Show HN: Web MCP Free Tier – Web Access for Agents Without Getting Blocked

4 meirk-brd 1 8/20/2025, 1:44:08 PM github.com ↗

I’m the developer behind the Web MCP at Bright Data. We just launched a free tier so any AI Engineer/ Vibe coder can give their LLM real web access — 5,000 requests/month at no cost.

Unlike most MCP servers that wrap a single SaaS API (e.g. Gmail, GitHub), the Web MCP wraps the entire internet. It handles JS-heavy sites, auto-solves CAPTCHAs, and returns clean Markdown your model can use.

Free tier includes:

search_engine → search results from Google/Bing/Yandex

scrape_as_markdown → fetch any URL as clean, LLM-friendly Markdown (with CAPTCHA handling)

Quick start: https://docs.brightdata.com/mcp-server/quickstart/remote

I also wrote a blog post with the full background, challenges, and architecture:

Solving Web Access for Agents (For Free!):https://brightdata.com/blog/ai/web-mcp-free-tier

Would love feedback - what would you want to use live web access for in your agents?

Comments (1)

meirk-brd · 5h ago

Author here,

Happy to answer anything here: design decisions, implementation details, or roadmap ideas. Really curious how the HN community would apply “internet access for agents” in real workflows.

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Show HN: Web MCP Free Tier – Web Access for Agents Without Getting Blocked

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