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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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ImageKit
✓ verifiedFreemium

ImageKit is an image and video optimization and delivery API with a DAM and creative automation for developers and teams.

1.0M visits/mo
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ZEGOCLOUD
✓ verifiedFreemium

Real-time voice, video, chat, and conversational-AI SDKs/APIs for developers building interactive communication features into apps.

146K visits/mo9.7K saves
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DHTMLX Chatbot
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Lightweight MIT-licensed JavaScript chatbot UI widget for building support-agent chat interfaces on top of any LLM.

92K visits/mo
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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
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

Voice Call: $0.99 per 1,000 participant minutes
Video Call: $3.99 per 1,000 participant minutes
Live Streaming: $0.39 per 1,000 minutes
In-app Chat: $99 per 10,000 MAU
AI Effects: $584 per 2 platforms/month
Super Board: $1.99 per 1,000 participant minutes
Cloud Recording: $0.59 per 1,000 recording minutes
Analytics Dashboard: $299/month

Free trial available

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)
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 image/video optimization and URL-based transforms
  • AI and GenAI transforms (smart crop, background removal, generative fill, upscaling)
  • Global CDN delivery with sub-50ms response
  • AI-powered digital asset management
  • Creative automation for on-brand banners at scale
  • SDKs and integrations for major stacks and CMSs
  • Video and voice call SDKs
  • Live streaming SDK for interactive broadcasts
  • In-app chat API
  • Cloud recording of audio/video streams
  • AI face effects and digital-human generation
  • Conversational AI agent building tools
  • 20+ pre-built UIKits for rapid app development
  • Real-time cloud speech transcription
  • MIT-licensed and free to use
  • Lightweight (~65kb) JavaScript widget
  • 4 message display modes plus typewriter effect
  • Markdown support and chat history
  • Backend hook to integrate any LLM
  • Responsive, mobile-friendly, read-only mode
  • 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
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
  • Speeding up website and app media performance
  • Optimizing e-commerce and media images and video
  • Centralized digital asset management and collaboration
  • Adaptive video streaming
  • Generating thousands of on-brand banner variations
  • App developers adding live video or voice chat
  • Social and dating apps needing engagement features
  • Telehealth platforms requiring secure video calls
  • E-commerce brands adding live-streaming shopping
  • Education platforms needing interactive whiteboards
  • Adding an AI chat UI to web apps
  • Building LLM-powered support agents
  • Embedding chat widgets in existing products
  • Prototyping chatbot interfaces
  • Run web scraping without infrastructure headaches
  • Automate browser workflows and tests
  • Give AI agents a reliable browser
  • Generate screenshots and PDFs via API
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