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ImageKit
✓ verifiedFreemium
ImageKit is an image and video optimization and delivery API with a DAM and creative automation for developers and teams.
1.0M visits/mo
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BlackBox AI
✓ verifiedFreemium
AI coding platform routing many agents and models through one encrypted, usage-based endpoint with CLI, IDE and multi-agent execution.
3.9M visits/mo
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Windsurf Editor
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AI-powered code editor with agentic workflows for developers.
3.3M visits/mo
Pricing
No public pricing
Free trial available
Pro: $10/mo
Pro Plus: $20/mo
Pro Max: $40/mo
No public pricing
Core features
- ✦Real-time image/video optimization and URL-based transforms
- ✦AI and GenAI transforms (smart crop, background removal, generative fill, upscaling)
- ✦Global CDN delivery with sub-50ms response
- ✦AI-powered digital asset management
- ✦Creative automation for on-brand banners at scale
- ✦SDKs and integrations for major stacks and CMSs
- ✦Unified encrypted inference endpoint
- ✦Multi-agent parallel execution
- ✦CLI, IDE, and API access
- ✦App builder and remote coding agents
- ✦Chairman LLM output evaluation
- ✦35+ IDE integrations
- ✦AI-powered code completion and suggestions
- ✦Automated lint fixing
- ✦Cascade agent for advanced coding assistance
- ✦Integrated app building and deployment
- ✦MCP server support for custom tools
- ✦Terminal command integration
- ✦Memory of codebase structure and workflow
Use cases
- →Speeding up website and app media performance
- →Optimizing e-commerce and media images and video
- →Centralized digital asset management and collaboration
- →Adaptive video streaming
- →Generating thousands of on-brand banner variations
- →Automating refactors, tests, and migrations
- →Running competing AI coding agents
- →Building apps from prompts
- →Integrating agents into CI/CD
- →Accelerating software development by automating repetitive tasks
- →Reducing onboarding time for new developers
- →Improving code quality and reducing tech debt
- →Streamlining the app building and deployment process
- →Enhancing developer productivity by keeping them in a state of flow
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