Monid Inc.
Monid is an agent-tool marketplace and unified gateway that lets AI agents discover, inspect, run, and pay for external data endpoints and APIs at runtime. It aims to replace separate provider sign-ups, API keys, contracts, and subscriptions with one connection and pay-per-call access.
At a Glance
- AI-agent developers
- Developers and startups building agent products
- Research and data-enrichment teams
- Sales and marketing teams
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AI Tools by Monid Inc.
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AI Agent Tool Registry
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Latest News
Monid launched on Product Hunt; ranked #1 of the day and #2 of the week.
Monid raised $2.1M in pre-seed funding from 1984 Ventures, Llama Ventures, Untapped Capital, and Founders, Inc.; the company reported more than 4M agent transactions.
Monid co-authors published SilentProbe, research measuring silent failure in production APIs used as agent tools.
Monid 2.0 launched on Product Hunt.
Products & Services
A unified registry and billing layer for 1,800+ external APIs and tools. Agents discover tools using natural language, inspect schemas and prices, then run them using one balance without separate provider sign-ups.
The second major Product Hunt launch of Monid's OpenRouter-for-agent-tools product.
An installable skill for AI agents that enables proactive discovery and execution of Monid's tools.
A remote Model Context Protocol connection for clients such as Claude, Codex, and OpenCode.
Market Position
Monid positions itself as the OpenRouter for agent tools: a single discovery, execution, and payment layer for many APIs, rather than a fixed integration platform or a single-provider API marketplace. Reported adjacent competitors include Pipedream, Composio, Arcade, Klavis AI, and RapidAPI. Its differentiation is runtime selection by fit and price plus one wallet and pay-per-call billing; competitors may have larger catalogs or stronger managed authentication and enterprise controls.
Leadership
Founders
Shengkun Ye
Co-founder of Monid; previously worked at Founders, Inc., TabaPay, and WeChat.
Feiyou Guo
Co-founder of Monid; previously a software engineer at Amazon, founder of Veristic AI, and Founder in Residence at Founders, Inc.
Executive Team
Shengkun Ye
Co-founder
Previously worked at Founders, Inc., TabaPay, and WeChat.
Feiyou Guo
Co-founder
Previously software engineer at Amazon, founder of Veristic AI, and Founder in Residence at Founders, Inc.
Founding Story
Monid was started around the idea that AI agents should be able to obtain the tools they need during task execution rather than relying on developers to preselect integrations and manage many provider accounts. The founders framed it as an OpenRouter for agent tools: agents discover a suitable tool, inspect its schema and price, run it, and pay from one wallet.
Business Model
Revenue Model
Usage-based marketplace and gateway fees: customers prepay a wallet or use x402 USDC payments, and Monid charges per endpoint call or per result. It also supports volume-based discounts for high-traffic integrations.
Pricing Tiers
Flat fee per execution, with prices shown in discover, inspect, and run responses.
Optional base fee plus a fee for each returned item.
Target Markets
- AI-agent developers
- Developers and startups building agent products
- Research and data-enrichment teams
- Sales and marketing teams
- SEO and growth teams
- Creative-production workflows
- AI-agent web search and page fetching
- Sales leads, contact discovery, and enrichment
- SEO and GEO visibility research
- Social-platform data and scraping
- E-commerce and product/review research
- Private-company and financial-market data research