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  "data": {
    "a": {
      "slug": "pomerado",
      "name": "Pomerado",
      "vendor": "Pomerado AI, Inc.",
      "vendorUrl": "https://pomerado.ai",
      "kind": "mcp",
      "category": "browser",
      "summary": "Pomerado builds and hosts deterministic tools that each do one task on one website, such as a flight search or adding to a cart, which agents call through a hosted MCP server or a REST API.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pomerado",
      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pomerado.md",
      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pomerado.min.md",
      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/pomerado.json",
      "repo": "https://github.com/Pomerado/pomerado",
      "license": "Pomerado Cloud is a proprietary service under Pomerado's terms of service. The minting core in Pomerado/pomerado and the `pomerado` npm package are MIT from version 0.2.0, and versions 0.1.2 and earlier were AGPL-3.0-only",
      "transports": [
        "http"
      ],
      "remoteUrl": "https://mcp.pomerado.ai/mcp",
      "packages": [
        {
          "registry": "npm",
          "name": "pomerado"
        }
      ],
      "auth": "mixed",
      "authNotes": "Public read-only tools that need no website login run with no account on https://mcp.pomerado.ai/mcp/keyless and on the REST API without an Authorization header, within a daily limit. Everything else takes a Bearer token, either an OAuth access token from the MCP client's browser sign-in (Google, GitHub or email) or a `pom_` API key. A key carries 1 to 16 of 11 permissions, expires after 90 days by default (1 to 365), can be rotated and revoked, and an integration key reaches one site's MCP with at most four permissions. An agent without a browser can get a 30-day key by device sign-in, which a person approves with a short code. Website logins are entered by the person on a protected Pomerado page, and Pomerado never returns a saved password to a script or a model.",
      "pricing": "freemium",
      "pricingNotes": "Free is $0 a month with 100 tool calls a day and 10 new integrations a month, Premium is $50 a month with 1,000 calls a day and 100 integrations, and Business is custom pricing with 100,000+ calls a day, per the pricing section of pomerado.ai (checked 2026-10-17). Keyless use of public read-only tools needs no account or card. Only runs that end with a result count, and failed builds count nothing. The yearly Premium price wasn't shown in the page we read.",
      "priceSummary": "$50 / mo",
      "where": "hosted",
      "x402": {
        "level": "no",
        "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the docs, llms.txt, the OpenAPI document or the pricing section. Premium is paid through a Stripe Checkout link that a person opens (https://docs.pomerado.ai/api-reference/billing/start-a-premium-checkout.md, checked 2026-10-17).",
        "endpoints": []
      },
      "toolCount": 14,
      "popularity": {
        "githubStars": null,
        "npmWeekly": 36759,
        "pypiWeekly": null,
        "asOf": "2026-10-17"
      },
      "docsUrl": "https://docs.pomerado.ai",
      "llmsTxt": "https://docs.pomerado.ai/llms.txt",
      "openapi": "https://api.pomerado.ai/v1/openapi.json",
      "registryName": "ai.pomerado/pomerado",
      "capabilities": [
        "browser.control",
        "web.extract",
        "automation.actions",
        "automation.auth",
        "scraping.anti-bot"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "official",
        "hosted",
        "mcp",
        "mcp-registry",
        "oauth",
        "api-key",
        "scoped-keys",
        "openapi",
        "llms-txt",
        "freemium",
        "free-tier",
        "no-card",
        "no-key",
        "idempotency",
        "async-jobs",
        "webhooks",
        "audit-log",
        "open-source",
        "mit",
        "typescript",
        "no-status-page",
        "new"
      ],
      "lastRelease": "2026-10-17",
      "graded": true,
      "anchor": {
        "graded": true,
        "score": 62.6,
        "grade": "B",
        "agentReady": false,
        "rank": 468,
        "ranked": true,
        "rankOf": 1133,
        "categoryRank": 15,
        "methodology": "0.4",
        "run": "2026-10-01",
        "scores": {
          "ergonomics": 83,
          "maintenance": 81,
          "payments": 42,
          "reliability": 40,
          "schema": 86,
          "security": 69,
          "transparency": 54
        },
        "pending": [
          "performance",
          "tasks"
        ],
        "assessment": {
          "confidence": "medium",
          "date": "2026-10-17"
        },
        "negative": -2,
        "negativeNotes": [
          "Misleading claim, -2. On 17 October 2026 the homepage (https://pomerado.ai) says \"Integrations for all sites\" and \"If a person can use the site, your agent can use it too\", and lists bank portals and government filings among supported sites. The docs say builds for bank and government websites are refused with `site_not_supported`, `details.category` `bank` or `government` (https://docs.pomerado.ai/errors#site_not_supported, https://docs.pomerado.ai/guides/build/overview)."
