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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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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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APIMart
✓ verifiedPaid

Unified API gateway to 500+ AI models (GPT, Claude, Sora, image/video) with OpenAI-compatible endpoints and discounted usage.

328K visits/mo1.9K saves
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Mintlify
✓ verifiedFreemium

Documentation and knowledge platform that keeps developer docs self-updating and queryable by AI agents.

718K visits/mo
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Eraser AI
✓ verifiedFreemium

AI co-pilot for technical diagrams and design docs, with diagram-as-code and integrations for engineering teams.

873K visits/mo41K saves
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 trial available

No public pricing

Starter: $0/mo (individuals and small teams)

Free trial available

Free: $0 (3 files, 3 AI diagrams)
Starter: $15/user/mo billed annually (40 AI diagrams)
Business: $45/user/mo billed annually (250 AI diagrams, SSO)
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
  • 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
  • Single OpenAI-compatible API for 500+ models
  • Chat, image, video and audio models
  • Discounted per-request pricing
  • One dashboard for keys, quotas and usage
  • Multi-region routing and failover (99.9% uptime)
  • Multiple payment methods incl. crypto
  • Self-updating documentation
  • Web-based documentation editor
  • Custom domain hosting
  • Built-in search and API playground
  • MCP server for agent access
  • Authentication and access controls
  • AI-generated diagrams from prompts
  • Diagram-as-code editing
  • Markdown design docs
  • Eraserbot auto-updating codebase diagrams
  • Integrations: GitHub, Notion, Confluence, VS Code
  • Export to PNG/SVG/PDF/MD and MCP server
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
  • Transcribe voice-agent and contact-center calls
  • Power meeting-assistant note taking
  • Generate subtitles and media transcripts
  • Build voice products on one API
  • Accessing many AI models via one API
  • Cutting AI model API costs
  • Building multimodal AI apps
  • Consolidating AI billing and keys
  • Publish and maintain developer documentation
  • Expose docs to AI agents via MCP
  • Host a branded docs site on a custom domain
  • Give teams a collaborative doc editor
  • Create architecture and cloud diagrams fast
  • Write and maintain design docs
  • Keep codebase diagrams up to date
  • Embed live diagrams in Notion/Confluence
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