Pick Browser Use if
developers automating bookings, research, or QA in a real browser who will pay per hour or bring their own LLM.
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Our take
Pick Browser Use if developers automating bookings, research, or QA in a real browser who will pay per hour or bring their own LLM. Pick Steel if agent authors who want a CDP endpoint with proxies and session replay. Skip Browser Use if people who need a no-code workflow without an agent loop (n8n, Langflow) or a coding IDE agent (Cursor). Skip Steel if people who want a hosted general agent (Manus) or markdown-out
Steel
open-source browser API for agents
Best for
Browser Use Let an agent click a real website
Steel Attach Playwright to a stealth cloud session
Free plan
Browser Use $0 · mIT. You bring a model key
Steel $0 · /month + usage. $30 one-time credits (~300 browser hours). 10 concurrent; 15-minute sessions; 3 seats
Lowest paid
Browser Use Cloud free credit $1
Steel Scale $250/mo
Coding agent
Browser Use README demo still
Steel CLI + agent skill
Runs where
Browser Use Local; you host it
Steel
Watch out
Browser Use $0.02/hour is the browser, not Opus
Steel Launch credits are one-time
Last checked
Browser Use 2026-10-21 · browser-use.com/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