Pick Skyvern if
ops and engineers automating logins, forms, and portal extracts who will spend credits or self-host.
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Our take
Pick Skyvern if ops and engineers automating logins, forms, and portal extracts who will spend credits or self-host. Pick Steel if agent authors who want a CDP endpoint with proxies and session replay. Skip Skyvern if people who only need URL → markdown (Firecrawl) or a hosted Playwright grid without an agent loop (Browserbase). Skip Steel if people who want a hosted general agent (Manus) or markdown-out scrape
Best for
Skyvern Describe a portal task and watch a cloud browser run it
Steel Attach Playwright to a stealth cloud session
Free plan
Skyvern $0 · aGPL-3.0. 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
Skyvern Hobby $29/mo
Steel Scale $250/mo
Next step up
Skyvern Pro $149/mo
Steel
Coding agent
Skyvern
Steel CLI + agent skill
Runs where
Skyvern Local; you host it
Steel
Watch out
Skyvern Free credits are one-time
Steel Launch credits are one-time
Last checked
Skyvern 2026-10-22 · skyvern.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.
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