Do I pay for lookups that come back empty?

No. You are charged per result, so a request that finds nothing costs nothing. Testing this against a messy list is free to get wrong.

What does a request cost?

1 point per returned record, which is $1 per 1,000, and only records that come back are charged. Points come out of your monthly plan allowance.

Startup & Funding Data

Futurepedia Tool Search API and MCP — AI Tools by Category, Pricing and Rating

Send a Futurepedia category slug or link and get the AI tools in it: name, description, website, pricing model, starting price, rating, review count, verified flag, favorites, features, categories and link. Sort by trending, popular or new, and filter by pricing, features and verified-only. Use max_items (up to 250) and start_page to page through.

Run it in the app Read the API docs

You send: a category slug or link (such as video-generators), optional sort, pricing, feature and verified filters, and how many tools you want
You get back: name, description, pricing, rating, categories and link for each AI tool in the category
Coverage: Futurepedia records with a public page.
Price: 1 point per returned record — $1 per 1,000; Billed per record actually returned, capped by max_items. A request that returns nothing costs nothing.

Comparison

Ways to get this data

Three approaches teams use today, and where each one runs into trouble.

Approach	What it takes	Cost	Trade-off
Futurepedia directly	Type the query into Futurepedia and read the results	Free, and slow	Fine for one record, useless across a list, and the layout differs on every platform
Building a scraper	Write it, host it, and repair it when Futurepedia changes its pages	Engineering time	A maintenance commitment for something that isn't your product
NeuralVerge	One request, the same shape as every other source in the catalog	$1 per 1,000, misses not billed	Returns what Futurepedia publishes at request time. Other platforms are separate sources with the same request format

Response

What you get back

Every field in the example response below.

Field	Type	Description
`session_id`	string	Id of this run, for tracing.
`kind`	string	Source type of the response.
`category`	string	The category you sent.
`max_items`	number	The cap you sent on returned records.
`start_page`	number	First page read.
`partial`	boolean	True when the run stopped before reaching max_items.
`human`	string	Readable summary: query, result count and a traffic line.
`machine.total_items`	number	Number of records returned in this response.
`machine.items[]`	array	The returned records, each with the fields listed below.
`machine.first_item`	object	A copy of the first record in items[], for a quick read.
`machine.total_found`	number\|null	Total matches when the platform reports one; null when it does not.
`machine.page_count`	number	Pages read for this response.
`machine.blocked`	boolean	True if the platform refused the read.
`machine.proxy_traffic_bytes`	number	Traffic used by the run, in bytes.
`total_points`	number	Points charged: 1 per returned record.
`machine.first_item.id`	string	Tool slug on Futurepedia.
`machine.first_item.name`	string	Tool name.
`machine.first_item.url`	string	Link to the tool page.
`machine.first_item.alias`	string	Same slug as id.
`machine.first_item.tool_id`	string	Futurepedia's internal tool id.
`machine.first_item.description`	string	One-line description.
`machine.first_item.image`	string	Logo or image link.
`machine.first_item.website_url`	string	The tool's website.
`machine.first_item.pricing[]`	array	Pricing models, e.g. Freemium or Paid.
`machine.first_item.starting_price`	string\|null	Starting price as text, null when none is listed.
`machine.first_item.rating`	number\|null	Average rating, null when there are no ratings.
`machine.first_item.review_count`	number	Number of reviews.
`machine.first_item.verified`	boolean	Whether the tool is marked verified.
`machine.first_item.favorites_count`	number	Number of favorites.
`machine.first_item.label`	string\|null	Label such as editorsPick, or null.
`machine.first_item.deal_text`	null	Null in the sample; no deal text.
`machine.first_item.features[]`	array	Feature tags, e.g. Open Source or API.
`machine.first_item.categories[]`	array	Categories with name, slug and link.
`machine.first_item.published_at`	string	When the tool was added.
`machine.first_item.updated_at`	string	When the listing was last updated.

Response

Example response

A real response, as returned.

