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Convex
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TypeScript backend-as-a-service with a reactive database, server functions, auth and file storage for full-stack and AI apps.
692K visits/mo20K saves
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Alfred AI
✓ verifiedPaid
API intelligence platform discovering, scoring and correlating API design, security and runtime signals into one production-readiness score.
33K visits/mo
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anchain.ai
✓ verifiedFreemium
AI-powered crypto risk and investigation platform for blockchain forensics, AML compliance and real-time transaction screening.
5.1K visits/mo
Pricing
Free & Starter: $0/mo (pay-as-you-go, 1-6 developers)
Professional: $25/developer/mo
Business & Enterprise: $2,500/mo minimum
Core: $233/month billed yearly (5 APIs, 500 requests/min)
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No public pricing
Free: $0/month
Pro: $5.99/month
Pro Annual: $49.99/year
Core features
- ✦Reactive real-time database
- ✦TypeScript server functions (queries/mutations/actions)
- ✦Built-in authentication
- ✦Cron jobs and backend workflows
- ✦File storage, text and vector search
- ✦ACID transactions; open-source/self-host
- ✦Automatic API discovery from source code, gateways and live traffic
- ✦Composite API Heartbeat score combining design, security and performance signals
- ✦Real-time API vitals like latency, error rates and throughput
- ✦Cross-signal correlation linking security findings to design and usage context
- ✦Design-to-runtime drift tracking against OpenAPI specs
- ✦Executive dashboards for non-technical risk reporting
- ✦Higher tiers add API security, governance and an AI assistant
- ✦Simple fill-in-the-blank interface for AI tools
- ✦Tool creation and customization
- ✦Easy sharing of AI tools via links
- ✦AI-powered tools for various tasks like summarizing, writing, and coding
- ✦AI blockchain forensics (CISO, Auto-Trace)
- ✦Real-time transaction and payment screening
- ✦AML and sanctions compliance automation
- ✦Smart-contract due diligence (SCREEN)
- ✦Crypto intelligence Data API and MCP
- ✦16+ ML models and risk scoring
- ✦AI-powered formula generation
- ✦Formula explanation
- ✦VBA code generation and explanation
- ✦Chrome Extension and Excel add-in integration
Use cases
- →Building real-time reactive apps
- →Backends for AI agents
- →Replacing Firebase or Supabase
- →Full-stack TypeScript development
- →Platform teams needing a single inventory of all APIs across clouds and gateways
- →Security teams correlating vulnerabilities with API design and usage risk
- →Engineering leaders monitoring overall API health via one composite score
- →Compliance teams tracking documentation and governance gaps
- →Organizations wanting predictive alerts before API incidents occur
- →Summarizing text
- →Generating emails
- →Finding synonyms
- →Coding R functions
- →Rephrasing sentences
- →Improving memos
- →Scanning meeting notes for action items
- →Drafting sales call outlines
- →Investigating crypto fraud and crime
- →Meeting AML/CFT/KYC requirements
- →Screening wallets and transactions
- →Smart-contract risk monitoring
- →Generating complex Excel formulas using simple text prompts.
- →Understanding complex Excel or Google Sheets formulas.
- →Writing or understanding VBA code.
- →Automating tasks in Excel and Google Sheets.
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