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Unified pay-per-use API serving 400+ multimodal AI models (image, video, audio, 3D, LLM) through one OpenAI-compatible key.
Low-cost inference cloud with developer APIs to run open ML models and on-demand GPUs, billed pay-per-use.
Cloud platform to run open-source AI apps like ComfyUI and Stable Diffusion and train LoRAs on rented GPUs, billed hourly.
Chinese AI lab DeepSeek offering free chat apps and low-cost API access to its frontier V-series and R-series reasoning models.
General AI agent that executes multi-step tasks end to end — research, slides, design, browsing — instead of only answering questions.
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- ✦400+ AI models via one unified API
- ✦Multimodal coverage: image, video, audio, 3D, LLM
- ✦On-demand, pay-per-use pricing
- ✦Day-0 access to new state-of-the-art models
- ✦OpenAI-compatible single key
- ✦SOC 2 and HIPAA compliance, 99.99% uptime
- ✦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
- ✦Pre-installed open-source AI apps (ComfyUI, SD, Fooocus)
- ✦LoRA and custom model training
- ✦Image, video, audio, and LLM workflows
- ✦Hourly GPU rental across several tiers
- ✦Private storage and shareable workflows
- ✦No-deployment, browser-based access
- ✦Free DeepSeek chat (web and app)
- ✦Open API platform
- ✦V-series and R-series reasoning models
- ✦DeepSeek-V4 with long context and stronger agent ability
- ✦OpenAI/Anthropic-compatible API
- ✦Extensive published model lineup
- ✦Autonomous multi-step task execution
- ✦Website and app building
- ✦AI slides, design and image generation
- ✦Manus browser operator
- ✦Wide Research mode
- ✦Cross-platform web, desktop and mobile apps
- →Integrate video and image generation
- →Access many LLMs through one API
- →Build multimodal AI applications
- →Batch generate and prototype cheaply
- →Serving open-source models via API
- →Building AI apps cost-efficiently
- →Renting GPUs for inference or training
- →Scaling inference up and down on demand
- →Running ComfyUI/Stable Diffusion without a local GPU
- →Training custom LoRA models
- →Face swapping and voice conversion
- →Generating images, video, and audio at scale
- →Free AI chat and assistance
- →Building apps via API
- →Reasoning and coding tasks
- →Low-cost LLM inference
- →Automate end-to-end digital tasks
- →Produce websites and presentations
- →Conduct broad research
- →Hand off browser tasks to an agent