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Apify
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Full-stack platform for web scraping, data extraction, and automation; category leader.
4.4M visits/mo2.0K saves
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SQLAI.ai
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AI SQL toolkit for analysts and developers to generate, optimize, validate, format and explain queries across 30+ database engines.
26K visits/mo2.7K saves
Pricing
DEVELOPER: FREE
STARTER: $119 / month
GROWTH: $599 / month
ENTERPRISE: Starting at $1,800 / month
No public pricing
Free Plan: $0 one-time
Hobby: $16/month
Standard: $83/month
Growth: $333/month
Auto Recharge Credits: $11/mo for 1000 credits
Credit Pack: $9/mo for 1000 credits
Enterprise Plan: Contact for Pricing
Free: $0/mo ($5 included usage)
Starter: $29/mo ($26/mo billed annually)
Scale: $199/mo ($179/mo billed annually)
Business: $999/mo ($899/mo billed annually)
Free trial available
Hobby: $4/mo (50 queries/month)
Starter: $6/mo (200 queries/month)
Explorer: $10/mo (1,000 queries/month)
Pro: $20/mo (3,000 queries/month)
Free trial available
Core features
- ✦Developer-first platform for AI-powered integrations
- ✦Secure, isolated sandboxes for running JavaScript/Python code
- ✦Automatic management of npm/PyPI dependencies
- ✦Built-in platform plumbing: secrets, webhooks, scheduling, logs, and audit
- ✦Yep Agent (prompt → runnable processes)
- ✦MCP Server/Tools (convert code into AI agent tools)
- ✦Serverless runtime (YepCode Run) and SDK access
- ✦Fast tensor operations
- ✦Differentiable tensors for gradient-based optimization
- ✦Network connectivity
- ✦Integration with Bun and Flashlight
- ✦Support for GPU computation with CUDA (Linux) and CPU computation (macOS)
- ✦Web scraping
- ✦Web crawling
- ✦Data extraction in Markdown, JSON, and screenshot formats
- ✦Dynamic content handling
- ✦Rotating proxies
- ✦Rate limits management
- ✦Open-source availability
- ✦Media Parsing
- ✦Web scraping
- ✦Data extraction
- ✦Browser automation
- ✦AI agents
- ✦Anti-blocking
- ✦Proxy rotation
- ✦Open-source tools (Crawlee)
- ✦Ready-made tools and code templates
- ✦Natural-language to SQL/NoSQL query generation
- ✦AI-driven query optimization with rewrite suggestions
- ✦Syntax validation with automated error fixes
- ✦Query formatting and cross-engine conversion
- ✦Schema-aware data source connections with autosuggest
- ✦Rule-based guardrails per connected data source
- ✦Support for large schemas with 900+ tables
Use cases
- →Building complex API integrations that require custom code and logic beyond what no-code tools offer.
- →Safely running AI-generated scripts in isolated environments with secrets management.
- →Automating workflows that require large datasets, loops, branching, or custom dependencies.
- →Connecting AI agents to external databases, APIs, and services using MCP tools.
- →Creating and manipulating datasets
- →Training small machine learning models
- →Implementing advanced training and inference logic
- →Building applications that require tensor computations
- →Powering AI assistants with real-time web content
- →Enhancing sales data with web information
- →Adding scraping capabilities to code editors
- →Enabling customers to build AI apps with web data
- →Extracting comprehensive information for in-depth research
- →Data for generative AI
- →Lead generation
- →Market research
- →Sentiment analysis
- →Analysts writing SQL without deep query-syntax knowledge
- →Developers debugging and optimizing slow queries
- →Teams standardizing SQL formatting across a codebase
- →Migrating queries between database engines
- →Learners wanting plain-language explanations of SQL statements
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