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Building AI Agent Workflows with IteraTools: One API for Everything

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Building AI Agent Workflows with IteraTools: One API for Everything

If your AI agent needs to generate an image, scrape a page, convert text to speech, and check the weather — why manage 4 different APIs?

The Problem with Multi-Tool AI Agents

When building agentic workflows, you quickly end up juggling:

  • Image generation APIs (Replicate, Together AI, FAL)
  • Scraping APIs (ScraperAPI, Apify, Brightdata)
  • TTS APIs (ElevenLabs, Google TTS, Azure)
  • Utility APIs (QR codes, PDFs, OCR...)

Each with its own auth, billing, rate limits, and SDK. It's a mess.

What is IteraTools?

IteraTools is a single hosted API with 20+ tools, designed from the ground up for AI agents and MCP-compatible workflows.

One API key. One endpoint. Many tools.

# Generate an image
curl -X POST https://api.iteratools.com/image/generate \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_KEY" \
  -d '{"prompt": "A cyberpunk city at night, photorealistic"}'

# Scrape a webpage
curl -X POST https://api.iteratools.com/scrape \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_KEY" \
  -d '{"url": "https://example.com"}'

# Text to speech
curl -X POST https://api.iteratools.com/tts \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_KEY" \
  -d '{"text": "Hello world", "voice": "pt-BR-AntonioNeural"}'
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Full Tool List

Tool Endpoint Price
Image generation (Flux 1.1 Pro) POST /image/generate $0.005
Fast image (Flux Schnell) POST /image/fast $0.002
Background removal POST /image/rembg $0.003
Image resize POST /image/resize $0.001
OCR POST /image/ocr $0.002
Video generation POST /video/generate $0.050
Screenshot POST /screenshot $0.003
Web scraping POST /scrape $0.002
Web search POST /search $0.001
PDF extraction POST /pdf/extract $0.002
PDF generation POST /pdf/generate $0.003
Text-to-speech POST /tts $0.001
QR code POST /qrcode $0.001
Weather GET /weather $0.001
Crypto price GET /crypto/price $0.001
URL shortener POST /url/shorten $0.001
Email validation POST /email/validate $0.001
WhatsApp POST /whatsapp/send $0.002

MCP Integration

IteraTools ships as a hosted MCP server. Just point your Claude Desktop, Cursor, or any MCP-compatible client to it:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "iteratools": {
      "url": "https://api.iteratools.com/mcp",
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_KEY"
      }
    }
  }
}
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Your agent now has all 20+ tools available as MCP tools — no local setup, no Docker, just a URL.

x402 Protocol: Pay-Per-Use for Agents

IteraTools supports the x402 payment protocol, enabling true pay-per-use micropayments for autonomous agents. Agents can acquire credits and make tool calls without human intervention.

GET https://api.iteratools.com/image/generate
→ 402 Payment Required
→ x-payment: <stablecoin payment>
→ 200 OK (image generated)
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Getting Started 

# 1. Create an API key
curl -X POST https://api.iteratools.com/credits/keys \
  -d '{"email": "you@example.com"}'

# 2. Add credits (Stripe)
# → https://iteratools.com

# 3. Start calling tools
curl -X POST https://api.iteratools.com/search \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer it-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX" \
  -d '{"query": "latest AI news", "count": 5}'
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Full documentation: iteratools.com

IteraTools is in active development. New tools are added regularly. Feedback and feature requests welcome!

Tags: ai, mcp, api, agents, llm

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