How much does one competitor teardown cost?

In our run it was about $0.026 total — and it came out of the free daily credit, so effectively free. You pay per call and idle costs nothing.

What does the agent actually research?

It runs a web search, then scrapes the competitor's website and pricing page, their LinkedIn company page, and their X/socials, and synthesizes a structured teardown.

Do I need separate scraping and search subscriptions?

No. One Deva Agent Key gives the agent search, scraping, and models on a single balance — no per-vendor signups or API keys.

Which agent does this work with?

Any of them. We used Claude, but it works with Cursor or a custom runtime via MCP or REST.

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How-toAug 6, 2026 · 2 min read

How to Research Any Competitor With an AI Agent

We built a competitor-research agent on Deva Agent Key — it scrapes a rival's site, LinkedIn, and X into a full teardown in under a minute, for cents.

Competitor research usually eats an afternoon: their site, their pricing, their LinkedIn, their X — a dozen tabs and a handful of searches. Do it at any scale and you're also renting a scraping tool and a search API, most of it idle between projects.

We built a competitor-research agent that does the whole thing on one API key — Deva Agent Key — in under a minute. Here's how it works, and what it cost.

The old way vs. the Deva Agent Key way

The old way: separate scraping and search subscriptions, a per-vendor API key for each, and glue code to move data between them. Hundreds of dollars a month, barely used.

The Deva Agent Key way: one key. The agent runs search and Deva Agent Key's built-in scrapers on a single balance — pay per call, idle costs $0.

How it works

We wired Claude to Deva Agent Key — and only Deva Agent Key — then gave it one instruction:

Research this competitor company and make a detailed teardown page of it.

From there the agent ran ~22 tool calls, and every one went through Deva Agent Key:

Web search — find the site, pricing page, and recent news.
Scrape the website — homepage and pricing, in their own words.
Scrape LinkedIn — company profile and recent posts.
Scrape X and other socials — recent announcements and tone.
Synthesize — a structured, one-page teardown.

Because everything runs on one key, every step drew from one balance — and you can watch the credits tick down live as it works.

The result

A full teardown, sectioned like an analyst would write it: what they are, positioning, pricing, target user, strengths, weaknesses, and a head-to-head.

The part that surprised us was the receipt. The entire run — a search, three scrapes, and the synthesis — came to about $0.026, drawn from the free daily credit. Effectively free. No scraper subscription, no search API, no keys to juggle. One key did all of it.

Try it yourself

Point it at any company and let it work. If you're new, start with the 30-second setup, then give your agent a prompt like the one above.