What does relation mean?

It names the kind of link between the entry and your tool. The sample shows alternative.

How do I get more detail on an alternative?

Pass its id to There's An AI For That tool, which returns the full record with features, releases and FAQ.

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

There's An AI For That Tool Alternatives API and MCP — Similar AI Tools with Price and Rating

Send a tool slug such as gling, or the link to the tool page, and get its alternatives back as a list: name, short description, task, price wording, rating, views, saves and a link. Set max_items to cap how many come back.

Run it in the app Read the API docs

You send: a tool slug such as gling, or the link to the tool page, plus an optional max_items
You get back: alternatives and similar tools of one tool: name, short description, task, price, rating, views and link
Coverage: There's An AI For That 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
There's An AI For That directly	Open the page on There's An AI For That and scroll through the list	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 There's An AI For That 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 There's An AI For That 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.
`tool`	string	The tool you sent.
`max_items`	number	Maximum records requested.
`start_page`	number	Page the run started from.
`partial`	boolean	True when the run stopped before reading every page it was asked for.
`human`	string	Readable summary of the run.
`total_points`	number	Points charged for the run.
`machine.total_items`	number	Number of records returned in items.
`machine.first_item`	object	Copy of the first entry of items, for quick access.
`machine.items[]`	array	The returned records; the keys of each one are listed below.
`machine.total_found`	number\|null	Total matches the platform reports when it reports one; null otherwise.
`machine.page_count`	number	Platform pages read for the run.
`machine.blocked`	boolean	Whether the platform refused the request.
`machine.proxy_traffic_bytes`	number	Size of the data transferred for the run, in bytes.
`machine.items[].id`	string	Tool slug.
`machine.items[].name`	string	Tool name.
`machine.items[].url`	string	Link to the tool page.
`machine.items[].alias`	string	Slug as the platform uses it.
`machine.items[].type`	string	Listing type, e.g. ai.
`machine.items[].tool_id`	string	Numeric tool id.
`machine.items[].short_description`	string	One-line description.
`machine.items[].task`	string	Task (category) the tool is listed under.
`machine.items[].task_slug`	string	Task slug.
`machine.items[].version`	string	Version label.
`machine.items[].verified`	boolean	Whether the listing is marked verified.
`machine.items[].website`	string	Tool website domain.
`machine.items[].country`	string\|null	Country of the maker; null when not shown.
`machine.items[].released`	string	Release wording as shown, e.g. Released 27d ago.
`machine.items[].price`	string	Pricing wording, e.g. Free + from $19.00/mo.
`machine.items[].views`	number	Page views.
`machine.items[].saves`	number	Times saved.
`machine.items[].rating`	number	Average star rating.
`machine.items[].usp`	string\|null	Short selling-point line when the maker gave one.
`machine.items[].top_comment`	string\|null	Highlighted comment, when there is one.
`machine.items[].relation`	string	How the entry relates to the tool, e.g. alternative.

Response

Example response

A real response, as returned.

{
  "session_id": "11111111-1111-1111-1111-111111111111",
  "kind": "theresanaiforthat_tools_alternatives",
  "tool": "gling",
  "max_items": 2,
  "start_page": 1,
  "partial": false,
  "human": "# There's An AI For That — tool alternatives\n\n- **Tool:** gling\n- **Results:** 2\n- **Proxy traffic:** 1.78 MB",
  "machine": {
    "total_items": 2,
    "first_item": {
      "id": "capcut-online-creative-suite",
      "name": "CapCut Online Creative Suite",
      "url": "https://theresanaiforthat.com/ai/capcut-online-creative-suite/",
      "alias": "capcut-online-creative-suite",
      "type": "ai",
      "tool_id": "9914",
      "short_description": "Unleash creativity with CapCut's all-in-one online suite",
      "task": "Video editing",
      "task_slug": "video-editing",
      "version": "1",
      "verified": false,
      "website": "www.capcut.com",
      "country": "China",
      "released": "2y ago",
      "price": "Free + from $19.99/mo",
      "views": 108620,
      "saves": 875,
      "rating": 3.1,
      "usp": null,
      "top_comment": "Video editing",
      "relation": "alternative"
    },
    "items": [
      {
        "id": "capcut-online-creative-suite",
        "name": "CapCut Online Creative Suite",
        "url": "https://theresanaiforthat.com/ai/capcut-online-creative-suite/",
        "alias": "capcut-online-creative-suite",
        "type": "ai",
        "tool_id": "9914",
        "short_description": "Unleash creativity with CapCut's all-in-one online suite",
        "task": "Video editing",
        "task_slug": "video-editing",
        "version": "1",
        "verified": false,
        "website": "www.capcut.com",
        "country": "China",
        "released": "2y ago",
        "price": "Free + from $19.99/mo",
        "views": 108620,
        "saves": 875,
        "rating": 3.1,
        "usp": null,
        "top_comment": "Video editing",
        "relation": "alternative"
      },
      {
        "id": "clipfinder",
        "name": "ClipFinder",
        "url": "https://theresanaiforthat.com/ai/clipfinder/",
        "alias": "clipfinder",
        "type": "ai",
        "tool_id": "283829",
        "short_description": "Turn hours of streams and VODs into viral clips automatically.",
        "task": "Video editing",
        "task_slug": "video-editing",
        "version": "3.0.0",
        "verified": true,
        "website": "www.clipfinder.org",
        "country": null,
        "released": "Released 2mo ago",
        "price": "Free + from $15.00/mo",
        "views": 82246,
        "saves": 146,
        "rating": 4.2,
        "usp": null,
        "top_comment": "makes actually good clips",
        "relation": "alternative"
      }
    ],
    "total_found": null,
    "page_count": 1,
    "blocked": false,
    "proxy_traffic_bytes": 1869628
  },
  "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-theresanaiforthat-tools-alternatives \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"tool":"gling","max_items":2}'

Use cases

What teams use it for

Where this field shows up in an actual workflow.

Competitor mapping

List the tools a product is compared with and capture their price wording and ratings.

Pricing comparison

Put the price wording of a tool's alternatives side by side.

Market research

Spot which alternatives get the most views and saves in a task.

Content planning

Build comparison and alternatives pages from the platform's own list of similar tools.

Coverage & limits

Coverage, freshness and limits

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

Coverage

There's An AI For That 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 There's An AI For That shows publicly. Every response carries the session id you can trace.

What it will not do

—total_found is null in the sample, so the platform does not report how many alternatives exist; do not rely on it for paging.
—top_comment and usp are null for some entries, and country is null when the platform shows none.
—Price wording is text as shown, such as Free + from $19.99/mo, not a number.

FAQ

Questions, answered

Set max_items, up to 250. You are billed for the records actually returned.

Related sources

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Profile of one AI tool: pricing, rating breakdown, views, saves, task, company, releases, FAQ and review counts.

There's An AI For That tool reviews

Reviews and comments of one AI tool: text, star rating, date, release, votes and author.

There's An AI For That tool search

Keyword or task search of AI tools with name, task, price, rating, views, saves and link.

All startup & funding data

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

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