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Zeabur
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Cloud deployment platform for developers that auto-detects code and frameworks to ship apps, servers, and AI-hub services with one push.
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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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Mintlify
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Documentation and knowledge platform that keeps developer docs self-updating and queryable by AI agents.
718K visits/mo
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The New GitBook
✓ verifiedFreemium
Documentation platform for publishing accurate, AI-ready docs sites, with Git sync and an MCP server for AI tools.
653K visits/mo2.9K saves
Pricing
Free: $0/mo (1 manageable server)
Dev: $5/mo (first 14 days free, 3 servers)
Pro: $19/mo (first 14 days free, 10 servers)
Team: $79/mo (3 seats included, +$24/seat/mo)
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
Starter: $0/mo (individuals and small teams)
Free trial available
No public pricing
Free trial available
Core features
- ✦Automatic language and framework detection and deployment
- ✦Git-push CI/CD with zero configuration
- ✦Auto-scaling compute resources
- ✦Built-in object storage similar to S3
- ✦One-click managed VPS purchase
- ✦Unified AI Hub API for multiple AI models
- ✦Domain and DNS management
- ✦In-browser file management console
- ✦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
- ✦Self-updating documentation
- ✦Web-based documentation editor
- ✦Custom domain hosting
- ✦Built-in search and API playground
- ✦MCP server for agent access
- ✦Authentication and access controls
- ✦Publish structured documentation sites
- ✦Git sync for docs-as-code workflows
- ✦AI setup agent to build and import docs
- ✦GitBook MCP server for AI access
- ✦Enterprise controls
- ✦Free tier to start
Use cases
- →Developers deploying apps without manual server config
- →Teams wanting predictable, fixed-plan hosting costs
- →Startups needing quick CI/CD pipelines
- →Projects needing bundled AI model access alongside hosting
- →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
- →Publish and maintain developer documentation
- →Expose docs to AI agents via MCP
- →Host a branded docs site on a custom domain
- →Give teams a collaborative doc editor
- →Publish product and API documentation
- →Maintain docs-as-code with Git sync
- →Make docs consumable by AI assistants
- →Import existing docs into a hosted site
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