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Freemium

Wappalyzer

Technology stack detection and lead-generation API.
Identifies the CMS, frameworks, analytics and other technologies a website uses, offered as a browser tool plus lookup and lead-list APIs. Feeds agents that segment or qualify companies by tech stack.

Freemium

BuiltWith

Website technology profiling and lead data API.
A service and API that detects the technologies a website runs and exposes technology-based lead lists and market share reports. Used by agents for competitive research and prospecting.

Paid

Bannerbear

API to auto-generate images and videos from templates.
An API and integrations that generate marketing images, social media visuals and short videos from templates and dynamic data. Agents call it to produce on-brand media without a designer.

Paid

1Lookup

Phone, email and IP validation and enrichment API.
A validation and enrichment API covering phone numbers, email addresses and IP data across dozens of data products behind one interface. Agents use it to verify and enrich contact records.

Freemium

Streaming Availability API

Where-to-watch data for movies and TV shows.
An API that returns which streaming services carry a given movie or show by country, with deep links and metadata. Used by entertainment recommendation agents and apps.

Freemium

AeroDataBox

Flight, airport and aircraft data API.
An aviation data API covering flight status, schedules, airports and aircraft, available through RapidAPI and direct access. Powers travel and logistics agents that need real-time flight information.

Paid

SocialData.tools

Twitter/X data API for developers.
A developer API exposing X/Twitter timelines, search, users and engagement data as JSON, positioned as a stable alternative for programmatic access. Feeds social-listening and research agents.

Paid

twitterapi.io

Structured X/Twitter data API.
An API that returns tweets, user profiles, followers and search results from X/Twitter as structured JSON without official-API friction. Used by agents that monitor or research social activity.

Freemium

ExchangeRate-API

Simple currency exchange rate API.
A currency conversion API returning current and historical exchange rates for over 160 currencies through a single endpoint. A common utility dependency for agents doing pricing, invoicing or finance tasks.

Freemium

The Odds API

Sports odds and scores API for many bookmakers.
A REST API delivering live and upcoming sports odds, scores and results across bookmakers and markets. Feeds betting, analytics and sports-focused agents with structured odds data.

Paid

Scrapingdog

Scraping API for web pages, search results and social data.
A scraping API offering rendered-HTML retrieval plus dedicated endpoints for Google search, LinkedIn and other sources, with proxy rotation handled server-side. Used to feed agents structured web data.

Paid

ScrapingBee

Web scraping API that handles proxies and headless browsers.
A web scraping API that manages rotating proxies, headless Chrome and CAPTCHAs so a request returns rendered HTML or extracted data. Commonly wired into agent workflows that need live web content.

Freemium

OpenWeb Ninja

Real-time web data APIs across many verticals.
A catalog of real-time REST APIs covering local business data, jobs, products, news and more, packaged for easy consumption. Agent developers use it as a ready-made data layer instead of building scrapers.

Paid

Store Leads

Ecommerce store data and lead API.
A database and API of ecommerce stores with their platform, technologies, traffic and contact signals, queryable for lead generation and market research. Agents use it to enrich and qualify ecommerce prospects.

Paid

ScreenshotOne

Screenshot and website-rendering API for developers and agents.
A screenshot API that renders any URL to an image or PDF with a single call, handling blockers, cookie banners, ads and full-page capture. Agent builders use it to give agents a reliable way to see and archive web pages.

Freemium

Attest Capture

Evidence-grade screenshot, PDF and HTML capture API for AI agents.
Attest Capture gives agents a machine-callable browser capture endpoint with metered API keys, private artifacts, SHA-256 hashes and public evidence pages.

Paid

OpenRouter

One API for hundreds of LLMs with unified billing and routing.
A unified API gateway that gives applications and AI agents access to hundreds of language models from many providers through one OpenAI-compatible endpoint, with automatic fallbacks, price-aware routing and consolidated billing.

Open source

Nango

Open-source platform for product integrations with 900+ APIs
Nango handles managed auth, API proxying, syncs, and webhooks for hundreds of third-party APIs, and exposes integrations as MCP tools for AI agents. The platform is open source with a hosted cloud option.

Freemium

Arcade

MCP runtime for secure agent authorization and tool calling
Arcade lets AI agents act on behalf of authenticated users across business systems, managing OAuth flows, scoped permissions, and governance around tool execution. It provides a tool catalog and SDKs, and is free to start with usage-based pricing.

