Context.dev: Web Scraping and Brand Data API for AI Agents
Context.dev is a web data API for AI agents. One API key lets an agent scrape any page into clean markdown, HTML, screenshots or structured JSON, crawl and map whole websites, search the web and the news, run batches of up to 100,000 URLs, and watch pages for changes. It also does something most rivals don’t: it returns a company’s brand, including its logo, colors, fonts and profile, from just a domain or work email. That’s because Context.dev started life as Brand.dev, a brand data API, before renaming itself in March 2026 as it expanded into general web data. It went through Y Combinator’s Summer 2026 batch and announced a $9 million raise led by General Catalyst in October.
The quick answer: Context.dev is a young, fast-moving alternative to Firecrawl for scraping and crawling, with a distinctive extra in brand and company data. It’s built to be easy for coding agents to set up themselves, and teams at companies like Upstash and Ferndesk use it. It suits teams that need both web content and company enrichment from one provider. Everything below comes from Context.dev’s site, pricing, developer summary, changelog, Y Combinator profile and press coverage.
Context.dev at a glance
Checked against Context.dev’s site, pricing, developer summary, changelog and Y Combinator profile on November 13, 2026.
| Context.dev | |
|---|---|
| What it is | Scraping, crawling, search, monitoring and brand data APIs for AI agents |
| Formerly | Brand.dev, renamed in March 2026 |
| Output | Markdown, HTML, screenshots, images, typed JSON |
| Extras | Brand profiles, design styleguides, people enrichment, company search, news |
| Access | REST API; SDKs for TypeScript, Python, Ruby, Go and PHP; hosted MCP server |
| Pricing | Free 1,000 credits a month; paid plans from $20 a month |
| Company | San Francisco; founded by Yahia Bakour; Y Combinator S26 |
What Context.dev does
Context.dev’s developer summary calls it “a web scraping API for AI agents,” and its homepage pitches “Search & scrape infrastructure for AI products and agents.” The core endpoints:
| Endpoint | What it does |
|---|---|
| Scrape | Turns any URL or PDF into markdown, HTML, screenshots, images or typed JSON, with JavaScript rendering and proxies included |
| Map | Lists every URL on a site, with titles and descriptions |
| Crawl | Returns markdown for every page of a site, up to 500 pages per call |
| Batch | Scrapes up to 100,000 URLs in the background from a list, a starting page or a sitemap |
| Search and Answers | Web search results with optional page content, and researched answers with sources |
| Monitors | Checks pages, sitemaps or extracted values on a schedule and sends changes by webhook |
Context.dev also has ready-made parsers for sites agents often need, like Yelp listings and reviews and Reddit threads, and lets teams set allowlists or blocklists of domains that their API keys can reach.
The brand data heritage
Context.dev’s brand tools set it apart. From a domain, email, company name, stock ticker or even a credit card transaction descriptor, its Brand API returns a company’s logo, colors, fonts and profile. A styleguide endpoint pulls a website’s typography, colors, spacing and component styles. Other endpoints enrich people from an email or social profile, search companies with filters like headcount and funding, and search company news.
Customers use this for things like personalized onboarding. One quoted on the homepage, describing its use at DocsBot, said it brought “much higher activation rates for our free trials and sign-ups.” Others use it to generate on-brand sales decks, enrich CRM records or clean up transaction data in financial apps.
Built for agents to set up themselves
Context.dev puts a lot of effort into being easy for AI coding agents to adopt. Its developer summary includes instructions written for agents, there’s an agent registration flow so an autonomous agent can sign up and get credentials on its own, and a hosted MCP server connects it to Claude, Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and others. Agents can even report bugs through a free feedback endpoint.
The homepage testimonials lean on this. An engineer at Upstash wrote that switching “took probably less than 5min with Codex,” and a former engineering manager at Mintlify said “Claude handled all the setup for me.” These are quotes the company chose to feature.
Pricing
Context.dev prices in credits shared across every API. A standard scrape costs 1 credit, with rendering and proxies included; structured JSON extraction costs 5 credits per page in total; a brand lookup costs 10 credits; and failed or skipped monitor runs are free.
| Plan | Monthly price | Credits per month | Overage per 1,000 credits |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | 1,000 | None |
| Developer | $20 | 10,000 | $3.00 |
| Pro | $90 | 100,000 | $2.00 |
| Growth | $300 | 500,000 | $1.50 |
| Scale | $500 | 1,000,000 | $1.00 |
| Enterprise | Custom | Custom | Custom |
Annual billing includes two months free, and eligible startups and nonprofits get 30% off an annual plan for a year. Enterprise adds single sign-on, a 99.9% uptime SLA and custom contracts. Zero data retention is available for its people and company search.
Benchmarks
Context.dev runs TRACE, a daily, open-source benchmark that compares its scraping against Keenable, Firecrawl and Exa on about 2,500 fresh pages. It also publishes results from Openbenchmarks comparisons of search and company-news APIs. As with every vendor in this space, treat its own benchmark as a starting point and test on your own pages.
The company
Context.dev is based in San Francisco and was founded by Yahia Bakour, its CEO and only listed founder on its Y Combinator profile, which lists the company’s founding year as 2025. It began as Brand.dev and renamed itself Context.dev in March 2026 as it moved beyond logos and company data into general web extraction; the Brand.dev name and packages are now deprecated. According to RuntimeWire, Bakour announced on X on October 19, 2026 that the company had raised $9 million led by General Catalyst, with Robinhood Ventures and Orange Collective participating, and said more than 800 customers used the product. The announcement didn’t say whether the $9 million was a single round.
How Context.dev compares
Context.dev competes most directly with Firecrawl, which also turns websites into clean data, crawls, monitors and interacts with pages, and is open source with a much larger community. It also overlaps with search-first APIs like Exa, Tavily, Parallel and the Brave Search API, all of which now extract page content. Context.dev’s distinguishing traits are its brand, styleguide, people and company data alongside scraping, its large batch jobs, and its focus on agent-led setup. Firecrawl has the bigger ecosystem and a self-hosted option; Exa and Parallel have their own large search indexes.
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Who Context.dev suits
Context.dev is a good fit if:
- You need scraping and crawling plus company logos, colors and profiles from one API.
- You personalize onboarding or enrich CRM records with company data.
- You want coding agents like Claude Code or Codex to set it up for you.
- You need large batch jobs of thousands of URLs.
Look elsewhere if:
- You want an open-source tool you can self-host.
- You need a provider with a long track record; Context.dev’s current form dates to 2026.
- You want a finished assistant rather than an API.
FAQ
What is Context.dev?
Context.dev is a web data API for AI agents. It scrapes pages into markdown or JSON, crawls and maps sites, searches the web, monitors pages for changes and returns company brand data like logos, colors and fonts.
Is Context.dev the same as Brand.dev?
Yes. Brand.dev renamed itself Context.dev in March 2026 as it expanded from brand data into general web data. The Brand.dev name and packages are deprecated.
Is Context.dev free?
Context.dev’s free plan includes 1,000 credits a month with no credit card. Paid plans start at $20 a month for 10,000 credits.
Does Context.dev have an MCP server?
Yes. Context.dev runs a hosted MCP server that connects to Claude, Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and other MCP clients.
Who founded Context.dev?
Yahia Bakour founded Context.dev, which went through Y Combinator’s Summer 2026 batch and announced a $9 million raise led by General Catalyst in October 2026.
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