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Evolink AI Model API logo
Evolink AI Model API
✓ verifiedPaid

One API to access leading LLM, image, video, and audio models with pay-as-you-go, usage-based pricing.

363K visits/mo1.5K saves
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Vast ai
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GPU rental marketplace with per-second billing across thousands of GPUs, aimed at AI training, inference, and fine-tuning workloads.

1.4M visits/mo
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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
Claude logo
Claude
✓ verifiedFreemium

Anthropic's AI assistant for writing, coding, and analysis across web, mobile, and desktop, plus a developer API.

22M visits/mo231K saves
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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
Usage-based pay-as-you-go (e.g., Seedance 2.0 $0.198/s, GPT Image 2 from $0.015/image)

No public pricing

No public pricing

Free: $0
Pro: $17/month billed annually ($200 up front), or $20/month
Max: From $100/month
Team: $20/seat/month billed annually ($25 monthly); premium seats $100/seat/month annually ($125 monthly)
Enterprise: Contact sales
Max Token Plan: 119 CNY/mo (frontier models, up to ~7.1B tokens/mo)
Core features
  • Single API for LLM, image, video, and audio models
  • Access to GPT, Claude, Gemini, Seedance, and more
  • Usage-based, pay-as-you-go pricing
  • Model comparison and documented capabilities
  • Smart Router for model selection
  • 99.9% uptime, no credit card to start
  • On-demand GPU cloud with per-second billing
  • Interruptible instances at discounted rates for batch/fault-tolerant jobs
  • Reserved capacity with 1, 3, or 6-month terms for steady workloads
  • Serverless deployment with autoscale-to-zero for inference endpoints
  • Dedicated multi-node clusters with InfiniBand for large-scale training
  • Python SDK and CLI plus REST API for programmatic provisioning
  • Access to 68+ GPU types across 40+ data centers
  • Pre-configured templates for popular open-source models
  • 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
  • Conversational writing and editing
  • Code generation and debugging (Claude Code)
  • Data analysis and visualization
  • Web search plus memory across chats
  • Connectors and remote MCP integrations
  • Extended thinking for complex tasks
  • 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
  • Add multiple AI models to a product via one API
  • Switch between model providers without rewrites
  • Generate video, images, and audio programmatically
  • Build AI agents and workflows
  • ML engineers training or fine-tuning models on rented GPUs
  • Startups running inference at scale without owning hardware
  • Developers needing quick, low-cost access to specific GPU types
  • Teams building AI agents that autonomously provision compute
  • Free AI chat and assistance
  • Building apps via API
  • Reasoning and coding tasks
  • Low-cost LLM inference
  • Drafting and refining written content
  • Building and debugging software
  • Analyzing datasets for insights
  • Research and learning support
  • Team and enterprise automation
  • Coding and agentic tasks
  • AI video generation
  • Text-to-speech and music creation
  • Building on MiniMax model APIs
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