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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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BasicAI Cloud
✓ verifiedFreemium
Data-annotation platform with AI-assisted labeling tools and team workflows for building ML training datasets.
22K visits/mo
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Shaped AI
✓ verifiedFreemium
Managed AI ranking engine powering personalized search, recommendations, and feeds via a SQL-like query language.
88K visits/mo
Pricing
No public pricing
Free: $0 (1,000 pages, 10,000 retrievals)
Pro: $49/mo (10,000 pages, unlimited retrievals)
No public pricing
Standard: usage-based, $500/month minimum
Storage: $0.20 per GB
Enrichment tokens: $2 per million tokens
Reads: $0.45 per thousand
Writes: $0.012 per thousand
Training & encoding: $6 per hour
Free trial available
Core features
- ✦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-assisted data annotation tools
- ✦Training-data platform (BasicAI Cloud)
- ✦Team and project management
- ✦Annotation services
- ✦ShapedQL SQL-style query interface for retrieval and ranking
- ✦Hybrid semantic and keyword search
- ✦Continuous learning from user feedback signals
- ✦30+ native data connectors for warehouses and streams
- ✦Sub-50ms query latency
- ✦Python and TypeScript SDKs plus MCP support
Use cases
- →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
- →Labeling images and data for ML models
- →Managing annotation teams and projects
- →Producing training datasets at scale
- →Personalizing 'for you' content feeds
- →Building product recommendation systems
- →Powering RAG retrieval with behavioral ranking
- →Adding hybrid search to an e-commerce site
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