        ],
        "verdict": "An agent can find and run 46 public read-only website tools with no account, and signed-in calls get scoped, expiring keys, idempotency keys and a documented code for every failure. Pomerado is 12 days old, with no status page or security.txt, and its homepage lists bank and government portals that its builds refuse.",
        "bestFor": "An agent that repeats the same task on consumer sites or portals, such as flight searches, carts or order history, and wants a typed call instead of driving a browser.",
        "strengths": [
          "46 public read-only tools across 23 sites run with no account, key or card on the keyless MCP URL and the REST API",
          "API keys carry chosen permissions out of 11, expire after 90 days by default, rotate and revoke, and integration keys reach one site only",
          "Idempotency keys on runs and builds, with `write_status` and `outcome_unknown` saying whether a write may have happened",
          "Public OpenAPI 3.1 document with 84 operations, llms.txt, Markdown docs and 132 error codes, each with what to do",
          "Every keyless MCP tool carries readOnlyHint or destructiveHint, and the read-only run refuses a tool that writes"
        ],
        "weaknesses": [
          "First released on 5 October 2026, with a team of two per its YC profile",
          "No status page or per-second rate limits, and the SLA guarantees listed for Business have no published terms",
          "No security.txt, SOC 2 report or bug bounty found, while it stores website passwords, authenticator secrets and recovery codes",
          "The homepage lists bank portals and government filings, but builds for bank and government sites are refused with `site_not_supported`",
          "Run tools take `input` as a JSON-encoded string over MCP, and there is no official client SDK"
        ],
        "agentNotes": [
          "Try public read-only tools at https://mcp.pomerado.ai/mcp/keyless, then use `sign_in` and reconnect at /mcp with the key for writes, logins and builds",
          "Call `find_website_tool` with a query and `site_url`, and check `possible_matches` before starting a build",
          "Send an `idempotency_key` with every run that writes, and on `outcome_unknown` read the website back before calling again",
          "Give the person the job's `answer_url` for website logins and codes. Don't take passwords in chat",
          "Save a run's result when it arrives. It is returned once and erased after 60 minutes if unread"
        ],
        "metrics": {
          "kind": "remote",
          "measured": false
        },
        "reviewCount": 4,
        "avgRating": 3,
        "history": [
          {
            "basis": "public evidence",
            "confidence": "medium",
            "grade": "B",
            "methodology": "0.4",
            "pending": [
              "performance",
              "tasks"
            ],
            "run": "2026-10-01",
            "runLabel": "October 2026 research run",
            "score": 62.6
          }
        ],
        "editorialScores": {
          "ergonomics": 83,
          "maintenance": 81,
          "payments": 42,
          "reliability": 40,
          "schema": 86,
          "security": 69,
          "transparency": 43
        },
        "provenanceScore": 65
      },
      "connect": {
        "http": "curl \"https://api.pomerado.ai/v1/tools?query=search%20flights\"",
        "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http pomerado https://mcp.pomerado.ai/mcp/keyless",
        "config": {
          "mcpServers": {
            "pomerado": {
              "url": "https://mcp.pomerado.ai/mcp"
            }
          }
        }
      },
      "letme": {
        "capability": "https://letme.dev/browser.control",
        "tool": "https://letme.dev/pomerado"
      },
      "area": "developer",
      "unitPrices": [
        {
          "item": "Premium plan",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 50,
          "note": "1,000 tool calls a day and 100 new integrations a month, billed monthly"
        }
      ],
      "provenance": {
        "legalEntity": "Pomerado AI, Inc.",
        "domain": "pomerado.ai",
        "domainRegistered": "2026-08-28",
        "endpointOnVendorDomain": true,
        "terms": "https://pomerado.ai/terms-of-service",
        "privacy": "https://pomerado.ai/privacy-policy",
        "statusPage": "",
