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steel.dev · 2 records in Compute, Crawling · JSON
Records 2
- trialSteelUSD 43/month
Computefree tieridentity emailno cardlimit retention-clampedevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-22
- trialSteel.dev
Crawlingfree tieridentity emailno cardlimit retention-clampedevidence documentedstale on 2026-12-03
Steel
Compute- Free allowance
- 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
- Verdict
- triala time-boxed or one-time trial, not a recurring allowance
- Cost
- free tierpaid plans from USD 43/month
- Identity
- emailno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- retention-clampedsessions up to 15 minutes on Launch; 1 hour on Scale
- Evidence
- documented2 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-22checked 2026-10-22 (live); stale on 2026-11-22
| 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 |
| Limits |
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 |
| Identity | email 'No credit card needed' on the Launch plan, quoted |
| Egress | proxy bandwidth USD 10 per GB on Launch and USD 6 per GB on Scale price per tb: USD 10,240 per TB |
| Retention | data retention is 7 days on Launch and 14 days on Scale (7 days) |
| 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. |
| Parsed numbers |
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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
| shape | {"vcpu": null,"ram_gib": null,"disk_gib": null,"gpu_class": null,"gpu_count": null} |
|---|---|
| billing model | wall-clock |
| granularity | {"min_billed_s": 1,"rounding_s": 1} |
| session cap | {"wall_clock_min": 15,"idle_reap_s": null,"restart_required": true,"note": "15 min on Launch, 60 on Scale, up to 24 h on Enterprise"} |
| keep rate | {"value": 0.0,"basis": "per browser hour","source": "https://steel.dev/pricing"} |
| persistent storage | {"included_gib": null,"price_gib_month": null,"durability": "sessions and data retained 7 days on Launch","survives_stop": null,"survives_destroy": false,"max_retention": "7 days"} |
| network out | {"allow_outbound": true,"allow_inbound_listen": false,"ports": "CDP","static_ip": null,"ipv6": null,"per_session_bytes": null} |
| 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 values 2
- per object cap stated: the field does not apply to this kind of offer
- reliability note: nothing of this kind was observed
Steel.dev
Crawling- Free allowance
- USD 30 of credits, one time, valid 90 days (about 300 browser hours at USD 0.10 an hour); 10 concurrent sessions of up to 15 minutes
- Verdict
- triala time-boxed or one-time trial, not a recurring allowance
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- emailno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- retention-clampedthe USD 30 credit expires after 90 days
- Evidence
- documented16 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-12-03checked 2026-11-02 (live); stale on 2026-12-03
| Free tier | USD 30 of credits, one time, valid 90 days (about 300 browser hours at USD 0.10 an hour); 10 concurrent sessions of up to 15 minutes unit mixed; metered on wall-clock; one-time credit valid for 90 days; no credit card required; CAPTCHA solving and Steel-provided proxies on Launch need a USD 10 paid deposit, which free credits do not cover |
|---|---|
| Price | none stated |
| Limits |
Browser Tools calls (/scrape, /screenshot, /pdf) are limited to 20 requests a minute per organization, under the plan's request rate |
| Binding | retention-clamped the USD 30 credit is one-time and lapses after 90 days; a Launch session ends at 15 minutes |
| Identity | email an account opened with an email address, which the sign-up verifies by a code or a link, or with GitHub or Google; the sign-up configuration has no phone field and no CAPTCHA, makes first and last names optional, and blocks disposable email domains and email sub-addresses; what the dashboard asks after sign-up is unverified: behind a sign-up |
| Egress | not applicable |
| Per-object cap | not applicable: the unit is a browser session |
| Retention | session data is kept 7 days on Launch; the USD 30 credit expires after 90 days (7 days) |
| 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 note | documented free tier, limits, retention and the deposit rule read on the vendor's pricing and docs pages |
| Parsed numbers |
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Evidence 16
| 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 |
| 2026-10-30 | docs.steel.dev/overview/pricinglimits | the Launch plan's USD 30 of credits is one-time and valid 90 days |
| 2026-10-30 | docs.steel.dev/overview/pricinglimits | the Launch plan allows 60 requests a minute; the same table gives it 10 concurrent sessions |
| 2026-10-30 | docs.steel.dev/overview/pricinglimits | the Launch plan runs 10 sessions at once |
| 2026-10-30 | docs.steel.dev/overview/browser-tools/overview | Browser Tools calls have their own 20-a-minute limit per organization |
| 2026-10-30 | docs.steel.dev/overview/pricinglimits | the Launch plan keeps data 7 days |
| 2026-10-30 | docs.steel.dev/overview/pricinglimits | proxies and CAPTCHA solving on the free plan need a USD 10 paid deposit |
| 2026-10-30 | docs.steel.dev/overview/sessions-api/quickstart | the quickstart opens an account with no credit card |
| 2026-10-30 | steel.dev/pricing | the pricing page's Launch card needs no credit card |
| 2026-11-01 | clerk.steel.dev/v1/environment | the sign-up configuration served by the vendor's authentication service requires an email address verified at sign-up, turns the phone number and CAPTCHA off, makes first and last names optional, and blocks disposable email domains and email sub-addresses |
| 2026-11-01 | docs.steel.dev/overview/pricinglimits | the pricing and limits page lists the Launch credit, the request rate, the data retention and the USD 10 deposit rule |
| 2026-11-02 | docs.steel.dev/llms-full.txt | the vendor's docs state a one-time Launch credit valid for 90 days, no credit card required, and a USD 10 paid deposit for CAPTCHA solving or Steel-provided proxies that free credits do not cover |
| 2026-11-01 | app.steel.dev/sign-in | the sign-in page offers GitHub, Google and email as the ways in |
| 2026-11-01 | docs.steel.dev/overview/sessions-api/quickstart | the quickstart opens an account for the Launch credits with no credit card |
| 2026-11-01 | steel.dev/pricing | the pricing page's Launch card needs no credit card |
| 2026-11-01 | docs.steel.dev/overview/pricinglimits | the pricing and limits page lists the Launch plan at USD 30 of one-time credits valid for 90 days, 10 concurrent sessions, 15-minute sessions, 60 requests a minute and 7 days of data retention |