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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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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
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Paperclip - ing
✓ verifiedFree
Open-source, self-hosted app to manage teams of AI agents like a company - org chart, goals, budgets and per-agent approvals.
942K visits/mo
Pricing
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
Pay-as-you-go: Per-token, no subscription
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Core features
- ✦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
- ✦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
- ✦Manage teams of AI agents
- ✦Bring-your-own-agent (any runtime/provider)
- ✦Org chart with roles and reporting lines
- ✦Goal alignment for tasks
- ✦Per-agent budget and cost controls
- ✦Ticket system with full audit trail
Use cases
- →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
- →Automate end-to-end digital tasks
- →Produce websites and presentations
- →Conduct broad research
- →Hand off browser tasks to an agent
- →Orchestrating agents across business functions
- →Running dev, marketing and research agents
- →Building autonomous-business workflows
- →Governing and budgeting agent work
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