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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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OpenRouter
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Unified API gateway that routes requests to 400+ LLMs across 70+ providers with failover and no subscription.
17M visits/mo
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Claude
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Anthropic's AI assistant for writing, coding, and analysis across web, mobile, and desktop, plus a developer API.
22M visits/mo231K 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
Starter: $0/mo + compute ($30 free credit)
Team: $250/mo + compute
Free: $0 (free models only, 50 requests/day)
Pay-as-you-go: 5.5% platform fee on inference
Free: $0
Pro: $17/month billed annually ($200 up front), or $20/month
Max: From $100/month
Team: $20/seat/month billed annually ($25 monthly); premium seats $100/seat/month annually ($125 monthly)
Enterprise: Contact sales
No public pricing
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
- ✦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
- ✦Conversational writing and editing
- ✦Code generation and debugging (Claude Code)
- ✦Data analysis and visualization
- ✦Web search plus memory across chats
- ✦Connectors and remote MCP integrations
- ✦Extended thinking for complex tasks
- ✦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
Use cases
- →Deploying and scaling model inference
- →Fine-tuning and training models
- →Running batch/parallel AI jobs
- →Executing untrusted code in sandboxes
- →Accessing many LLMs through one integration
- →Adding provider redundancy to AI apps
- →Comparing model price and performance
- →Powering agents and AI-native products
- →Drafting and refining written content
- →Building and debugging software
- →Analyzing datasets for insights
- →Research and learning support
- →Team and enterprise automation
- →Chat with many AI models in one place
- →Build and deploy ML models
- →Automate tasks with AI agents
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