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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

Manus

✓ verifiedFreemium

General AI agent that executes multi-step tasks end to end — research, slides, design, browsing — instead of only answering questions.

28M visits/mo89K saves

Lightning AI

✓ verifiedFreemium

Cloud platform from the makers of PyTorch Lightning for building, training and deploying AI in browser-based GPU Studios.

467K visits/mo3.8K saves

CometAPI

✓ verifiedPaid

Unified API to 500+ AI models (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, etc.) with OpenAI-compatible calls priced ~20% below official rates.

363K visits/mo4.8K saves

MiniMax

✓ verifiedFreemium

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

4.6M visits/mo

Pricing

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

Pay-as-you-go, min top-up $10

GPT-5.6: $4 / 1M tokens

Claude Sonnet 5: $1.6 / 1M tokens

Free trial available

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

Core features

✦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

✦Autonomous multi-step task execution
✦Website and app building
✦AI slides, design and image generation
✦Manus browser operator
✦Wide Research mode
✦Cross-platform web, desktop and mobile apps

✦Browser-based Lightning Studios with on-demand GPUs
✦PyTorch Lightning training framework
✦Model training, fine-tuning and deployment
✦Collaborative, shareable ML environments
✦Scalable multi-GPU/multi-node compute

✦One key for 500+ models
✦OpenAI-compatible API
✦Pay-as-you-go credits (~20% below list)
✦Multimodal: text, image, video, audio
✦Usage analytics and budget alerts
✦Integrations (Claude Code, n8n, Zapier, etc.)

✦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

Use cases

→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

→Automate end-to-end digital tasks
→Produce websites and presentations
→Conduct broad research
→Hand off browser tasks to an agent

→Prototype and train ML models in the cloud
→Fine-tune and deploy foundation models
→Run reproducible AI experiments collaboratively

→Consolidating multi-provider AI billing
→Switching models without re-integration
→Powering apps and automation pipelines
→Benchmarking models in one playground

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

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