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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

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

Gologin Cloud Browser

✓ verifiedPaid

Serverless cloud browser API with persistent sessions, built-in stealth and proxies, for AI agents, automation and scraping.

655K visits/mo

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

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 trial available

Professional: $24/mo billed annually (100 profiles)

Business: $49/mo billed annually (300 profiles)

Enterprise: $99/mo billed annually (1000 profiles)

Custom: $149/mo billed annually (2000+ profiles)

Free trial available

No public pricing

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

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

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

✦Serverless cloud Chromium browsers
✦Persistent logged-in sessions
✦Built-in stealth / anti-detect fingerprinting
✦Residential & datacenter proxies in 150+ countries
✦Playwright/Puppeteer WebSocket connection
✦Headful mode for live inspection

✦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

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

→Running AI browser agents
→Web scraping at scale
→Automating logged-in workflows
→Debugging automation in live sessions

→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

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