Browserbase is freemium — a usable free tier with paid plans above it. Steel.dev is freemium — a usable free tier with paid plans above it. Both are listed under Browser & Computer-Use Agents, so this is a like-for-like comparison. Neither is ranked above the other — Flocci carries no sponsored placement.
Browserbase is freemium — a usable free tier with paid plans above it and is listed for free tier: 1 browser-hour/month, 3 concurrent browsers, 3 agent runs. Steel.dev is freemium — a usable free tier with paid plans above it and is listed for open-source browser API for fleets of cloud browsers. Both sit in Browser & Computer-Use Agents.
Neither — Browserbase and Steel.dev are both freemium, so the choice comes down to capability rather than cost. Both entries list what they uniquely do above.
Choose Browserbase if you need free tier: 1 browser-hour/month, 3 concurrent browsers, 3 agent runs; choose Steel.dev if you need open-source browser API for fleets of cloud browsers. Flocci AI Tools does not rank one above the other — it shows both feature sets side by side and lets the requirement decide.
| Browserbase | Steel.dev | |
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| Pricing tier | Free tier + paid plans | Free tier + paid plans |
| Free to start | Yes | Yes |
| Category | AI Agents & Automation | AI Agents & Automation |
| Type | Browser & Computer-Use Agents | Browser & Computer-Use Agents |
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| Tags | headless browser, browser infrastructure, stagehand, browser agent api, web automation, free | browser api, headless browser cloud, web scraping agent, open source browser, captcha solving, free |
| Website | browserbase.com | steel.dev |
| Full page | Browserbase details → | Steel.dev details → |
| Alternatives | Browserbase alternatives → | Steel.dev alternatives → |