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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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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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Capsolver
✓ verifiedPaid
Automatic AI CAPTCHA solver for reCAPTCHA and Cloudflare; high traffic but bypass niche.
281K visits/mo787 saves
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ZEGOCLOUD
✓ verifiedFreemium
Real-time voice, video, chat, and conversational-AI SDKs/APIs for developers building interactive communication features into apps.
146K visits/mo9.7K saves
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
No public pricing
Voice Call: $0.99 per 1,000 participant minutes
Video Call: $3.99 per 1,000 participant minutes
Live Streaming: $0.39 per 1,000 minutes
In-app Chat: $99 per 10,000 MAU
AI Effects: $584 per 2 platforms/month
Super Board: $1.99 per 1,000 participant minutes
Cloud Recording: $0.59 per 1,000 recording minutes
Analytics Dashboard: $299/month
Free trial available
Starter: €0 / month
Pro: €15 / month
Pro +: €40 / month
Team: €80 / month
Scale: €250 / month
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
- ✦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
- ✦Automatic CAPTCHA solving
- ✦AI-powered automation
- ✦Image to text conversion
- ✦Browser extensions for CAPTCHA solving
- ✦Multi-language support
- ✦Video and voice call SDKs
- ✦Live streaming SDK for interactive broadcasts
- ✦In-app chat API
- ✦Cloud recording of audio/video streams
- ✦AI face effects and digital-human generation
- ✦Conversational AI agent building tools
- ✦20+ pre-built UIKits for rapid app development
- ✦Real-time cloud speech transcription
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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
- →Testing REST APIs
- →Sending and inspecting HTTP requests
- →Debugging web services
- →Sharing API requests across a team
- →Web testing
- →Social media automation
- →Data collection
- →Market research
- →SEO optimization
- →Online shopping automation
- →Online gaming
- →Financial services automation
- →App developers adding live video or voice chat
- →Social and dating apps needing engagement features
- →Telehealth platforms requiring secure video calls
- →E-commerce brands adding live-streaming shopping
- →Education platforms needing interactive whiteboards
- →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.
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