Anakin Inc
Anakin builds web-data infrastructure and APIs that let AI agents, developers, and data teams search, interact with, scrape, crawl, and extract clean structured data from difficult websites. Its enterprise offering delivers competitive-intelligence datasets and managed pipelines for pricing, assortment, availability, and demand planning.
At a Glance
- E-commerce brands and retailers
- Online marketplaces
- Ride-hailing companies
- Food and grocery delivery companies
- +4 more
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Web Data API for AI Agents
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Published a benchmark of six web-scraping APIs across 24 URLs, including Cloudflare, Akamai, JavaScript-heavy, and e-commerce sites.
Released MCP support for the full Anakin surface, exposing 21 tools to Claude, Cursor, and other clients.
Launched AI Visibility for comparing real answers from multiple AI engines.
Added webhooks for notifications from every asynchronous product.
Products & Services
Asynchronous API that returns clean Markdown, JSON, or raw HTML from a URL, with JavaScript rendering, anti-bot bypass, rotating proxies, and optional custom JSON schemas.
Discovers URLs and subdomains on a website, with link filtering and structured results.
Crawls entire websites at scale, with depth and page-limit controls, and extracts content for downstream AI or data workflows.
Web search with full content extraction for agent and data workflows.
Market Position
Anakin positions itself as a single API and agent-ready web-data layer combining scraping, search, crawling, browser sessions, AI research, monitoring, and site-specific Wire endpoints. Its differentiation is enterprise-grade anti-bot coverage and maintained typed endpoints for sites without APIs; relevant alternatives include Firecrawl, ScraperAPI, ScrapingBee, ZenRows, Oxylabs, and Tavily Extract. Anakin's own 2026 benchmark reported particularly strong results on Cloudflare-protected and e-commerce pages.
Leadership
Founders
Mohit Prateek
Co-founder and CEO. Before Anakin, he worked at the intersection of artificial intelligence and e-commerce, including at Flipkart and Truefit.
Rashmi Bala
Co-founder and CTO. She has worked across multiple e-commerce companies building software, graduated from IIT Kanpur with a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, and leads engineering and data science at Anakin.
Executive Team
Mohit Prateek
Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer
E-commerce and AI entrepreneur; previously worked at companies including Flipkart and Truefit.
Rashmi Bala
Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer
Previously built software across multiple e-commerce companies; IIT Kanpur Electrical Engineering graduate; leads engineering and data science.
Founding Story
Anakin began as a Y Combinator Summer 2021 company to give enterprises competitive intelligence despite the difficulty of collecting data from anti-bot-protected e-commerce, ride-hailing, and quick-commerce sites. The founders initially focused on automated competitor pricing and product intelligence, then packaged the infrastructure as Anakin.io, an API layer for AI agents and automation.
Business Model
Revenue Model
Usage-based API credits for self-serve scraping, search, crawling, browser, monitoring, AI Visibility, and Wire calls, plus custom enterprise contracts for managed datasets, pipelines, QA, support, and SLAs.
Pricing Tiers
300 credits, no card required.
5,000 credits; top-ups from $10; $4.75 per 1,000 top-up credits.
100,000 credits; top-ups from $10; $1.25 per 1,000 top-up credits.
700,000 credits; top-ups from $10; $0.89 per 1,000 top-up credits.
Custom credits, dedicated support, security controls, and SLA.
Target Markets
- E-commerce brands and retailers
- Online marketplaces
- Ride-hailing companies
- Food and grocery delivery companies
- Insurance companies
- Enterprise data and competitive-intelligence teams
- Competitive pricing and product intelligence
- E-commerce assortment, SKU-gap, inventory, and availability monitoring
- Ride-hailing fare and ETA benchmarking
- Food and grocery delivery menu, fee, price, ETA, and stock tracking
- Insurance quote and premium benchmarking
- GTM lead and account enrichment
- 50+ billion-dollar companies across 100+ countries
- Six multi-billion-dollar e-commerce companies