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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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APIMart
✓ verifiedPaid
Unified API gateway to 500+ AI models (GPT, Claude, Sora, image/video) with OpenAI-compatible endpoints and discounted usage.
328K visits/mo1.9K saves
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Trae
✓ verifiedFreemium
Trae AI-powered IDE for developer collaboration; notable ByteDance-backed dev product.
2.3M visits/mo
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Blink.new
✓ verifiedFreemium
AI app builder turning English prompts into full-stack apps with provisioned DB, auth and hosting; also hosts autonomous agents.
1.1M 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
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Free: $0 (no card)
Pro: $20/mo
Max: $50/mo
Blink Claw Starter: ~$45/mo
Blink Claw Standard: ~$90/mo
Blink Claw Pro: ~$180/mo
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
- ✦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)
- ✦Single OpenAI-compatible API for 500+ models
- ✦Chat, image, video and audio models
- ✦Discounted per-request pricing
- ✦One dashboard for keys, quotas and usage
- ✦Multi-region routing and failover (99.9% uptime)
- ✦Multiple payment methods incl. crypto
- ✦AI Agents
- ✦Tool Integration
- ✦Context Awareness
- ✦Smart Autocompletion
- ✦Local Data Storage
- ✦Secure Data Access
- ✦Natural-language full-stack app generation
- ✦Auto-provisioned Postgres, auth, storage and hosting
- ✦Full code ownership with GitHub export
- ✦Managed hosting for autonomous AI agents
- ✦200+ bundled AI models
- ✦MCP and CLI tooling
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 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
- →Accessing many AI models via one API
- →Cutting AI model API costs
- →Building multimodal AI apps
- →Consolidating AI billing and keys
- →Automating coding tasks with AI agents
- →Integrating external tools for enhanced functionality
- →Improving code accuracy with context-aware suggestions
- →Boosting coding speed with smart autocompletion
- →Building RAG apps without writing code
- →Ship a SaaS without an engineering team
- →Build internal tools from a description
- →Deploy always-on AI agents quickly
- →Provide infra for AI-coded apps
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