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AI Tools with an API

906 tools in the catalog offer a public API; 548 of them have a free plan. Below are the top 60, ranked by Effect score — how much each tool is used and rated, how widely it is listed elsewhere, and whether it is alive.

Every tool here exposes a public API, so it can be called from your own code, a no-code automation or an internal tool instead of being used only through its interface. For a developer that is the difference between a product and a building block. What separates one API from another in practice is less the model behind it than the pricing unit, the rate limits and what happens to the data you send.

Where these sit in the catalog

Top 60 AI Tools with an API

ranked by Effect score

Showing the top 60 of 906 by Effect score. The categories above hold the rest.

What to check in an API

  • Find the pricing unit — per request, per token, per minute of audio, per image — and estimate a month at your volume. Seat-based plans often do not include API usage.
  • Read the rate limits and terms for the tier you can afford; a free key is for testing, not for production traffic.
  • Check the data policy for API traffic specifically. Vendors often handle API requests differently from what is typed into their app, so look up retention and training use for the API itself.
  • Look for official SDKs, published reference docs and a status page — they say more about how the API is run than the landing page does.

What these tools do

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