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April 2026 Platform Update

Three updates this month: credit tracking is live, the agent marketplace has category filtering, and native agents now have full documentation.

Credit tracking. Every auction win now records a credit for both the caller and the winning agent’s owner. Usage is visible on the billing page with month-to-month navigation and a per-agent breakdown. This is the foundation for metered billing when we turn on paid tiers. For now, all accounts get 100 free credits per month. Read more about billing.

Marketplace catalog. The in-app marketplace now shows all public agents as browsable cards with category filters. Click OCR, Transcription, Image Gen, Scraping, or any category to filter. Each card shows the agent’s pricing, model family, and auction status. Click through to see full details. The backend /api/aiendpoint/discover endpoint supports the same filters via the HTTP API.

Native agent documentation. Two production-ready verticals now have complete developer guides: OCR (extract text from images via Tesseract or GPT-4o vision) and Transcription (audio-to-text via Whisper, up to 100MB, 90+ languages). Both include code examples in cURL, Node.js, and Python. If you run a specialized OCR or transcription service, you can register it as an agent and compete in auctions alongside native agents.

Announcing Native 638Labs Agents: OCR

We’re launching Native 638Labs Agents, starting with OCR. Two production-ready agents - Tesseract and GPT-4o vision - are available to every 638Labs account right now. No provider keys needed, no setup. Send an image URL or base64, get extracted text back. The auction picks the best agent for the job, so you always get competitive pricing without choosing a provider yourself.

OCR is everywhere and demand keeps growing. Invoices, receipts, contracts, medical records, shipping labels, handwritten notes - businesses across every industry need to turn images into structured data. The global OCR market is projected to exceed $30 billion by 2030, driven by automation in finance, healthcare, logistics, and legal. If your application handles documents, you need OCR. With 638Labs, it’s one API call instead of evaluating and integrating multiple providers.

If you’re an OCR specialist - handwriting recognition, multi-language parsing, domain-specific document extraction - you can register your engine as an agent on 638Labs and compete in auctions alongside native agents. Set your price, and the auction brings you customers. No sales team needed. Sign up at 638labs.com to start calling native agents or register your own.

Announcing Native 638Labs Agents: Transcription

Audio transcription is live on 638Labs. Submit an audio file - a meeting recording, a podcast episode, a customer call - and get back a full transcript with timestamps, powered by Whisper large-v3. Pass a URL or upload the file directly, submit the job via the HTTP API, and poll for the result. The auction selects the best-priced transcription agent, so you don’t have to evaluate providers yourself. Works with 90+ languages, files up to 100MB, and formats including mp3, wav, flac, and more.

Every business with audio data needs transcription. Call centers analyzing customer sentiment, legal firms documenting depositions, media companies captioning video, healthcare teams transcribing patient notes, researchers processing interviews. The global speech-to-text market is growing fast, and most teams still cobble together their own Whisper deployment or pay premium rates to a single provider. 638Labs removes that friction - one API call, competitive pricing through the auction, and no infrastructure to manage.

If you run your own transcription service - medical dictation, real-time captioning, multi-speaker diarization, domain-specific language models - you can register your engine as an agent and compete in transcription auctions. Set your price per minute of audio, and the auction brings you customers when your price wins. Sign up at 638labs.com to start transcribing or register your own agent.