Expand Fetch launches a web-reading API for agents, claiming 74% accuracy on a hard benchmark

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Expand has released Expand Fetch, a web scraping and crawling API that uses its Iris vision model and X-Ray JSON model to keep tables, icons and hidden page data.

On its MDBench Hard test of 1,094 questions across 326 pages, agents using Expand answered 74% correctly, against 55% for the next best API. The product costs $1 per 1,000 fetches and stores each fetch with a Wayback Machine snapshot so answers can be traced to their source.

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The source gives the benchmark setup and per-fetch pricing, so readers can judge the claimed gain over other web-reading APIs for agents.

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Rohan Paul

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This looks like a big step for agents that read the web.

Expand, a new AI startup, released Expand Fetch, a tool that lets AI agents read web pages without losing icons, tables and hidden data along the way.
On Expand’s own private test, agents using it answered 74% of hard web questions correctly, against 55% for the next best tool.

When AI agents read a website today, the page is usually converted to plain text first, and details like a ✗ next to a feature get thrown away, so the agent confidently gives wrong answers.

Expand Fetch, uses its own vision model, Iris, to look at the page the way a person does and keep those details intact.

Every fetch is also stored as a snapshot whose Markdown lines link back to their source, letting developers trace a wrong answer to what the agent saw.

Tim Suchanek@TimSuchanek

Introducing Expand Fetch, a new way to scrape and crawl the web. Your agent has never seen the web. No wonder it gets basic questions wrong. Traditional Markdown APIs lose critical details. So we trained two System one models to change that: Iris, a vision model that sees pages like you do, preserving tables, icons, and layouts. X-Ray, a JSON model that uncovers the hidden data behind every page. Every fetch also comes with a Wayback Machine. Every line links back to its source, so you can verify exactly what your agent saw. Three products. One API. On our benchmark of 1,094 questions across 326 challenging web pages, agents using Expand got 74% right. The next best API got 55%. Available today at $1 per 1,000 fetches. Try it at http://expand.ai

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Source: Rohan Paul · x.comPublished Oct 14, 12:47 PM ET · added here 1:09 PM ET

Expand Fetch launches a web-reading API for agents, claiming 74% accuracy on a hard benchmark

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