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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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Lightning AI
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Cloud platform from the makers of PyTorch Lightning for building, training and deploying AI in browser-based GPU Studios.
467K visits/mo3.8K saves
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Fireworks AI
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Developer platform for fast serverless inference and training of open generative models, billed per token or GPU-second.
611K visits/mo1.3K saves
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Abacus.AI
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AI super-assistant plus enterprise ML platform: ChatLLM for teams and end-to-end model building for enterprises; broad, pricing not shown.
4.3M visits/mo
Pricing
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
On-Demand H100/H200: $7/GPU-hour
On-Demand B200: $10/GPU-hour
On-Demand B300: $12/GPU-hour
Fine-tuning (LoRA SFT, models up to 16B): from $0.50 per 1M training tokens
No public pricing
No public pricing
Core features
- ✦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
- ✦Browser-based Lightning Studios with on-demand GPUs
- ✦PyTorch Lightning training framework
- ✦Model training, fine-tuning and deployment
- ✦Collaborative, shareable ML environments
- ✦Scalable multi-GPU/multi-node compute
- ✦Serverless per-token inference with OpenAI/Anthropic-compatible APIs
- ✦On-demand dedicated and reserved GPU deployments
- ✦Fine-tuning and reinforcement-learning training pipelines
- ✦Large library of open LLM, vision, image and audio models
- ✦Optimized inference engine for throughput and latency
- ✦ChatLLM access to multiple top AI models
- ✦AI agents and automation
- ✦No-code full-stack app creation
- ✦Enterprise generative AI platform
- ✦Structured ML model building
- ✦Optimization and forecasting
- ✦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
Use cases
- →Running LLM inference at high speed
- →Cutting inference costs at scale
- →Powering low-latency AI chat apps
- →Serving models via a hosted API
- →Prototype and train ML models in the cloud
- →Fine-tune and deploy foundation models
- →Run reproducible AI experiments collaboratively
- →Serving open models in production apps and agents
- →Fine-tuning models on private data
- →Powering code assistants, chatbots and RAG at scale
- →Chat with many AI models in one place
- →Build and deploy ML models
- →Automate tasks with AI agents
- →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
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