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Gordian's construction cost database of unit prices, assemblies and square-foot models with location factors, sold online and in annual books

Posit's open-source integrated development environment for R, with console, editor, plots, environment panes, Quarto/R Markdown authoring and Python via reticulate

Citation-analysis platform whose Smart Citations show whether later papers support, contrast or merely mention a claim, with an AI assistant and reference checking

Web scraping API with anti-bot bypass, JavaScript rendering, cloud browsers, screenshots, AI extraction and a crawler, billed in credits per request

The SEC's free public filing system: company and full-text search, bulk index and feed archives, and data.sec.gov JSON APIs for submissions and XBRL financial facts, subject to a fair-access rate policy

Free AI-assisted literature search from Ai2 with an Academic Graph API, recommendations and downloadable datasets of papers, authors and citations

API that returns live search-engine result pages from Google and other engines as structured JSON, with localization, device and search-type parameters

Channel-based team messaging platform from Salesforce with threads, huddles, canvases, workflow automation and an extensive bot and app API

Elsevier-owned preprint and working-paper platform with discipline networks, author pages, download rankings and institutional research paper series, free to post and read

Canada's national statistical agency publishing census, economic and social data tables with open licensing and programmatic access via Web Data Service

Open-source backend platform built around a dedicated PostgreSQL database with auto-generated APIs, authentication, file storage, realtime subscriptions and edge functions

Salesforce's visual analytics platform: Tableau Desktop authoring (now with a free edition), Tableau Cloud and Server for sharing, and Tableau Next for CRM analytics

Web search, extraction, crawling and research API designed for LLM agents, returning concise source content with SDKs, framework integrations and a hosted MCP server

Cross-platform task manager from Doist with natural-language scheduling, projects, labels, filters, shared projects and a public REST API

Statically typed superset of JavaScript from Microsoft that compiles to plain JavaScript and powers editor tooling across the web ecosystem

Markup-based typesetting system with an Apache-2.0 compiler written in Rust and a collaborative web app, positioned as a faster, simpler alternative to LaTeX

Front-end cloud from the makers of Next.js that deploys web applications from git with preview environments, serverless and edge functions and a global CDN

Free, extensible code editor from Microsoft with a large extension marketplace, integrated terminal, debugging, remote development and built-in AI assistance

The Internet Archive's public web archive for browsing historical snapshots of web pages, with Save Page Now, Availability, CDX and Memento APIs

ML experiment tracking, sweeps, artifacts and model registry plus Weave for LLM tracing and evaluation, now sold by CoreWeave within its Forge platform with a free academic tier

Institution-subscribed research data platform from Wharton hosting CRSP, Compustat, TAQ, OptionMetrics and dozens of other vendors' databases with web queries, SQL, SAS, Python and R access

Wolfram Research's proprietary technical computing system built on the Wolfram Language, with notebooks, symbolic and numeric computation, visualization, machine learning and curated data

Free access to World Bank development indicators by country and year through a web portal, bulk downloads and a public REST API

Free general-purpose research repository operated by CERN that assigns DOIs to datasets, software, papers and other outputs, with a REST API, OAI-PMH, GitHub release archiving and CC0 metadata