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DeepSeek
✓ verifiedFreemium
Chinese AI lab DeepSeek offering free chat apps and low-cost API access to its frontier V-series and R-series reasoning models.
430M visits/mo
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Higress
✓ verifiedFreemium
Open-source AI-native API gateway for routing, protecting and caching LLM/agent traffic, with a paid managed cloud.
29K visits/mo
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hCaptcha
✓ verifiedFreemium
Privacy-focused CAPTCHA and bot/fraud-detection service, a drop-in reCAPTCHA alternative for websites and apps.
4.4M visits/mo
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Vanta
✓ verifiedPaid
Compliance automation platform that continuously monitors controls and evidence to help companies achieve SOC 2, ISO 27001, and HIPAA.
775K visits/mo
Pricing
No public pricing
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Basic: Free
Pro: $139/month billed monthly, $99/month billed yearly
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Core features
- ✦Free DeepSeek chat (web and app)
- ✦Open API platform
- ✦V-series and R-series reasoning models
- ✦DeepSeek-V4 with long context and stronger agent ability
- ✦OpenAI/Anthropic-compatible API
- ✦Extensive published model lineup
- ✦Unified proxy and protocol conversion across 100+ LLMs
- ✦Model-level fallback and routing
- ✦Semantic and exact-match AI caching
- ✦Token tracking and quota controls
- ✦Content-safety and data-protection filtering
- ✦MCP service hosting and plugin marketplace
- ✦AI bot detection
- ✦Transaction fraud protection
- ✦Account-takeover (ATO) defense
- ✦Pull-based SMS MFA
- ✦Private Learning ML risk models
- ✦Two-line reCAPTCHA migration
- ✦Hundreds of integrations
- ✦Continuous automated compliance monitoring across frameworks
- ✦Automated evidence collection and audit preparation
- ✦Personnel access and permissions management
- ✦Vendor and third-party risk assessment workflows
- ✦Automated security questionnaire responses
- ✦Public-facing trust center for compliance status
- ✦400+ tool integrations and an API for custom workflows
Use cases
- →Free AI chat and assistance
- →Building apps via API
- →Reasoning and coding tasks
- →Low-cost LLM inference
- →Centralizing access to multiple LLM providers
- →Building and governing AI agent/MCP services
- →Controlling token spend across teams
- →Adding caching and safety to LLM calls
- →Blocking bots and spam signups
- →Preventing account takeover
- →Reducing transaction and payment fraud
- →Stopping credential stuffing
- →Preparing for and maintaining SOC 2 or ISO 27001 certification
- →Automating responses to customer security questionnaires
- →Managing vendor security reviews at scale
- →Centralizing risk management across a growing company
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