Does Asteroid support MCP and tool calling?

Full under the Agentic Index verification standard. Asteroid publishes public evidence of Model Context Protocol (MCP) support, tool calling, and API or SDK extensibility for connecting agents to external tools. Evidence basis: A REST API and SDK deploy, execute and manage agents, with a workflow file representation for version control, and an MCP server at mcp.asteroid.ai builds, executes and debugs agents from a coding assistant. Graded from public evidence only against the Agentic Index 14 point capability taxonomy. No vendor pays for placement.

Does Asteroid have SOC 2, SSO and role based access control?

Full under the Agentic Index verification standard. Asteroid publishes public evidence of enterprise security and identity controls, covering a compliance posture such as SOC 2 or ISO 27001, single sign on (SSO or SAML), and role based access control (RBAC). Evidence basis: Customers manage role based access control and least privilege with granular permissions, and portal credentials are encrypted, revocable and scoped per agent. Asteroid holds SOC 2, with the report in the Trust Center, alongside HIPAA with. Graded from public evidence only against the Agentic Index 14 point capability taxonomy. No vendor pays for placement.

Does Asteroid give you tracing and observability into agent runs?

Full under the Agentic Index verification standard. Asteroid publishes public evidence of tracing, observability and audit logging into agent runs, so a team can see what an agent did and why. Evidence basis: Every action an agent takes is recorded and replayable, with screen recordings, a step by step timeline, the page seen at each step and the reasoning behind each action and transition, plus an activity log with node durations. Graded from public evidence only against the Agentic Index 14 point capability taxonomy. No vendor pays for placement.

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Asteroid

Q: How much does Asteroid cost?

Credits cover runtime, LLM usage and proxies. Individual starts free with pay as you go top ups; Startup is $300 a month with $330 of credits; Scale is $1,000 a month with $1,150 of credits and managed delivery; Enterprise is a custom credit commit.

Q: Who is Asteroid for?

healthcare operations teams, insurance brokers and carriers, voice AI companies, supply chain and property management, enterprises replacing RPA and BPO

Q: What are the best alternatives to Asteroid?

Based on documented capability coverage across the Agentic Index 14 point taxonomy, the closest alternatives to Asteroid among browser and computer-use agents are Grok Bot, Manus, Automat AI, Airtop. Each is graded on the same public evidence, and no vendor pays for placement.

Also known as: Asteroid AI, Asteroid Agents, Asteroid Astro, asteroid.ai

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Browser / computer-use agentindependentVerified 2026-09-27

Entry priceIndividual is free to start, with pay as you go credit top ups. Startup is $300 a month ($330 of credits) and Scale $1,000 a month ($1,150 of credits). Enterprise is custom.Full pricing detail

Healthcare portal integration platform whose supervised browser and computer use agents run prior authorization, eligibility, credentialing, claims, scheduling and enrollment across payer portals, EHRs and desktop apps, with approval checkpoints and every run recorded. YC W25.

Asteroid, from Entropy Systems, Inc., is a healthcare portal integration platform. It offers one connector for EHRs, payer portals, registries and desktop apps that have no good API. Workflows are graphs of agent nodes and transitions rather than ReAct loops. Each node reads the screen and acts in a Browser, Linux or Windows sandbox, and a proven path can be turned into a Playwright script that replays in milliseconds with no model cost. Astro, the agent builder, explores a portal with the user, builds the workflow, analyzes past executions and writes improvements back to a draft.

A Workflow Library ships pre built workflows across ten categories, from OIG and DEA checks and eligibility to prior authorization on payer, UM and ePA portals, provider and Medicare enrollment, EHR extraction and write back, claims and denials, and referral intake.

Workflows run on cron schedules or from the API, MCP and Slack, push events to webhooks and Slack, hold credentials in an organization vault, and give each agent profile its own inbox for login codes. Operators watch agents live, pause them and require approval before sensitive steps, and every action is recorded and replayable. Asteroid holds SOC 2, signs BAAs for HIPAA, offers role based access control and hosts data in the United States. YC W25.

