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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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Brainboard
✓ verifiedFreemium
AI-driven platform to visually design multi-cloud infrastructure and auto-generate Terraform code with built-in CI/CD.
17K 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
Free: $0 (unlimited architectures and code generation)
Pro: $99/user/mo (Git, CI/CD, RBAC, remote backend)
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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
- ✦Visual multi-cloud architecture designer
- ✦Instant Terraform/OpenTofu code generation
- ✦Drift detection and remediation
- ✦Embedded visual CI/CD engine
- ✦GitOps workflow and RBAC
- ✦AI infrastructure generation from prompts
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
- →Designing and deploying cloud infrastructure visually
- →Migrating to Infrastructure as Code
- →Standardizing Terraform modules and naming
- →Detecting drift between design and live cloud
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