Do you have any thoughts of installing the siding yourself? If you do, I would think that vinyl would be the best choice, as I think that a bunch of special tools and skills are needed to do the steel siding, especially the seamless type.
About 12 or 13 years ago, I built a new house and chose white vinyl siding. Some of it was installed by the main builders and I installed the rest of it when I added a large attached garage. I had never installed siding before, but it worked out just fine. In fact, I think I did a better job than the professionals did, since I used more overlap on the joints. I have had to redo a few pieces because they didn't fit right and a couple of pieces have developed holes, apparently from impacts when it was very cold. But it isn't very hard to replace damaged panels.
I thought that white vinyl siding would not change color much from weathering over the years, but it does. I kept a bunch of unused panels of the vinyl that I bought when I was building the house, planning to use them if I needed to do repairs. New panels in a wall that has been exposed to the weather for some time stand out pretty badly the first year, but by the third year the new panels are very hard to pick out.
I chose vinyl because I didn't want to have to paint every few years. Vinyl doesn't take much maintenance at all. I live on a gravel road, so there is some road dust, but that comes off the vinyl siding pretty well spraying it down once in awhile with the garden hose.
When I was a kid, my Dad had aluminum siding installed on our house. It sure made it look nice, and that siding on that house still looks really good more than 40 years later. The only thing that we found as a downside of having metal siding was that our indoor TV antennas no longer worked very well, and we had to install a roof antenna. The aluminum was quite thin, with foam backing, and it would dent pretty easily if you weren't careful. I would think that steel siding would be thicker and stronger than the aluminum we had. On the other hand, the possibility of steel siding rusting is a real concern, not so with the aluminum or vinyl.
I think if I was trying to decide what kind of siding to use on a new project, I would look at several examples of how the siding types look on houses, both when they are new and also when they are several years old. If I planned to stay there the rest of my life, I am sure I would choose a product that would hold up well and for sure, never need to be painted. And I would have to consider the differences in how much the various types cost. But buying top quality materials makes sense when you are planning to stay in a place for a very long time. Good luck!
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