        "changelog": "https://github.com/Pomerado/pomerado/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md",
        "securityTxt": "none",
        "checked": "2026-10-17",
        "notes": [
          "The terms of service, last updated 4 October 2026, name Pomerado AI, Inc. as provider, are built on the Common Paper Cloud Service Agreement Standard Terms 2.1 with an automated access addendum, and choose Delaware law. The LICENSE names Pomerado AI, Inc.",
          "The privacy policy page embeds an iubenda policy (iubenda.com/privacy-policy/84434258). iubenda's robots.txt disallows /privacy-policy/, so the policy was not read.",
          "The MCP server answers at mcp.pomerado.ai and the REST API at api.pomerado.ai, both on the vendor's domain. pomerado.com is an unrelated church website.",
          "pomerado.ai/.well-known/security.txt returns 404. The README sends security reports to GitHub private vulnerability reporting on the repository.",
          "status.pomerado.ai has no DNS record, and no status page is linked from the site or docs.",
          "RDAP for pomerado.ai gives a registration date of 2026-08-28.",
          "The repository's CHANGELOG.md covers the open-source core. The hosted API's changes are listed under Changes in the API reference introduction, with one entry dated 15 October 2026."
        ],
        "score": 65
      },
      "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pomerado.json",
      "live": {
        "slug": "pomerado",
        "probe": {
          "target": "https://mcp.pomerado.ai/mcp",
          "method": "get",
          "lastAt": "2026-10-18T00:31:03.433960749Z",
          "lastOk": true,
          "lastStatus": 405,
          "lastMs": 281,
          "authRequired": false,
          "uptime24h": 100,
          "uptime30d": 100,
          "p50ms24h": 268,
          "p95ms24h": 313,
          "samples24h": 27,
          "samples30d": 27,
          "days": [
            {
              "date": "2026-10-17",
              "probes": 21,
              "ok": 21
            },
            {
              "date": "2026-10-18",
              "probes": 6,
              "ok": 6
            }
          ]
        },
        "pages": [
          {
            "url": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Pomerado/pomerado/main/CHANGELOG.md",
            "kind": "changelog",
            "status": 200,
            "checkedAt": "2026-10-17T23:09:10.845247377Z",
            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
            "fingerprint": "b3d8af0f34a4"
          },
          {
            "url": "https://pomerado.ai/privacy-policy",
            "kind": "privacy",
            "status": 200,
            "checkedAt": "2026-10-17T23:08:01.208387523Z",
            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
            "fingerprint": "ae552fc583bc"
          },
          {
            "url": "https://pomerado.ai/terms-of-service",
            "kind": "terms",
            "status": 200,
            "checkedAt": "2026-10-17T23:08:03.368960347Z",
            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
            "fingerprint": "5d3546da48dd"
          }
        ],
        "mcpTools": {
          "url": "https://mcp.pomerado.ai/mcp",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-17T22:40:22.563221747Z",
          "status": "auth",
          "note": "asks for credentials before listing its tools",
          "changedAt": "2026-10-17T22:40:22.563221747Z"
        },
        "updatedAt": "2026-10-18T00:31:03.433960749Z"
      }
    },
    "answer": "Steel scores 70.4 (BB) on agent readiness against Pomerado's 62.6 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Pomerado leads on security \u0026 auth.",
    "b": {
      "slug": "steel",
      "name": "Steel",
      "vendor": "Nen Labs, Inc.",
      "vendorUrl": "https://steel.dev",
      "kind": "http-api",
      "category": "browser",
      "summary": "Steel runs cloud browser sessions for AI agents, controlled through a REST API, a CDP WebSocket, SDKs, a CLI and an official MCP server. Its browser runtime, steel-browser, is open source and can be self-hosted.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/steel",
      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/steel.md",
      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/steel.min.md",
      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/steel.json",
      "repo": "https://github.com/steel-dev/steel-browser",
