16 services
Services
The external APIs and tools the skills run on. What each is, what it can do, what it costs, and how to swap it out.
1Password
CheapSecrets management
Password manager and developer secrets platform — vaults, CLI, service accounts.
Skills that use this service: secrets
Anthropic Claude API
MidLLM / agents
Claude Opus, Sonnet and Haiku for coding, long-context reasoning and agents.
Cloudinary
MidMedia management & CDN
Upload, transform and deliver images and video at scale.
Skills that use this service: content-gen
DataForSEO
CheapSEO data API
Pay-as-you-go SEO data: SERP, keywords, backlinks and on-page at scale.
Skills that use this service: redsemantic
fal.ai
CheapGenerative media inference
One fast API for 100+ image, video and audio generation models.
Firecrawl
CheapWeb scraping
Turn any website into clean, LLM-ready data with one API.
Skills that use this service: redresearch
Google AI Studio / Gemini API
CheapLLM / image / TTS
Gemini text, Imagen images and Gemini TTS with a generous free tier.
Skills that use this service: redresearch, content-gen, audiocast
Google Stitch
FreeAI UI design
Google Labs AI tool that turns prompts, sketches or screenshots into UI and code.
Skills that use this service: design-revise, page-design-pipeline
OpenAI API
MidLLM / image / audio
GPT models, image generation, realtime voice and embeddings via one API.
Skills that use this service: redresearch, content-gen
Pexels
FreeStock photos & video
Completely free photo and video API; limits lifted free with attribution.
Skills that use this service: content-gen
Pixabay
FreeStock media
Free API for photos, illustrations, vectors, video and music — no attribution.
Skills that use this service: content-gen
Recraft
CheapAI image generation
AI image and vector generator with real brand-style control.
Skills that use this service: content-gen
Replicate
CheapML model hosting
Run and deploy any open-source ML model via API — no GPU to manage.
Skills that use this service: content-gen
Unsplash
FreeStock photos
Free high-res photo API, 8.5M+ images, attribution-friendly license.
Skills that use this service: content-gen
Yandex Cloud Search API (Wordstat)
MidSearch demand (RU)
Programmatic Yandex search + Wordstat keyword-demand data over a cloud API.
Skills that use this service: redsemantic
Yandex Tracker
CheapIssue tracking
Flexible issue and project tracking — from agile boards to company-wide processes.
Comparison
| Service | Category | Free | Paid from |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1Password | Secrets management | — | from ~$2.99/mo (Teams from ~$19.95/mo) |
| Anthropic Claude API | LLM / agents | — | pay-as-you-go, Haiku ~$1 / 1M tokens |
| Cloudinary | Media management & CDN | — | $89/mo |
| DataForSEO | SEO data API | — | from $0.0006/result, $50 min deposit |
| fal.ai | Generative media inference | — | pay-as-you-go; FLUX schnell ~$0.025/img |
| Firecrawl | Web scraping | — | $16/mo |
| Google AI Studio / Gemini API | LLM / image / TTS | — | pay-as-you-go, from ~$0.10 / 1M tokens |
| Google Stitch | AI UI design | yes | Free (Google Labs) |
| OpenAI API | LLM / image / audio | — | pay-as-you-go, from ~$0.20 / 1M tokens |
| Pexels | Stock photos & video | yes | Free |
| Pixabay | Stock media | yes | Free |
| Recraft | AI image generation | — | $10/mo |
| Replicate | ML model hosting | — | from ~$0.09/hr CPU; FLUX schnell ~$0.003/img |
| Unsplash | Stock photos | yes | Free (Enterprise custom) |
| Yandex Cloud Search API (Wordstat) | Search demand (RU) | — | pay-as-you-go per request |
| Yandex Tracker | Issue tracking | — | from ~$3/user/mo |