Vendor details

Canonical URL

https://asteroid.ai

Funding status

Y Combinator W25; used in production across hundreds of startups and enterprises with 5,000+ production agents built, concentrated in healthcare and insurance

Company status

independent

Use cases & customers

Primary use cases

insurance quoting across carrier portalshealthcare data entry, EHR integration, and prior authorizationvoice agent to legacy system handoffvendor verification and compliance checksback office browser automation in regulated industries

Target customers

healthcare operations teamsinsurance brokers and carriersvoice AI companiessupply chain and property managemententerprises replacing RPA and BPO

Deployment options

Cloud (US hosted)Browser, Linux and Windows agent sandboxes

Integrations

Asteroid operates EHRs, payer portals, registries and desktop apps through the screen, with credentials in an organization vault and VPN access. It calls APIs such as SAM.gov where they exist. Workflows start from the API, MCP and Slack and send events to webhooks and Slack. Developers get a REST API, an SDK and an MCP server at mcp.asteroid.ai.

In practice

A prior authorization team has an agent log into payer portals with credentials from the organization vault, answer the payer's clinical questionnaire strictly from the chart material supplied for the case, and check pended requests again on a schedule.

A credentialing team runs Workflow Library templates such as OIG Exclusion Check and DEA Registration Verification, with agents calling SAM.gov directly and writing the results back to the EHR or CRM.

An operations lead watches agents work live in a Windows sandbox and pauses them before sensitive steps, then replays the screen recording and step by step timeline to see why a node failed while Astro writes a fix into a draft version.

Sources & related URLs

Research sources

https://asteroid.ai/ https://asteroid.ai/blog/ https://www.producthunt.com/products/asteroid-3 https://www.g2.com/products/asteroid-agents/discuss

Agentic Index coverage score

11.5 / 14 capabilities · 82%

Integrations & Tool Calling	Full
Agents act in EHRs, payer portals and desktop apps with credentials held in an organization vault, reach systems through VPNs, call APIs such as SAM.gov directly, and write results back to EHRs and CRMs; each agent profile owns an inbox for login codes and mail. Sourceasteroid.ai/llms.txtread 2026-09-27
Workflow Orchestration	Full
Workflows are graphs of agent nodes and transitions with failure paths, loop backs, handoffs, per node Playwright scripts and batch executions, built in the platform or by Astro from a described process. Sourcedocs.asteroid.ai/llms.txtread 2026-09-27
Knowledge Grounding & RAG	Partial
Prior authorization workflows answer payer clinical questionnaires strictly from the chart material and documentation supplied for each case, and workflows read attached files. That context is assembled for each run, and Asteroid keeps no standing index over the customer's knowledge. Sourceasteroid.ai/llms.txtread 2026-09-27
Human Oversight & Guardrails	Full
Operators watch agents live, pause them and require approval before sensitive steps; workflows carry clinician in the loop checkpoints, a human checkpoint before enrollment submission and a person approving every binder payment, and nodes can ask the user a question. Sourceasteroid.ai/securityread 2026-09-27
Security, Identity & Governance	Full
Customers manage role based access control and least privilege with granular permissions, and portal credentials are encrypted, revocable and scoped per agent. Asteroid holds SOC 2, with the report in the Trust Center, alongside HIPAA with BAAs and third party penetration testing. Its security page calls the SOC 2 report Type II, while its llms.txt summary says Type I. Sourceasteroid.ai/securityread 2026-09-27
Observability & Auditability	Full
Every action an agent takes is recorded and replayable, with screen recordings, a step by step timeline, the page seen at each step and the reasoning behind each action and transition, plus an activity log with node durations. Sourcedocs.asteroid.ai/build/test-and-publishread 2026-09-27
Memory & State Persistence	Partial
An agent's own files include memory kept beside its nodes in the workflow file tree, and the workspace folder carries state across steps and loop backs inside one run only. Asteroid does not say how agent memory is scoped or how long it lasts. Agent profiles carry browser state, not memory. Sourcedocs.asteroid.ai/llms.txtread 2026-09-27
Deployment & Data Residency	Not documented
Data is hosted in the United States on Asteroid's cloud, the only region offered, and there is no VPC, on premise or self hosted option. The Browser, Linux and Windows sandboxes and VPN access into customer networks are where agents run and how they connect, and none of them places the platform in the customer's own infrastructure. Sourceasteroid.ai/securityread 2026-09-27
Prebuilt Agents, Templates & Packs	Full
A Workflow Library offers pre built workflow templates across ten categories, mirrored in the docs catalog, such as OIG Exclusion Check, DEA Registration Verification, Eligibility and Benefits Check, Drug Prior Authorization on ePA Portals and Medicare Commission Reconciliation. Each template handles one job. Sourceasteroid.ai/workflow-libraryread 2026-09-27
Triggers & Channel Coverage	Full
Workflows run on a repeating cron schedule or a single booked time, start from the API, MCP and Slack, and push execution events to webhooks and Slack with signed payloads; pended prior authorizations are re-checked on schedule. Sourcedocs.asteroid.ai/operate/schedulesread 2026-09-27
Model Flexibility & Routing	Partial
Each node picks a model from Asteroid's own tiers, asteroid-fast, asteroid-balanced and asteroid-max. The changelog names Anthropic, OpenAI and Google models behind prompt tuning and a provider grouped picker, but customers get no list of providers to choose from, so Asteroid decides which providers serve each tier. Sourcedocs.asteroid.ai/llms-full.txtread 2026-09-27
APIs, SDKs & MCP Extensibility	Full
A REST API and SDK deploy, execute and manage agents, with a workflow file representation for version control, and an MCP server at mcp.asteroid.ai builds, executes and debugs agents from a coding assistant. Sourcedocs.asteroid.ai/llms.txtread 2026-09-27
Testing, Debugging & Optimization	Full
Changes run as a draft version before publishing, with version compare and a warning before schema breaking publishes. Astro reads past executions' timelines to name slow or failing nodes and writes improvements back to a draft, so the deployed agent's behavior feeds its next version. Sourcedocs.asteroid.ai/operate/improveread 2026-09-27
Browser & Computer Use	Full
Agent nodes with browser_use and computer_use capabilities read the screen and act in payer portals, EHRs and desktop apps inside Browser, Linux or Windows sandboxes the vendor runs, with Playwright scripts replaying proven paths. Sourcedocs.asteroid.ai/concepts/environmentsread 2026-09-27

