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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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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
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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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HEROZ
✓ verifiedPaid
A Japanese AI firm that grew from shogi-AI research into industry ML solutions and a generative-AI platform, HEROZ ASK.
1.9M visits/mo
Pricing
Free: $0
Pay-as-you-go: Per-token, no subscription
Enterprise: Talk to sales
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
Max Token Plan: 119 CNY/mo (frontier models, up to ~7.1B tokens/mo)
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
- ✦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
- ✦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
- ✦Deep-learning and machine-learning core technology
- ✦HEROZ ASK generative-AI platform
- ✦BtoB and BtoC AI solutions
- ✦BLOOMWORKS product
- ✦Industry AI deployment case studies
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
- →Protecting against identity theft
- →Monitoring family credit and finances
- →Keeping kids safe online
- →Removing personal data from broker sites
- →Coding and agentic tasks
- →AI video generation
- →Text-to-speech and music creation
- →Building on MiniMax model APIs
- →Deploying generative AI in enterprises
- →Applying ML to industry-specific problems
- →AI-driven business transformation (DX)
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