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No API? No problem: give your AI agent any website in minutes

Updated Oct 26, 2026 · By Mishal Brands Editorial

Checked Oct 26, 2026. Prices and features below were checked on the vendor sites on that date. Speed, cost and reliability figures are Pomerado's own claims, not our test results.

The short answer

Pomerado is a Y Combinator (Fall 2026) startup that says it turns any website into a hosted API or MCP server, so an AI agent like Claude Code, Codex or Cursor can use sites that have no API. Instead of a browser agent clicking through every page, Pomerado builds a deterministic tool once and reuses it. It has a free plan (100 tool calls/day), a $50/month Premium plan, and an MIT-licensed open-source version. Pomerado claims it is 2–4x faster, 10–1,000x cheaper and about 30% more reliable than browser-use agents. Those are vendor numbers we haven't tested.

What it is

Pomerado launched on Launch YC on Oct 25, 2026, from founders Alan Ma and Akshay Manglik (ex-McKinsey and ex-Scale AI, per the launch post). The pitch: many sites agents need (legacy insurance, vendor, logistics and payer portals, EMRs, government sites, consumer sites) only work in a browser, and computer-use agents can be "brittle, slow, and difficult to scale."

What Pomerado says it does:

Builds integrations from a prompt. Describe a task and a site; Pomerado explores the site, completes your example, then generalizes it into a reusable tool. The launch post says new APIs arrive "in under 30 minutes."
Hosts them. Hosting, scaling and access control are handled for you.
Handles sign-in. Saved logins and automatic 2FA are optional; the FAQ says you can also pass logins with each request instead of storing them.
Self-heals. Pomerado says it detects site changes and automatically repairs broken integrations.
Open source. The core is on GitHub under the MIT license (Pomerado/pomerado, TypeScript).

Vendor claims to read carefully: - "2–4x faster, 10–1000x cheaper, +30% more reliable than browser use" (YC launch post). - On its site, Pomerado says it was 2x faster, 10–1,000x cheaper and 30% more accurate than Astra Computer Use, Instinct and Muse on a benchmark of 30 tasks across 25 business apps (one try each), and that one employee-onboarding demo took 8 min 16 s for 3 cents vs. 21 min 22 s and $41.01 with Codex Computer Use. - The homepage also says "customers have seen 7x speedups."

Limits worth knowing: the docs say ticket, bank, government and link-shortener sites are refused for new builds (site_not_supported), even though the homepage lists bank portals and government filings among example integrations. Check before you plan around those sites.

How to use it, step by step

Option A: try it free with no account (hosted) 1. Add the keyless MCP server to your agent. For Claude Code: bash claude mcp add --transport http pomerado https://mcp.pomerado.ai/mcp/keyless For Codex: codex mcp add pomerado --url https://mcp.pomerado.ai/mcp/keyless 2. Ask for something a public, read-only tool can look up. The docs' example: "Find nonstop flights from SFO to JFK next Friday on Google Flights." 3. Your agent calls find_website_tool, runs the tool, and follows the result with get_job. Keyless runs have a daily limit.

Option B: build your own tool (free account) 4. Ask your agent to sign in. Its sign_in tool gives you a link and a short code to approve; the agent then reconnects at https://mcp.pomerado.ai/mcp with an API key. 5. Ask for an integration, e.g. "Build a tool that searches Instacart for a product near a ZIP code." The agent calls build_website_tool with a task, site URL, an effect (read, write, or ask) and an example input. 6. When the build finishes, run the new tool like any other. Use read for lookups. A write build makes the change once with your example input, so don't repeat it. 7. If a site needs your login, Pomerado asks for it on a protected page. Its docs say never to paste a password into chat.

Option C: run the open-source version locally 8. You need macOS or Linux, Node 24.21+ (Node 24), an OpenAI API key (Pomerado uses OpenAI models to build and review integrations; your agent can run on any model) and an MCP client. 9. Install: npx -y -p pomerado pomerado-mcp --help then npx -y -p pomerado playwright install chromium. 10. Add it as a stdio MCP server with a --root folder for your integrations (see the README).

Alternatives and how they compare

Tool	Approach	Best for
Pomerado	Builds deterministic, hosted API/MCP tools per site	Agents that need repeatable actions on sites with no API, including behind logins
Browser Use	Cloud browsers + AI browser agents that reason through pages	One-off or unpredictable web tasks
Browse AI	No-code "robots" that extract and monitor website data	Non-developers who need scraping/monitoring into sheets or APIs
Firecrawl	API that turns web pages into clean, LLM-ready data (scrape, crawl, search)	Feeding web content to LLMs and RAG
Apify	Marketplace of ready-made scrapers ("Actors") plus a platform to build your own	Large-scale scraping and existing scrapers for popular sites

How to choose: - Need your agent to take actions on the same site over and over (check claims, list invoices, book)? Pomerado's approach is built for that. - Need data out of pages? Firecrawl, Apify or Browse AI are more established for extraction. - Task changes every time? A browser agent like Browser Use may fit better than building a tool.

More on scraping tools: AI tools to pull data from websites, Browse AI review, Apify review.

Pricing (checked Oct 26, 2026 on pomerado.ai)

Plan	Price	Includes
Free	$0/month	100 tool calls/day, 10 new integrations/month, automatic sign-in incl. 2FA, 1 account per website
Premium	$50/month (monthly or yearly billing offered)	1,000 tool calls/day, 100 new integrations/month, automatic sign-in incl. 2FA, 1 account per website
Business	Contact sales	100,000+ tool calls/day, 1,000+ integrations/month, unlimited accounts per site, custom 2FA and proxying, MCP code ownership, private team integrations, roles, audit logs, SLAs, 24/7 support

The open-source version is free (MIT) but uses your own OpenAI API key, so you pay OpenAI for model use.

FAQ

What does Pomerado do? It turns a website into an API or MCP server that an AI agent can call, including sites with no public API. It builds the integration from a plain-language prompt, then hosts and maintains it.

Is Pomerado free? There's a free plan with 100 tool calls per day and 10 new integrations per month, plus a keyless trial for public read-only tools. Premium is $50/month. The open-source version is MIT-licensed but needs your own OpenAI API key.

How is Pomerado different from a browser agent? A browser agent reasons through each page every time. Pomerado says it builds a deterministic tool once and reuses it, which it claims is faster, cheaper and more reliable. We haven't independently tested those claims.

Does it work with Claude Code, Codex and Cursor? Yes, per its docs. You add it as an MCP server; the docs cover Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, VS Code and Claude Desktop.

Can it log in to sites for me? Yes. Pomerado says integrations can sign in, including 2FA. You can store logins with Pomerado or pass them with each request.

Are there sites it won't work on? Its docs say ticket, bank, government and link-shortener sites are refused for new builds.

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Sources (checked Oct 26, 2026)

Launch YC, "Pomerado – The faster, cheaper, and more reliable alternative to browser use" (Oct 25, 2026): https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/WSd-pomerado-the-faster-cheaper-and-more-reliable-alternative-to-browser-use
Pomerado homepage and pricing: https://pomerado.ai
Pomerado docs ("Try without a key", "Build a tool"): https://docs.pomerado.ai
GitHub, Pomerado/pomerado (MIT): https://github.com/Pomerado/pomerado
Browser Use pricing: https://browser-use.com/pricing · Browse AI pricing: https://www.browse.ai/pricing · Firecrawl pricing: https://www.firecrawl.dev/pricing · Apify pricing: https://apify.com/pricing

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