Last updated: 2026-07-01
TinyFish is enterprise infrastructure that lets organizations run autonomous AI agents across external websites: logging in, filling forms, and extracting structured data without managing browsers or proxies. It scores 82 percent on the Mind2Web benchmark, well ahead of OpenAI's Operator, and already powers production traffic for Google Hotels and DoorDash.
About TinyFish
TinyFish is enterprise web agent infrastructure that launched from stealth in August 2025 with $47 million in Series A funding. It was founded in 2023 by Sudheesh Nair (former Nutanix President), Shuhao Zhang (ex-Meta engineering leader), and Keith Zhai (ex-Wall Street Journal), and enables organizations to automate complex web interactions at scale without managing browsers, proxies, or infrastructure themselves. The platform runs as a serverless API: it accepts a natural-language goal and a target URL, then dispatches an AI agent to navigate the site, handle logins and multi-step forms, extract structured data, and complete the transaction while streaming progress in real time. Traditional web scraping tools need CSS selectors, XPath, or custom configuration; TinyFish agents work from a plain-English task description instead, connecting to Claude Desktop through the Model Context Protocol and exposing a REST API, Python and JavaScript SDKs, and an AgentQL query language for developers who want more control. On the Mind2Web benchmark, TinyFish scores 82 percent versus 43 percent for OpenAI's Operator, a 39-point lead the company points to as evidence of production readiness rather than a research demo. TinyFish already runs in production at large enterprises: Google uses it to aggregate hotel inventory across Japan for Google Hotels search, DoorDash relies on it to manage web-interaction complexity, and ClassPass, Amazon, Amplemarket, NextEra, Jobright, and Healdev deploy it across healthcare prior-authorization tracking, insurance regulatory-filing monitoring, financial services, retail price monitoring, and supply-chain shipment tracking.
Pricing
Free: 500 steps, no credit card required. Pay-as-you-go: $0.015/step, 2 concurrent agents. Starter: $15/month (1,650 steps, 10 concurrent agents, $0.014 overage/step). Pro: $150/month (16,500 steps, 50 concurrent agents, $0.012 overage/step). Enterprise: Custom pricing with custom volume, concurrency, and SLA. All-inclusive: no separate charges for browsers, proxies, or LLM inference.
Feature Comparison by Tier
| Feature | Pro | Free | Starter | Enterprise | Pay-as-you-go |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Web search | Unlimited | 100 req/mo | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Page fetch (Markdown) | Unlimited | 100 req/mo | Unlimited | Unlimited | Per-use |
| AI browser agents | 1,000 runs/mo | 5 runs/mo | 100 runs/mo | Custom | Per-run |
| Stealth sessions | ✓ | — | — | ✓ | — |
| MCP server | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Key Features
- Parallel Web Automation: Run up to 1,000 simultaneous operations across multiple websites in a single deployment, enabling massive-scale web data operations without managing infrastructure.
- Natural Language Control: Describe web tasks in plain English—no CSS selectors, XPath, or code required. Agents interpret goals and execute workflows autonomously.
- Authentication and Dynamic Sites: Navigate password-protected sites, handle multi-factor authentication, interact with form-based systems, and extract data from JavaScript-rendered content at production speed.
- Claude MCP Integration: Connect TinyFish directly to Claude Desktop via Model Context Protocol, enabling AI assistants to run web automation with real-time progress streaming.
- AgentQL Query Language: Extract structured data and automate workflows using AgentQL, a specialized query language with Python and JavaScript SDKs, REST API, and browser debugger.
- All-Inclusive Pricing: No hidden charges for browsers, proxies, residential IP routing, or LLM inference. Step-based billing with transparent overage costs declining by tier.
Pros
- Benchmark performance beats OpenAI's Operator by a wide margin on the Mind2Web test, evidence of real capability on hard, real-world web tasks rather than a curated demo.
- Already running in production at recognizable big-name customers like Google Hotels and DoorDash, proof this has moved past pilot stage into everyday reliability.
- A free tier with no credit card required lowers the barrier for testing before committing budget.
- Plain-English task descriptions mean non-technical teams can automate a workflow without learning CSS selectors or XPath, unlike most scraping tools.
- All-inclusive pricing bundles browsers, proxies, and AI inference into one line item, simplifying budgeting against tools that meter each separately.
Cons
- CAPTCHA handling still limited; automated solving is not supported, blocking workflows on sites heavy in image-based or hCaptcha verification.
- Enterprise-only positioning with $47M in funding and a large-enterprise customer base means pricing and support are built around big companies, not individuals or small teams.
- API and MCP documentation is thinner than mature web-scraping tools, with fewer public recipes and integration examples published so far.
- The serverless architecture creates vendor lock-in: migrating a large workflow to a competitor or a self-hosted alternative would take real engineering effort.
- Step-based billing can be hard to predict since complex, multi-step sequences may cost more than a simple task estimate suggests.
- Success-rate, latency, and uptime SLAs are not published; enterprise buyers must request the details directly.
Product Information
- Cloud
- Yes
- Self-Hosted
- No
- On-Premise
- No
- Languages
- English
- Training
- Documentation (docs.tinyfish.ai), CLI reference, MCP integration guide
Frequently Asked Questions
How much does TinyFish cost in 2026?
TinyFish charges by step: pay-as-you-go runs $0.015 per step with 2 concurrent agents, Starter is $15 a month for 1,650 steps and 10 concurrent agents ($0.014 overage), and Pro is $150 a month for 16,500 steps and 50 concurrent agents ($0.012 overage). Enterprise pricing is custom, and every plan bundles browser, proxy, and AI-inference costs into the same per-step rate.
Is TinyFish free to use?
Yes: the free tier includes 500 steps a month with no credit card required, covering the same authentication, extraction, and MCP access as paid plans. Once a workflow exceeds 500 steps, TinyFish switches to pay-as-you-go billing or a paid tier automatically.
What are the best alternatives to TinyFish?
Airtop is a simpler pick for no-code, single-site browser automation, and Hexomatic or Axiom AI cost less if you only need to automate one site at a time. TinyFish is built for enterprise-scale parallel automation across hundreds of sites with native Claude integration, so it fits teams that have outgrown single-site tools.
How does TinyFish compare to Airtop in 2026?
Airtop is the simpler, no-code option and works well for individual sites, but it does not offer TinyFish's parallel execution across many sites at once or the all-inclusive step-based pricing that folds browser and proxy costs into one rate. TinyFish is the stronger choice once a team needs enterprise-scale automation rather than a single workflow.
How do you get started with TinyFish?
Sign up for the free tier (no credit card needed) and either call the REST API directly or connect through the Python or JavaScript SDK. TinyFish also ships an MCP server, so Claude Desktop users can connect and start running agents in a chat interface within minutes.
Top Alternatives
- Exa: Pick Exa for clean AI-native web search results; pick TinyFish when the workflow needs a full agent that can log in, fill out forms, and return structured data from behind an auth wall.
- LangChain: Choose LangChain to hand-build a custom agent pipeline with any tool; choose TinyFish for a managed browser-agent runtime with built-in stealth and anti-bot handling out of the box.
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