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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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NopeCHA
✓ verifiedFreemium
An AI CAPTCHA-solving service via browser extension or API, supporting reCAPTCHA, hCaptcha, FunCaptcha and more for automation.
115K visits/mo
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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
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
Free: $0 (up to 100 solves/24h)
Starter: $4.99/mo (2,000 solves/day)
Basic: $19.99/mo (20,000 solves/day)
Professional: $49.99/mo (80,000 solves/day)
Free: $0/mo (0.25 vCPUs, 1k requests/day, 10GB storage)
Developer: $49/mo (0.5 vCPUs, 25GB storage, 2 replicas)
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
- ✦AI CAPTCHA recognition (reCAPTCHA, hCaptcha, FunCaptcha, GeeTest, AWS WAF)
- ✦Chrome extension and Firefox add-on
- ✦Token and recognition APIs for browserless use
- ✦SDKs for Python and Node.js
- ✦Works with Selenium, Puppeteer and Playwright
- ✦Usage/activity monitoring dashboard
- ✦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
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
- →Automating CAPTCHA-gated web workflows
- →Bypassing bot checks in scraping and testing
- →Integrating CAPTCHA solving into scripts
- →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
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