String
Web scraping API that accesses any page, even the hardest ones.
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Justin Lee· 21h agoTried string for a week now and its so much cheapest and faster than the other web scraping api!
Luke Alexander· 1d agoWe spent a bunch of time and energy building our own web search, crawl and read solutions before we realised String had already solved all the problems we were about to face. Have had nothing but success with them for ourselves and for our alpha users since.
Bruce Magness· 1d agoThanks Luke!! Happy to have you on the platform :)
Unlike 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?
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- 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 | 34 | 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.
