Steerpane vs Guardian

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Steerpane compared with Guardian
Detail	Steerpane	Guardian
What it does	Remote browsers for AI agents with persistent profiles, live view and human takeover	Human authority infrastructure for autonomous AI
Stage	Startup	Not given
Founded	Not given	Not given
Based in	Not given	Not given
Pricing model	Not given	Freemium
Pricing	Hobby: Free (1 concurrent browser, 2 browser hours/month); Developer: $20/month (2 concurrent browsers, 20 hours/month, $0.18/hour extras); Pro: $49/month (5 concurrent browsers, 50 hours/month, $0.15/hour extras); Scale: $299/month (15 concurrent browsers, 500 hours/month, $0.12/hour extras); Enter	Free: $0 per month with 2 connections, 1 agent, 500 protected actions per month. Developer: $99/month with 25,000 billable executions included, then $0.001 per billable execution with $500 default overage cap. Business: Contact Sales for paid pilots and enterprise contracts.
Key features	Persistent logged-in profiles Live view with human takeover MCP, REST and CDP access Screenshot, PDF, crawl and extract APIs Recordings and replay Automatic CAPTCHA solving Credentials vault with TOTP Webhooks	Cryptographically signed receipts and verifiable evidence Multi-party approval for organizational authority Open-source SDK, MCP server, and framework adapters Authority lifecycle management from grant to revocation Supported integrations with payments and cloud accounts Individual, family, business, and enterprise deployment options Enforcement at tool execution boundaries
What makes it different	One-click human takeover of browser sessions Available over MCP, REST and CDP protocols Live view and dashboard takeover included in all plans	Write-once signed decisions verifiable by auditors without trusting the vendor Controls sit at the point where AI systems take consequential actions One company integrating security and compliance disciplines Open-source cores and published research allow vendor review Human authority never transferred to the agent
Free plan	Not given	Not given
Open source	Not given	Not given
Platforms	Not given	Not given
Public API	Not given	Not given
Community votes	0	0
DR (Domain Rating by Ahrefs)	Not checked yet no change since last check	3 no change since last check
Trust Flow (Majestic)	0	0
Citation Flow (Majestic)	0	26
Referring domains (Majestic)	0	18

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