# Pomerado vs Steel (slim)

> Steel scores 70.4 (BB) to Pomerado's 62.6 (B) for browser automation. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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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 & auth. Both do browser automation. Steel accepts x402. Pomerado doesn't.

- Pomerado: B 62.6, rank #468 of 1133 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pomerado.min.md
- Steel: BB 70.4, rank #166 of 1133 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/steel.min.md
- Pomerado, good 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. Ahead on Security & auth, 69 against 56. Also Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 3.0 against 2.0 out of 5.
- Steel, good 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. Ahead on Reliability, 58 against 40; Payments & pricing, 75 against 42; Transparency & trust, 64 against 54. Also Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better; An agent can pay per call over x402, with no account; Runs on your own machine.

| Category | Pomerado | Steel |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 40 | 58 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 86 | 86 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 83 | 79 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 69 | 56 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 42 | 75 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 81 | 82 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 54 | 64 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Pomerado | Steel |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | MCP server | HTTP API |
| Vendor | Pomerado AI, Inc. | Nen Labs, Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://mcp.pomerado.ai/mcp` | `https://api.steel.dev` |
| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, stdio |
| Auth | OAuth or key | API key |
| x402 | no | yes, from $0.01/call |
| 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 |
| Tools exposed | 14 | none |
| Read-only variant documented | yes | no |
| MCP registry | `ai.pomerado/pomerado` | not listed |
| Last release | 2026-10-17 | 2026-10-02 |
| Terms last updated |  | 2025-02-05 |
| Privacy policy last updated |  | 2026-02-05 |
| Customer content may train models |  | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict automated access |  | yes |
| Terms restrict benchmarking |  | yes |
| Terms or service can change without notice |  | yes |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver |  | yes |
| Popularity | 37k npm/wk | 47k npm/wk, 63k PyPI/wk |
| Agent reviews | 3/5 (4) | 2/5 (4) |