Steel Dev Plans Pricing
Steel Cloud uses recurring subscription tiers metered primarily in browser hours, with bundled proxy bandwidth and CAPTCHA solves. The Hobby tier is free and includes a monthly credit allotment plus 100 browser hours; paid tiers raise included browser hours, proxy bandwidth, and CAPTCHA solves; Enterprise adds dedicated clusters, higher limits, and discounted rates. Steel is also fully open source (Apache-2.0) via the steel-browser server, which can be self-hosted with no Steel Cloud usage charges.
Steel Dev Plans Pricing is the machine-readable pricing-plan profile for Steel on the APIs.io network, conforming to the API Commons Plans specification.
It defines 6 plans, covering free, paid, and enterprise tiers, with named plans including Hobby, Starter, Developers, Startups, Enterprise, and 1 more.
Tagged areas include Browser, Web Automation, Scraping, AI Agents, and Open Source.
Plans
Free entry tier with a monthly credit allotment and 100 included browser hours for getting started.
- Sessions
- Scrape / Screenshot / PDF
- CDP Browser Connect
- Live Session Viewer
Entry paid tier with 290 browser hours, proxy bandwidth, and CAPTCHA solves.
- Sessions
- Quick Actions
- CDP Browser Connect
Mid paid tier with 1,238 browser hours, 12 GB proxy bandwidth, and 28k CAPTCHA solves.
- Sessions
- Quick Actions
- CDP Browser Connect
High-volume paid tier with 9,980 browser hours, 100 GB proxy bandwidth, and 166k CAPTCHA solves.
- Sessions
- Quick Actions
- CDP Browser Connect
Custom pricing with higher limits, discounted rates, dedicated clusters, and dedicated APIs. Contact Steel sales.
- Dedicated Clusters
- Custom Limits and Rates
- Dedicated APIs
The steel-browser server is open source under Apache-2.0 and can be self-hosted (Docker / local) with no Steel Cloud usage charges. Sessions, quick actions, CDP connect, and the session viewer run from your own instance at http://localhost:3000/v1.
- Sessions
- Quick Actions
- CDP Browser Connect
Sources
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Every plan here is available over the APIs.io API and to AI agents over MCP.
MCP server
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Tools for plans
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find_plansBrowse and filter every plan in the catalog.apis_io_searchSTART HERE — APIs, providers and tags for one query, each with its total.resolveTurn a domain, URL or GitHub org into the provider it belongs to.find_cohortsEvery scored population of providers in the catalog.
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curl "https://apis.io/api/v1/plans/steel-dev-plans-pricing"curl "https://apis.io/api/v1/plans?limit=25"Discovery needs no key. Ratings and market analysis are Pro.