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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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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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Kimi Chat
✓ verifiedFree
Kimi is Moonshot AI's conversational assistant known for long-context chat, coding help, and agentic tasks.
103K 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)
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 AI assistant
- ✦Long-context document understanding
- ✦Coding assistance
- ✦Agent and plugin capabilities
- ✦Web and mobile app access
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
- →Answering questions and research
- →Summarizing long documents
- →Writing and editing help
- →Coding support
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