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ImageKit
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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
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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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Trae
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Trae AI-powered IDE for developer collaboration; notable ByteDance-backed dev product.
2.3M visits/mo
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RunningHub
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All-in-one cloud platform combining ComfyUI workflows, AI apps, and model APIs for creators building image/video content pipelines.
1.4M visits/mo
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
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
- ✦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
- ✦AI Agents
- ✦Tool Integration
- ✦Context Awareness
- ✦Smart Autocompletion
- ✦Local Data Storage
- ✦Secure Data Access
- ✦Cloud-hosted ComfyUI workflow execution
- ✦Infinite canvas for iterative visual editing
- ✦Prebuilt quick-create AI apps and viral templates
- ✦Model, workflow and AI-application API access
- ✦Creator rewards and referral coin system
- ✦Access to trending models like Seedream and Seedance
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
- →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
- →Running ComfyUI workflows without owning GPU hardware
- →Producing short-form marketing and e-commerce video content
- →Building custom AI-powered creative apps
- →Generating image/video assets via API for other products
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