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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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Miniapps.ai
✓ verifiedFreemium
Marketplace and no-code builder for AI mini-apps and chatbots, with one-place access to many models and embeds.
2.3M visits/mo
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Dyad
✓ verifiedFreemium
Free, local, open-source AI app builder that works with any AI model and exports real code you own, with zero lock-in.
245K visits/mo
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Vibecode.dev
✓ verifiedPaid
AI app builder that lets non-developers describe an idea and generate a working mobile or web app through chat.
367K 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 (100 credits/day, basic models)
Standard: $9.99/mo (8,000 credits, all models)
Pro: $39/mo (35,000 credits, API and embeds)
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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
- ✦Access to many AI models in one place
- ✦Create no-code AI mini-apps and chatbots
- ✦Community app/game marketplace
- ✦Embed apps on websites
- ✦Image, audio and video generation apps
- ✦Local-first, open-source app building
- ✦Works with any AI model or provider
- ✦Exports real, ownable code (no lock-in)
- ✦Supabase database, auth, and server functions
- ✦Built-in security review and fixes
- ✦Deploy to GitHub and Vercel; MCP server support
- ✦Natural language to app generation
- ✦Support for both mobile and web app output
- ✦Deployment-ready output with responsive UI
- ✦Credit-based usage pricing pegged to AI provider costs
- ✦Rollover, non-expiring credits
- ✦Mobile companion app for building on the go
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
- →Building custom AI chatbots
- →Discovering community AI apps
- →Embedding AI apps on a site
- →Generating images, music and text
- →Building full-stack apps with your own AI models
- →Prototyping without proprietary platform lock-in
- →Adding database and auth via Supabase
- →Deploying apps to GitHub and Vercel
- →Founders prototyping a mobile app idea without hiring developers
- →Non-technical users building internal tools or SaaS MVPs
- →Teams needing quick websites or content management systems
- →Developers experimenting with AI-assisted app scaffolding
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