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DeepSeek
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Chinese AI lab DeepSeek offering free chat apps and low-cost API access to its frontier V-series and R-series reasoning models.
430M visits/mo
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Facia
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Enterprise biometric platform for liveness, deepfake detection and face matching in KYC and fraud-prevention flows.
95K visits/mo6.8K saves
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Groq
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Fast, low-cost AI inference provider running LLMs on custom LPU chips via GroqCloud's pay-as-you-go API.
3.6M visits/mo
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Manus
✓ verifiedFreemium
General AI agent that executes multi-step tasks end to end — research, slides, design, browsing — instead of only answering questions.
28M visits/mo89K saves
Pricing
No public pricing
Pay As You Go: $0.10/check (Quick Liveness)
Pay As You Go: $0.12/check (Detailed Liveness)
Pay As You Go: $0.40/check (Deepfake Detection)
Pay As You Go: $0.70/check (Document Verification)
Free trial available
GPT-OSS 20B: $0.075 per 1M input tokens ($0.30 per 1M output)
GPT-OSS 120B: $0.15 per 1M input tokens
No public pricing
Core features
- ✦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
- ✦Active and passive liveness detection
- ✦Deepfake and AI-generated media detection
- ✦1:1 and 1:N face matching and search
- ✦Age estimation and document verification
- ✦iBeta Level 2 certified, low FAR/FRR
- ✦Lightweight mobile SDKs and REST APIs
- ✦LPU custom inference hardware
- ✦GroqCloud tokens-as-a-service API
- ✦High-speed, low-latency inference
- ✦Pay-as-you-go token pricing
- ✦Free API key to start
- ✦Broad open-model support
- ✦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
Use cases
- →Free AI chat and assistance
- →Building apps via API
- →Reasoning and coding tasks
- →Low-cost LLM inference
- →Anti-spoofing liveness checks during KYC onboarding
- →Detecting deepfakes in live video calls
- →Step-up biometric authentication for risky actions
- →Running LLM inference at high speed
- →Cutting inference costs at scale
- →Powering low-latency AI chat apps
- →Serving models via a hosted API
- →Automate end-to-end digital tasks
- →Produce websites and presentations
- →Conduct broad research
- →Hand off browser tasks to an agent
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