A cloud browser your agents drive to open any website, get past the blocks, and bring back clean, usable data. Half the price of the alternatives, credits that never expire, and you switch in one line.
api.saffronbrowser.com/v1 and you are live.The others hide the browser behind a dashboard. Watch Saffron clear a bot check and turn a live page into clean, structured data, before you sign up.
// press Run to watch a scrape
Simulated replay for illustration. At launch, this runs live against the gateway and streams real CDP frames.
Every other platform charges for the session even when the page blocks it. Saffron reads the status at the gateway: a 403 or 429 zeroes the ledger before it ever touches your balance.
Saffron works with the Steel SDK you already have. Change one setting, keep everything else exactly as it is.
- base_url = "https://api.steel.dev" + base_url = "https://api.saffronbrowser.com/v1"
How Saffron stacks up against the other hosted browsers. No hidden bandwidth fees, no expiring credits, and no charge when a page blocks you.
| Metric | Saffron Browser | Steel.dev | Browserbase | Bright Data | Firecrawl |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cost per hour | $0.05 | $0.08–0.10 | $0.10–0.12 | GB billing | credit multiplier |
| Bandwidth fees | $0.00 / GB | $6–10 / GB | add-on surcharge | $8.40 / GB | hidden in credits |
| Charge for failed pages | Never | billed | billed | billed | billed |
| Do credits expire? | never expire | monthly expiry | monthly expiry | monthly reset | forfeited monthly |
| Watch it live | Yes, built in | basic inspector | session viewer | raw CDP | – |
| Locations | Germany & US | single region | US-West | global pool | US cloud |
| Works with Steel SDK | 100% | native | – | – | – |
Every request leaves over our own IPv6 range, so there is no third party proxy bill. The hosted incumbents meter residential bandwidth at $6 to $12 per gigabyte, and it lands on your invoice every month.
A 403 or 429 from an anti bot wall costs you nothing. It is enforced at the gateway ledger, in code, before the charge touches your balance. You pay only when data is in your hands.
Requests are one credit each. Your balance rolls over and tops up on demand. Nothing is forfeited at the end of the month the way metered plans reset it.
The fleet runs on dedicated hardware in Falkenstein and New York, not shared cloud containers throttled by a neighbor. The throughput you pay for stays yours.
Drag to your real monthly volume. Blended $0.75 / 1k on Saffron vs $2.50 / 1k on Steel-class hosted browsers.
It runs on our own hardware, routes around blocks, and keeps going when the others get rate-limited.
When one route gets blocked, Saffron quietly switches to another and keeps going, so your jobs actually finish.
See the browser on your screen as it works, so you always know exactly what it did and why.
If a page blocks the request, it costs you nothing. You only pay for the results that come back.
The bot checks and captcha walls that stop most tools are handled for you, built in, not a paid add-on.
Point it at any page and get back clean, structured data, ready to use, in a single request.
Connect it to Claude or Cursor with one setting, and your assistant gets a browser it can drive.
Pay for what you scrape. Wallet balance rolls over. Nothing is forfeited at the end of the month.
We answer all four, in engineering terms, not logo walls.
Engineered to the controls behind SOC 2 and OWASP ASVS: encrypted in transit and at rest, least-privilege access, isolated sessions. Data and keys stay in your accounts.
$0/GB IPv6 egress and a zero-charge block guarantee mean a bill you can forecast. Wallet balance rolls over; nothing is forfeited.
100% Steel.dev-compatible superset API. One base_url change and your existing scrapers run, with live CDP screencast for debugging.
A named entity with a physical address and a direct line. Month-to-month or annual; dedicated nodes and a private channel on Scale.
1,000 requests, no card, live in under a minute. Keep your code. Cut your bill.