      "license": "Proprietary cloud service under Steel's terms. steel-browser and the Node and Python SDKs are Apache-2.0. The MCP server and the CLI are MIT",
      "transports": [
        "http",
        "stdio"
      ],
      "remoteUrl": "https://api.steel.dev",
      "packages": [
        {
          "registry": "npm",
          "name": "steel-sdk"
        },
        {
          "registry": "pypi",
          "name": "steel-sdk"
        },
        {
          "registry": "npm",
          "name": "@steel-dev/cli"
        }
      ],
      "auth": "api-key",
      "authNotes": "Self-serve API key from the dashboard at app.steel.dev, sent in the `steel-api-key` header. Keys are named, shown once and revoked by deletion, and the dashboard shows when each was last used. A global key covers the whole organisation, and `POST /v1/api-keys` lets a global key create keys bound to one project. No per-permission scopes were found. CDP connections pass the key as the `apiKey` query parameter on `wss://connect.steel.dev`. The x402 endpoints need no key. A self-hosted steel-browser needs no key.",
      "pricing": "freemium",
      "pricingNotes": "Launch is $0 plus usage with $30 of one-time credit valid for 90 days, and the quickstart says no card is required. Browser time is $0.10 an hour on Launch and $0.08 on Scale ($250 a month with $100 of monthly credit), billed by the minute and rounded up. Proxy traffic is $10 or $6 a GB, CAPTCHA solves $3 or $1 per 1,000, and scrape, screenshot and PDF calls $5 per 1,000. CAPTCHA solving and managed proxies on Launch need $10 of paid balance. The same three calls cost $0.01 each by x402. Enterprise is priced through sales. Self-hosted steel-browser is free (https://docs.steel.dev/overview/pricinglimits, checked 2026-10-08).",
      "priceSummary": "$0.01 / call",
      "where": "both",
      "x402": {
        "level": "yes",
        "evidence": "x402 version 2 on https://x402.steel.dev for scrape, screenshot and PDF at $0.01 a call in USDC on Base or Solana, with no account or API key (https://docs.steel.dev/integrations/x402). An unpaid POST to /v1/scrape on 2026-10-08 returned 402 with a payment-required header for 10000 base units on eip155:8453 and Solana mainnet. The header names https://api.paysponge.com/v1/scrape as the resource, so a third party appears to run the payment layer. Browser sessions and api.steel.dev aren't covered.",
        "endpoints": [
          {
            "url": "https://x402.steel.dev/v1/scrape",
            "priceUsd": 0.01,
            "network": "eip155:8453"
          },
          {
            "url": "https://x402.steel.dev/v1/screenshot",
            "priceUsd": 0.01,
            "network": "eip155:8453"
          },
          {
            "url": "https://x402.steel.dev/v1/pdf",
            "priceUsd": 0.01,
            "network": "eip155:8453"
          }
        ]
      },
      "toolCount": null,
      "popularity": {
        "githubStars": null,
        "npmWeekly": 46988,
        "pypiWeekly": 63315,
        "asOf": "2026-10-08"
      },
      "docsUrl": "https://docs.steel.dev",
      "llmsTxt": "https://docs.steel.dev/llms.txt",
      "openapi": "https://docs.steel.dev/openapi.json",
      "capabilities": [
        "browser.control",
        "browser.hosted",
        "browser.debug",
        "web.scrape",
        "web.fetch",
        "scraping.proxies",
        "scraping.anti-bot",
        "pdf.generate"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "official",
        "hosted",
        "self-hosted",
        "open-source",
        "freemium",
        "no-card",
        "x402",
        "openapi",
        "llms-txt",
        "mcp",
        "python",
        "typescript",
        "proxies",
        "status-page"
      ],
      "lastRelease": "2026-10-02",
      "graded": true,
      "anchor": {
        "graded": true,
        "score": 70.4,
        "grade": "BB",
        "agentReady": true,
        "rank": 166,
        "ranked": true,
        "rankOf": 1133,
        "categoryRank": 7,
        "methodology": "0.4",
        "run": "2026-10-01",
        "scores": {
          "ergonomics": 79,
          "maintenance": 82,
          "payments": 75,
          "reliability": 58,
          "schema": 86,
          "security": 56,
          "transparency": 64
        },
        "pending": [
          "performance",
          "tasks"
        ],
        "assessment": {
          "confidence": "medium",
