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>log in to commentUnlike typical scrapers that need proxies and custom retries, String lets you fetch any page—including hard, bot‑protected sites—with a single HTTP call and only pays on success. It returns fully rendered, clean text in under a second, and scales without queuing. I built it to simplify live web data for AI agents and GTM tools—what do you think?
- Web access for everyone
- Integrates with any workflow or platform
- Handles anti‑bot, CAPTCHA, proxy rotation automatically
- MCP server lets agents skip the HTTP layer
String provides a web-scraping API that returns clean, fully rendered page content with a single HTTP call.
- for
- AI app developers, GTM engineers, data providers, and solo developers needing reliable scraping.
- pricing
- freemium · free trial
- license
- MIT
Key features
- One-call fetch — Send a URL and receive clean, rendered content without managing proxies or browsers.
- Warm browser pools — Keeps browsers warm to avoid cold spin-up latency, achieving 0.41s p50 latency.
- Anti-bot bypass — Handles Cloudflare, DataDome, PerimeterX, Akamai, Kasada and CAPTCHA challenges automatically.
- Scalable concurrency — Supports up to 10,000 fetches and 5,000 browser sessions concurrently on every plan.
- Pay-only-on-success — Only billed when the request returns a successful response; blocked requests are free.
- MCP integration — Can be added to AI agents via MCP for use in Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Perplexity, etc.
Use cases
- Enrich AI agents with live web data without building a scraping stack.
- Provide sales teams with up-to-date web data for leads and deals.
- Collect data from bot-protected sites for data-as-a-service platforms.
- Build side-project tools that need occasional page fetches without proxy management.
String pricing
- Free$0≈20k fetches free · No card required · Pay only on success
- Starter$19/month≈76k fetches/month · Standard fetch $0.25/1k · Premium fetch $2.40/1k
- Growth$99/month≈619k fetches/month · Standard fetch $0.16/1k · Premium fetch $0.90/1k
- Scale$499/month≈3.8M fetches/month · Dedicated Slack support · Higher request rate
- Volume$999/month≈9.1M fetches/month · Priority Slack support · Lowest rates
String vs alternatives
 String |  Postman |  LlamaIndex |  Vonage |  Replicate | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Best for | Single-call web scraping for hard-to-reach pages | API development and testing | LLM data indexing | SMS/voice/video APIs | Running/fine-tuning AI models |
| Pricing | Freemium | Subscription | Free | Subscription | Subscription |
| DevHunt upvotes | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Launched | Nov 2026 | — | — | — | — |
- String vs Postman: Postman is an API design/testing tool, not a web-scraping service.
- String vs LlamaIndex: LlamaIndex helps build LLM apps over your own data, but does not provide live web scraping.
- String vs Vonage: Vonage offers communication APIs, unrelated to web page fetching.
- String vs Replicate: Replicate runs AI models via API, not web content extraction.
String FAQ
What does the Web Access API return?+
It returns the full page content, fully rendered and cleaned, in a single HTTP response.
Which anti-bot systems can it bypass?+
It works through Cloudflare, DataDome, PerimeterX, Akamai, Kasada and CAPTCHA challenges, escalating automatically as needed.
How fast is the service?+
Typical latency is 0.41 s at p50 and 0.9 s at p95, with warm browser pools preventing queue buildup.
What is the success rate?+
String achieved a 98.6 % success rate on the Web Data Frontier Benchmark, the highest among tested providers.
What concurrency limits apply?+
All plans allow up to 10,000 concurrent fetches and 5,000 concurrent browser sessions; request rate varies by plan.
How is pricing calculated?+
You receive a monthly credit (e.g., $19 for Starter) and each successful request draws down that balance at per-1,000-request rates; blocked requests are free.
Summarized by DevHunt from usestring.ai · Nov 2, 2026. Details may change; check the official site.
