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Steel pricing

Steel does not publish machine-readable pricing and has a free tier, with self-serve signup.

Last checked 2026-08-22. Verify on the vendor's own page before you commit spend.

No structured plans recorded. Steel may quote on request, which means an agent cannot work out the cost of a call before making it.

Can an agent buy this on its own?

A price is only half the question. The other half is whether software can get from landing on the site to making a paid call without a person, which is what the AgentReady measures under adopt.

For Steel, it can create an account itself; no sales call stands in the way; the signup flow is one an agent can actually complete; API credentials can be created over the API.

That works out to 100/100 on adopt, against 90/100 overall.

What you are paying for

Steel is an open source browser API that lets you control fleets of browsers in the cloud. Browser infrastructure for AI agents.

Next

Steel's full agent-readiness profile breaks down all 41 signals. Alternatives to Steel ranks what else does the same job.

An agent can fetch this as data: GET /v1/pricing?domain=steel.dev

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