Steel Browser
Open-source browser API server that AI agents and apps call to start and control browser sessions.
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 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.
Identity
Rendering and deploy
Adoption
Sources
- 2026-11-03: links
steel.dev - 2026-11-03: links
docs.steel.dev - 2026-11-03: links, Written in, GitHub stars, Contributors
github.com/steel-dev/steel-browser - 2026-11-03: Maintainer, Headquarters
steel.dev/terms - 2026-11-03: First release
github.com/steel-dev/steel-browser/releases/tag/beta-release - 2026-11-03: Categories, Runtime, Install with, Runs as, License, Content API, Admin interface
github.com/steel-dev/steel-browser/blob/main/README.md - 2026-11-03: Install with
docs.steel.dev/overview/self-hosting/docker