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Arena
✓ verifiedFreemium
Engagement suite adding live chat, comments, polls and live blogs to publisher and brand sites to grow and monetize audiences.
145K visits/mo
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Interview Coder
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Undetectable desktop AI assistant that feeds real-time answers during coding and technical interviews.
167K visits/mo
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LightOn
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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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tambo
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Open-source React toolkit that lets developers add a generative-UI AI agent to existing app components.
26K visits/mo
Pricing
Free: $0/mo
Starter: $49/mo
Professional: $249/mo
Business: $999/mo
Free trial available
No public pricing
Starter: Free + usage (parsing €0.002/page)
Business: €149/mo + usage (100 GB storage, unlimited users)
Free trial available
Starter: Free (10K messages/month)
Growth: $25/month (200K messages/month included, $8 per additional 100K block)
Core features
- ✦Threaded comments
- ✦Real-time group chat
- ✦Live blog streams
- ✦AI polls and moderation
- ✦First-party data capture
- ✦No-code website embed
- ✦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
- ✦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
- ✦Renders registered React components as AI-generated UI
- ✦Built-in conversation streaming and thread history
- ✦Inherits existing user authentication and permissions
- ✦MCP (Model Context Protocol) support
- ✦Multi-model support
- ✦Self-hostable open-source cloud package
Use cases
- →Live event coverage
- →Growing on-site community
- →Monetizing audience with ads
- →Capturing first-party data
- →Getting live help on coding interview problems
- →Answering technical questions in real time
- →Avoiding detection during screen-shared interviews
- →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
- →Adding a chatbot-driven interface to an existing React product
- →Letting users query and manipulate app data through natural language
- →Building agent-powered dashboards that reuse a design system
- →Prototyping AI features without rebuilding the frontend
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