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LightOn
✓ verifiedFreemium
Production RAG API for developers: parse, extract and search documents with SOTA OCR and cited retrieval, cloud or on-prem.
29K visits/mo
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Interview Coder
✓ verifiedFreemium
Undetectable desktop AI assistant that feeds real-time answers during coding and technical interviews.
167K visits/mo
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Zyft
✓ verifiedFree
Free browser extension and app that automatically compares prices across Australian retailers while shopping online.
29K visits/mo1.0K saves
Pricing
Starter: Free + usage (parsing €0.002/page)
Business: €149/mo + usage (100 GB storage, unlimited users)
Free trial available
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Core features
- ✦Parse endpoint with SOTA OCR (LightOnOCR-2)
- ✦Extract endpoint for schema-based JSON
- ✦Search endpoint with hybrid retrieval and citations
- ✦MCP-native and LLM-agnostic
- ✦Workspaces and chunk-level access control
- ✦On-prem, VPC or air-gapped deployment
- ✦Real-time AI answers during technical interviews
- ✦Invisible to screen sharing and recording
- ✦Hidden from dock, tray and activity monitor
- ✦Click-through overlay
- ✦Live audio capture and transcription
- ✦Lifetime unlimited access license
- ✦Automatic in-background price comparison while shopping
- ✦Barcode scanner to check prices in physical stores
- ✦Price-drop alerts for saved products
- ✦Curated daily deals and retailer sales hub
- ✦Mobile app with search-and-compare functionality
- ✦AI-based product matching across retailers
Use cases
- →Build production RAG without a long in-house pipeline
- →OCR and structure scanned documents
- →Grounded document search with citations for agents
- →Deploy secure enterprise document intelligence
- →Getting live help on coding interview problems
- →Answering technical questions in real time
- →Avoiding detection during screen-shared interviews
- →Checking whether a product is cheaper elsewhere before buying
- →Scanning a barcode in-store to compare online prices
- →Getting notified when a wishlisted item's price drops
- →Browsing curated deals across Australian retailers
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