Webclaw is a web scraper API that turns any web page into clean Markdown or structured JSON for AI agents. It offers a REST API, a CLI, and an MCP server for Claude, Cursor, Codex, and Windsurf, plus a hosted MCP server that needs nothing installed. Output comes in six formats: Markdown, JSON, HTML, plain text, raw HTML, and an LLM-optimized format that strips noise to cut token use. Every page costs one credit, including JavaScript rendering, blocked pages, and AI extraction into your own schema, and a Firecrawl /v2 compatibility layer lets existing code switch without a rewrite.
The core is open source under AGPL-3.0 and free to self-host with no limits, so this deal buys the managed cloud API, not the only way to use Webclaw. The vendor sells subscriptions separately: Starter at $19 a month (5,000 credits a month, 3 research runs a month) with yearly billing giving 2 months free, up to Scale at $399 a month. No vendor plan matches the AppSumo tiers exactly, so no yearly equivalent is listed: Tier 1 has 8 research runs a month against Starter's 3, plus 25,000 one-time credits. The founder has also said the max-sources limit will become 100 on every tier; the deal page still lists 10, 20, 30, and 100.
The deal has four lifetime tiers from $59 to $399 that differ in monthly credits, one-time credits, research runs, max sources, and concurrency. Of 9 AppSumo reviews, 8 are 5 stars and 1 is 4 stars, averaging 4.89.
