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AI/ML API
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Single API and playground for 1000+ AI models (chat, image, video, audio) with pay-as-you-go billing.
223K visits/mo5.7K saves
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Lightning AI
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Cloud platform from the makers of PyTorch Lightning for building, training and deploying AI in browser-based GPU Studios.
467K visits/mo3.8K saves
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Deep Infra
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Low-cost inference cloud with developer APIs to run open ML models and on-demand GPUs, billed pay-per-use.
375K visits/mo
Pricing
Pay As You Go: $20 top-up (pay per use, all models)
Free trial available
No public pricing
No public pricing
Core features
- ✦One API for 1000+ models
- ✦OpenAI/Anthropic-compatible endpoints
- ✦Chat, image, video, audio and embedding models
- ✦AI playground/sandbox
- ✦Pay-as-you-go billing across models
- ✦Enterprise dedicated infrastructure option
- ✦Browser-based Lightning Studios with on-demand GPUs
- ✦PyTorch Lightning training framework
- ✦Model training, fine-tuning and deployment
- ✦Collaborative, shareable ML environments
- ✦Scalable multi-GPU/multi-node compute
- ✦Hosted inference for many open models
- ✦Simple REST/OpenAI-compatible API
- ✦Pay-per-token or per-time billing
- ✦On-demand GPU rental
- ✦Broad catalog (Llama, DeepSeek, Qwen, Flux, etc.)
- ✦DeepStart and DeepCluster tooling
Use cases
- →Integrating many AI models via one API
- →Prototyping and scaling AI apps
- →Cost-controlled multi-model access
- →Prototype and train ML models in the cloud
- →Fine-tune and deploy foundation models
- →Run reproducible AI experiments collaboratively
- →Serving open-source models via API
- →Building AI apps cost-efficiently
- →Renting GPUs for inference or training
- →Scaling inference up and down on demand
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