MultiOn
Web-browsing agent API platform. Founded 2023 by Div Garg (Stanford); $30M+ raised. Provides 'Agent API' for autonomous web tasks (booking, shopping, research). Distinct from browser-agent memory section (Arc Max, Browser Company, Dia) — MultiOn ships an API for developers rather than a consumer browser. Demoed at 2024 Microsoft Build; partnered with NotebookLM for some flows.
At a glance
- Type
- Web-agent / browser-agent API platform (developer-focused autonomous browsing)
- Tier
- T2
- Created
- 2023 (founded)
- Latest release
- not applicable — orchestration platform, not memory product
- License
- not applicable — not OSS
- GitHub
- not applicable — no GitHub repo
- Pricing
- API pay-per-task; freemium developer tier
- Funding
- $30M+ total raised (seed 2023-24); investors: Amazon AI Fund, Google, Samsung Next, Brave, GV, others
Taxonomy
- storage
- none-trivial
- retrieval
- none
- persistence
- session-only
- update
- agent-controlled
- unit
- turn
- governance
- opaque
- conflict
- out-of-scope
When to use
Optimised for: developer API for autonomous web browsing / task completion
Anti-fit: not applicable — orchestration platform, not memory product
Pros & cons
Pros
Early-mover in web-agent API space; strong investor base (Amazon AI Fund, Google, GV); demoed natively in Microsoft Build keynote.
Cons
Browser-agent space is now crowded (OpenAI Operator, Anthropic Computer Use, Project Mariner); API success vs consumer Arc/Dia uncertain; smaller raise vs peers.
Claims & capabilities
$30M+ raised; Agent API for web tasks; demoed at Microsoft Build 2024; 'AI that uses the web for you' positioning
Technical surface
- API surface
- REST + Python SDK
- Backend storage
- not applicable — orchestration platform, not memory product
- Deployment
- Managed-only (MultiOn API)
- Embedding model
- not applicable — not a memory product
- Multi-tenancy
- not applicable — orchestration platform, not memory product
- MCP
- via community port
- A2A
- not applicable — orchestration platform, not memory product
- OpenTelemetry
- not applicable — orchestration platform, not memory product
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