The Agentic Index coverage score grades every vendor Full, Partial or Not documented against the same 14 buyer facing capabilities, from public evidence only. Each capability links to how all vendors in the index score on it. How this evidence is graded

Product updates

October 1, 2026·Security / enterpriseVerified

Asteroid merged its Vault and Agent Profiles into one Logins page that holds every account its browser agents sign in as, including groups of interchangeable logins for the same portal. The workflow builder adds a Runs as control that limits which logins each workflow may use, and the API gains matching routes while the old vault and profile paths are deprecated.

Bears on: Security / enterprise

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View all Asteroid updates →Tracked since Oct 2026 · Verified from public vendor sources

Pricing

Individual is free to start, with pay as you go credit top ups. Startup is $300 a month ($330 of credits) and Scale $1,000 a month ($1,150 of credits). Enterprise is custom.

Credits that cover runtime, LLM usage and proxies, bought through pay as you go top ups on the free Individual plan or through a monthly plan that includes more credits than its fee.

Free tierTrial available

What is public

All four plans are public with their prices. Individual is free with pay as you go top ups, Startup is $300 a month with $330 of credits, Scale is $1,000 a month with $1,150 of credits and managed delivery, and Enterprise is a custom credit commit. Credits cover runtime, LLM usage and proxies.

Variable cost rationale

Credits are the meter, and they pay for runtime, LLM usage and proxies, so the bill grows with the number and length of agent runs. Asteroid compiles a mature workflow into a deterministic script that replays runs without the model at a fraction of the cost, which reduces model spend per run over time. The Individual plan has no monthly commitment and runs on credits topped up as needed. Startup and Scale are fixed monthly plans that include credits worth more than the fee, and Enterprise is a custom credit commit.

Sales call required

No, self serve available

Free / trial

Individual plan starts free with no monthly commitment, and credits are topped up as you go

Lowest paid plan

Startup, $300 a month with $330 of credits (10 percent bonus)

Cancellation / refund

Individual has no monthly commitment. Scale carries a money back guarantee on scoped workflows, and Enterprise has custom terms.

Support SLA / resale

Priority Slack support from Startup up, FDE onboarding on Scale, and a dedicated AI engineer with SLAs on Enterprise.

Agentic Index verified 2026-10-25

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Related vendors

Alternatives to Asteroid

The closest documented capability profiles to Asteroid among browser and computer-use agents tracked by Agentic Index, ordered by similarity on the same 14 point evidence the rankings use. No vendor pays for placement.

Grok Bot10.5 / 14A lighter documented profile than Asteroid
Manus10.0 / 14A lighter documented profile than Asteroid
Automat AI11.5 / 14Adds documented Deployment & Data Residency
Airtop9.0 / 14A lighter documented profile than Asteroid
Browser Use11.5 / 14Adds documented Deployment & Data Residency
Meta Muse8.5 / 14A lighter documented profile than Asteroid

Similarity is computed from each vendor's Agentic Index coverage score evidence, axis by axis, not from the totals. How this evidence is graded

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