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Caktus
✓ verifiedFreemium
AI study suite for students with 25+ tools including an essay writer, math solver, citation finder and text humanizer.
71K visits/mo30K saves
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Agentset
✓ verifiedFreemium
Open-source RAG infrastructure with SDKs and an API for developers to build accurate, cited AI chat and search on their own data.
24K visits/mo
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Bland.ai
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Enterprise voice-AI platform for building phone agents on dedicated infrastructure, with per-minute pricing and HIPAA/SOC2/PCI compliance.
226K visits/mo6.2K saves
Pricing
Starter: $9/mo
Pro: $18/mo
Expert: $25/mo
No public pricing
Free: $0 (1,000 pages, 10,000 retrievals)
Pro: $49/mo (10,000 pages, unlimited retrievals)
Start: $0/mo platform fee + $0.14/min
Build: $299/mo + $0.12/min
Scale: $499/mo + $0.11/min
Free trial available
Core features
- ✦Access to multiple AI models (GPT-4, Claude 3, Mixtral)
- ✦PDF analysis
- ✦AI image generation
- ✦AI data scientist
- ✦AI visualizations
- ✦Music composition
- ✦AI essay writer with APA/MLA/Chicago/Harvard citations
- ✦Step-by-step math solver
- ✦Research and scholarly citation finder
- ✦AI text humanizer with style presets
- ✦Flashcard and study-material generation
- ✦Managed RAG pipeline (extraction, chunking, retrieval)
- ✦Automatic source citations
- ✦Multimodal support (images, tables, graphs)
- ✦Model-agnostic: choose vector DB, embeddings, LLM
- ✦Metadata filtering
- ✦MCP server and AI SDK integration
- ✦22+ file-format ingestion
- ✦AI phone agents (inbound and outbound)
- ✦No-code agent builder (Norm)
- ✦Scenario testing before launch
- ✦Omnichannel voice, SMS, iMessage and chat
- ✦Telephony and CRM integrations
- ✦Enterprise compliance and on-prem options
Use cases
- →Chat with PDF documents to get instant insights
- →Turn data into easy-to-understand visuals
- →Create high-quality images with AI
- →Manage tasks more efficiently with AI assistance
- →Drafting cited essays
- →Working through math problems
- →Finding and formatting academic sources
- →Creating study materials from notes
- →Build a chatbot over private documents
- →Add semantic or deep search to an app
- →Ground answers in a large corpus with citations
- →Ship production RAG without building it in-house
- →Automating customer-service calls
- →IVR replacement and appointment booking
- →Outbound sales and lead qualification
- →Regulated-industry voice automation
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