What Anakin.io does
Anakin.io is a web scraping and data API built for AI agents and automated workflows, letting users scrape, crawl and search the web through one API. It targets developers building AI agents, RAG pipelines and data workflows, and enterprises monitoring prices, availability and assortment in sectors such as e-commerce, food delivery and retail. Features include Wire, managed APIs for sites without one, a URL scraper returning Markdown, HTML or JSON, crawl and map endpoints, a search API, agentic research with cited answers, browser sessions for authenticated scraping, website monitoring, MCP support and SDKs. Pricing is credit based: a Free plan includes 300 credits, Pro costs $19 a month, Scale $100 a month, and Enterprise is custom; credits never expire.
How Anakin.io compares with its closest alternatives
2 of the 5 closest alternatives have a free plan, as Anakin.io does. Among the 2 that list a starting price, the cheapest is AmzDL at $7.99 a month and the median is $13.50. 3 of the 5 offer an API, as Anakin.io does. Anakin.io offers a web app, a command-line tool and a browser extension. Of the 4 alternatives with platforms on record, 3 offer a web app, none offers a command-line tool and 1 offers a browser extension. Anakin.io was founded in 2021; the alternatives were founded between 2023 and 2024. Anakin.io is based in Singapore; all the 3 alternatives with a known headquarters are in Singapore too.