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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

DHTMLX Chatbot

✓ verifiedFree

Lightweight MIT-licensed JavaScript chatbot UI widget for building support-agent chat interfaces on top of any LLM.

92K visits/mo

Tinybird

✓ verifiedFreemium

Managed ClickHouse platform giving developers hosted ingestion and query APIs to ship real-time analytics products fast.

104K visits/mo

Airbyte

✓ verifiedFreemium

Open-source data-movement platform now adding a context/action layer for AI agents; 600+ connectors and flexible pricing.

222K visits/mo

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

No public pricing

Free: $0/mo (0.25 vCPUs, 1k requests/day, 10GB storage)

Developer: $49/mo (0.5 vCPUs, 25GB storage, 2 replicas)

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

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

✦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

✦Managed, hosted ClickHouse database
✦Sub-second SQL query APIs
✦Kafka and other data connectors
✦Safe, zero-downtime schema migrations
✦Git-based branching with zero-copy prod data
✦SOC 2 Type II enterprise security

✦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

✦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

→Adding an AI chat UI to web apps
→Building LLM-powered support agents
→Embedding chat widgets in existing products
→Prototyping chatbot interfaces

→Building real-time analytics dashboards
→Powering in-app usage or event analytics
→Streaming Kafka topics into query-ready tables
→Letting AI coding agents build and deploy analytics

→Building data pipelines to warehouses
→Syncing SaaS data for analytics
→Giving AI agents live business context

→Automating CAPTCHA-gated web workflows
→Bypassing bot checks in scraping and testing
→Integrating CAPTCHA solving into scripts

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