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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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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
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CapMonster Cloud
✓ verifiedPaid
Cloud API that auto-solves reCAPTCHA, Cloudflare and other CAPTCHAs at ~99% success, pay-per-solve for automation and scraping.
408K visits/mo486 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
Free: $0 (1k units/mo, 2 browsers)
Prototyping: $25/mo (20k units)
Starter: $140/mo (180k units)
Scale: $350/mo (500k units)
reCAPTCHA v2: $0.60 per 1000 tokens
reCAPTCHA v3: $0.90 per 1000 tokens
Cloudflare Turnstile: $1.30 per 1000 tokens
Text CAPTCHA: $0.30 per 1000 tokens
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
- ✦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)
- ✦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
- ✦API solving for reCAPTCHA, Cloudflare, GeeTest, AWS WAF and more
- ✦Up to 99% success rate
- ✦Built-in proxies included
- ✦SDKs for C#, Python, JS, Go, PHP
- ✦Chrome and Firefox extensions
- ✦Pay only for solved CAPTCHAs
- ✦Affiliate and volume-bonus programs
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
- →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
- →Run web scraping without infrastructure headaches
- →Automate browser workflows and tests
- →Give AI agents a reliable browser
- →Generate screenshots and PDFs via API
- →Automating CAPTCHA-gated web scraping
- →Bypassing anti-bot challenges in bots and apps
- →Integrating captcha solving into software
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