| Price from | $16/mo | $250/mo |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | Yes |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | Yes | — |
| macOS | Yes | — |
| Linux | Yes | — |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 7 | 5 |
| Spec score · Headless Browser APIs | 8.6 (#5) | 8.1 (#13) |
| Compliance | The site displays SOC 2 and SOC II Type 2 references in its footer. | sso saml, HIPAA |
| Deployment | cloud, self hosted | Steel says its browser runtime is open source under Apache-2.0 and can be run locally or self-hosted with Docker. |
| Integrations | Listed integrations include ChatGPT, Claude, Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Lovable, n8n, LangChain, LangGraph, LlamaIndex, Zapier, Make, and Dify. | Puppeteer, Playwright, Selenium, Python, Node.js, Browser Use, OpenAI Computer Use, Claude Computer Use |
| Key features | Scrapes pages into Markdown and structured data · Searches the web and returns content from results · Crawls sites using sitemap discovery and recursive link traversal · Supports JavaScript-rendered pages and dynamic content · Routes requests through proxies and supports proxy location selection · Supports browser interaction using natural-language prompts or code · Offers batch scraping of multiple URLs · Provides API, SDKs, CLI, and MCP integration paths | Managed cloud browser sessions · Browser automation through Puppeteer, Playwright, and Selenium · Web scraping, screenshots, and PDF generation · Persistent cookies and reusable browser context · Proxy and browser fingerprinting controls · Automatic CAPTCHA solving · Session viewer and replay-based debugging · Authentication and automatic sign-in support |
| Product | Firecrawl is a web data API for searching, scraping, and interacting with the web, returning clean Markdown and structured data for LLMs, agents, and AI software. | Steel is an open-source browser API that lets developers control fleets of browsers in the cloud for AI agents. |
| Support | Paid plans list basic support for Hobby, standard support for Standard, and priority support for Growth and Scale; Enterprise includes dedicated support and an SLA. | Launch and Scale include email and community support, Scale includes a dedicated Slack channel, and Enterprise includes a 911 email and support and uptime SLAs. |
| Support | community, docs | email, community, docs |