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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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SQLAI.ai
✓ verifiedPaid
AI SQL toolkit for analysts and developers to generate, optimize, validate, format and explain queries across 30+ database engines.
26K visits/mo2.7K saves
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Sequel
✓ verifiedFreemium
Governed data layer connecting marketing, product and finance sources to AI agents for plain-language querying.
6.4K visits/mo4.3K saves
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GPTExcel
✓ verifiedFreemium
AI assistant that generates and explains Excel/Sheets/Airtable formulas plus SQL, regex, VBA and scripts for spreadsheet users.
245K visits/mo65K saves
Pricing
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
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
Free: $0/mo (1 data source, 1 user)
Pro: $19/mo (unlimited data sources, 1 user)
Team: $99/mo (unlimited data sources and users, Slack access)
No public pricing
Core features
- ✦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
- ✦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
- ✦Unified connection to 100+ marketing/product/finance data sources
- ✦MCP-compatible interface usable by any AI agent
- ✦Learns custom metric definitions and joins across sources
- ✦Secure credential gateway that keeps raw keys from agents
- ✦Cross-source joins spanning databases, warehouses and product data
- ✦Fine-grained audit logs of every query
- ✦Live dashboards and debugging in plain English
- ✦Formula generator for Excel/Sheets/Airtable
- ✦Formula explanation
- ✦SQL query generation
- ✦Regex generator
- ✦VBA and Apps Script generation
- ✦Pivot tables, charts and data insights
Use cases
- →Organic keyword tracking
- →Brand protection
- →Price comparison
- →Market research
- →Detect copyright infringements
- →Ad intelligence
- →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
- →Marketing teams asking AI agents for campaign or ROAS reports
- →Data teams governing access to metrics across tools
- →Agencies building AI-driven client reporting
- →Writing complex spreadsheet formulas
- →Understanding existing formulas
- →Generating SQL and regex
- →Automating spreadsheet tasks with scripts
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