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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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Albato
✓ verifiedPaid
No-code iPaaS with 1,000+ connectors and AI agents, available self-serve or as embedded white-label integrations for SaaS.
179K 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
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
No public pricing
Free: $0/mo (0.25 vCPUs, 1k requests/day, 10GB storage)
Developer: $49/mo (0.5 vCPUs, 25GB storage, 2 replicas)
Starter: €0 / month
Pro: €15 / month
Pro +: €40 / month
Team: €80 / month
Scale: €250 / month
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
- ✦1,000+ prebuilt app connectors
- ✦No-code workflow and automation builder
- ✦AI agents and universal MCP
- ✦Embedded white-label integrations for SaaS
- ✦Custom app builder
- ✦Transaction-based billing, GDPR/SOC2
- ✦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
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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
- →Automate workflows across apps
- →Embed native integrations into a SaaS product
- →Build an in-app integration marketplace
- →Connect CRM, marketing and sales tools
- →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
- →Generating concise marketing introductions from lengthy content using the Text Summarization API.
- →Translating text into multiple languages using the Text Translation API.
- →Ensuring grammatically correct and polished text using the Proofreading and Grammar Check API.
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