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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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✓ verifiedFreemium
Open-source AI coding assistant offering autocomplete and chat in IDEs; the company was acquired by Cursor.
775K visits/mo
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Cody
✓ verifiedPaid
Enterprise AI coding assistant that pulls context from an entire codebase to power chat, code edits and debugging.
245K visits/mo
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Zeabur
✓ verifiedFreemium
Cloud deployment platform for developers that auto-detects code and frameworks to ship apps, servers, and AI-hub services with one push.
455K visits/mo72 saves
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
Enterprise: starting at $16K (includes AI feature credits, scales with team size)
Free: $0/mo (1 manageable server)
Dev: $5/mo (first 14 days free, 3 servers)
Pro: $19/mo (first 14 days free, 10 servers)
Team: $79/mo (3 seats included, +$24/seat/mo)
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
- ✦Open-source AI code assistant
- ✦Customizable autocomplete
- ✦In-editor AI chat
- ✦Community-built coding agent
- ✦Codebase-aware developer chat
- ✦AI code completions and inline edits
- ✦Customizable and shareable prompts
- ✦Automatic bug identification and debugging help
- ✦Context filters to exclude sensitive repos
- ✦Integrates with major code hosts and IDEs
- ✦Automatic language and framework detection and deployment
- ✦Git-push CI/CD with zero configuration
- ✦Auto-scaling compute resources
- ✦Built-in object storage similar to S3
- ✦One-click managed VPS purchase
- ✦Unified AI Hub API for multiple AI models
- ✦Domain and DNS management
- ✦In-browser file management console
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
- →Get AI code completions while coding
- →Ask questions about code in the editor
- →Build on an open-source coding-agent foundation
- →Engineers asking questions about an unfamiliar large codebase
- →Teams standardizing common coding tasks with shared prompts
- →Developers debugging errors faster with AI-assisted context
- →Enterprises running large-scale code migrations
- →Developers deploying apps without manual server config
- →Teams wanting predictable, fixed-plan hosting costs
- →Startups needing quick CI/CD pipelines
- →Projects needing bundled AI model access alongside hosting
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