Retriever AI
TL;DR
AI web agent that scrapes, enriches, and automates browser workflows from plain-English prompts — running in your real browser or the cloud.
Key Facts
Free version: Free tier with 250 starter credits (no credit card required), and the Chrome extension is effectively free if you bring your own LLM API key (BYOK).
Pricing
Starting at $49 one-time (AppSumo lifetime deal)
License Tier 1
- 1,000 one-time activation credits
- 250 credits per month
- 1 website
License Tier 2
- 2,000 one-time activation credits
- 500 credits per month
- 5 websites
- BYOK unlocked
License Tier 3
- 5,000 one-time activation credits
- 1,000 credits per month
- 15 websites
- BYOK unlocked
License Tier 4
- 10,000 one-time activation credits
- 3,000 credits per month
- 30 websites
- BYOK unlocked
Additional Pricing Information
Native subscription plans start at $9.99/month with a free 250-credit tier, while this AppSumo deal trades the recurring fee for a one-time payment plus a monthly credit allowance (250-3,000 credits/month by tier). Cloud tasks cost 10-50 credits each, extension tasks run 0.5-5 credits, and enrichment is 0.25 credits per record, so the credits are the throttle — the more you rely on the cloud fleet, the faster your allowance disappears.
Details
What is Retriever AI?
Retriever AI is an AI web agent from two ex-Google engineers, Arjun Chintapalli and Bhavani Kalisetty, that automates real browser work — scraping, form-filling, lead enrichment, monitoring, and outreach — from plain-English prompts. Instead of taking screenshots and guessing where to click like most agents, Retriever reads the live DOM and writes code to act, which the founders claim lets it finish longer, multi-step workflows more reliably. It ships as a Chrome extension that runs inside your logged-in session (so it can touch LinkedIn, paywalled dashboards, and other auth-gated sites), a cloud dashboard for scheduled jobs and parallel fleets of browsers, and Rover, an embeddable agent for your own website. There is no TrustRadius listing yet, so the signal comes from elsewhere: 4.1/5 on AppSumo across 6 reviews, 4.0/5 on the Chrome Web Store across 557 ratings, 4.6/5 on G2 for the Rover product, and a claimed 30,000 users with 4 million completed workflows. The AppSumo lifetime deal, live since July 28, 2026 and flagged with AppSumo's Launchpad badge for potential and innovation, puts the whole core — extension, cloud browsers, enrichment datasets, API/MCP, scheduled runs — behind a one-time fee, with tiers split by activation credits, monthly credits, and website count.
Key Features
- Chrome Extension Agent — run multi-step workflows in background tabs of your real logged-in browser
- Agentic Lead Enrichment — pull names off any page and enrich them against LinkedIn, Crunchbase, and work-email datasets
- Cloud Browsers — run fleets of parallel cloud browsers to scrape and monitor across thousands of URLs
- Scheduled Runs & Site Monitoring — cron-style jobs that check pages and append results to Google Sheets while you are offline
- Bring Your Own Key (BYOK) — plug in your own LLM API key to cut inference costs, unlocked on Tier 2 and up
- Hosted MCP Server — copy a URL into ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, or n8n to give them live browser powers
- API, Webhooks & Remote Triggers — fire workflows from WhatsApp, CLI, curl, or any script
- Rover Embed — a one-script-tag agent that onboards users, runs demos, and completes checkout inside your own site
- Agent Memory & Analytics — index research into a knowledge base and review run-level completion and consistency metrics
Who is it for?
- Solopreneurs and small teams who want lead lists, enrichment, and outreach without hiring an SDR
- Sales and GTM people comfortable typing plain-English prompts and reviewing output
- E-commerce operators monitoring competitor pricing, inventory, and reviews on a schedule
- Researchers and analysts collecting multi-source data into Google Sheets
- Developers who want an MCP server and API to glue live browser automation into their stack
Who is it NOT for?
- Anyone expecting a scraper that just works with zero babysitting — AI agents still break on weird layouts
- Heavy cloud-automation users on Tier 1 or 2, who will drain their monthly credits in days
- Compliance-driven teams that need audit trails, since Private mode sits only on the $99/mo-plus tiers and is still coming soon
- Content-only site owners eyeing the Rover embed, which does nothing without interactive UI to act on
- Risk-averse buyers who have been burned before by lifetime deals from young startups
The Bottom Line
Retriever AI is one of the more genuinely useful AppSumo launches of 2026 — a DOM-native agent that outperforms screenshot-guessing scrapers, with BYOK so it can run cheap or free if you already pay for an LLM. But it is an 18-month-old, seed-stage, five-person company, and the credit economy is the real product: cloud tasks drain credits fast, which is exactly how the upsell works later. If you buy, skip Tier 1, land on Tier 3 for the monthly credit headroom and BYOK, and treat the LinkedIn automation with real caution for your account's sake.
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