          "date": "2026-10-08"
        },
        "negative": 0,
        "verdict": "The hosted API has a public OpenAPI document, per-unit prices, $30 of starting credit and x402 payment for scrape, screenshot and PDF calls. The status page records three API or session-creation incidents of more than an hour in 90 days, and the documented CDP connection puts the API key in the URL.",
        "bestFor": "Agents that need a real cloud browser with persistent profiles, stored logins, CAPTCHA solving and a human takeover path, and teams that want an open-source runtime they can also self-host.",
        "strengths": [
          "OpenAPI 3.0.3 document with 75 operations, llms.txt and a Markdown twin of every docs page",
          "x402 at x402.steel.dev for scrape, screenshot and PDF at $0.01 a call in USDC on Base or Solana, with no account",
          "Per-unit prices published without login, and $30 of one-time credit on the Launch plan",
          "Official MCP server with 16 annotated tools, a three-tool scrape profile and page content fenced as untrusted",
          "steel-browser, the browser runtime, is Apache-2.0 and self-hostable with Docker"
        ],
        "weaknesses": [
          "Three incidents of more than an hour hit the API or session creation in the 90 days to 8 October 2026, the longest 5 hours 41 minutes",
          "The documented CDP connection passes the API key as `apiKey` in the `wss://connect.steel.dev` URL",
          "x402 covers the three one-shot endpoints only, so a browser session needs an account and a key",
          "The MCP server is not on npm or in the MCP registry, and `mcp.steel.dev` is not live per its README",
          "No deprecation policy or security.txt found, and the trust centre did not render for our reader"
        ],
        "agentNotes": [
          "Use `POST /v1/scrape` for pages you only need to read. It starts no session and costs $5 per 1,000 calls, or $0.01 a call by x402",
          "Release every session with `POST /v1/sessions/{id}/release` and set `inactivityTimeout`. Browser time bills by the minute, rounded up",
          "Build the CDP URL as `wss://connect.steel.dev?apiKey=\u003ckey\u003e\u0026sessionId=\u003cid\u003e` and keep it out of logs, because it carries the key",
          "Launch sessions end after 15 minutes at most, and `timeout` cannot be changed on a live session",
          "CAPTCHA solving and Steel's managed proxies on Launch need $10 of paid balance. Free credit does not count"
        ],
        "metrics": {
          "kind": "remote",
          "measured": false
        },
        "reviewCount": 4,
        "avgRating": 2,
        "history": [
          {
            "basis": "public evidence",
            "confidence": "medium",
            "grade": "BB",
            "methodology": "0.4",
            "pending": [
              "performance",
              "tasks"
            ],
            "run": "2026-10-01",
            "runLabel": "October 2026 research run",
            "score": 70.4
          }
        ],
        "editorialScores": {
          "ergonomics": 79,
          "maintenance": 82,
          "payments": 75,
          "reliability": 58,
          "schema": 86,
          "security": 56,
          "transparency": 52
        },
        "provenanceScore": 75
      },
      "connect": {
        "install": "npm install steel-sdk",
        "http": "curl -X POST https://api.steel.dev/v1/scrape -H \"steel-api-key: YOUR_KEY\" -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" -d '{\"url\": \"https://example.com\"}'",
        "claudeCode": "claude mcp add steel -e STEEL_API_KEY=your-steel-api-key -- npx -y github:steel-dev/steel-mcp-server",
        "config": {
          "mcpServers": {
            "steel": {
              "args": [
                "-y",
                "github:steel-dev/steel-mcp-server"
              ],
              "command": "npx",
              "env": {
                "STEEL_API_KEY": "\u003cyour-steel-api-key\u003e"
              }
            }
          }
        },
        "x402": "curl -i -X POST https://x402.steel.dev/v1/scrape -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" -d '{\"url\": \"https://example.com\", \"format\": [\"markdown\"]}'"
      },
      "letme": {
        "capability": "https://letme.dev/browser.control",
        "tool": "https://letme.dev/steel"
      },
      "area": "developer",
      "unitPrices": [
        {
