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ZEGOCLOUD
✓ verifiedFreemium
Real-time voice, video, chat, and conversational-AI SDKs/APIs for developers building interactive communication features into apps.
146K visits/mo9.7K saves
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APIMart
✓ verifiedPaid
Unified API gateway to 500+ AI models (GPT, Claude, Sora, image/video) with OpenAI-compatible endpoints and discounted usage.
328K visits/mo1.9K saves
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DHTMLX Chatbot
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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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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
Pricing
Voice Call: $0.99 per 1,000 participant minutes
Video Call: $3.99 per 1,000 participant minutes
Live Streaming: $0.39 per 1,000 minutes
In-app Chat: $99 per 10,000 MAU
AI Effects: $584 per 2 platforms/month
Super Board: $1.99 per 1,000 participant minutes
Cloud Recording: $0.59 per 1,000 recording minutes
Analytics Dashboard: $299/month
Free trial available
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No public 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
Core features
- ✦Video and voice call SDKs
- ✦Live streaming SDK for interactive broadcasts
- ✦In-app chat API
- ✦Cloud recording of audio/video streams
- ✦AI face effects and digital-human generation
- ✦Conversational AI agent building tools
- ✦20+ pre-built UIKits for rapid app development
- ✦Real-time cloud speech transcription
- ✦Single OpenAI-compatible API for 500+ models
- ✦Chat, image, video and audio models
- ✦Discounted per-request pricing
- ✦One dashboard for keys, quotas and usage
- ✦Multi-region routing and failover (99.9% uptime)
- ✦Multiple payment methods incl. crypto
- ✦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
- ✦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
Use cases
- →App developers adding live video or voice chat
- →Social and dating apps needing engagement features
- →Telehealth platforms requiring secure video calls
- →E-commerce brands adding live-streaming shopping
- →Education platforms needing interactive whiteboards
- →Accessing many AI models via one API
- →Cutting AI model API costs
- →Building multimodal AI apps
- →Consolidating AI billing and keys
- →Adding an AI chat UI to web apps
- →Building LLM-powered support agents
- →Embedding chat widgets in existing products
- →Prototyping chatbot interfaces
- →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
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