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Consistent Character by fofr
✓ verifiedPaid
Pay-per-use cloud API to run, fine-tune, and deploy thousands of open-source and proprietary AI models with one line of code.
1.3M visits/mo17K saves
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Apify
✓ verifiedFreemium
Full-stack platform for web scraping, data extraction, and automation; category leader.
4.4M visits/mo2.0K saves
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exa.ai
✓ verifiedFreemium
Search, crawling and research API built for AI agents, with token-efficient results and structured web-data enrichment.
761K visits/mo1.7K saves
Pricing
CPU (Small): $0.000025/sec ($0.09/hr)
Nvidia A100 80GB: $0.0014/sec ($5.04/hr)
Nvidia H100: $0.001525/sec ($5.49/hr)
Free trial available
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
Unlocker API: Starts from $1.05/1k req
Crawl API: Starts from $1.05/1k req
SERP API: Starts from $1.05/1k req
Browser API: Starts from $5.88/GB
Scrapers: Starts from $300/mo
Datasets: Starts from $250/mo
Functions: Starts from $2.7/1k req
RetailInsights: Starts from $1,000/mo
Residential Proxies: Starts from $3.53/GB
Datacenter Proxies: Starts from $0.9/IP
ISP Proxies: Starts from $1.3/IP
Mobile Proxies: Starts from $5.88/GB
Custom Scraper: Starts from $300/mo
No public pricing
Free: $0 (20,000 requests/mo)
Search: $7/1k requests
Contents: $1/1k pages
Deep Search: $12-15/1k requests
Monitors: $15/1k requests
Agent: $0.012-$1.00/run
Core features
- ✦One-line API calls to run community and proprietary AI models
- ✦Support for image, video, speech, and LLM generation models
- ✦Fine-tuning and custom model deployment via Cog
- ✦Per-second usage billing on shared or dedicated hardware
- ✦Automatic scaling for high-traffic private models
- ✦Thousands of community-published models with production APIs
- ✦Web scraping
- ✦Data extraction
- ✦Browser automation
- ✦AI agents
- ✦Anti-blocking
- ✦Proxy rotation
- ✦Open-source tools (Crawlee)
- ✦Ready-made tools and code templates
- ✦Multi-engine support (Google, Duckduckgo, Bing, Yandex, Baidu)
- ✦Real-time structured SERP data
- ✦Pay-per-successful-request pricing
- ✦Full JavaScript support
- ✦Precise geo-location targeting
- ✦Structured data delivery in JSON or HTML
- ✦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 search API tuned for agents
- ✦Full-page contents with token-efficient highlights
- ✦Asynchronous agents for deep research and enrichment
- ✦Structured outputs with grounded citations
- ✦Web monitors that track new events on a schedule
- ✦Zero data retention and SOC 2 Type II controls
Use cases
- →Developers embedding image/video/speech generation into an app via API
- →Teams deploying and scaling their own fine-tuned models
- →Builders comparing outputs from multiple AI models in one playground
- →Companies avoiding GPU infrastructure management for ML inference
- →Data for generative AI
- →Lead generation
- →Market research
- →Sentiment analysis
- →Organic keyword tracking
- →Brand protection
- →Price comparison
- →Market research
- →Detect copyright infringements
- →Ad intelligence
- →Creating and manipulating datasets
- →Training small machine learning models
- →Implementing advanced training and inference logic
- →Building applications that require tensor computations
- →Give coding agents current docs and repo context
- →Power chatbots with real-time web answers
- →Enrich company and people data at scale
- →Monitor the web for fresh events
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