The building blocks for headless and agentic software

Discover and compare the APIs behind chat, UI, voice, video, data, automation, and agents.

API Building Blocks

Discover the APIs behind chat, UI, voice, video, data, automation, and agents. Compare capabilities and choose the right building blocks for headless and agentic software.

10 listings

Algolia Search API

Summary
A hosted search and discovery API for indexing records, running keyword and AI-assisted search, configuring ranking, filtering results, and adding recommendations and personalization.
Category
UI & Experiences
Pricing model
Freemium
Authentication
API key
Free tier
Yes
Open source
No

Clerk Backend API

Summary
An identity and user management API for users, sessions, organizations, invitations, tokens, machine authentication, API keys, and application authentication workflows.
Category
Identity & Security
Pricing model
Freemium
Authentication
Bearer token
Free tier
Yes
Open source
No

ElevenLabs API

Summary
A voice and audio API for text to speech, speech to text, conversational voice agents, dubbing, sound effects, voice transformation, and audio processing.
Category
Voice & Audio
Pricing model
Freemium
Authentication
API key
Free tier
Yes
Open source
No

HeyGen API

Summary
A video generation API for creating avatar videos, translating and dubbing video, generating speech, producing videos from templates, and working with avatar, voice, and template libraries.
Category
Video & Avatars
Pricing model
Usage-based
Authentication
API key
Free tier
No
Open source
No

Inngest API

Summary
A durable execution and workflow API for event-driven functions, background jobs, queues, retries, concurrency, throttling, scheduling, and workflow observability.
Category
Automation & Orchestration
Pricing model
Freemium
Authentication
API key
Free tier
Yes
Open source
Yes

OpenAI API

Summary
A model API for building text, reasoning, multimodal, realtime, image, audio, and agentic applications through hosted models and tools.
Category
Models & Agents
Pricing model
Usage-based
Authentication
API key
Free tier
No
Open source
No

Pinecone API

Summary
A managed vector database and inference API for storing and searching records, generating embeddings, reranking results, and building retrieval and knowledge applications.
Category
Data & Knowledge
Pricing model
Freemium
Authentication
API key
Free tier
Yes
Open source
No

Resend API

Summary
An email API for sending and receiving transactional email, managing domains, contacts, broadcasts, templates, webhooks, and delivery events.
Category
Chat & Messaging
Pricing model
Freemium
Authentication
API key
Free tier
Yes
Open source
No

Stripe API

Summary
A payments and financial infrastructure API for accepting payments, managing subscriptions, sending payouts, running platforms and marketplaces, and automating revenue workflows.
Category
Payments & Commerce
Pricing model
Usage-based
Authentication
API key
Free tier
No
Open source
No

Vercel REST API

Summary
A platform API for managing deployments, projects, domains, environment variables, logs, caches, integrations, teams, and other application infrastructure.
Category
Infrastructure & Observability
Pricing model
Freemium
Authentication
Bearer token
Free tier
Yes
Open source
No
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