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LLM Gateway
✓ verifiedFreemium
Unified API and gateway routing requests across 200+ models from 40+ providers, with cost tracking and a free BYOK tier.
76K visits/mo
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SiliconFlow
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Developer platform serving 200+ optimized LLMs via APIs; high traffic.
434K visits/mo1.1K 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
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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
Pricing
Free: $0 forever (BYOK)
Pay-as-you-go: 5% fee on credit usage
Free trial available
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Core features
- ✦One API for 200+ models across 40+ providers
- ✦Provider switching without code changes
- ✦Real-time cost tracking
- ✦Bring-your-own-keys, free forever
- ✦Observability and guardrails
- ✦SOC 2 Type II certified
- ✦LLM API router
- ✦OpenAI API proxy
- ✦Model aggregation (OpenAI, Gemini, DeepSeek, Llama, Qwen, Claude, etc.)
- ✦Unified OpenAI API standard
- ✦Unlimited concurrency
- ✦Access over 200 optimized models, including LLMs, image, video, and audio processing.
- ✦Achieve low-latency, high-throughput inference with SiliconFlow's self-developed acceleration frameworks.
- ✦Deploy models via serverless inference, dedicated endpoints, or reserved GPUs to suit various workloads.
- ✦Customize models to your data with built-in monitoring and elastic compute resources.
- ✦Ensure data privacy and business security with dynamic scaling and fault tolerance mechanisms.
- ✦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
- ✦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
Use cases
- →Route across many LLM providers from one API
- →Track and control AI spend
- →Avoid vendor lock-in with provider switching
- →Integrating multiple AI models into applications using a single API
- →Accessing the latest AI models through a unified interface
- →Managing and scaling AI model usage with unlimited concurrency
- →Quickly deploy various AI models via a simple API, supporting tasks like text, image, audio, and video processing.
- →Utilize serverless GPUs to automatically scale AI applications, ensuring flexibility and cost-efficiency.
- →Access high-performance GPUs for demanding workloads, such as large-scale inference and video generation.
- →Deploy custom models with guaranteed performance and scalability, tailored to specific business needs.
- →Chat with many AI models in one place
- →Build and deploy ML models
- →Automate tasks with AI agents
- →Free AI chat and assistance
- →Building apps via API
- →Reasoning and coding tasks
- →Low-cost LLM inference
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