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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

Aura

✓ verifiedPaid

All-in-one digital-safety subscription protecting families from identity theft, fraud and online threats, with parental controls.

2.5M visits/mo762 saves

WaveSpeedAI

✓ verifiedFree trial

Pay-per-use API hub aggregating 1000+ image, video, and audio generation models for developers building AI media pipelines.

2.2M visits/mo

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

OpenRouter

✓ verifiedFreemium

Unified API gateway that routes requests to 400+ LLMs across 70+ providers with failover and no subscription.

17M visits/mo

Pricing

Max Token Plan: 119 CNY/mo (frontier models, up to ~7.1B tokens/mo)

Kids: $10/mo billed annually

Individual: $12/mo billed annually (1 adult)

Couple: $22/mo billed annually (2 adults)

Family: $32/mo billed annually (5 adults)

Free trial available

Silver: $100 top-up (higher rate limits)

Gold: $1,000 top-up (higher rate limits)

Ultra: $10,000 top-up (highest rate limits)

Free trial available

No public pricing

Free: $0 (free models only, 50 requests/day)

Pay-as-you-go: 5.5% platform fee on inference

Core features

✦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

✦Identity theft protection with insurance
✦3-bureau credit monitoring and lock
✦Antivirus, VPN and password manager
✦Online data removal from brokers
✦Parental controls and safe-gaming alerts
✦Dark-web and financial-fraud alerts

✦Unified API access to 1000+ image/video/audio generation models
✦Pay-per-use pricing billed per image or per second of video
✦Includes chat/LLM model access (Claude, GPT, Gemini, etc.) priced per token
✦Account tiers unlock higher GPU limits and concurrency
✦CLI and desktop app for building workflows
✦Enterprise options with dedicated support and custom deployment

✦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

✦One unified, OpenAI-compatible API for 400+ models
✦Automatic provider failover for higher uptime
✦Edge routing for low latency
✦Custom data and provider policies
✦Pay-as-you-go credits usable across any model

Use cases

→Coding and agentic tasks
→AI video generation
→Text-to-speech and music creation
→Building on MiniMax model APIs

→Protecting against identity theft
→Monitoring family credit and finances
→Keeping kids safe online
→Removing personal data from broker sites

→Integrating AI image/video generation into an app via API
→Building automated content pipelines needing multiple AI models
→Testing and comparing many generative models from one account
→Scaling AI media production with volume-based account tiers
→Accessing both media-generation and LLM APIs from one platform

→Free AI chat and assistance
→Building apps via API
→Reasoning and coding tasks
→Low-cost LLM inference

→Accessing many LLMs through one integration
→Adding provider redundancy to AI apps
→Comparing model price and performance
→Powering agents and AI-native products

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