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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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BlackBox AI
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AI coding platform routing many agents and models through one encrypted, usage-based endpoint with CLI, IDE and multi-agent execution.
3.9M visits/mo
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Blink.new
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AI app builder turning English prompts into full-stack apps with provisioned DB, auth and hosting; also hosts autonomous agents.
1.1M 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
Pro: $10/mo
Pro Plus: $20/mo
Pro Max: $40/mo
Free: $0 (no card)
Pro: $20/mo
Max: $50/mo
Blink Claw Starter: ~$45/mo
Blink Claw Standard: ~$90/mo
Blink Claw Pro: ~$180/mo
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
- ✦Unified encrypted inference endpoint
- ✦Multi-agent parallel execution
- ✦CLI, IDE, and API access
- ✦App builder and remote coding agents
- ✦Chairman LLM output evaluation
- ✦35+ IDE integrations
- ✦Natural-language full-stack app generation
- ✦Auto-provisioned Postgres, auth, storage and hosting
- ✦Full code ownership with GitHub export
- ✦Managed hosting for autonomous AI agents
- ✦200+ bundled AI models
- ✦MCP and CLI tooling
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
- →Automating refactors, tests, and migrations
- →Running competing AI coding agents
- →Building apps from prompts
- →Integrating agents into CI/CD
- →Ship a SaaS without an engineering team
- →Build internal tools from a description
- →Deploy always-on AI agents quickly
- →Provide infra for AI-coded apps
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