Steel Browser Hosting Live In 5 Minutes

Give your AI agents a real Chromium browser behind your own HTTPS endpoint. xCloud deploys Steel Browser with a generated password on every request, so you can point Puppeteer or Playwright at it without building the browser infrastructure yourself.

Deploy your Steel Browser

No terminal
No technical skills needed
No lock-in, cancel anytime

From Sign-Up to a Live Browser API In 3 Easy Steps

Running a headless browser for agents normally means a Chromium install, an auth layer, a certificate and persistent storage before the first request. This is the same endpoint without assembling any of it.

Step 01
Sign Up
Create your xCloud account, pick Steel Browser from the OneClick catalog and choose a domain. Set an API username, default admin, and an optional password. Leave the password empty to have one generated.
Step 02
We Deploy It For You
One click. We bring up the official Steel Browser image pinned by digest behind a Caddy gateway, mount the steel_files and steel_data volumes and publish it over HTTPS. Allow up to two minutes for the first boot while Chromium launches.
Step 03
Save Your Password And Connect
Save the username and password shown in your installation credentials. Open your HTTPS URL and sign in when your browser asks, then check the endpoint with curl -u USER:PASS on /v1/health.

Browser Automation Without The Setup

Steel Browser runs Chromium and exposes it over HTTP, Puppeteer, Playwright and Selenium. xCloud handles the server, the HTTPS route and the access control in front of it.

Browser API For Agents
Give agents and scrapers a real Chromium browser through scrape, screenshot and session endpoints.
Puppeteer And Playwright
Connect the tools you already use, with Selenium supported too, through the same private endpoint.
Session UI At /ui
Open the built-in session viewer to see and debug what your browser is doing.
Basic Auth On Every Request
The API, the UI and WebSocket connections all sit behind HTTP Basic Authentication, because Steel has no login of its own.
OpenAPI Reference
The API documentation is served at /documentation on your own domain, so clients can be built against it.
Persistent Profiles And Logs
Chrome profiles and the request log persist on steel_data, and uploaded session files persist on steel_files.

Everything You Need To Run Your Browser Endpoint, Always On

A private Steel Browser endpoint on a dedicated server, with the HTTPS gateway and password protection already in place.

Steel Browser deployed instantly
Official pinned image digests
HTTP Basic Auth on every request
Generated access password
Free SSL certificate
30+ server locations
Unused balance refunded

Simple Pricing. Everything Included.

Dedicated Cloud VPS sizes, pre-configured for Steel Browser. Pick the one that fits, and resize any time.

Cloud VPS 6 GB

Cloud VPS 16 GB

Several concurrent sessions for scraping or agent workloads.

$59.99per month

16 GB RAM
6 vCPU cores
200 GB NVMe SSD
30 TB
Unlimited

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Cloud VPS 24 GB

Heavy session counts alongside other self-hosted apps.

$84.99per month

24 GB RAM
8 vCPU cores
300 GB NVMe SSD
30 TB
Unlimited

Get started

Every size is a dedicated Cloud VPS we provision and run. Billed monthly with no lock-in. Delete the server and the unused balance comes back to your account. Steel Browser itself is free under the Apache License 2.0.

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Already Have a Server? Bring Your Own

Connect any VPS and deploy Steel Browser on it through the same panel, for a per-server management fee instead of a Cloud VPS rental.

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The same platform, discounted at 6–10 servers.

$4per server / month

6–10 servers
Unlimited sites
All features included
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Agency

The same platform, discounted at 11+ servers.

$3per server / month

11+ servers
Unlimited sites
All features included
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Priced per connected server, so your rate adjusts automatically as you add or remove servers. You pay your own provider for the server itself.

Self-managed hosting

Ready To Automate With Your Own Browser?

Steel Browser on xCloud runs on a dedicated Cloud VPS that we provision. Connect your agents in minutes, and keep the credentials and the browser data on infrastructure you control.

Fast Provisioning
Deploy faster using an xCloud Managed Server built with optimized stacks and high-speed SSDs.
Enterprise-grade security
Protect your infrastructure with a free SSL certificate and more advanced security features at no additional cost.
Intuitive Control Panel
From Server creation to application deployment, everything can be managed from our intuitive control panel.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Feel free to contact us with any questions or concerns you may have.

What is Steel Browser?

Steel Browser is an open-source browser API for AI agents and apps. It runs Chromium and lets you drive it over HTTP, Puppeteer, Playwright or Selenium. This template deploys a build from the v0.5.4-beta release line under the Apache License 2.0.

Can I self-host a headless browser API?

Yes, that is what this template deploys. It brings up the official Steel Browser image behind a Caddy gateway on your own domain, with the API, the /ui session viewer and the /documentation reference all served from it.

How do I sign in?

Steel Browser has no login of its own, so xCloud puts HTTP Basic Authentication in front of every request, including the API, the /ui session UI and WebSocket connections. Use the username and password from your installation credentials.

Can I use a Puppeteer or Playwright endpoint with Steel Browser?

Yes. Steel exposes Puppeteer, Playwright and Selenium, plus its HTTP API. Send the Basic Auth credentials on every call. WebSocket clients can use wss://USER:PASS@your-domain.

How much RAM does Steel Browser need?

The template manifest asks for 2048 MB of RAM as a floor, so light use fits in 2 GB. RAM grows with concurrent sessions: measured use was about 368 MiB with one session and 453 MiB with two. This page sells the 6 GB tier for the headroom that growth needs.

Are browser sessions kept across a restart?

No. Live sessions are held in memory and end on restart. The Chrome profile directory and the request log persist on steel_data, so stored browser data survives a restart.

What should I back up?

The steel_files and steel_data volumes together, along with your current username and password. Keep off-server copies and test-restore them. Chrome profile data is not guaranteed to be compatible across Chromium upgrades, so keep a backup before any upgrade.

Backups in xCloud

How do I rotate the access password?

Change AUTH_PASSWORD in the environment editor, then choose Save & Redeploy and update every client. Treat the Basic Auth password as an API key and store it in a secrets manager, giving the same credentials to each client.

Does xCloud update Steel Browser automatically?

No. Upstream publishes only a latest tag on GHCR, so the template pins an image digest. To upgrade, read the upstream release notes, move the digest deliberately and back up both volumes first.

What is exposed to the internet?

Only the Caddy gateway, through xCloud-managed HTTPS. Steel's own port 3000 and its Chrome DevTools ports are not published.

Can I cancel anytime?

Yes. There is no lock-in — cancel any time. Hosting is billed monthly and charged for what you actually use, so when you delete the server the unused balance is refunded to your account, less up to 10% in payment-processing fees.