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Browser Use vs Steel: catalog facts
Browser Use	Steel
Freemium The core library is free and open source under MIT; a separate hosted cloud service is…	Freemium Hosted service can be started for free; the open-source browser API is free to run.
Windows, macOS, Linux, Command line	Web, Self-hosted
MIT licensed and self-hostable for full control over agent browsing Widely adopted with a large, active GitHub community	Open-source browser API that can be self-hosted Controls many cloud browser sessions at once
Requires your own LLM API access to power the agent's decisions Automation reliability depends on the structure of the target website	Developer tool that requires programming Scaling in the cloud relies on the hosted service
Self-hosted, Downloadable app	Self-hosted, Hosted service
Open source	Open source
License: MIT	License not stated
Not stated if an account is needed	Not stated if an account is needed
Not stated if it works offline	Not stated if it works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 22, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 26, 2026

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