Steel.dev is listed under Browser & Computer-Use Agents, in the AI Agents & Automation category on Flocci AI Tools. Open-source browser API for fleets of cloud browsers. It is freemium — a usable free tier with paid plans above it, and it lives at steel.dev.
Steel.dev is freemium: there is a free tier you can work in and paid plans above it. It is one of 391 freemium tools in the catalog, all labelled the same way so you are never surprised by a paywall.
Steel.dev does 3 things the catalog singles out: Open-source browser api for fleets of cloud browsers; free launch tier with one-time starting credits, no card required; built-in auto-captcha solving and proxy management, sessions up to 24h.
Playwright MCP is the closest free alternative: it sits in the same Browser & Computer-Use Agents sub-category and is free. Browser Use, Browserbase and Firecrawl also start free. The full list is on the alternatives page.
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