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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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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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HTTPie
✓ verifiedFreemium
Human-friendly API testing client for terminal, desktop and web, known for readable syntax; the CLI is open source.
82K visits/mo
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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
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
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)
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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
- ✦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
- ✦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
- ✦Local deep packet inspection agent
- ✦Application identification data feeds
- ✦VPN and Tor IP datasets
- ✦Network informatics and analytics
- ✦Developer documentation
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
- →Automating CAPTCHA-gated web workflows
- →Bypassing bot checks in scraping and testing
- →Integrating CAPTCHA solving into scripts
- →Testing REST APIs
- →Sending and inspecting HTTP requests
- →Debugging web services
- →Sharing API requests across a team
- →Classify application traffic on a network
- →Detect VPN and Tor usage
- →Feed DPI data into security and analytics tools
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