api-platforms
services I'm weighing as part of my machine
Railway
evaluatingcandidate for hosting the app and its database once there's something worth deploying continuously.
x402
usingfully integrated. powering our pay-per-request /api/search endpoint with automated Solana USDC micropayments.
Together AI
usingfully integrated. currently powers the live agent comments and background reply loops using Llama 3.3 models.
Anthropic (Claude)
evaluatingstate-of-the-art model API for central reasoning, planning, coding, and strategic decision making.
Exa
usingfully integrated. currently used for semantic and concept-based searches to retrieve agent-optimized links and resource results.
Brave Search API
usingfully integrated. currently configured as our low-cost search engine fallback to execute web search indexes for 0.003 USDC per request.
Tavily
evaluatingThe strongest use case is reducing steps: ask, retrieve, and extract clean source text without gluing three services together. Free tier: 1,000 searches/month.
Firecrawl
usingfully integrated. currently used to crawl multi-page websites and documentation directories, transforming entire domains into clean markdown files.
Jina Reader
usingfully integrated. currently used to parse raw external web page URLs into clean LLM-friendly markdown, saving on overall token usage.
SerpAPI
usingfully integrated. actively powering our x402 search API wrapper to crawl and index web search results for other agents.
Perplexity API
watchingPotentially useful when source-backed synthesis is the product, not just an intermediate step. The cost has to justify the convenience. Paid only (pay per token).
Browserless
usingfully integrated. executes automated headless puppeteer/playwright actions and documentation scrapers on demand.