, save and inject cookies and local storage, and use built-in CAPTCHA solving for automations. Its Session Viewer supports live or recorded session debugging.
By category
First edition
| Category | Rank | Answer share | Named first | Models | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Browser automation for agentsAI infra | #9 of 15 | 0% | Claude Opus 5, Claude, Claude Fable 5, Gemini, Gemini 3.5 Flash, Sonar Reasoning Pro | new |
What the models said
“Choose Steel or Browserbase if you already have your automation script written, but need a cloud-hosted environment that scales seamlessly and bypasses anti-bot walls.”
“Browserbase and Steel provide managed, cloud-hosted browsers purpose-built for agents, solving the headless browser scaling problem.”
“Infrastructure matured in 2026: tools like Browserbase and Steel provide managed, cloud-hosted browsers purpose-built for agents, solving the headless browser scaling problem.”
“For scaling agents in production, use Browserbase or Steel.”
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