Web retrieval without the cruft.
Clean markdown API for AI agents. Fast by design (it's Rust) — and cleaner markdown should mean fewer tokens. Measured benchmarks ship with the beta.
Memory-safe runtime. No GC pauses. No browser fleet. Public benchmarks ship with the beta.
Pick your plan. See your savings.
Every plan ships with the Cruft Cleaner. Choose your volume.
Shown costs — Cruftless and competitors — are estimates, vary by volume, and may change.
requests / month
Total monthly cost (API + engineering)
scale max: $410/mo
Your bill
Token usage
In theory, cleaner markdown means fewer tokens per request. We'll publish measured numbers with the public beta.
Engineering time
Fixed upkeep you pay if you run this stack today, at any volume.
That's $1.9K/year back in your budget.
All figures are estimates based on public competitor pricing and typical usage. Actual pricing and savings may change at launch.
Selected: Builder. and we'll activate it at launch.
Why we're building this
“Spent 750 credits on ONE search. Pricing doesn't scale.”
— Exa user
“Firecrawl eats 1GB RAM/page. Search costs dominate.”
— HN builder
“Results take 15+ minutes. UI feels broken.”
— Exa feedback
We've been there. So we built Cruftless.
Join the waitlist
Tell us who you are and which plan fits. We'll email you when it activates at launch.