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Steel vs Jina AI

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Steel compared with Jina AI
DetailSteelJina AI
What it doesBrowser Infrastructure for AI Agents Your Search Foundation, Supercharged.
StageGrowing Not given
FoundedNot given Not given
Based inNot given Not given
Pricing modelfreemium usage-based
PricingNot given Token-based pricing with free and paid API tiers. Free tier offers 20-100 RPM depending on product. Paid tiers include 500 RPM and Premium 5000 RPM options. Auto top-up available at specified token thresholds. Cloud marketplace purchasing through AWS, Azure, and GCP also available.
Key features
  • Session API for on-demand cloud browser sessions
  • Auto CAPTCHA solving
  • Proxy and browser fingerprinting controls
  • Sub-second session startup time
  • Up to 24-hour session duration
  • Cookie and storage management
  • Compatible with Puppeteer, Playwright, and Selenium
  • Session Viewer for debugging
  • Auto sign-in for auth-walled websites
  • Reader API for URL to Markdown conversion
  • Embeddings API for text and image vectorization
  • Reranker API for document ranking
  • Web search API for SERP conversion
  • Multimodal embeddings support
  • Jina On-Prem self-hosted deployment
  • MCP server integration for LLMs
What makes it different
  • Open-source self-hosted option available on GitHub
  • Works with existing tools via standard CDP WebSocket
  • Fastest session startup time in industry
  • Built-in anti-bot and CAPTCHA handling
  • One-line integration with Puppeteer
  • Trained from scratch with rigorous research backing
  • Published at top-tier conferences (ICLR, EMNLP, SIGIR, NeurIPS, ICML)
  • Multilingual and multimodal capabilities
  • API-first with cloud and self-hosted options
  • Part of Elastic ecosystem with enterprise support
Free planNot given Not given
Open sourceNot given Not given
PlatformsNot given Not given
Public APINot given Not given
Community votes00
DR (Domain Rating by Ahrefs)54 no change since last check76 no change since last check
Trust Flow (Majestic)2829
Citation Flow (Majestic)3345
Referring domains (Majestic)6525362

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