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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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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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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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Tinybird
✓ verifiedFreemium

Managed ClickHouse platform giving developers hosted ingestion and query APIs to ship real-time analytics products fast.

104K visits/mo
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DHTMLX Chatbot
✓ verifiedFree

Lightweight MIT-licensed JavaScript chatbot UI widget for building support-agent chat interfaces on top of any LLM.

92K visits/mo
Pricing

No public pricing

Free trial available

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: $0/mo (0.25 vCPUs, 1k requests/day, 10GB storage)
Developer: $49/mo (0.5 vCPUs, 25GB storage, 2 replicas)

No public pricing

Core features
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
Use cases
  • 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
  • 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
  • Testing REST APIs
  • Sending and inspecting HTTP requests
  • Debugging web services
  • Sharing API requests across a team
  • 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
  • Adding an AI chat UI to web apps
  • Building LLM-powered support agents
  • Embedding chat widgets in existing products
  • Prototyping chatbot interfaces
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