Monid rankings reveal which tools AI agents actually pay to use, led by TinyFish at 754K weekly calls
JaynitMakwana · x · 2026-10-23
Monid published live rankings of third-party tools based on real agent transaction volume (data through Oct 20, 2026), offering a rare ground-truth view of what agents actually pay for.
Top 5 by weekly usage
- TinyFish — live web search, extraction and browser agent: 754K+ calls (+32%)
- TikHub — multi-social-media data via one REST API: 537K (+9%)
- Context.dev — unified web context API: 212K (+30%)
- AnyAPI — social/search/e-commerce data catalog: 196K (new)
- Litescrape — search and marketplace results as JSON: 178K (-2%)
Takeaways
- Web data access (search, scraping, context extraction) dominates — it's the core workload for agents.
- Fastest movers: MrScraper (+163%), Firecrawl (+79%), GPT Images (+69%); Crunchbase (+818%) and Zillow (+1994%) spiked, hinting at a boom in finance/real-estate agent use cases.
- Vertical tools like ElevenLabs (audio) and Apollo (B2B sales intelligence) show agents are embedding into real business workflows.
Related event: Monid Launches Agent Tool Usage Leaderboard Ranked by Real Call Volume(5 posts)→
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