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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

MiniMax

✓ verifiedFreemium

Chinese AGI company building multimodal LLMs, Hailuo video, speech and music models, plus AI apps and open APIs.

4.6M visits/mo

Claude

✓ verifiedFreemium

Anthropic's AI assistant for writing, coding, and analysis across web, mobile, and desktop, plus a developer API.

22M visits/mo231K saves

WaveSpeedAI

✓ verifiedFree trial

Pay-per-use API hub aggregating 1000+ image, video, and audio generation models for developers building AI media pipelines.

2.2M visits/mo

Glean

✓ verifiedPaid

Enterprise Work AI platform for company-wide search, an AI assistant and building governed agents across 250+ connectors.

3.2M visits/mo

Pricing

Free: $0

Pay-as-you-go: Per-token, no subscription

Enterprise: Talk to sales

Max Token Plan: 119 CNY/mo (frontier models, up to ~7.1B tokens/mo)

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

Silver: $100 top-up (higher rate limits)

Gold: $1,000 top-up (higher rate limits)

Ultra: $10,000 top-up (highest rate limits)

Free trial available

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

✦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

✦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

✦Unified API access to 1000+ image/video/audio generation models
✦Pay-per-use pricing billed per image or per second of video
✦Includes chat/LLM model access (Claude, GPT, Gemini, etc.) priced per token
✦Account tiers unlock higher GPU limits and concurrency
✦CLI and desktop app for building workflows
✦Enterprise options with dedicated support and custom deployment

✦Enterprise search across company apps
✦Personal AI assistant grounded in work data
✦Agent builder, orchestration and governance
✦250+ connectors and actions
✦Enterprise knowledge graph and hybrid search
✦Security controls for scaling AI

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

→Coding and agentic tasks
→AI video generation
→Text-to-speech and music creation
→Building on MiniMax model APIs

→Drafting and refining written content
→Building and debugging software
→Analyzing datasets for insights
→Research and learning support
→Team and enterprise automation

→Integrating AI image/video generation into an app via API
→Building automated content pipelines needing multiple AI models
→Testing and comparing many generative models from one account
→Scaling AI media production with volume-based account tiers
→Accessing both media-generation and LLM APIs from one platform

→Search across all company knowledge
→Answer employee questions with grounded AI
→Build and deploy custom AI agents
→Automate cross-system workflows

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