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Groq
✓ verifiedFreemium
Fast, low-cost AI inference provider running LLMs on custom LPU chips via GroqCloud's pay-as-you-go API.
3.6M visits/mo
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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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Agenta
✓ verifiedFreemium
Open-source LLMOps platform uniting prompt management, evaluation and observability for teams shipping reliable LLM apps.
34K visits/mo
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Arize AI
✓ verifiedFreemium
AI observability and evaluation platform to trace, evaluate and improve LLM agents in production, with an open-source Phoenix core.
248K visits/mo
Pricing
GPT-OSS 20B: $0.075 per 1M input tokens ($0.30 per 1M output)
GPT-OSS 120B: $0.15 per 1M input tokens
Free: $0
Pay-as-you-go: Per-token, no subscription
Enterprise: Talk to sales
No public pricing
AX Free: $0/mo (25k spans/mo)
AX Pro: $50/mo (50k spans/mo)
Core features
- ✦LPU custom inference hardware
- ✦GroqCloud tokens-as-a-service API
- ✦High-speed, low-latency inference
- ✦Pay-as-you-go token pricing
- ✦Free API key to start
- ✦Broad open-model support
- ✦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
- ✦Prompt management as a single source of truth
- ✦Playground for prompt experimentation
- ✦Evaluation to measure changes before production
- ✦Observability and tracing for debugging
- ✦Collaboration across technical and non-technical roles
- ✦Open-source and self-hostable
- ✦Agent and LLM tracing
- ✦Large-scale evaluations
- ✦Open-source Phoenix observability
- ✦Alyx AI engineering agent
- ✦OpenTelemetry-based instrumentation
- ✦Experiments and prompt playgrounds
Use cases
- →Running LLM inference at high speed
- →Cutting inference costs at scale
- →Powering low-latency AI chat apps
- →Serving models via a hosted API
- →Accessing many LLMs through one integration
- →Adding provider redundancy to AI apps
- →Comparing model price and performance
- →Powering agents and AI-native products
- →Version and manage prompts centrally
- →Benchmark and evaluate LLM outputs
- →Debug and trace production LLM issues
- →Collaborate across a team on LLM apps
- →Debugging AI agents in production
- →Measuring LLM output quality
- →Catching regressions before deploy
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