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CapMonster Cloud
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Cloud API that auto-solves reCAPTCHA, Cloudflare and other CAPTCHAs at ~99% success, pay-per-solve for automation and scraping.
408K visits/mo486 saves
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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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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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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
reCAPTCHA v2: $0.60 per 1000 tokens
reCAPTCHA v3: $0.90 per 1000 tokens
Cloudflare Turnstile: $1.30 per 1000 tokens
Text CAPTCHA: $0.30 per 1000 tokens
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
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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
- ✦API solving for reCAPTCHA, Cloudflare, GeeTest, AWS WAF and more
- ✦Up to 99% success rate
- ✦Built-in proxies included
- ✦SDKs for C#, Python, JS, Go, PHP
- ✦Chrome and Firefox extensions
- ✦Pay only for solved CAPTCHAs
- ✦Affiliate and volume-bonus programs
- ✦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
- ✦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
- ✦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)
- ✦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
- →Automating CAPTCHA-gated web scraping
- →Bypassing anti-bot challenges in bots and apps
- →Integrating captcha solving into software
- →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
- →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
- →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
- →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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