Retriever AI
Retriever AI automates work across the open web and sites where a user is signed in, returning a finished result.
What Retriever AI is
Retriever AI automates work across the open web and sites where a user is signed in, returning a finished result. Its tasks include web research, data extraction, lead enrichment, form filling, monitoring, and social media workflows. Access is available through a Chrome extension, Cloud, API, MCP, and CLI/SDK, with listed integrations including Gmail, HubSpot, Notion, Slack, GitHub, Zapier, n8n, and Make. Users can work with Retriever credits, ChatGPT, Claude, an API key, or a local model. Free Mode is ongoing rather than a trial and applies to interactive extension and Cloud dashboard tasks; it has sponsored cards and a daily fair-use allowance. Schedules, triggers, cookie sync, and Chrome control through API or MCP require a paid plan. Monthly credits do not roll over, and one credit equals one cent. Team and Scale include Private Mode with zero data retention for workflows. Cloud Free Mode licenses anonymized workflow records and derived products, unlike extension, credit-billed, or Private Mode tasks.
Good
- Automates research, extraction, and form filling
- Offers extension, Cloud, API, MCP, and CLI/SDK
- Works with several AI models and local models
- Team and Scale include zero-retention Private Mode
Watch out
- Free Mode includes sponsored cards and fair-use limits
- Monthly credits do not roll over
- Cloud Free Mode licenses anonymized workflow records
Who it suits
Retriever AI suits builders, go-to-market teams, and founders looking to automate research, extraction, or browser workflows. Teams needing Private Mode can consider Team or Scale.
Verdict
Retriever AI combines browser-based tasks with integrations, model choices, and paid automation controls. Review its credit rules and Cloud Free Mode data terms when choosing how to use it.
Plans and prices
From Retriever AI's own pricing page, checked 15 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | Supported AI and Cloud browser time · sponsored cards · daily fair-use allowance · 100 one-time welcome credits · no schedules, triggers, cookie sync or API/MCP Chrome control · No subscription |
| Starter | $9.99 a month | 1,000 credits each month · $9.99/month |
| Pro | $29.99 a month | 3,000 credits each month · 1 workspace seat · extra seats $9.99/seat · $29.99/month |
| Team | $99.99 a month | 10,000 credits each month · Private Mode with zero workflow retention · 3 workspace seats · extra seats $9.99/seat · $99.99/month |
| Scale | $499.99 a month | 50,000 credits each month · Private Mode with zero workflow retention · 10 workspace seats · extra seats $9.99/seat · $499.99/month |
The facts
Each one read from Retriever AI's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Access modes
- The product is available through a Chrome extension, Cloud, API, MCP, and CLI/SDK.checked 2 Oct 2026
- API authentication
- API requests accept Authorization or x-api-key headers, while OAuth clients can connect to mcp.rtrvr.ai without placing a key in the client.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Automation
- It supports web research, data extraction, lead enrichment, form filling, monitoring, and social media workflows.checked 2 Oct 2026
- CLI and SDK
- Retriever publishes an npm CLI package installed with `npm install -g @rtrvr-ai/cli` for Cloud, Chrome or automatic routing.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Credits
- Unused monthly plan credits do not roll over, and one credit equals one cent.checked 2 Oct 2026
- Data and Evals
- The Data & Evals offering provides training trajectories, browser environments, evaluations and verifiers based on web runs.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Data handling
- Cloud Free Mode includes a license covering anonymized workflow records and derived products; this does not apply to extension, credit-billed, or Private Mode tasks.checked 2 Oct 2026
- Documentation depth
- The documentation covers quick start, APIs, MCP, CLI/SDK, connectors, recordings, tool calling, schedules, webhooks, cookie sync, permissions and enrichment datasets.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Google Drive permission
- Retriever says it uses Google's drive.file scope, limiting access to files it creates or files explicitly selected through the picker.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- Official connectors include Gmail, HubSpot, Notion, Slack, GitHub, Zapier and Google Drive.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Latest release
- Changelog version 58, dated October 8, 2026, added task-result checking, faster step starts and fixes for large attachments and Cloud results.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Lead enrichment
- The extension listing describes enrichment of people, companies, jobs and products with profile, role, contact and summary fields.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Legal name
- The terms and privacy notice identify the provider as RTRVR AI, Inc.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Licence
- The public rtrvr-cli repository is Apache-2.0 licensed, while the service terms reserve ownership of the hosted services, models, interfaces and extensions to RTRVR AI and its licensors.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: credit consumption
- The same review warns that Cloud runs consume roughly 10 to 50 credits per run and heavy usage can exhaust allowances quickly.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: learning curve
- An independent review reports that complex multi-step workflows require patience and careful prompting.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: proxy setup
- An AppSumo reviewer says custom proxy configuration was confusing and lacked clear guidance.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Local-first security
- The company states that the browser agent primarily runs locally, credentials remain on the user's machine and passwords are not requested or stored.checked 15 Oct 2026
Where it runs
- Browser extension
- The Chrome extension can inspect pages, plan actions, execute code-powered workflows, use logged-in sessions and return structured results.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Cloud browsers
- Its Cloud product runs browser jobs remotely and supports parallel, scheduled and trigger-based automation.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: platform policy risk
- An independent review flags policy risk when using browser automation for social networks such as LinkedIn.checked 15 Oct 2026
The company
- Company profile
- LinkedIn lists Retriever AI as a privately held software-development company with 2–10 employees, founded in 2025 and headquartered in San Francisco.checked 15 Oct 2026
Money
- Free Mode data terms
- Free Mode includes sponsored content and, for Cloud workflows, a license for de-identified workflow records and derived products; users can disable it for future tasks.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Free usage
- Free Mode is ongoing rather than a trial and applies to interactive extension and Cloud dashboard tasks, with sponsored cards and a daily fair-use allowance.checked 2 Oct 2026
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