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SurfSense
✓ verifiedFreemium
Open-source competitive-intelligence platform giving AI agents live Reddit, YouTube, Maps and search data via API or MCP server.
34K visits/mo1.1K saves
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Citely
✓ verifiedFreemium
AI citation checker and source finder that verifies references and locates real papers to curb fake citations.
50K visits/mo3.6K saves
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Keybot AI
✓ verifiedPaid
AI keyboard extension that adds ChatGPT-style writing help to typing across apps, using the user's own API key.
21K visits/mo
Pricing
Self-hosted: $0 (unlimited scraping, bring your own model keys)
Pay As You Go: $5 free credit to start, then usage-based
Free trial available
No public pricing
No public pricing
Core features
- ✦Platform-native connectors for Reddit, YouTube, Maps, SERP and web crawling
- ✦Typed REST API and MCP server for agent tooling
- ✦Scheduled and event-triggered briefs and alerts
- ✦Writes results to Notion, Slack, Linear or Jira
- ✦Self-hosted open-source option with no usage limits
- ✦Pay-per-item credit metering for hosted usage
- ✦AI source finder for claims and paragraphs
- ✦Citation checker for reference lists
- ✦Detection of fake or fabricated references
- ✦Real-time verification while writing
- ✦Reference-manager integration
- ✦AI-assisted typing keyboard
- ✦Works across apps for emails, reports and chats
- ✦User-provided API key support
- ✦Usable on multiple devices
Use cases
- →Tracking competitor pricing and product page changes
- →Monitoring brand and category mentions on Reddit
- →Building local B2B lead lists from Google Maps data
- →Watching search rankings, ads and AI Overview citations
- →Verifying citations in student papers
- →Finding credible sources to support arguments
- →Catching AI-hallucinated references
- →Checking a bibliography before submission
- →Drafting emails faster
- →Improving everyday messages
- →AI writing help while typing on mobile
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