Categories
A category is a sub-task an agent buys an external tool for — transcription, scraping, voice, OCR, and so on. Depth is measured per category. Each card below is a real, end-to-end ranking; the rest grow as query-logs show demand, not before.
Live categories
Transcriptionlight estimate
- 6 provider offerings
- 15 published queries
- Default: ElevenLabs Scribe v2
- Cheapest: AssemblyAI Universal-3 Pro
- Updated 2026-08-20
See: Best transcription API for podcasts →
Text-to-speechlight estimate
- 7 provider offerings
- 8 published queries
- Default: Deepgram Aura-2
- Cheapest: Deepgram Aura-2
- Updated 2026-08-20
See: Best text-to-speech API for IVR and phone agents →
Web searchlight estimate
- 7 provider offerings
- 5 published queries
- Default: Brave Search API (Data for AI)
- Cheapest: Brave Search API (Data for AI)
- Updated 2026-08-20
See: Best web search API for AI agents →
Scraping & browserlight estimate
- 7 provider offerings
- 5 published queries
- Default: Firecrawl
- Cheapest: Firecrawl
- Updated 2026-08-20
See: Best web scraping API for article extraction →
OCR & document extractionlight estimate
- 7 provider offerings
- 5 published queries
- Default: Azure Document Intelligence (Read)
- Cheapest: Google Document AI (Enterprise Document OCR)
- Updated 2026-08-20
See: Best OCR API for scanned invoices and receipts →
“Deeper” means richer aggregation, a wider query-set and a freshness heartbeat — never a longer list of empty categories.