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Fast, low-cost AI inference provider running LLMs on custom LPU chips via GroqCloud's pay-as-you-go API.
Unified pay-per-use API serving 400+ multimodal AI models (image, video, audio, 3D, LLM) through one OpenAI-compatible key.
Cloud platform to run open-source AI apps like ComfyUI and Stable Diffusion and train LoRAs on rented GPUs, billed hourly.
Serverless AI cloud for running inference, training and sandboxes on GPUs with fast cold starts and pay-per-use billing.
Chinese AI lab DeepSeek offering free chat apps and low-cost API access to its frontier V-series and R-series reasoning models.
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- ✦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
- ✦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
- ✦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
- ✦Serverless GPU compute defined in Python
- ✦Sub-second container cold starts
- ✦Autoscale 0 to 1000+ GPUs
- ✦Inference, training and batch workloads
- ✦Secure sandboxes for untrusted code
- ✦Built-in logging and observability
- ✦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
- →Running LLM inference at high speed
- →Cutting inference costs at scale
- →Powering low-latency AI chat apps
- →Serving models via a hosted API
- →Integrate video and image generation
- →Access many LLMs through one API
- →Build multimodal AI applications
- →Batch generate and prototype cheaply
- →Running ComfyUI/Stable Diffusion without a local GPU
- →Training custom LoRA models
- →Face swapping and voice conversion
- →Generating images, video, and audio at scale
- →Deploying and scaling model inference
- →Fine-tuning and training models
- →Running batch/parallel AI jobs
- →Executing untrusted code in sandboxes
- →Free AI chat and assistance
- →Building apps via API
- →Reasoning and coding tasks
- →Low-cost LLM inference