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switch402
Web data API for AI agents
switch402 turns any URL into clean markdown with one POST, plus screenshots, web search and PDF to text. Pay per call in USDC on Base: no signup, subscription or API key. $0.008/page (lite $0.003); failed calls are free. Credits optional.
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“Web data API for AI agents”
switch402 was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 2 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #139 on the daily leaderboard. switch402 turns any URL into clean markdown with one POST, plus screenshots, web search and PDF to text. Pay per call in USDC on Base: no signup, subscription or API key. $0.008/page (lite $0.003); failed calls are free. Credits optional.
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Hi PH, I'm Tim, and we built switch402.
I kept paying for monthly scraping credits I didn't use.
Some months an agent needed 40 pages, some months 4,000. So switch402 works the other way round: one endpoint (POST /v1/scrape with {"url": ...}) returns clean markdown, and you pay per successful page: $0.008, or $0.003 on the lite route.
If a page fails, you aren't charged. There's no signup and no API key. Payment is a USDC micropayment on Base over the open x402 protocol (HTTP 402), so an AI agent with a wallet can call it directly. Behind the endpoint we route each request to a healthy provider and fail over automatically.
Honest limits: if you scrape tens of thousands of pages a month at a steady volume, a traditional monthly scraping plan can work out cheaper. Our calculator shows where the break-even sits against a Firecrawl plan: https://switch402.com/calculators/firecrawl-pay-per-call-alternative?utm_source=producthunt&utm_medium=launch&utm_campaign=ph_20261103
It's new, so treat capacity as beta. You can check a price first with the free /v1/quote endpoint without paying anything. The same pay-per-call setup now covers more than scraping: screenshots ($0.008 for the viewport, $0.012 for the full page), web search with up to 10 ranked results ($0.008), and PDF to text for public PDFs up to 50 pages ($0.008).
Same rule: you're only charged when a result comes back.
switch402 is also now listed in the Hermes Agent plugin catalog: https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/blob/main/plugin-catalog/switch402.yaml
I'd really like feedback on the API shape, output quality on your hardest pages, and what you'd want next (batch? more tools?). If you'd rather hold a balance than pay per call, there are optional prepaid credit packs ($5, $20 or $50) and a $10 monthly lite plan, and balances don't expire. You don't need either to use it.