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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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APIMart
✓ verifiedPaid
Unified API gateway to 500+ AI models (GPT, Claude, Sora, image/video) with OpenAI-compatible endpoints and discounted usage.
328K visits/mo1.9K 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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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
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
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No public pricing
No public pricing
No public pricing
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
- ✦Single OpenAI-compatible API for 500+ models
- ✦Chat, image, video and audio models
- ✦Discounted per-request pricing
- ✦One dashboard for keys, quotas and usage
- ✦Multi-region routing and failover (99.9% uptime)
- ✦Multiple payment methods incl. crypto
- ✦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
- ✦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
- ✦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)
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
- →Accessing many AI models via one API
- →Cutting AI model API costs
- →Building multimodal AI apps
- →Consolidating AI billing and keys
- →Testing REST APIs
- →Sending and inspecting HTTP requests
- →Debugging web services
- →Sharing API requests across a team
- →Adding an AI chat UI to web apps
- →Building LLM-powered support agents
- →Embedding chat widgets in existing products
- →Prototyping chatbot interfaces
- →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
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