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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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VideoSDK
Free trial

Developer APIs and SDKs to embed real-time voice, video, live streaming, and AI voice agents into web and mobile apps.

164K visits/mo
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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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Google Opal
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Google Labs experiment for building and sharing AI mini-apps from natural-language prompts, no coding required.

2.1M 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
Pay-As-You-Go: audio from $0.001/min
Pay-As-You-Go: video from $0.004/min

Free trial available

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
  • Audio and video calling APIs and SDKs
  • Interactive live streaming APIs and SDKs
  • AI voice agent integration
  • Web and mobile platform support
  • Pay-as-you-go pricing with one-time $20 free credit
  • 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
  • Build AI mini-apps from natural-language prompts
  • Visual editor for prompt/tool workflows
  • Share created apps with others
  • No-code AI app prototyping
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
  • Embedding video and audio calling into web and mobile apps
  • Adding interactive live streaming to a platform
  • Building AI voice agent experiences into products
  • Adding an AI chat UI to web apps
  • Building LLM-powered support agents
  • Embedding chat widgets in existing products
  • Prototyping chatbot interfaces
  • Prototyping an AI workflow quickly
  • Sharing a custom AI mini-app
  • Automating a task with chained prompts
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