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ImageKit
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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
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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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Mintlify
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Documentation and knowledge platform that keeps developer docs self-updating and queryable by AI agents.
718K visits/mo
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Jam
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One-click bug-reporting tool that auto-captures console, network logs and repro steps for developers.
730K visits/mo2.9K saves
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
Starter: $0/mo (individuals and small teams)
Free trial available
Free: $0 (30 Jams/mo, 5 recording links)
Team: $14/creator per month billed yearly (unlimited Jams)
Free trial available
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
- ✦Fully managed TiDB service
- ✦Easy deployment on AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, and Alibaba Cloud
- ✦Scalable and reliable MySQL-compatible database
- ✦Elastic scaling of storage, transactional, and analytical workloads
- ✦Robust security compliance (SOC 1/2/3, ISO 27001/27701, PCI DSS, GDPR, HIPAA)
- ✦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
- ✦One-click bug capture via browser extension
- ✦Automatic repro steps
- ✦Console, network and device logs
- ✦Instant replay of recent activity
- ✦Backend tracing and an AI debugger
- ✦Integrations with Jira, Linear, GitHub and Slack
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
- →Building mission-critical applications requiring scalable and reliable databases
- →Managing and scaling transactional and analytical workloads
- →Deploying databases across multiple cloud providers and regions
- →Ensuring data security and compliance with industry standards
- →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
- →Filing detailed bug reports
- →Reproducing issues faster in QA
- →Sharing debug context with engineers
- →Triaging support bug reports
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