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

408K visits/mo486 saves
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Tinybird
✓ verifiedFreemium

Managed ClickHouse platform giving developers hosted ingestion and query APIs to ship real-time analytics products fast.

104K visits/mo
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Gladia
✓ verifiedFreemium

Speech-to-text API infrastructure with multilingual real-time and batch transcription for building voice products.

211K visits/mo
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HTTPie
✓ verifiedFreemium

Human-friendly API testing client for terminal, desktop and web, known for readable syntax; the CLI is open source.

82K 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
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
Free: $0/mo (0.25 vCPUs, 1k requests/day, 10GB storage)
Developer: $49/mo (0.5 vCPUs, 25GB storage, 2 replicas)

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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
  • 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
  • Managed, hosted ClickHouse database
  • Sub-second SQL query APIs
  • Kafka and other data connectors
  • Safe, zero-downtime schema migrations
  • Git-based branching with zero-copy prod data
  • SOC 2 Type II enterprise security
  • Real-time multilingual speech-to-text (<300ms)
  • Batch/async transcription
  • Solaria speech models
  • Key-entity capture and enrichment
  • EU data residency
  • Free tier and playground
  • Human-friendly command-line HTTP client
  • Web and desktop GUI apps
  • Simple, readable request syntax
  • Request export/import and history
  • Path parameters and 'copy as command'
  • Open-source terminal version
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
  • Automating CAPTCHA-gated web scraping
  • Bypassing anti-bot challenges in bots and apps
  • Integrating captcha solving into software
  • Building real-time analytics dashboards
  • Powering in-app usage or event analytics
  • Streaming Kafka topics into query-ready tables
  • Letting AI coding agents build and deploy analytics
  • Transcribe voice-agent and contact-center calls
  • Power meeting-assistant note taking
  • Generate subtitles and media transcripts
  • Build voice products on one API
  • Testing REST APIs
  • Sending and inspecting HTTP requests
  • Debugging web services
  • Sharing API requests across a team
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