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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
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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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Unsloth AI
✓ verifiedFreemium

Open-source library and desktop app for fast, memory-efficient local fine-tuning and inference of open LLMs.

1.1M visits/mo29K saves
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Groq
✓ verifiedFreemium

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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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)
Free: $0 forever (BYOK)
Pay-as-you-go: 5% fee on credit usage

Free trial available

No public pricing

GPT-OSS 20B: $0.075 per 1M input tokens ($0.30 per 1M output)
GPT-OSS 120B: $0.15 per 1M input tokens
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
  • 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
  • Optimized LoRA/FFT/PT training kernels for 500+ models
  • Local offline model runner for Mac and Windows
  • No-code dataset creation from PDFs, CSVs, and JSON
  • Unlimited tool-calling and web search inside model runs
  • Data Recipes workflow to turn documents into training datasets
  • Export to safetensors or GGUF for llama.cpp, vLLM, Ollama
  • Multi-GPU support on paid tiers
  • 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
  • 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
  • Route across many LLM providers from one API
  • Track and control AI spend
  • Avoid vendor lock-in with provider switching
  • ML engineers fine-tuning open models on a single GPU for free
  • Teams building custom datasets from unstructured documents
  • Developers wanting to run and compare LLMs fully offline
  • Enterprises needing faster, more accurate multi-node training
  • Running LLM inference at high speed
  • Cutting inference costs at scale
  • Powering low-latency AI chat apps
  • Serving models via a hosted API
  • 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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