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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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VideoSDK
Free trial
Developer APIs and SDKs to embed real-time voice, video, live streaming, and AI voice agents into web and mobile apps.
164K visits/mo
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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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Albato
✓ verifiedPaid
No-code iPaaS with 1,000+ connectors and AI agents, available self-serve or as embedded white-label integrations for SaaS.
179K 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
Pay-As-You-Go: audio from $0.001/min
Pay-As-You-Go: video from $0.004/min
Free trial available
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
- ✦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)
- ✦Audio and video calling APIs and SDKs
- ✦Interactive live streaming APIs and SDKs
- ✦AI voice agent integration
- ✦Web and mobile platform support
- ✦Pay-as-you-go pricing with one-time $20 free credit
- ✦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
- ✦1,000+ prebuilt app connectors
- ✦No-code workflow and automation builder
- ✦AI agents and universal MCP
- ✦Embedded white-label integrations for SaaS
- ✦Custom app builder
- ✦Transaction-based billing, GDPR/SOC2
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
- →Embedding video and audio calling into web and mobile apps
- →Adding interactive live streaming to a platform
- →Building AI voice agent experiences into products
- →Testing REST APIs
- →Sending and inspecting HTTP requests
- →Debugging web services
- →Sharing API requests across a team
- →Automate workflows across apps
- →Embed native integrations into a SaaS product
- →Build an in-app integration marketplace
- →Connect CRM, marketing and sales tools
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