Open source

PayPal Agent Toolkit

Connect AI agent frameworks to PayPal APIs via function calling
PayPal's agent toolkit integrates PayPal's payments, invoicing, and commerce APIs with agent frameworks such as the OpenAI Agents SDK and LangChain, in both TypeScript and Python. It is Apache-2.0 licensed and maintained by PayPal.

Open source

Coinbase AgentKit

Toolkit giving AI agents crypto wallets and onchain actions
AgentKit from Coinbase equips AI agents with wallet integration and the ability to perform onchain transactions and interactions, with framework-agnostic adapters for common agent stacks. It is Apache-2.0 licensed and actively developed.

Open source

Stripe Agent Toolkit

SDKs for integrating Stripe payments and billing into agent workflows
Stripe's agent toolkit lets LLM agents call Stripe APIs through function calling, with adapters for popular agent frameworks and support for usage-based billing of agent products. It is MIT-licensed and maintained by Stripe.

Freemium

Modal

Serverless compute platform with sandboxes for untrusted code
Modal runs Python, batch, and GPU workloads serverlessly, defining containers and scaling directly from code via Python, TypeScript, and Go SDKs. Its Sandboxes primitive creates isolated environments for executing untrusted or agent-generated code, and the free tier includes $30 in monthly compute credits.

Freemium

Daytona

Fast, elastic sandbox infrastructure for AI-generated code
Daytona provides isolated sandboxes with dedicated compute that start in well under a second, designed as an agent-native runtime for executing AI-generated code, data analysis, and parallel agent work. It supports snapshots for persistent state and offers container, VM, and GPU sandbox types.

Paid

Bright Data

Enterprise web data platform with an MCP server for AI agents
Bright Data combines proxy networks, a Web Unlocker, SERP APIs, and scraping browsers for large-scale public web data collection. Its Web MCP server exposes this infrastructure to AI agents, including a free monthly request tier, while the core platform is usage-priced.

Freemium

Jina Reader

Convert any URL into clean, LLM-friendly markdown
Jina's Reader API turns a URL into boilerplate-free markdown by prefixing it with r.jina.ai, making web content directly usable as LLM context. It can be used without an API key at low rate limits, with token-based paid tiers for higher throughput.

Freemium

Parallel

Web search, extraction, and research APIs designed for AI agents
Parallel builds web APIs specifically for machine consumers, covering search, page extraction, deep research tasks, and change monitoring. Pricing is per request rather than per token, starting around $1 per 1,000 search requests, with a recurring $5 free monthly allowance.

Freemium

Linkup

Web search API returning sourced answers for AI applications
Linkup is a search API designed for AI applications that returns sourced results with full-text snippets, aimed at grounding LLM outputs with citations. It offers standard and deep search modes and SDKs for common agent frameworks.

Freemium

Brave Search API

Search API backed by Brave's independent web index
The Brave Search API exposes Brave's independent index for building chatbots, AI agents, and search features, with a dedicated plan for AI-grounding use cases. Accounts receive $5 in free credits monthly, with usage priced per thousand requests beyond that.

Freemium

SerpApi

Structured search-engine results API covering Google and many other engines
SerpApi scrapes Google and dozens of other search engines and returns parsed, structured JSON, handling proxies and CAPTCHAs on the provider side. A free plan includes 250 searches per month, with paid tiers scaling by volume and throughput.

Freemium

Serper

Fast, low-cost Google Search results API
Serper returns structured Google Search results (web, news, images, maps, and more) via a simple JSON API with typical response times of 1-2 seconds. New accounts include 2,500 free queries with no credit card required, and it is a common SERP tool in agent stacks.

Freemium

Exa

Neural and keyword search API for AI applications
Exa offers a search API that combines embeddings-based (neural) and keyword retrieval over its own web index, returning full page contents and highlights for agent pipelines. It also provides research and websets endpoints for deeper multi-step retrieval tasks.

Freemium

Tavily

Web search, extraction, and crawl API built for AI agents
Tavily provides a web access API that gives LLM applications real-time search, content extraction, and crawling endpoints with results formatted for model consumption. It is widely used as the search tool in agent frameworks such as LangChain and LlamaIndex.