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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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Runable
✓ verifiedPaid
General AI agent executing tasks and integrating thousands of apps; very high traffic.
955K visits/mo125K saves
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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
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portkey.ai
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AI gateway and observability suite for governing and optimizing LLM apps; strong dev-tool traffic.
266K 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
No public pricing
AX Free: $0/mo (25k spans/mo)
AX Pro: $50/mo (50k spans/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
- ✦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
- ✦Agent and LLM tracing
- ✦Large-scale evaluations
- ✦Open-source Phoenix observability
- ✦Alyx AI engineering agent
- ✦OpenTelemetry-based instrumentation
- ✦Experiments and prompt playgrounds
- ✦AI Gateway for reliable LLM routing
- ✦Prompt Engineering for collaborative prompt management
- ✦Guardrails for enforcing reliable LLM behavior
- ✦Observability Suite for monitoring costs, quality, and latency
- ✦MCP Client for building AI agents with real-world tool access
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
- →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.
- →Debugging AI agents in production
- →Measuring LLM output quality
- →Catching regressions before deploy
- →Monitor costs, quality, and latency of AI applications.
- →Route to 250+ LLMs reliably with a single endpoint.
- →Streamline and scale prompt engineering.
- →Enforce reliable LLM behavior with guardrails.
- →Build agents with access to real-world tools.
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