Steel has no ongoing free tier; what it offers is a credit grant that runs out. Cloud browser API for AI agents… Catalogue date September 2026.
Steel has no ongoing free tier; what it offers is a credit grant that runs out: Cloud browser API for AI agents… It's stable — zero pricing changes recorded.
Cloud browser API for AI agents. The Launch plan is $0 a month plus usage and comes with a one-time $30 credit, valid for 90 days, which Steel puts at about 300 browser hours at $0.10 an hour. Launch allows 10 concurrent sessions, 15-minute sessions, 60 requests a minute and 7-day data retention; CAPTCHA solving and Steel's proxies need a $10 deposit first. Scale is $250 a month plus usage, with $100 of credit each month.
We read that on 2026-11-13 from https://docs.steel.dev/overview/pricinglimits, and our check recorded: the page names Steel as "steel" and states "$30" and "$0" and "$250" and "$100". A source check reads the cited page for the service's name and a price; the limits above are from our own record.
Launch $0 + usage $30 free usage credits, one time
No recorded pricing changes for Steel. This is a good sign — stable pricing.
We do not push notifications. Every change we record is readable the moment it lands, and the JSON answer carries an ETag — send it back as If-None-Match and an unchanged answer costs one 304.
curl https://agentdeals.dev/api/changes?vendor=Steel
curl https://agentdeals.dev/pricing-changes/feed.xml?vendor=Steel