{
  "session_id": "11111111-1111-1111-1111-111111111111",
  "kind": "futurepedia_tools_search",
  "category": "video-generators",
  "max_items": 2,
  "start_page": 1,
  "partial": false,
  "human": "# Futurepedia — tools search\n\n- **Query:** category=video-generators\n- **Results:** 2\n- **Proxy traffic:** 1.10 MB",
  "machine": {
    "total_items": 2,
    "first_item": {
      "id": "videoideas-ai",
      "name": "VideoIdeas.ai",
      "url": "https://www.futurepedia.io/tool/videoideas-ai",
      "alias": "videoideas-ai",
      "tool_id": "15a059dc-85a6-4a3d-8540-0dd04449f285",
      "description": "Effortlessly generate viral YouTube scripts and growth strategies.",
      "image": "https://cdn.futurepedia.io/2026-02-06T18-33-11.677Z-HO3vVINDvH0gnboZd7NMdTLHT1ZFSyYw1.webp",
      "website_url": "https://www.videoideas.ai/",
      "pricing": [
        "Free Trial"
      ],
      "starting_price": "$9/mo",
      "rating": null,
      "review_count": 0,
      "verified": true,
      "favorites_count": 71,
      "label": null,
      "deal_text": null,
      "features": [],
      "categories": [
        {
          "name": "text to video",
          "slug": "text-to-video",
          "url": "https://www.futurepedia.io/ai-tools/text-to-video"
        },
        {
          "name": "personal assistant",
          "slug": "personal-assistant",
          "url": "https://www.futurepedia.io/ai-tools/personal-assistant"
        },
        {
          "name": "social media",
          "slug": "social-media",
          "url": "https://www.futurepedia.io/ai-tools/social-media"
        }
      ],
      "published_at": "2025-03-14T15:19:17.808Z",
      "updated_at": "2026-10-04T21:29:14Z"
    },
    "items": [
      {
        "id": "videoideas-ai",
        "name": "VideoIdeas.ai",
        "url": "https://www.futurepedia.io/tool/videoideas-ai",
        "alias": "videoideas-ai",
        "tool_id": "15a059dc-85a6-4a3d-8540-0dd04449f285",
        "description": "Effortlessly generate viral YouTube scripts and growth strategies.",
        "image": "https://cdn.futurepedia.io/2026-02-06T18-33-11.677Z-HO3vVINDvH0gnboZd7NMdTLHT1ZFSyYw1.webp",
        "website_url": "https://www.videoideas.ai/",
        "pricing": [
          "Free Trial"
        ],
        "starting_price": "$9/mo",
        "rating": null,
        "review_count": 0,
        "verified": true,
        "favorites_count": 71,
        "label": null,
        "deal_text": null,
        "features": [],
        "categories": [
          {
            "name": "text to video",
            "slug": "text-to-video",
            "url": "https://www.futurepedia.io/ai-tools/text-to-video"
          },
          {
            "name": "personal assistant",
            "slug": "personal-assistant",
            "url": "https://www.futurepedia.io/ai-tools/personal-assistant"
          },
          {
            "name": "social media",
            "slug": "social-media",
            "url": "https://www.futurepedia.io/ai-tools/social-media"
          }
        ],
        "published_at": "2025-03-14T15:19:17.808Z",
        "updated_at": "2026-10-04T21:29:14Z"
      },
      {
        "id": "synthesia",
        "name": "Synthesia",
        "url": "https://www.futurepedia.io/tool/synthesia",
        "alias": "synthesia",
        "tool_id": "76291196-da25-4a45-a1f2-4095a55eb2bd",
        "description": "AI-powered platform for quick, multilingual video creation.",
        "image": "https://cdn.futurepedia.io/2025-01-27T22-05-17.898Z-2Ro-5teN86EeImDRJKqWVVEgCQ_OrGba9.png",
        "website_url": "https://www.synthesia.io/",
        "pricing": [
          "Paid"
        ],
        "starting_price": "$30/mo",
        "rating": null,
        "review_count": 0,
        "verified": true,
        "favorites_count": 1564,
        "label": "editorsPick",
        "deal_text": null,
        "features": [],
        "categories": [
          {
            "name": "video generators",
            "slug": "video-generators",
            "url": "https://www.futurepedia.io/ai-tools/video-generators"
          },
          {
            "name": "text to video",
            "slug": "text-to-video",
            "url": "https://www.futurepedia.io/ai-tools/text-to-video"
          },
          {
            "name": "translator",
            "slug": "translators",
            "url": "https://www.futurepedia.io/ai-tools/translators"
          }
        ],
        "published_at": "2022-11-04T15:02:26Z",
        "updated_at": "2026-09-30T01:44:22Z"
      }
    ],
    "total_found": null,
    "page_count": 1,
    "blocked": false,
    "proxy_traffic_bytes": 1153333
  },
  "total_points": 2
}

Integration

How to run it

The same lookup works from the app, the API, or as a tool an agent can call mid-task.

Results come back in the same envelope as every other source: a session id, a readable summary, the structured result and the points charged. max_items caps how many records are returned and billed.

curl -X POST https://api.neuralverge.ai/functions/v1/run-futurepedia-tools-search \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"category":"video-generators","max_items":2}'

Use cases

What teams use it for

Where this field shows up in an actual workflow.

AI tool landscape

List the tools in a category and compare pricing models and starting prices.

Competitor tracking

Watch a category sorted by new to see tools that appear near yours.

Directory enrichment

Collect names, websites and ratings to feed a comparison page or database.

Pricing research

Filter by pricing type to see how tools in a category charge.

Coverage & limits

Coverage, freshness and limits

What this source covers, how fresh it is, and where it stops.

Coverage

Futurepedia records with a public page.

Freshness

Read at request time, so the answer reflects the platform as it stands when you ask.

Handling

This source returns information Futurepedia shows publicly. Every response carries the session id you can trace.

What it will not do

—Rows are summaries. Pros, cons, plans and rating breakdown are in Futurepedia tool.
—Ratings can be null and review counts low, as in the sample; read them as what Futurepedia shows.
—total_found is null in the sample, so the category size is not reported here. Futurepedia categories gives tool counts.

FAQ

Questions, answered

Futurepedia categories lists slugs, names and tool counts.

Related sources

Futurepedia categories

AI tool categories with the number of tools in each and the group they belong to.

Futurepedia tool

Description, rating and review count, categories, pricing, key features, pros and cons, use cases, pricing plans, rating breakdown and social links.

Futurepedia tool alternatives

Name, description, pricing, rating, categories and link for each alternative to the tool.

All startup & funding data

Startup directories, funding databases, launch platforms and investor data.

Try futurepedia tool search on your own data

One request format across every source in the catalog.

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