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Automate Alibaba sourcing
on a real phone.

Your agent signs in to your own Alibaba and 1688 account on a real Android or iOS phone, reads your supplier inbox and messenger, and returns quotes, MOQ, and terms as JSON.

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01 · Use cases

What agents do in Alibaba.

Read your supplier inbox and messenger

Point your agent at your Alibaba and 1688 inbox. It reads supplier replies and messenger threads and returns who quoted what.

Extract quotes, MOQ, and terms as JSON

Your agent pulls unit price, MOQ, lead time, and payment terms from each thread and returns clean JSON you can compare.

Search suppliers and negotiate

Search suppliers, shortlist the best fits, and draft outreach and counter-offers. It waits for your yes before sending.

02 · Why a real phone

Why a real phone.

Alibaba and 1688 are built for phone buyers, and the app carries messenger threads a headless scraper never sees. Your agent runs on real Android or iOS hardware that passes the checks real apps run, so your inbox loads and sessions hold across runs.

Genuine hardware identity. A real Android or iOS phone keeps your session trusted, so messages, quotes, and search load like any buyer's phone.
Any model, any stack. Drive the phone with any model over API, SDK, or MCP, or hand a sourcing task to a chat VA.
Reads the accessibility tree, up to about 90% cheaper than vision-only. Pay as you go, stateful on request, so you pay only for the minutes you run.

● Try these

Real tasks, ready to run.

open my alibaba supplier inbox, summarize new replies, and return each quote as JSON
search 1688 for a 40mm speaker driver and shortlist 5 suppliers with price and MOQ
read my 1688 messenger threads and extract lead time and payment terms per supplier
draft counter-offers for 3 suppliers on my account and queue them for my approval

03 · FAQ

Alibaba automation, answered.

Can I automate Alibaba with an AI agent?

Yes. mobilerun runs the Alibaba app on a real phone, and your agent drives it over API, SDK, or MCP. It reads your inbox and messenger, extracts quotes, MOQ, and terms as JSON, and drafts messages you approve.

Is this a real device or an emulator?

Each real phone is real Android or iOS hardware on real hardware, with real device and agent identity, and passes the checks real apps run. As a genuine device, the Alibaba app behaves normally and your inbox holds across runs.

Does the agent message suppliers on its own?

Only with your approval. It reads and extracts freely, but every supplier message and counter-offer is drafted and queued for your yes before anything sends. You stay in the negotiation, on your own account.

● Infrastructure

Mobile execution, as infrastructure.

What a headless browser is to web agents, mobilerun is to mobile agents. You build the product. We run the phones behind it.

The device layer

Real phones, network and identity behind one REST API.

Your product on top

Ship lead-gen tools, assistants, RPA. Own the UX and the customer.

Rent, do not build

No hardware to buy. 1 to 10,000 devices, billed by usage.

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Automate Alibaba on a real phone.

Point your agent at your own Alibaba sourcing on a real phone. Pay only for the minutes you use.

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