Viesus
71Cloud API and web app that upscales and cleans up photos and scanned PDFs in bulk.
Best for: Developers batch-processing large photo or scanned-PDF libraries through an API
ai-for / api
As of , EffectHub tracks 17 AI tools for API; 10 of the 17 have a free tier, and paid plans run from $1.99 to $100 a month.
Viesus, Zecoba and Lucy AI lead the list on click-through. All 17 ship a public API.
ranked by click-through
Cloud API and web app that upscales and cleans up photos and scanned PDFs in bulk.
Best for: Developers batch-processing large photo or scanned-PDF libraries through an API
Pay-per-token ChatGPT-style interface with GPT-3.5/GPT-4 modes, a prompt store, plugins, and an API for developers.
Best for: Occasional users who don't want a flat monthly AI subscription
Real-time API that restyles live video at 30 frames per second, billed per second used.
Best for: Developers building live video features like virtual try-on or camera filters
Searches and tracks brand or topic mentions across millions of podcast transcripts.
Best for: PR and marketing teams tracking brand mentions across podcasts
Text-to-speech and voice-cloning API billed by concurrent stream instead of by character or minute.
Best for: Voice-agent builders needing predictable per-stream cost regardless of usage volume
Uncensored chat with image generation, image-to-video and an API on a flat monthly plan
Best for: writers hitting refusals on mainstream assistants for legitimate fiction
Schedules and publishes posts to 11 social platforms from one calendar, with AI-generated captions and images.
Best for: Small teams or creators posting to many niche platforms at once
REST API that classifies contact-form submissions as spam or not using a fine-tuned language model.
Best for: Website builders and multi-tenant SaaS filtering forms for many customers
Turns a plain-English brief into a researched, sourced list of companies pulled from a 10-million-company index.
Best for: Sales teams building account lists from a specific ideal-customer description
Places real product photos into AI-generated scenes and backgrounds for e-commerce catalogs.
Best for: E-commerce teams generating scene variations for existing product photos
Node canvas for video editing where each tile — rough cut, reframe, captions, colour — runs as a metered agent step.
Best for: teams cutting the same format repeatedly from long-form footage
Web scraping API and open-source Python library that pulls structured data from pages using plain-language prompts.
Best for: Developers feeding web data into agents or RAG pipelines
Rewrites AI-generated text to read as human-written, with a built-in AI-detection score and 60+ languages.
Best for: Agencies and SEO teams rewriting AI drafts in bulk
Fills long PDF and Word forms from your own data, and converts flat or scanned documents into fillable ones first.
Best for: legal, insurance and mortgage teams with repetitive long forms
Summarizer built for the case where the summary itself has to be long — set the output length, no input size ceiling.
Best for: Condensing long reports without dropping detail
Removes image backgrounds via API, Python package, Docker, or a free open-weight model you can self-host.
Best for: Developers integrating background removal into their own app via API or Python package
Browser video upscaler and enhancer with a REST API, billed by credits per minute of footage
Best for: Restoring or upscaling short clips and archive footage without installing software
| Tool | Price | Free plan | API | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Viesus | from $10/mo | Yes | Yes | Active |
| Zecoba | Not confirmed | No | Yes | Active |
| Lucy AI | from $0.6/min | No | Yes | Unverified |
| Podscan | from $100/mo | No | Yes | Active |
| Gandr | from $10/mo | Yes | Yes | Active |
| NoFilterGPT | from $11.99/mo | Yes | Yes | Active |
| PostEverywhere | from $9/mo | No | Yes | Active |
| Bot Butcher | from $1.99/mo | Yes | Yes | Active |
| Extruct AI | from $49/mo | Yes | Yes | Active |
| Fotographer | from $15/mo | No | Yes | Active |
| Mosaic | from $40/mo | No | Yes | Unstable |
| ScrapeGraphAI | from $20/mo | Yes | Yes | Active |
| HumanTone | from $8/mo | Yes | Yes | Active |
| Instafill | from $99/mo | No | Yes | Active |
| Long Summary | Not confirmed | Yes | Yes | Active |
| withoutBG | Not confirmed | Yes | Yes | Active |
| TensorPix | from $5.50/mo | Yes | Yes | Active |
10 of the 17 AI tools for API on EffectHub's list have a free tier — Viesus, Gandr, NoFilterGPT and Bot Butcher; the rest are paid, from $1.99 a month.
As of October 26, 2026, paid plans for the 17 AI tools for API on EffectHub's list run from $1.99 to $100 a month. Each card shows the pricing model and the cheapest paid plan as EffectHub last verified it; 10 of the 17 can be started for free.
All 17 AI tools for API on EffectHub's list ship a public API, including Viesus, Zecoba, Lucy AI and Podscan. The API badge on each card is re-checked against the vendor's documentation.
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As of October 26, 2026, EffectHub tracks 17 AI tools for API; 10 of the 17 have a free tier, and paid plans run from $1.99 to $100 a month. (EffectHub, “AI Tools With an API”, Oct 2026, https://effecthub.net/ai-for/api)
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