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

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