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hCaptcha

✓ verifiedFreemium

Privacy-focused CAPTCHA and bot/fraud-detection service, a drop-in reCAPTCHA alternative for websites and apps.

4.4M visits/mo

DeepSeek

✓ verifiedFreemium

Chinese AI lab DeepSeek offering free chat apps and low-cost API access to its frontier V-series and R-series reasoning models.

430M visits/mo

PicoClaw

✓ verifiedFree

Ultra-lightweight, self-hosted open-source AI assistant in Go that runs on sub-$10 hardware like Raspberry Pi with under 10MB RAM.

81K visits/mo

BoltAI

✓ verifiedPaid

Native macOS app that unifies 300+ AI models in one private workspace with agents, MCP tools, and one-time licensing.

81K visits/mo33K saves

Facia

✓ verifiedFree trial

Enterprise biometric platform for liveness, deepfake detection and face matching in KYC and fraud-prevention flows.

95K visits/mo6.8K saves

Pricing

Basic: Free

Pro: $139/month billed monthly, $99/month billed yearly

Enterprise: Contact sales

Free trial available

No public pricing

Essential: $79 (1 seat, one-time)

Pro: $99 (2 seats + 1 mobile, one-time)

Team Perpetual: $99/seat/year

Free trial available

Pay As You Go: $0.10/check (Quick Liveness)

Pay As You Go: $0.12/check (Detailed Liveness)

Pay As You Go: $0.40/check (Deepfake Detection)

Pay As You Go: $0.70/check (Document Verification)

Free trial available

Core features

✦AI bot detection
✦Transaction fraud protection
✦Account-takeover (ATO) defense
✦Pull-based SMS MFA
✦Private Learning ML risk models
✦Two-line reCAPTCHA migration
✦Hundreds of integrations

✦Free DeepSeek chat (web and app)
✦Open API platform
✦V-series and R-series reasoning models
✦DeepSeek-V4 with long context and stronger agent ability
✦OpenAI/Anthropic-compatible API
✦Extensive published model lineup

✦Single self-contained binary requiring under 10MB RAM
✦Sub-1-second startup even on low-power processors
✦Support for 16+ chat channels including Telegram, Discord, Slack, WeCom
✦Compatibility with multiple LLM providers (OpenAI, Claude, DeepSeek, Gemini, etc.)
✦Runs on Raspberry Pi, RISC-V, ARM64, x86_64, Android, and Docker
✦Self-hosted design keeping data and configuration local
✦Gateway/API mode for connecting to chat platforms via MCP protocol

✦Switch across 300+ hosted and local AI models
✦Native macOS app with global shortcut and screenshot-to-answer
✦Reusable agents, projects, and forked chats
✦Multimodal analysis of PDFs, images, and code
✦MCP tools and code execution
✦Local chat storage with encryptable API keys

✦Active and passive liveness detection
✦Deepfake and AI-generated media detection
✦1:1 and 1:N face matching and search
✦Age estimation and document verification
✦iBeta Level 2 certified, low FAR/FRR
✦Lightweight mobile SDKs and REST APIs

Use cases

→Blocking bots and spam signups
→Preventing account takeover
→Reducing transaction and payment fraud
→Stopping credential stuffing

→Free AI chat and assistance
→Building apps via API
→Reasoning and coding tasks
→Low-cost LLM inference

→Running a private AI assistant on minimal or embedded hardware
→Local code assistance that keeps proprietary code off the cloud
→Home automation and personal task scheduling via chat bots
→Privacy-conscious users wanting self-hosted AI on low-cost devices

→Using multiple AI providers in one place
→Explaining or fixing on-screen content instantly
→Building reusable task-specific agents
→Analyzing documents and screenshots privately

→Anti-spoofing liveness checks during KYC onboarding
→Detecting deepfakes in live video calls
→Step-up biometric authentication for risky actions

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