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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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Airbyte
✓ verifiedFreemium
Open-source data-movement platform now adding a context/action layer for AI agents; 600+ connectors and flexible pricing.
222K visits/mo
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Capsolver
✓ verifiedPaid
Automatic AI CAPTCHA solver for reCAPTCHA and Cloudflare; high traffic but bypass niche.
281K visits/mo787 saves
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Quilter
✓ verifiedPaid
Reinforcement-learning engine that auto-places and routes PCB layouts from existing CAD files, validated against physical constraints.
68K 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
Agents Free: $0/mo (1000 AOs)
Agents Individual: $29/mo (5000 AOs)
Agents Team: $299/mo (10,000 AOs)
Data Standard: from $10/mo
Data Plus: from $500/mo
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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
- ✦600+ data connectors
- ✦ELT replication and CDC
- ✦Open-source and managed cloud options
- ✦Airbyte Agents context store (MCP/SDK/CLI)
- ✦Capacity- and volume-based pricing
- ✦Governance: SSO, RBAC, encryption
- ✦Automatic CAPTCHA solving
- ✦AI-powered automation
- ✦Image to text conversion
- ✦Browser extensions for CAPTCHA solving
- ✦Multi-language support
- ✦Imports existing projects from major ECAD tools
- ✦Generates thousands of candidate board layouts via reinforcement learning
- ✦Flags bypass capacitors, impedance nets, and differential pairs for review
- ✦Supports parallel iteration across stack-ups and manufacturers
- ✦Transparent design review against a full constraint checklist
- ✦Returns files in the same CAD format for DRC and fab-file generation
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
- →Building data pipelines to warehouses
- →Syncing SaaS data for analytics
- →Giving AI agents live business context
- →Web testing
- →Social media automation
- →Data collection
- →Market research
- →SEO optimization
- →Online shopping automation
- →Online gaming
- →Financial services automation
- →Speeding up IC evaluation board layout from weeks to hours
- →Cutting design validation board cycles from months to days
- →Reducing backplane and interconnect board bring-up time
- →Iterating multiple layout candidates in parallel before fabrication
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