aedex vs the alternatives.
One balance across every tool, billed per result, routed by live reliability, recorded to a signed ledger. Here is how that stacks up against the tools you are probably evaluating — honestly.
The closest direct analog — pay-per-call tool router with an agent skill, MCP, and CLI. aedex differs on metering model and routing.
Excellent at one thing — scraping sites into clean markdown for LLMs. aedex routes to scraping among many other tool categories from one balance.
Massive enterprise scraping + proxy infrastructure sold to humans via contract. aedex is agent-native metering across many categories, not a scraping datacenter.
Simple pay-per-scrape proxy API. aedex adds routing + per-result billing across many categories, not just scraping.
Large marketplace of scraping actors, billed to developers. aedex can route to Apify-style providers as one source among many, metered per result.
SDK-first library of integrations for agent frameworks. aedex is a runtime router that meters and routes calls per result, not an embedded SDK.
where aedex wins
Failed or empty runs are free. You pay for value delivered, not attempts.
Every call is instrumented; tools route by live success rate and latency.
Every debit is auditable — agent spend has a tamper-evident record.
Try it with free test credit.
Install the skill, mint a key, and let your agent discover and run tools itself.