# Steel Browser

Open-source browser API server that AI agents and apps call to start and control browser sessions.


Source: https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/steel-browser/
Last reviewed: 2026-11-03
Listed since: 2026-11-03

## Record

### Links

- home: https://steel.dev
- repository: https://github.com/steel-dev/steel-browser
- docs: https://docs.steel.dev
- x: https://twitter.com/steeldotdev
- discord: https://discord.gg/steel-dev

### Identity

- status: active
- maintainer: Nen Labs, Inc.
- maintainerType: company
- parent: unknown
- firstRelease: 2024
- hqCountry: US

### Kind

- category: testing
- hosting: node
- language: javascript
- runtime: node
- runtimeMin: unknown
- basedOn: unknown

### Content

- contentStore: not applicable
- databases: not applicable
- adminUi: yes
- headlessApi: rest
- templating: not applicable
- i18n: not applicable

### Rendering and deploy

- runsAs: always-on
- renderingModes: not applicable
- installMethod: docker image (ghcr.io)

### License

- licenseModel: open-source
- license: Apache-2.0

### Releases

- currentMajor: unknown
- latestReleaseDate: unknown

### Adoption

- githubStargazers: 7915
- packagistDownloads: not applicable
- npmWeeklyDownloads: unknown
- contributors: 30
- pluginCount: unknown
- packagistMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- ecosystemsMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- httpArchiveSites: unknown
- wordpressActiveInstalls: unknown
- dependentRepos: unknown
- dependentPackages: unknown

### Sources

- urls: https://steel.dev (read 2026-11-03)
- urls: https://docs.steel.dev (read 2026-11-03)
- urls: https://github.com/steel-dev/steel-browser (read 2026-11-03)
- language: https://github.com/steel-dev/steel-browser (read 2026-11-03)
- maintainer: https://steel.dev/terms (read 2026-11-03)
- hqCountry: https://steel.dev/terms (read 2026-11-03)
- firstRelease: https://github.com/steel-dev/steel-browser/releases/tag/beta-release (read 2026-11-03)
- category: https://github.com/steel-dev/steel-browser/blob/main/README.md (read 2026-11-03)
- runtime: https://github.com/steel-dev/steel-browser/blob/main/README.md (read 2026-11-03)
- installMethod: https://github.com/steel-dev/steel-browser/blob/main/README.md (read 2026-11-03)
- installMethod: https://github.com/steel-dev/steel-browser/blob/main/README.md (read 2026-11-03)
- installMethod: https://github.com/steel-dev/steel-browser/blob/main/README.md (read 2026-11-03)
- installMethod: https://docs.steel.dev/overview/self-hosting/docker (read 2026-11-03)
- runsAs: https://github.com/steel-dev/steel-browser/blob/main/README.md (read 2026-11-03)
- license: https://github.com/steel-dev/steel-browser/blob/main/README.md (read 2026-11-03)
- headlessApi: https://github.com/steel-dev/steel-browser/blob/main/README.md (read 2026-11-03)
- githubStargazers: https://github.com/steel-dev/steel-browser (read 2026-11-03)
- contributors: https://github.com/steel-dev/steel-browser (read 2026-11-03)
- adminUi: https://github.com/steel-dev/steel-browser/blob/main/README.md (read 2026-11-03)

## Notes

Steel Browser is a server that AI agents and apps call to start browser sessions and control them. It drives Chrome, so Puppeteer, Playwright and Selenium clients can connect to it, and it exposes a [REST API](https://github.com/steel-dev/steel-browser/blob/main/README.md) with an OpenAPI reference. The server runs as a Docker image or as a Node.js process with Chrome installed, and the README names one-click deploys to Railway and Render. The company also runs Steel Cloud, a managed version of the same product.

## Worth knowing

The project has no stable release: every tag so far is a beta, so the record has no current major version. The server is Apache 2.0 licensed. The Docker image is published on the GitHub container registry rather than Docker Hub.

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