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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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ImageKit
✓ verifiedFreemium
ImageKit is an image and video optimization and delivery API with a DAM and creative automation for developers and teams.
1.0M 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
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Capsolver
✓ verifiedPaid
Automatic AI CAPTCHA solver for reCAPTCHA and Cloudflare; high traffic but bypass niche.
281K visits/mo787 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
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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
- ✦Real-time image/video optimization and URL-based transforms
- ✦AI and GenAI transforms (smart crop, background removal, generative fill, upscaling)
- ✦Global CDN delivery with sub-50ms response
- ✦AI-powered digital asset management
- ✦Creative automation for on-brand banners at scale
- ✦SDKs and integrations for major stacks and CMSs
- ✦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)
- ✦Automatic CAPTCHA solving
- ✦AI-powered automation
- ✦Image to text conversion
- ✦Browser extensions for CAPTCHA solving
- ✦Multi-language support
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
- →Speeding up website and app media performance
- →Optimizing e-commerce and media images and video
- →Centralized digital asset management and collaboration
- →Adaptive video streaming
- →Generating thousands of on-brand banner variations
- →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
- →Web testing
- →Social media automation
- →Data collection
- →Market research
- →SEO optimization
- →Online shopping automation
- →Online gaming
- →Financial services automation
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