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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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Airbyte
✓ verifiedFreemium
Open-source data-movement platform now adding a context/action layer for AI agents; 600+ connectors and flexible pricing.
222K visits/mo
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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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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
No public pricing
Agents Free: $0/mo (1000 AOs)
Agents Individual: $29/mo (5000 AOs)
Agents Team: $299/mo (10,000 AOs)
Data Standard: from $10/mo
Data Plus: from $500/mo
No public pricing
Free trial available
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
No public pricing
Core features
- ✦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
- ✦600+ data connectors
- ✦ELT replication and CDC
- ✦Open-source and managed cloud options
- ✦Airbyte Agents context store (MCP/SDK/CLI)
- ✦Capacity- and volume-based pricing
- ✦Governance: SSO, RBAC, encryption
- ✦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
- ✦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
- ✦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)
Use cases
- →Testing REST APIs
- →Sending and inspecting HTTP requests
- →Debugging web services
- →Sharing API requests across a team
- →Building data pipelines to warehouses
- →Syncing SaaS data for analytics
- →Giving AI agents live business context
- →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
- →Automating CAPTCHA-gated web scraping
- →Bypassing anti-bot challenges in bots and apps
- →Integrating captcha solving into software
- →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
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