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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

hCaptcha

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Privacy-focused CAPTCHA and bot/fraud-detection service, a drop-in reCAPTCHA alternative for websites and apps.

4.4M visits/mo

MiniMax

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Chinese AGI company building multimodal LLMs, Hailuo video, speech and music models, plus AI apps and open APIs.

4.6M visits/mo

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

WaveSpeedAI

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Pay-per-use API hub aggregating 1000+ image, video, and audio generation models for developers building AI media pipelines.

2.2M visits/mo

Pricing

No public pricing

Basic: Free

Pro: $139/month billed monthly, $99/month billed yearly

Enterprise: Contact sales

Free trial available

Max Token Plan: 119 CNY/mo (frontier models, up to ~7.1B tokens/mo)

GPT-OSS 20B: $0.075 per 1M input tokens ($0.30 per 1M output)

GPT-OSS 120B: $0.15 per 1M input tokens

Silver: $100 top-up (higher rate limits)

Gold: $1,000 top-up (higher rate limits)

Ultra: $10,000 top-up (highest rate limits)

Free trial available

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

✦AI bot detection
✦Transaction fraud protection
✦Account-takeover (ATO) defense
✦Pull-based SMS MFA
✦Private Learning ML risk models
✦Two-line reCAPTCHA migration
✦Hundreds of integrations

✦MiniMax M-series LLMs (M3, 1M context, MSA)
✦Hailuo AI video generation
✦Speech and music generation models
✦MiniMax Code agentic coding tool
✦Consumer apps (Hailuo, Xingye)
✦Open API and Token Plan for developers

✦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

✦Unified API access to 1000+ image/video/audio generation models
✦Pay-per-use pricing billed per image or per second of video
✦Includes chat/LLM model access (Claude, GPT, Gemini, etc.) priced per token
✦Account tiers unlock higher GPU limits and concurrency
✦CLI and desktop app for building workflows
✦Enterprise options with dedicated support and custom deployment

Use cases

→Free AI chat and assistance
→Building apps via API
→Reasoning and coding tasks
→Low-cost LLM inference

→Blocking bots and spam signups
→Preventing account takeover
→Reducing transaction and payment fraud
→Stopping credential stuffing

→Coding and agentic tasks
→AI video generation
→Text-to-speech and music creation
→Building on MiniMax model APIs

→Running LLM inference at high speed
→Cutting inference costs at scale
→Powering low-latency AI chat apps
→Serving models via a hosted API

→Integrating AI image/video generation into an app via API
→Building automated content pipelines needing multiple AI models
→Testing and comparing many generative models from one account
→Scaling AI media production with volume-based account tiers
→Accessing both media-generation and LLM APIs from one platform

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