Venkat announced Truscan in a post on X, describing it as a web-to-context API that accepts either a search query or a URL. The product offers two endpoints, Search and Extract.
Search returns ranked results with explained scoring, according to Truscan’s website. The company says it sends a query across sources, combines results using a canonical URL and ranks them with Consensus, Position, Lexical, Proximity, Authority and Freshness signals.
Extract converts URLs into readable text or Markdown. That gives developers one API for both finding pages and turning page content into a format they can use.
Truscan lists three paid search tiers: Instant at $5 per 1,000 requests with about 400ms latency, Deep at $10 per 1,000 requests with about 2s latency, and Deep-reasoning at $12 per 1,000 requests with about 6s latency. Extraction costs $1 per 1,000 pages. The company also offers $10 in monthly credits without requiring a card.
Truscan enters a market where other web search and extraction providers have raised venture funding. Exa raised a $250 million Series C led by Andreessen Horowitz at a $2.2 billion valuation and said its infrastructure serves more than 400,000 developers and 5,000 companies, including Cursor, Cognition and HubSpot. TechCrunch reported that Tavily raised a $20 million Series A led by Insight Partners, bringing its total funding to $25 million, while Firecrawl raised a $14.5 million Series A led by Nexus Venture Partners and says its API serves more than 350,000 developers.
