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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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Netify
✓ verifiedPaid
Local deep packet inspection and network intelligence giving businesses full visibility into application, VPN and Tor traffic.
253K visits/mo
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Mintlify
✓ verifiedFreemium
Documentation and knowledge platform that keeps developer docs self-updating and queryable by AI agents.
718K 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
Starter: $0/mo (individuals and small teams)
Free trial available
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
- ✦Local deep packet inspection agent
- ✦Application identification data feeds
- ✦VPN and Tor IP datasets
- ✦Network informatics and analytics
- ✦Developer documentation
- ✦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
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
- →Classify application traffic on a network
- →Detect VPN and Tor usage
- →Feed DPI data into security and analytics tools
- →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
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