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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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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
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NopeCHA
✓ verifiedFreemium
An AI CAPTCHA-solving service via browser extension or API, supporting reCAPTCHA, hCaptcha, FunCaptcha and more for automation.
115K 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
Free: $0 (1k units/mo, 2 browsers)
Prototyping: $25/mo (20k units)
Starter: $140/mo (180k units)
Scale: $350/mo (500k units)
Free: $0 (up to 100 solves/24h)
Starter: $4.99/mo (2,000 solves/day)
Basic: $19.99/mo (20,000 solves/day)
Professional: $49.99/mo (80,000 solves/day)
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
- ✦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
- ✦AI CAPTCHA recognition (reCAPTCHA, hCaptcha, FunCaptcha, GeeTest, AWS WAF)
- ✦Chrome extension and Firefox add-on
- ✦Token and recognition APIs for browserless use
- ✦SDKs for Python and Node.js
- ✦Works with Selenium, Puppeteer and Playwright
- ✦Usage/activity monitoring dashboard
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
- →Run web scraping without infrastructure headaches
- →Automate browser workflows and tests
- →Give AI agents a reliable browser
- →Generate screenshots and PDFs via API
- →Automating CAPTCHA-gated web workflows
- →Bypassing bot checks in scraping and testing
- →Integrating CAPTCHA solving into scripts
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