String Launches AI Web Access API and Benchmark
Efficient_Fault1349 · reddit · 2026-07-17
String has launched a Web Access API / MCP designed for AI agents, focusing on enabling safe web scraping, searching, browsing, mapping, and crawling with a success-based pricing model.
They also open-sourced the Web Data Frontier Benchmark, claiming greater stability on difficult sites compared to other scraping services:
- Over the past two years, they primarily served the data scraping needs of massive hedge funds.
- They noted that on the hardest targets, many industry scraping APIs struggle to exceed an 85% success rate, averaging around 60%.
- Their published benchmark score is 96%, with a commitment to maintain and update it monthly.
The key takeaway isn't just "another scraping tool," but rather: as AI agent web traffic surges, bot walls, CAPTCHAs, rate limits, and silent bans will turn data reliability into a core infrastructure issue.
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