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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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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
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Middleware
✓ verifiedFreemium

Full-stack observability platform with an AI SRE agent that detects, debugs, and auto-fixes issues across infra, apps, and users.

47K visits/mo713 saves
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Union Cloud
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Cloud-agnostic AI/ML workflow orchestrator that runs pipelines inside a customer's own infrastructure for compute-heavy teams.

25K visits/mo
Pricing

No public pricing

Free trial available

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

No public pricing

Team: $950/month + usage (1,000 concurrent actions, 30-day retention, 1 cluster)
Core features
  • 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
  • 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
  • Infrastructure and application performance monitoring
  • Log monitoring with AI insights
  • Real user monitoring
  • OpsAI SRE agent for detection and auto-fix
  • Synthetic and browser testing
  • LLM observability
  • Python-native dynamic workflow authoring
  • Automatic failure recovery, caching, and versioning
  • Zero Trust architecture keeping data inside customer's cloud
  • Real-time inference and agentic-AI workflow support
  • High-throughput scaling (tens of thousands of actions per run)
  • Local development environment matching production behavior
Use cases
  • 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
  • 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
  • Monitor full-stack app and infra health
  • Debug incidents faster with AI
  • Correlate frontend and backend issues
  • Observe Kubernetes and cloud environments
  • ML teams orchestrating training and inference pipelines at scale
  • Biotech/geospatial companies needing GPU-heavy pipeline orchestration
  • Enterprises migrating off Airflow for ML workflow management
  • Teams requiring workflows that never send data outside their own cloud
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