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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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Replicate AI
✓ verifiedPaid
Pay-per-use cloud API to run, fine-tune, and deploy thousands of open-source and proprietary AI models with one line of code.
1.3M visits/mo17K saves
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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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MuleRun
✓ verifiedFreemium
Always-on cloud AI agent that runs multi-step workflows and monitoring on a dedicated 24/7 VM to automate business tasks.
908K visits/mo
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Runable
✓ verifiedPaid
General AI agent executing tasks and integrating thousands of apps; very high traffic.
955K visits/mo125K saves
Pricing
GPT-OSS 20B: $0.075 per 1M input tokens ($0.30 per 1M output)
GPT-OSS 120B: $0.15 per 1M input tokens
CPU (Small): $0.000025/sec ($0.09/hr)
Nvidia A100 80GB: $0.0014/sec ($5.04/hr)
Nvidia H100: $0.001525/sec ($5.49/hr)
Free trial available
Free: $0 (free models only, 50 requests/day)
Pay-as-you-go: 5.5% platform fee on inference
Free: $0 (200 daily bonus credits, 10 tasks)
Plus: $16/mo (2,000 credits/mo)
Super: $32/mo (4,500 credits/mo)
Pro: $160/mo (23,000 credits/mo)
No public pricing
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-line API calls to run community and proprietary AI models
- ✦Support for image, video, speech, and LLM generation models
- ✦Fine-tuning and custom model deployment via Cog
- ✦Per-second usage billing on shared or dedicated hardware
- ✦Automatic scaling for high-traffic private models
- ✦Thousands of community-published models with production APIs
- ✦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
- ✦Always-on agent on a dedicated 24/7 VM
- ✦Multi-step task automation (docs, PPT, video, research)
- ✦Proactive monitoring with alerts and actions
- ✦Shared/self-improving agent knowledge network
- ✦Page deployment and drive storage
- ✦Create presentations, websites, reports, slides, documents, podcasts images & videos
- ✦Conduct deep research on any topic
- ✦Command a virtual computer to browse the web
- ✦Connect and automate with over 2700+ apps
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
- →Developers embedding image/video/speech generation into an app via API
- →Teams deploying and scaling their own fine-tuned models
- →Builders comparing outputs from multiple AI models in one playground
- →Companies avoiding GPU infrastructure management for ML inference
- →Accessing many LLMs through one integration
- →Adding provider redundancy to AI apps
- →Comparing model price and performance
- →Powering agents and AI-native products
- →Automating recurring business workflows overnight
- →Generating reports, documents and presentations
- →Monitoring uptime, pricing or metrics with auto-actions
- →Running research and content tasks hands-off
- →Generate a high-conversion landing page for a startup's ebook.
- →Build a web-based image cropper tool with live preview.
- →Create a beginner-friendly PDF cheatsheet for Python.
- →Develop a one-week travel itinerary for a destination like Vietnam.
- →Analyze social media mentions and sentiment for a specific entity.
- →Organize hiring task submissions from emails into a Google Sheets spreadsheet.
- →Clone a pixel-perfect website for design accuracy and responsive web experience.
- →Make a podcast on the rise of SpaceX, make it conversational and include fun facts.
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