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DeepSeek
✓ verifiedFreemium
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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Runpod
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Developer-focused GPU cloud offering on-demand pods, serverless inference and multi-node clusters at per-second pricing for AI workloads.
2.3M visits/mo
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Kiro AI
✓ verifiedFreemium
Kiro is a spec-driven agentic coding tool for IDE, CLI and web that turns prompts into specs and catches bugs with property-based tests.
3.8M visits/mo
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MiniMax
✓ verifiedFreemium
Chinese AGI company building multimodal LLMs, Hailuo video, speech and music models, plus AI apps and open APIs.
4.6M visits/mo
Pricing
No public pricing
Pods A40 48GB: $0.44/hr
Pods RTX 4090 24GB: $0.69/hr
Pods A100 SXM 80GB: $1.49/hr
Pods H100 SXM 80GB: $2.99/hr
Pods H200 141GB: $4.39/hr
Pods B300 288GB: $7.39/hr
Free: $0/mo (50 credits)
Pro: $20/user/mo (1,000 credits)
Pro+: $40/user/mo (2,000 credits)
Pro Max: $100/user/mo (5,000 credits)
Power: $200/user/mo (10,000 credits)
No public pricing
Max Token Plan: 119 CNY/mo (frontier models, up to ~7.1B tokens/mo)
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
- ✦On-demand GPU pods across 30+ GPU types and 31 regions
- ✦Serverless GPU endpoints with sub-200ms cold starts
- ✦Zero idle cost billing for inference workloads
- ✦Multi-node clusters for distributed training
- ✦Persistent network storage for full pipelines
- ✦Real-time logs, monitoring and autoscaling from 0 to hundreds of workers
- ✦Spec-driven development (requirements, design, tasks)
- ✦Parallel agents, local or cloud
- ✦Property-based and correctness testing
- ✦Works in IDE, CLI, web and mobile
- ✦Multiple models (Claude, open-weight, Auto)
- ✦Headless CLI for CI/CD
- ✦Context from tools like Figma and Terraform
- ✦Dialogue with GLM large model
- ✦AI search
- ✦AI drawing
- ✦AI reading
- ✦AI-generated video (沉思清影-AI生视频)
- ✦AI-generated PPT
- ✦Data analysis tools
- ✦Code assistance (代码速写)
- ✦Intelligent agents
- ✦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
Use cases
- →Free AI chat and assistance
- →Building apps via API
- →Reasoning and coding tasks
- →Low-cost LLM inference
- →Renting GPUs for model training and fine-tuning
- →Deploying low-latency real-time inference APIs
- →Running AI agents that need to scale instantly
- →Processing compute-heavy batch or distributed workloads
- →Turning prompts into maintainable, spec-matched code
- →Catching bugs unit tests miss
- →Reviewing PRs and fixing bugs in CI/CD
- →Engaging in conversations with an AI model
- →Generating images and videos using AI
- →Creating presentations with AI assistance
- →Analyzing data with AI tools
- →Assisting with code development
- →Coding and agentic tasks
- →AI video generation
- →Text-to-speech and music creation
- →Building on MiniMax model APIs
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