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VideoDB
✓ verifiedFreemium
Developer video-data infrastructure API that indexes, searches, and generates clips from files, streams, and live cameras for AI agents.
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ImageKit
✓ verifiedFreemium
ImageKit is an image and video optimization and delivery API with a DAM and creative automation for developers and teams.
1.0M visits/mo
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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
Pro: $20/mo (rolling monthly credit, no rate limits)
Free: $0/mo ($20 free credits to start)
Free trial available
No public pricing
Free trial available
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
- ✦Ingestion of files, RTSP streams, and live camera feeds
- ✦Semantic search returning playable video clips
- ✦Scene, speech, and object understanding indexing
- ✦Real-time alerting for live camera feeds
- ✦Video editing and generation via API (dubbing, overlays, captions)
- ✦Integration with agent workflows via webhooks and events
- ✦Real-time image/video optimization and URL-based transforms
- ✦AI and GenAI transforms (smart crop, background removal, generative fill, upscaling)
- ✦Global CDN delivery with sub-50ms response
- ✦AI-powered digital asset management
- ✦Creative automation for on-brand banners at scale
- ✦SDKs and integrations for major stacks and CMSs
- ✦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
- →Giving AI agents real-time visual context from cameras
- →Building searchable archives of large video libraries
- →Programmatically assembling new clips from search results
- →Generating training data samples from raw footage
- →Speeding up website and app media performance
- →Optimizing e-commerce and media images and video
- →Centralized digital asset management and collaboration
- →Adaptive video streaming
- →Generating thousands of on-brand banner variations
- →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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