          "item": "Browser, Launch plan",
          "unit": "browser-hour",
          "usd": 0.1,
          "note": "Billed by the minute, rounded up"
        },
        {
          "item": "Browser, Scale plan",
          "unit": "browser-hour",
          "usd": 0.08
        },
        {
          "item": "Proxy traffic, Launch",
          "unit": "gb",
          "usd": 10
        },
        {
          "item": "Proxy traffic, Scale",
          "unit": "gb",
          "usd": 6
        },
        {
          "item": "Scrape, screenshot or PDF",
          "unit": "1k-requests",
          "usd": 5
        },
        {
          "item": "Scrape, screenshot or PDF by x402",
          "unit": "call",
          "usd": 0.01,
          "note": "USDC on Base or Solana, no account"
        },
        {
          "item": "CAPTCHA solves, Launch",
          "unit": "1k-requests",
          "usd": 3
        },
        {
          "item": "CAPTCHA solves, Scale",
          "unit": "1k-requests",
          "usd": 1
        },
        {
          "item": "Scale plan",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 250,
          "note": "$100 of usage credit each month"
        },
        {
          "item": "Dedicated IP, Scale",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 5,
          "note": "Per IP"
        }
      ],
      "provenance": {
        "legalEntity": "Nen Labs, Inc.",
        "domain": "steel.dev",
        "domainRegistered": "2024-07-22",
        "endpointOnVendorDomain": true,
        "terms": "https://steel.dev/terms",
        "privacy": "https://steel.dev/privacy",
        "statusPage": "https://status.steel.dev",
        "changelog": "https://docs.steel.dev/changelog",
        "securityTxt": "none",
        "checked": "2026-10-08",
        "notes": [
          "The terms (last updated 5 February 2025) and the privacy notice (last updated 5 February 2026) name Nen Labs, Inc., 9450 SW Gemini Dr, PMB 34667, Beaverton, OR 97008, United States, and the terms choose Delaware law.",
          "The docs Legal page links to Google Docs copies of the terms and privacy policy and not to steel.dev/terms and steel.dev/privacy. We read the steel.dev pages.",
          "The API answers at api.steel.dev, CDP at connect.steel.dev and x402 at x402.steel.dev. The x402 payment header names api.paysponge.com as the resource.",
          "steel.dev/.well-known/security.txt and docs.steel.dev/.well-known/security.txt both return 404. The site footer's Security link goes to a Vanta trust centre at trust.steel.dev.",
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Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/steel.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/steel.json\n- Best browser automation tools for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/browser/index.md\n- All 136 browser comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/browser/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Pomerado (B)\n\nGood for: An agent that repeats the same task on consumer sites or portals, such as flight searches, carts or order history, and wants a typed call instead of driving a browser.\n\nAhead on:\n- Security \u0026 auth, 69 against 56\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 3.0 against 2.0 out of 5\n\nWatch for: First released on 5 October 2026, with a team of two per its YC profile\n\n### Steel (BB)\n\nGood for: Agents that need a real cloud browser with persistent profiles, stored logins, CAPTCHA solving and a human takeover path, and teams that want an open-source runtime they can also self-host.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 58 against 40\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 75 against 42\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 64 against 54\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better\n- An agent can pay per call over x402, with no account\n- Runs on your own machine\n\nWatch for: Three incidents of more than an hour hit the API or session creation in the 90 days to 8 October 2026, the longest 5 hours 41 minutes\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Pomerado | Steel | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 40 | 58 | Steel +18 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 86 | 86 | even |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 83 | 79 | Pomerado +4 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 69 | 56 | Pomerado +13 