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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
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Browserless
✓ verifiedFreemium

Managed headless-Chrome infrastructure that runs Puppeteer/Playwright scripts at scale with anti-bot bypass, so teams skip browser ops.

242K visits/mo
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Airbyte
✓ verifiedFreemium

Open-source data-movement platform now adding a context/action layer for AI agents; 600+ connectors and flexible pricing.

222K 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

No public pricing

Free: $0 (1k units/mo, 2 browsers)
Prototyping: $25/mo (20k units)
Starter: $140/mo (180k units)
Scale: $350/mo (500k units)
Agents Free: $0/mo (1000 AOs)
Agents Individual: $29/mo (5000 AOs)
Agents Team: $299/mo (10,000 AOs)
Data Standard: from $10/mo
Data Plus: from $500/mo

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
  • Automatic CAPTCHA solving
  • AI-powered automation
  • Image to text conversion
  • Browser extensions for CAPTCHA solving
  • Multi-language support
  • Managed headless browsers (browser-as-a-service)
  • Drop-in Puppeteer/Playwright support
  • Anti-bot bypass and CAPTCHA solving
  • Screenshot, PDF and download APIs
  • MCP server for AI agents
  • Self-hosted and cloud deployment
  • Live debugger and observability
  • 600+ data connectors
  • ELT replication and CDC
  • Open-source and managed cloud options
  • Airbyte Agents context store (MCP/SDK/CLI)
  • Capacity- and volume-based pricing
  • Governance: SSO, RBAC, encryption
  • 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
  • Web testing
  • Social media automation
  • Data collection
  • Market research
  • SEO optimization
  • Online shopping automation
  • Online gaming
  • Financial services automation
  • Run web scraping without infrastructure headaches
  • Automate browser workflows and tests
  • Give AI agents a reliable browser
  • Generate screenshots and PDFs via API
  • Building data pipelines to warehouses
  • Syncing SaaS data for analytics
  • Giving AI agents live business context
  • Testing REST APIs
  • Sending and inspecting HTTP requests
  • Debugging web services
  • Sharing API requests across a team
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