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steel.dev · Compute, Crawling · 2 records · JSON

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Steel.dev Crawlingtrialemailno cardRretention-clamped

Steel Compute

trialemailno cardDretention-clamped

steel.dev/pricing · browser host · compute/steel · JSON · compare

Free tier	Launch: USD 0 a month plus usage, USD 30 of credits one time, 10 concurrent sessions, sessions up to 15 minutes, no credit card needed unit mixed; metered on wall-clock; the USD 30 is one time; Scale is USD 250 a month with USD 100 of credits each month
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not applicable
Retention	data retention is 7 days on Launch and 14 days on Scale (7 days)
Egress	proxy bandwidth USD 10 per GB on Launch and USD 6 per GB on Scale price_per_tb: USD 10,240 per TB
Identity	email 'No credit card needed' on the Launch plan, quoted
Limits	retention-clamped sessions up to 15 minutes on Launch; 1 hour on Scale source request-rate 60 requests a minute on Launch; 10 concurrent sessions source per-ip-shaping proxy bandwidth USD 10 per GB on Launch source data retention is 7 days on Launch, 14 on Scale
Binding	retention-clamped the 15-minute session cap on Launch binds first, and it doubles with the plan step to Scale
Interface	rest, cli REST API and SDKs; a hosted browser over CDP
Tooling	Steel SDK, Playwright and Puppeteer over CDP, a scraping endpoint
Composes with	a 15-minute session and a 60-request-a-minute cap make this a scrape worker, not a crawl platform
Reliability	no reliability event recorded
Notes	USD 30 of credit at USD 0.10 a browser hour is 300 hours, but the 15-minute session cap turns that into 1,200 sessions with setup between each.
Evidence rung	documented
Checked	2026-10-22 (live); stale on 2026-11-21
Parsed numbers	`$.extras.m10h_usd` price USD30.0 / month `$.extras.m24h_usd` price USD43.0 / month `$.limits[0].value` limit:retention-clamped 15.0 minutes `$.limits[1].value` limit:request-rate 60.0 requests / minute

Evidence (2)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-22	steel.dev/pricing	Launch: USD 0 a month plus usage, USD 30 of credits one time, 10 concurrent sessions, 15-minute sessions, no credit card
2026-10-22	steel.dev/pricing	browser hours USD 0.10 on Launch and USD 0.08 on Scale; proxy bandwidth USD 10 and USD 6 per GB

More fields (14)

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 },
 "billing_model": "wall-clock",
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  "idle_reap_s": null,
  "restart_required": true,
  "note": "15 min on Launch, 60 on Scale, up to 24 h on Enterprise"
 },
 "keep_rate": {
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  "basis": "per browser hour",
  "source": "https://steel.dev/pricing"
 },
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  "price_gib_month": null,
  "durability": "sessions and data retained 7 days on Launch",
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 },
 "free_tier_kind": "one-time-credit",
 "m10h_usd": 30.0,
 "m24h_usd": 43.0,
 "price_arithmetic": "USD 30 of credit at USD 0.10/h is 300 browser hours, in 15-minute sessions",
 "price_note": "300 browser hours at USD 0.10 an hour is USD 30, which the one-time credit covers exactly. 730 hours is USD 73 of usage, minus the USD 30 credit, so USD 43.00. The 15-minute session cap makes 300 hours 1,200 sessions.",
 "price_basis": "300 and 730 BROWSER HOURS, not a 2 vCPU shape. A browser host sells minutes of a remote browser, so these rows are not comparable with a sandbox row.",
 "burst_x": 1.0
}

Unknown or withheld values (3)

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$.per_object_cap.stated not-applicable
$.reliability_note none-observed

Steel.dev Crawling

trialemailno cardRretention-clamped

steel.dev/ · headless browser · crawler-scraper/steel · JSON · compare

Free tier	USD 30 of credits, one time, valid 90 days unit mixed; metered on wall-clock; one-time; the 90-day validity is the binding part
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not applicable: the unit is a browser session
Retention	sessions are ephemeral; the credit expires after 90 days (90 days)
Egress	not applicable
Identity	email an account; no card stated for the credits
Limits	request-rate 10 concurrent, 20 a minute on Browser Tools retention-clamped the USD 30 credit expires after 90 days
Binding	retention-clamped
Interface	rest REST sessions and a scrape route; 10 concurrent and 20 requests a minute on Browser Tools
Tooling	a session model with a browser control protocol
Composes with	A session model, so it is the wrong shape for a Worker and the right shape for a long agent run
Reliability	no reliability event recorded
Notes	A 421 naming the missing route is the useful shape: it distinguishes a wrong path from a dead host. Every other browser provider in this class answered 401, which proves less.
Evidence rung	reported the API surface was measured
Checked	2026-10-22 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-05
Parsed numbers	`$.limits[1].value` limit:retention-clamped 30.0 credit

Evidence (1)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-22	api.steel.dev/v1/scrape?url=https://example.com	421 with a 35-byte body reading `No route defined for GET /v1/scrape`: the host is live and the path is wrong, which proves the API exists and not that the route does