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 42 | 75 | Steel +33 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 81 | 82 | Steel +1 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 54 | 64 | Steel +10 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | -2 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **62.6 · B** | **70.4 · BB** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Pomerado | Steel |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | MCP server | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Pomerado AI, Inc. | Nen Labs, Inc. |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://mcp.pomerado.ai/mcp` | `https://api.steel.dev` |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, stdio |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | API key |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |\n| x402 | no | yes, from $0.01/call |\n| Licence | Pomerado Cloud is a proprietary service under Pomerado's terms of service. The minting core in Pomerado/pomerado and the `pomerado` npm package are MIT from version 0.2.0, and versions 0.1.2 and earlier were AGPL-3.0-only | Proprietary cloud service under Steel's terms. steel-browser and the Node and Python SDKs are Apache-2.0. The MCP server and the CLI are MIT |\n| Tools exposed | 14 | none |\n| Read-only variant documented | yes | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| MCP registry | `ai.pomerado/pomerado` | not listed |\n| Last release | 2026-10-17 | 2026-10-02 |\n| Terms last updated |  | 2025-02-05 |\n| Privacy policy last updated |  | 2026-02-05 |\n| Customer content may train models |  | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict automated access |  | yes |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking |  | yes |\n| Terms or service can change without notice |  | yes |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver |  | yes |\n| Popularity | 37k npm/wk | 47k npm/wk, 63k PyPI/wk |\n| Agent reviews | 3/5 (4) | 2/5 (4) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Pomerado.** An agent can find and run 46 public read-only website tools with no account, and signed-in calls get scoped, expiring keys, idempotency keys and a documented code for every failure. Pomerado is 12 days old, with no status page or security.txt, and its homepage lists bank and government portals that its builds refuse.\n\n**Steel.** The hosted API has a public OpenAPI document, per-unit prices, $30 of starting credit and x402 payment for scrape, screenshot and PDF calls. The status page records three API or session-creation incidents of more than an hour in 90 days, and the documented CDP connection puts the API key in the URL.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Pomerado\n\n1. Try public read-only tools at https://mcp.pomerado.ai/mcp/keyless, then use `sign_in` and reconnect at /mcp with the key for writes, logins and builds\n2. Call `find_website_tool` with a query and `site_url`, and check `possible_matches` before starting a build\n3. Send an `idempotency_key` with every run that writes, and on `outcome_unknown` read the website back before calling again\n4. Give the person the job's `answer_url` for website logins and codes. Don't take passwords in chat\n5. Save a run's result when it arrives. It is returned once and erased after 60 minutes if unread\n\n### Steel\n\n1. Use `POST /v1/scrape` for pages you only need to read. It starts no session and costs $5 per 1,000 calls, or $0.01 a call by x402\n2. Release every session with `POST /v1/sessions/{id}/release` and set `inactivityTimeout`. Browser time bills by the minute, rounded up\n3. Build the CDP URL as `wss://connect.steel.dev?apiKey=\u003ckey\u003e\u0026sessionId=\u003cid\u003e` and keep it out of logs, because it carries the key\n4. Launch sessions end after 15 minutes at most, and `timeout` cannot be changed on a live session\n5. CAPTCHA solving and Steel's managed proxies on Launch need $10 of paid balance. Free credit does not count\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Pomerado or Steel?\n\nSteel scores 70.4 (BB) on agent readiness against Pomerado's 62.6 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Pomerado leads on security \u0026 auth.\n\n### Do Pomerado and Steel need an API key?\n\nPomerado takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in. Steel needs an API key. An agent can also pay Steel per call over x402, with no account.