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OpenRouter
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Unified API gateway that routes requests to 400+ LLMs across 70+ providers with failover and no subscription.
17M visits/mo
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Groq
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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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Verdent
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Credit-based AI coding agent that builds full applications from plain-language instructions, including backend, billing, and admin features.
1.0M visits/mo39K saves
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Dify.ai
✓ verifiedFreemium
Open-source platform to build, deploy and monitor agentic AI workflows and RAG apps, with cloud, self-host and enterprise options.
1.1M visits/mo
Pricing
Free: $0 (free models only, 50 requests/day)
Pay-as-you-go: 5.5% platform fee on inference
GPT-OSS 20B: $0.075 per 1M input tokens ($0.30 per 1M output)
GPT-OSS 120B: $0.15 per 1M input tokens
Starter: $19/mo (480 credits/mo including bonus)
Pro: $59/mo (1,500 credits/mo including bonus)
Max: $179/mo (4,500 credits/mo including bonus)
Teams: $20/user/mo (480 credits/user/mo)
Free trial available
Sandbox: Free (200 message credits)
Professional: $590/workspace/year
Team: $1,590/workspace/year
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
- ✦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
- ✦Builds complete apps (auth, storage, payments, admin) from natural-language prompts
- ✦Runs on top of multiple frontier coding models
- ✦Retains full project context across sessions for incremental feature additions
- ✦Remote task submission via Slack/Telegram messaging
- ✦'Eco Mode' for lower-cost usage without consuming credits
- ✦VS Code and JetBrains IDE integrations plus a desktop app
- ✦Visual workflow studio for agents
- ✦RAG knowledge pipelines
- ✦Agent runtime with tools and memory
- ✦Marketplace of models and plugins
- ✦Publish as app, API or MCP tool
- ✦Logging, analytics and monitoring
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
- →Running LLM inference at high speed
- →Cutting inference costs at scale
- →Powering low-latency AI chat apps
- →Serving models via a hosted API
- →Solo founders building a launchable product without a dev team
- →Developers offloading multi-step feature builds to an autonomous agent
- →Teams wanting a shared coding agent with pooled usage billing
- →Building AI agents and chatbots
- →Creating RAG-based knowledge apps
- →Deploying LLM apps at enterprise scale
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