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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
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Claude
✓ verifiedFreemium
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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Chat01.ai
✓ verifiedFreemium
A paid gateway to premium OpenAI models with free daily credits, positioned as a ChatGPT Pro alternative.
103K 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 (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
Free: $0 (2 credits/day)
Starter: $9.99/mo (30 credits/day)
Basic: $19.99/mo (100 credits/day)
Pro: $39.99/mo (300 credits/day)
Credit packs: $9.99 / $19.99 / $79.99
No public pricing
No public pricing
Core features
- ✦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
- ✦Access to premium OpenAI models
- ✦Daily free credits
- ✦Subscription and pay-as-you-go options
- ✦Model picker for thinking/pro models
- ✦Invite-based bonus credits
- ✦LLM API router
- ✦OpenAI API proxy
- ✦Model aggregation (OpenAI, Gemini, DeepSeek, Llama, Qwen, Claude, etc.)
- ✦Unified OpenAI API standard
- ✦Unlimited concurrency
- ✦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
- →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
- →Use OpenAI Pro-tier models affordably
- →Solve complex reasoning problems
- →Occasional AI use on free daily credits
- →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
- →Free AI chat and assistance
- →Building apps via API
- →Reasoning and coding tasks
- →Low-cost LLM inference
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