Steerpane vs Shark Magic

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Steerpane compared with Shark Magic
Detail	Steerpane	Shark Magic
What it does	Remote browsers for AI agents with persistent profiles, live view and human takeover	Serverless sandboxes that bill only for the seconds your agent's code runs
Stage	Startup	MVP
Founded	Not given	Not given
Based in	Not given	MX
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	Shark Pro $5/month includes $5 of usage; Shark Studio $25/month includes $25; Shark Scale $100/month includes $100. Commands run at $0.12 per compute-hour, billed per second only while running. Services: 2 vCPU / 2 GiB at $0.03/h; 4 vCPU / 4 GiB at $0.06/h. Storage $0.08/GiB-month with first 5 GiB f
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	Persistent Space for agent files and databases Pay only for compute time while command runs, not idle or thinking time HTTP API with Python and TypeScript SDKs CLI for devbox with Claude Code and Codex support Sleeping services that wake in milliseconds Fork Spaces fast without booting VM API key isolation outside VM with egress proxy Fast file search with sharkfn 300–600× faster than ripgrep Integration with LangChain, LangGraph, smolagents, and Prefect
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	Billing only for seconds code actually runs, not idle or thinking time Lowest cost compared to alternatives for agent infrastructure Persistent Storage with fast Space fork and file access without VM boot No GPU required, works with unmodified existing agent harnesses Sleeping services wake in milliseconds with zero idle billing
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	Not checked yet no change since last check
Trust Flow (Majestic)	0	0
Citation Flow (Majestic)	0	0
Referring domains (Majestic)	0	0

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