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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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Gladia
✓ verifiedFreemium
Speech-to-text API infrastructure with multilingual real-time and batch transcription for building voice products.
211K 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
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
No public pricing
Free trial available
Free: $0 (1k units/mo, 2 browsers)
Prototyping: $25/mo (20k units)
Starter: $140/mo (180k units)
Scale: $350/mo (500k units)
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
- ✦Real-time multilingual speech-to-text (<300ms)
- ✦Batch/async transcription
- ✦Solaria speech models
- ✦Key-entity capture and enrichment
- ✦EU data residency
- ✦Free tier and playground
- ✦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
- →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
- →Transcribe voice-agent and contact-center calls
- →Power meeting-assistant note taking
- →Generate subtitles and media transcripts
- →Build voice products on one API
- →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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