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ImageKit
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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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exa.ai
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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
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AI-driven platform to visually design multi-cloud infrastructure and auto-generate Terraform code with built-in CI/CD.
17K visits/mo
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Defang
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Developer tool that deploys Docker Compose apps (with LLMs and databases) into your own AWS, GCP or Azure account via one command.
20K visits/mo
Pricing
No public pricing
Free trial available
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)
Free trial available
Starter: $0 (1 cloud account)
Pro: $49/mo (1 account, +$29/mo per extra)
Enterprise: $499/mo (3 accounts, +$49/mo per extra)
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
- ✦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
- ✦One-command deploy from Docker Compose
- ✦Deploys into your own or a customer's cloud account
- ✦Native managed LLM access (Bedrock/Vertex/Azure AI)
- ✦Managed Postgres, MongoDB and Redis
- ✦Auto-configured IAM, VPC, TLS and load balancing
- ✦Open-source CLI and cloud providers
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
- →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
- →Shipping AI agents and web apps to production
- →Deploying the same app across many customer clouds
- →Agencies deploying into client cloud accounts
- →Avoiding hand-written Terraform or Kubernetes
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