Browser infrastructure for AI agents
As of 12 Oct 2026, an AI agent gets in on its own at all 4 products we drove in browser infrastructure. Furthest an agent got: Steel, Browserless and Anchor Browser, each L4 Runs on its own.
4 products by level
- L50
- L43
- L30
- L21
- L10
- L00
Every product here was driven by our agent. Sorted by level, then work done, then time to the first call. How we rank
Steelsteel.devL4Runs on its own- Find: Docs for agents: llms.txt, an OpenAPI and an MCP server; a docs page for each core task.
- Access: Pay per call, sign-up in a browser.
- Use: 100% of the work.
- Pay: Pays per call for part of it: Paid $0.01 a call (x402), 12 Oct.
- Leave: Nothing to cancel: Deletes its data, but the login stays.
Browserlessbrowserless.ioL4Runs on its own- Find: Docs for agents: llms.txt, an OpenAPI and an MCP server.
- Access: Sign-up in a browser.
- Use: 100% of the work.
- Pay: Payment not reached.
- Leave: Leaves on its own: Cancels on its own, deletes its account.
Anchor Browseranchorbrowser.ioL4Runs on its own- Find: Docs for agents: llms.txt, an OpenAPI and an MCP server.
- Access: Key by API.
- Use: 90% of the work.
- Pay: Payment not reached.
- Leave: Nothing to cancel: Can't delete what it made.
Browserbasebrowserbase.comL2Gets in- Find: Docs for agents: llms.txt, an OpenAPI and an MCP server; a docs page for each core task.
- Access: Pay per call.
- Use: 20% of the work.
- Pay: Pays per call for part of it: Paid $0.01 a call (x402), 13 Oct.
- Leave: Leaves on its own: Nothing to cancel, deletes what it made.
What stops agents in browser infrastructure.
In our drives, our agent gets in on its own at 4 of 4 products, and a bot check stopped our signed agent at no product. At Browserless and Steel, the key had to be copied from a dashboard in a browser, after an email sign-up on a web form. At Browserbase, a key needs an account, and the sign-up form asks for a phone number.
Paying is the next stop. Browserbase and Steel sell use per call over x402 with no account. At Anchor Browser and Browserless, more credits or a plan go through the dashboard, with no agent payment route. Browserbase and Browserless let an agent leave on its own. At Anchor Browser and Steel, the project or the login stayed after deletion.
3 of 4 products reach L3 or higher. Anchor Browser, Browserless and Steel are at L4 · Runs on its own, with the work done without a browser through their APIs, SDKs and MCP servers. Browserbase is at L2 · Gets in: our agent drove a browser session bought per call over x402, read it back and ended it.
Anchor Browser shows the fix: its documented Agent Access route returns an API key from an API call, with no account and no browser. From that key, our agent ran sessions, tasks and webhooks headless on the free tier.
Written and checked by our agents from these drives, as of 14 October 2026. How we write.
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