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Steel.dev alternatives

The first 12 comparable products for 200 metered browser-session hours a month, excluding separate proxy and model charges. Sorted by the published bill and amount, never by who pays us; the full category route includes every relevant product.

Not comparable12 substitutions priced0 cheaper than Steel.devLatest recorded source date 2026-07-26

The datum line

Not comparable hereWhat the rechecked Steel.dev price gives for this job. Older prices do not produce comparative deltas.

The substitution

Browser hours200
Included in this billpublished session-time meter only
Alternatives without a total1

Steel.dev has no exact bill for this workload, so the deltas below are absent rather than estimated. Each alternative still carries its own published figure and state.

Priced alternatives

BrowserCloud$99.00800,000 of the included allowance goes unused, 80% of what you buyAnchor Browser$200.00cheapest way to buy that: Starter plus 150 over the allowance at $1.00 each = $200.00 per monthAgentQL$3.00Older price; excluded from rankings. cheapest way to buy that: Starter plus 150 over the allowance at $0.02 each = $3.00 per monthBrowser Use Cloud$12.00Older price; excluded from rankings. cheapest way to buy that: Pay As You Go, $12.00 of metered usage = $12.00 per monthScrapeless$18.00Older price; excluded from rankings. cheapest way to buy that: Scraping Browser pay as you go, pay as you go at $0.09 per unit = $18.00 per monthLightpanda Cloud$19.00Older price; excluded from rankings. 100 of the included allowance goes unused, 33% of what you buyHyperbrowser$30.00Older price; excluded from rankings. 10,000 of the included allowance goes unused, 33% of what you buyBrowserbase$32.00Older price; excluded from rankings. cheapest way to buy that: Developer plus 100 over the allowance at $0.12 each = $32.00 per monthBrowserless$33.00Older price; excluded from rankings. cheapest way to buy that: Prototyping at $25.00 effective monthly with annual billing plus 4,000 over the allowance at $0.002 each = $33.00 per monthZenRows$69.99Older price; excluded from rankings. 249,800 of the included allowance goes unused, 100% of what you buyFirecrawl$99.00Older price; excluded from rankings. 76,000 of the included allowance goes unused, 76% of what you buyApifyNot priced for this workloadOlder price; excluded from rankings. no published rate for browser.session_time

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The page asks for managed browser time. Steel.dev’s plan price cannot become a browser-hour total until a public meter supplies the required conversion.

Eligible alternatives are normalized and priced through the engine. Steel.dev and any other uncomputable record remain visible with the current vendor link.

Who should stay with Steel.dev

Stay when the existing automation depends on Steel.dev’s combined browser, proxy, CAPTCHA, and scrape account and the account exposes current meter rates that the readable public page does not. The self-serve limits are concrete: Launch allows 10 concurrent sessions lasting up to 15 minutes with 7-day retention, while Scale allows 100 sessions lasting up to one hour with 14-day retention. Enterprise adds 1,000 or more concurrent sessions, sessions up to 24 hours, reserved pools, stealth, and custom dedicated-IP arrangements. (Steel.dev pricing update, retrieved 2026-07-25; Steel.dev, retrieved 2026-07-25.)

What a switch does not automatically replace

Browserbase publishes browser-hour allowances, 25 or 100 concurrent browsers on its public plans, and a six-hour maximum session, with Search, Fetch, Extract, and proxy traffic metered separately. Its record does not establish an equivalent for Steel.dev’s enterprise reserved pools, 24-hour sessions, or current scrape-call contract. Moving may make browser-hour arithmetic visible, but it still requires session lifecycle, proxy, CAPTCHA, and scrape behavior to be revalidated. (Browserbase pricing, retrieved 2026-07-25; Browserbase session timeouts, retrieved 2026-07-25; Steel.dev pricing update, retrieved 2026-07-25.)

Session duration and concurrency decide it. A self-serve Steel.dev job that needs more than one hour does not fit Scale’s published limit. Browserbase publicly allows up to six hours, while Steel.dev Enterprise advertises up to 24. Compare those routes before comparing totals. (Steel.dev pricing update, retrieved 2026-07-25; Browserbase session timeouts, retrieved 2026-07-25.)