Pick Anchor Browser if
teams automating SaaS portals who will pay $0.10/successful task or infrastructure.
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Our take
Pick Anchor Browser if teams automating SaaS portals who will pay $0.10/successful task or infrastructure. Pick Steel if agent authors who want a CDP endpoint with proxies and session replay. Skip Anchor Browser if people who want a hosted general agent (Manus) or a local MIT SDK only (Stagehand). Skip Steel if people who want a hosted general agent (Manus) or markdown-out scrape credits (Firecrawl).
Anchor Browser
hosted Chromium plus prompt tasks for
Steel
open-source browser API for agents
Best for
Anchor Browser Run a natural-language web task on a managed browser
Steel Attach Playwright to a stealth cloud session
Free plan
Anchor Browser $0 · $5 credits/month. Up to 5 concurrent; 5 sessions/minute
Steel $0 · /month + usage. $30 one-time credits (~300 browser hours). 10 concurrent; 15-minute sessions; 3 seats
Lowest paid
Anchor Browser Growth $2/mo
Steel Scale $250/mo
Next step up
Anchor Browser Starter $50/mo
Steel
Coding agent
Anchor Browser agentTask snippet
Steel CLI + agent skill
Runs where
Anchor Browser Hosted
Steel
Watch out
Anchor Browser Playground in the app is a login wall
Steel Launch credits are one-time
Last checked
Anchor Browser 2026-10-22 · docs.anchorbrowser.io/pricing
Steel 2026-10-22 · steel.dev/pricing
Which one, then?
Pick Steel if
agent authors who want a CDP endpoint with proxies and session replay.
Read the Steel page