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✓ verifiedFreemium
Serverless AI cloud for running inference, training and sandboxes on GPUs with fast cold starts and pay-per-use billing.
988K visits/mo
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MindStudio
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No-code visual builder to create, deploy and orchestrate AI agents across 200+ models, for individuals to enterprise.
1.8M visits/mo
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DeepSeek
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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
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MiniMax
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Chinese AGI company building multimodal LLMs, Hailuo video, speech and music models, plus AI apps and open APIs.
4.6M visits/mo
Pricing
Starter: $0/mo + compute ($30 free credit)
Team: $250/mo + compute
Free: $0 + usage (1 agent, 1,000 runs/mo)
Individual: $20/mo + usage (unlimited agents and runs)
No public pricing
No public pricing
Max Token Plan: 119 CNY/mo (frontier models, up to ~7.1B tokens/mo)
Core features
- ✦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
- ✦No-code visual agent builder
- ✦200+ AI models via service router
- ✦100+ prebuilt templates
- ✦Agent skills, plugins and workflows
- ✦AI Media Workbench for video/image
- ✦Enterprise controls (SSO, permissions, self-host)
- ✦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
- ✦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
- ✦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
Use cases
- →Deploying and scaling model inference
- →Fine-tuning and training models
- →Running batch/parallel AI jobs
- →Executing untrusted code in sandboxes
- →Automating business workflows
- →Building custom AI agents without code
- →Content and media generation
- →Deploying agents across a team or org
- →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
- →Free AI chat and assistance
- →Building apps via API
- →Reasoning and coding tasks
- →Low-cost LLM inference
- →Coding and agentic tasks
- →AI video generation
- →Text-to-speech and music creation
- →Building on MiniMax model APIs
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