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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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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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DHTMLX Chatbot
✓ verifiedFree

Lightweight MIT-licensed JavaScript chatbot UI widget for building support-agent chat interfaces on top of any LLM.

92K visits/mo
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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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CapMonster Cloud
✓ verifiedPaid

Cloud API that auto-solves reCAPTCHA, Cloudflare and other CAPTCHAs at ~99% success, pay-per-solve for automation and scraping.

408K visits/mo486 saves
Pricing

No public pricing

Free trial available

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

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
reCAPTCHA v2: $0.60 per 1000 tokens
reCAPTCHA v3: $0.90 per 1000 tokens
Cloudflare Turnstile: $1.30 per 1000 tokens
Text CAPTCHA: $0.30 per 1000 tokens
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
  • 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
  • MIT-licensed and free to use
  • Lightweight (~65kb) JavaScript widget
  • 4 message display modes plus typewriter effect
  • Markdown support and chat history
  • Backend hook to integrate any LLM
  • Responsive, mobile-friendly, read-only mode
  • 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
  • API solving for reCAPTCHA, Cloudflare, GeeTest, AWS WAF and more
  • Up to 99% success rate
  • Built-in proxies included
  • SDKs for C#, Python, JS, Go, PHP
  • Chrome and Firefox extensions
  • Pay only for solved CAPTCHAs
  • Affiliate and volume-bonus programs
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
  • 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
  • Adding an AI chat UI to web apps
  • Building LLM-powered support agents
  • Embedding chat widgets in existing products
  • Prototyping chatbot interfaces
  • Building data pipelines to warehouses
  • Syncing SaaS data for analytics
  • Giving AI agents live business context
  • Automating CAPTCHA-gated web scraping
  • Bypassing anti-bot challenges in bots and apps
  • Integrating captcha solving into software
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