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Prolific
✓ verifiedPaid
Research participant marketplace that gives AI teams and academics fast access to verified, screened human data and feedback.
21M 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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Capsolver
✓ verifiedPaid
Automatic AI CAPTCHA solver for reCAPTCHA and Cloudflare; high traffic but bypass niche.
281K visits/mo787 saves
Pricing
No public pricing
No public 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
Core features
- ✦CSV to API conversion
- ✦Data parsing (CSV to JSON)
- ✦Filtering capabilities
- ✦300,000+ verified, screened participants
- ✦300+ audience targeting filters
- ✦Representative and quota-based sampling
- ✦API and no-code survey tool integrations
- ✦AI-powered participant quality monitoring (Protocol)
- ✦Managed services with dedicated project teams
- ✦Access to vetted domain experts
- ✦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
- ✦Automatic CAPTCHA solving
- ✦AI-powered automation
- ✦Image to text conversion
- ✦Browser extensions for CAPTCHA solving
- ✦Multi-language support
Use cases
- →Sharing CSV data with a team via an API
- →Creating a public API from CSV data
- →Filtering and accessing specific data within a CSV file programmatically
- →Collecting human preference data for RLHF or model evaluation
- →Running academic behavioral or market research studies
- →Sourcing domain-expert data for specialized AI benchmarks
- →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
- →Web testing
- →Social media automation
- →Data collection
- →Market research
- →SEO optimization
- →Online shopping automation
- →Online gaming
- →Financial services automation
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