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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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Capsolver
✓ verifiedPaid
Automatic AI CAPTCHA solver for reCAPTCHA and Cloudflare; high traffic but bypass niche.
281K visits/mo787 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
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
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)
Starter: €0 / month
Pro: €15 / month
Pro +: €40 / month
Team: €80 / month
Scale: €250 / month
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
- ✦Automatic CAPTCHA solving
- ✦AI-powered automation
- ✦Image to text conversion
- ✦Browser extensions for CAPTCHA solving
- ✦Multi-language support
- ✦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
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- ✦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
- →Web testing
- →Social media automation
- →Data collection
- →Market research
- →SEO optimization
- →Online shopping automation
- →Online gaming
- →Financial services automation
- →Run web scraping without infrastructure headaches
- →Automate browser workflows and tests
- →Give AI agents a reliable browser
- →Generate screenshots and PDFs via API
- →Generating concise marketing introductions from lengthy content using the Text Summarization API.
- →Translating text into multiple languages using the Text Translation API.
- →Ensuring grammatically correct and polished text using the Proofreading and Grammar Check API.
- →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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