Alternatives · web data APIs for agents
A Mindcase alternative an agent can buy itself.
Both sell structured web data per record to AI agents. The differences are in how you start and what your agent can do alone: the smallest purchase, whether an agent needs a person to make an account first, and whether it gets an exact price before it spends.
- Profiles from
- $0.004
- To start
- $5
- Free trial
- $0.10
- Facts checked
- October 2026
Updated 22 October 2026
API for Agents and Mindcase, side by side
Their side is from their own pages, linked below, as seen on 16 October 2026. Prices change: check the source before you decide.
| API for Agents | Mindcase | |
|---|---|---|
| Billing | Per record, pay as you go | Prepaid credit packs, per record |
| To start paying | $5 top-up, no plan | Smallest pack ₹3,999 (about $45) |
| Unused money | Kept, no expiry | Credits never expire |
| Agent signs itself up | Yes: one POST, a person claims it later | No: its agent guide asks the user for a key |
| Price before the call | Exact quote, free (estimateOnly) | The agent estimates rows × price |
| Your own LinkedIn account | Not needed | Not needed |
| MCP server | Not yet: REST, OpenAPI and llms.txt | Yes |
When Mindcase is the better pick
- You need a source we do not sell: compare its platform list with our 26 before you pick.
- You want an MCP server to plug into Claude Desktop now.
- You will buy a large pack anyway and want its volume bonus.
When API for Agents is the better pick
- You want to start with $5, not a pack.
- Your agent should register itself in one call and run on a free trial before anyone signs up.
- You want the exact charge before every call, and a hard per-call ceiling with maxUsd.
- You re-read the same records: your own answer from the same day is free.
What you get with API for Agents, whichever you pick
- One key for 26 platforms: social, commerce, jobs, places, search and contacts, with one request shape and one response shape.
- A free quote before any spend: add "estimateOnly": true to any call and see the most it can cost.
- Pay per record in US dollars. No subscription, nothing expires, top-ups from $5.
- $0.10 free to try, no card. An AI agent can sign itself up in one request; a person claims it later.
- Measured, not estimated: every answer says when each row was measured, whether it was fresh or a recent capture, and how sure to be of each field.
- Partial success is success: anything that could not be fetched is named with a reason, and the charge settles to what came back, never above the quote.
- Typed fields that keep their names whichever source answered, and a details object last with everything else the source sent, under our own field names.
- Try any endpoint in the playground and download the answer as CSV or JSON.
Try it before you move anything
curl -s -X POST https://apiforagents.dev/agent/identity -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"type":"anonymous"}'
# exchange identity_assertion at /oauth2/token, then:
curl -s -X POST https://apiforagents.dev/v1/linkedin -H "Authorization: Bearer $AFA_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"op":"profiles","subjects":["satyanadella"],"estimateOnly":true}'Questions people ask.
Is API for Agents cheaper than Mindcase?
Not per record: LinkedIn prices are in the same range. The difference is the entry point ($5 versus a pack), agent self-signup, the exact quote and free same-day repeats.
Can my agent switch without code changes?
No. Both are JSON over HTTPS, but the field names differ. Our operation pages show the exact request for each LinkedIn operation.
Sources (3)
- Mindcase API catalogue, seen 16 October 2026
- Mindcase pricing, seen 16 October 2026
- Mindcase agent guide (skills.md), seen 16 October 2026
Try it in a minute. $0.10 free.
The playground runs any endpoint by hand: pick a platform and what you want from it, fill a short form named in plain words (or press Use sample input), see the free quote on the Run button, run it, then read the answer as a table or JSON and download it as CSV or JSON. The same call is written out as cURL, Python and Node while you type.
Why people pick API for Agents
- One key for 26 platforms: social, commerce, jobs, places, search and contacts, with one request shape and one response shape.
- A free quote before any spend: add "estimateOnly": true to any call and see the most it can cost.
- Pay per record in US dollars. No subscription, nothing expires, top-ups from $5.
- $0.10 free to try, no card. An AI agent can sign itself up in one request; a person claims it later.
- Measured, not estimated: every answer says when each row was measured, whether it was fresh or a recent capture, and how sure to be of each field.
- Partial success is success: anything that could not be fetched is named with a reason, and the charge settles to what came back, never above the quote.
- Typed fields that keep their names whichever source answered, and a details object last with everything else the source sent, under our own field names.
- Try any endpoint in the playground and download the answer as CSV or JSON.
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