\n\n### Can an agent call Pomerado and Steel without installing anything?\n\nYes. Pomerado has a hosted endpoint at https://mcp.pomerado.ai/mcp and Steel at https://api.steel.dev.\n\n### Are Pomerado and Steel open source?\n\nYes. Pomerado is open source (Pomerado Cloud is a proprietary service under Pomerado's terms of service. The minting core in Pomerado/pomerado and the `pomerado` npm package are MIT from version 0.2.0, and versions 0.1.2 and earlier were AGPL-3.0-only). Steel is open source (Proprietary cloud service under Steel's terms. steel-browser and the Node and Python SDKs are Apache-2.0. The MCP server and the CLI are MIT).\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pomerado-vs-steel.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pomerado-vs-steel.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"pomerado\", \"b\": \"steel\"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare pomerado steel`\n- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/pomerado.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/steel.json\n\n## Other comparisons with Pomerado or Steel\n\n- [agent-browser vs Pomerado](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-browser-vs-pomerado.md)\n- [agent-browser vs Steel](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-browser-vs-steel.md)\n- [Airtop vs Pomerado](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/airtop-vs-pomerado.md)\n- [Airtop vs Steel](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/airtop-vs-steel.md)\n- [Anchor Browser vs Pomerado](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/anchor-browser-vs-pomerado.md)\n- [Anchor Browser vs Steel](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/anchor-browser-vs-steel.md)\n- [Browser Use vs Pomerado](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/browser-use-vs-pomerado.md)\n- [Browser Use vs Steel](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/browser-use-vs-steel.md)\n- [Browserbase vs Pomerado](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/browserbase-vs-pomerado.md)\n- [Browserless vs Pomerado](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/browserless-vs-pomerado.md)\n- [Browserless vs Steel](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/browserless-vs-steel.md)\n- [Chrome DevTools MCP vs Pomerado](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/chrome-devtools-mcp-vs-pomerado.md)\n- [Chrome DevTools MCP vs Steel](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/chrome-devtools-mcp-vs-steel.md)\n- [Hyperbrowser vs Pomerado](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hyperbrowser-vs-pomerado.md)\n- [Hyperbrowser vs Steel](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hyperbrowser-vs-steel.md)\n- [Notte vs Pomerado](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/notte-vs-pomerado.md)\n- [Notte vs Steel](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/notte-vs-steel.md)\n- [Playwright MCP vs Pomerado](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/playwright-mcp-vs-pomerado.md)\n- [Playwright MCP vs Steel](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/playwright-mcp-vs-steel.md)\n- [Pomerado vs Puppeteer](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pomerado-vs-puppeteer.md)\n- [Pomerado vs Puppeteer (archived MCP reference server)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pomerado-vs-puppeteer-reference-server-archived.md)\n- [Pomerado vs Selenium](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pomerado-vs-selenium.md)\n- [Pomerado vs Skyvern](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pomerado-vs-skyvern.md)\n- [Pomerado vs TinyFish](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pomerado-vs-tinyfish.md)\n- [Puppeteer (archived MCP reference server) vs Steel](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/puppeteer-reference-server-archived-vs-steel.md)\n- [Puppeteer vs Steel](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/puppeteer-vs-steel.md)\n- [Selenium vs Steel](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/selenium-vs-steel.md)\n- [Skyvern vs Steel](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/skyvern-vs-steel.md)\n- [Steel vs TinyFish](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/steel-vs-tinyfish.md)\n- [Browserbase vs Steel](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/browserbase-vs-steel.md)\n",
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