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exa.ai
✓ verifiedFreemium
Search, crawling and research API built for AI agents, with token-efficient results and structured web-data enrichment.
761K visits/mo1.7K saves
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Airbyte
✓ verifiedFreemium
Open-source data-movement platform now adding a context/action layer for AI agents; 600+ connectors and flexible pricing.
222K visits/mo
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Tinybird
✓ verifiedFreemium
Managed ClickHouse platform giving developers hosted ingestion and query APIs to ship real-time analytics products fast.
104K visits/mo
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VideoSDK
Free trial
Developer APIs and SDKs to embed real-time voice, video, live streaming, and AI voice agents into web and mobile apps.
164K visits/mo
Pricing
Free: $0 (20,000 requests/mo)
Search: $7/1k requests
Contents: $1/1k pages
Deep Search: $12-15/1k requests
Monitors: $15/1k requests
Agent: $0.012-$1.00/run
Agents Free: $0/mo (1000 AOs)
Agents Individual: $29/mo (5000 AOs)
Agents Team: $299/mo (10,000 AOs)
Data Standard: from $10/mo
Data Plus: from $500/mo
Free: $0/mo (0.25 vCPUs, 1k requests/day, 10GB storage)
Developer: $49/mo (0.5 vCPUs, 25GB storage, 2 replicas)
No public pricing
Pay-As-You-Go: audio from $0.001/min
Pay-As-You-Go: video from $0.004/min
Free trial available
Core features
- ✦Web search API tuned for agents
- ✦Full-page contents with token-efficient highlights
- ✦Asynchronous agents for deep research and enrichment
- ✦Structured outputs with grounded citations
- ✦Web monitors that track new events on a schedule
- ✦Zero data retention and SOC 2 Type II controls
- ✦600+ data connectors
- ✦ELT replication and CDC
- ✦Open-source and managed cloud options
- ✦Airbyte Agents context store (MCP/SDK/CLI)
- ✦Capacity- and volume-based pricing
- ✦Governance: SSO, RBAC, encryption
- ✦Managed, hosted ClickHouse database
- ✦Sub-second SQL query APIs
- ✦Kafka and other data connectors
- ✦Safe, zero-downtime schema migrations
- ✦Git-based branching with zero-copy prod data
- ✦SOC 2 Type II enterprise security
- ✦Fully managed TiDB service
- ✦Easy deployment on AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, and Alibaba Cloud
- ✦Scalable and reliable MySQL-compatible database
- ✦Elastic scaling of storage, transactional, and analytical workloads
- ✦Robust security compliance (SOC 1/2/3, ISO 27001/27701, PCI DSS, GDPR, HIPAA)
- ✦Audio and video calling APIs and SDKs
- ✦Interactive live streaming APIs and SDKs
- ✦AI voice agent integration
- ✦Web and mobile platform support
- ✦Pay-as-you-go pricing with one-time $20 free credit
Use cases
- →Give coding agents current docs and repo context
- →Power chatbots with real-time web answers
- →Enrich company and people data at scale
- →Monitor the web for fresh events
- →Building data pipelines to warehouses
- →Syncing SaaS data for analytics
- →Giving AI agents live business context
- →Building real-time analytics dashboards
- →Powering in-app usage or event analytics
- →Streaming Kafka topics into query-ready tables
- →Letting AI coding agents build and deploy analytics
- →Building mission-critical applications requiring scalable and reliable databases
- →Managing and scaling transactional and analytical workloads
- →Deploying databases across multiple cloud providers and regions
- →Ensuring data security and compliance with industry standards
- →Embedding video and audio calling into web and mobile apps
- →Adding interactive live streaming to a platform
- →Building AI voice agent experiences into products
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