Expand Fetch

Expand Fetch is a web data API from Expand, the trading name used on the site for ExpandAI, Inc., a Delaware corporation with an address in San Francisco. A developer sends a URL and receives Markdown produced by the company's own vision model, called Iris, which reads the rendered page rather than applying fixed cleaning rules. The company says tables and icons are kept, navigation and footers are moved to an appendix, and useful JSON embedded in the page is returned separately. Each fetch is stored as a snapshot with lines linked back to their position on the page, and a Highlights option returns only passages that answer a stated question. The product also offers Crawl for whole sites and WebSync to follow changes, and PDFs are converted at a per-page credit. The pricing section states a free tier of 10,000 credits worth $10, and that one credit equals one successful fetch, or $1 per 1,000. The maker reports its own benchmark results, including 74 percent of questions answered from its Markdown against 55 percent for the next best API; these were not independently checked. The launch post says the founder previously worked at Prisma and founded Stellate. A buyer should ask for the benchmark method and test pages, how failed or blocked fetches are billed, data retention for stored snapshots, and rate limits.

Not yet independently verified: The launch date rests on the company's own Y Combinator launch post of 12 October 2026. The benchmark figures and the founder background come from the maker's launch post only. Other products called Expand exist; this listing is the web data API at expand.ai. No independent report was found. We will update this when it can be confirmed, and remove this note.