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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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Windsurf Editor
✓ verifiedFree trial
AI-powered code editor with agentic workflows for developers.
3.3M visits/mo
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Workik
✓ verifiedFreemium
AI coding assistant that gathers project context to plan, generate, test and ship code across the SDLC via IDE and chat integrations.
210K visits/mo
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Aider
✓ verifiedFree
Open-source terminal AI pair programmer that edits code in your local git repo and auto-commits, working with most LLMs.
479K 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
No public pricing
Trial: $0/month (20 AI requests on signup, 7 requests/day, 50 free flow runs, up to 3 users)
Starter: $15/month billed annually or $25/month (20M standard AI tokens, 1,000 flow runs)
Premium: $30/month billed annually or $50/month (40M standard + 4M advanced AI tokens, 3,000 flow runs)
Elite: $80/month billed annually or $150/month (100M standard + 10M advanced AI tokens, 10,000 flow runs)
Tailored: $62/month (custom AI token allocation)
Free trial available
No public pricing
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
- ✦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
- ✦Automatic context-gathering from connected engineering sources
- ✦AI-generated code, tests and pull requests from tickets
- ✦Task planning that breaks complex work into subtasks
- ✦Auto-updating engineering documentation
- ✦Vector search over embedded project data
- ✦Multiple selectable AI models (GPT, Gemini, Claude, Llama, etc.)
- ✦Engineering productivity analytics dashboard
- ✦Terminal-based AI pair programming
- ✦Edits code in your local git repo
- ✦Automatic git commits with messages
- ✦Codebase mapping for large projects
- ✦Works with cloud and local LLMs
- ✦Voice-to-code, image/web context, lint and test
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
- →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
- →Engineering teams automating ticket-to-PR workflows
- →Developers wanting AI-assisted debugging and test generation
- →Engineering managers tracking AI-driven productivity gains
- →Teams centralizing documentation from scattered sources
- →Building features and fixing bugs via AI in the terminal
- →Working on large existing codebases
- →Automating git commits
- →Using local LLMs for private coding
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