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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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WaveSpeedAI
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Pay-per-use API hub aggregating 1000+ image, video, and audio generation models for developers building AI media pipelines.
2.2M visits/mo
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Lightning AI
✓ verifiedFreemium
Cloud platform from the makers of PyTorch Lightning for building, training and deploying AI in browser-based GPU Studios.
467K visits/mo3.8K saves
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huntr
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AI/ML bug-bounty platform where researchers bypass LLM guardrails in timed challenges to win cash prizes.
60K visits/mo
Pricing
No public pricing
Silver: $100 top-up (higher rate limits)
Gold: $1,000 top-up (higher rate limits)
Ultra: $10,000 top-up (highest rate limits)
Free trial available
No public pricing
No public pricing
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 API access to 1000+ image/video/audio generation models
- ✦Pay-per-use pricing billed per image or per second of video
- ✦Includes chat/LLM model access (Claude, GPT, Gemini, etc.) priced per token
- ✦Account tiers unlock higher GPU limits and concurrency
- ✦CLI and desktop app for building workflows
- ✦Enterprise options with dedicated support and custom deployment
- ✦Browser-based Lightning Studios with on-demand GPUs
- ✦PyTorch Lightning training framework
- ✦Model training, fine-tuning and deployment
- ✦Collaborative, shareable ML environments
- ✦Scalable multi-GPU/multi-node compute
- ✦Timed AI-hacking challenges with cash pots
- ✦Public leaderboard and rankings
- ✦Guardrail-bypass and jailbreak objectives
- ✦Hacktivity feed of activity
- ✦Community via Discord
- ✦Blog on LLM exploits and AI security
Use cases
- →Free AI chat and assistance
- →Building apps via API
- →Reasoning and coding tasks
- →Low-cost LLM inference
- →Integrating AI image/video generation into an app via API
- →Building automated content pipelines needing multiple AI models
- →Testing and comparing many generative models from one account
- →Scaling AI media production with volume-based account tiers
- →Accessing both media-generation and LLM APIs from one platform
- →Prototype and train ML models in the cloud
- →Fine-tune and deploy foundation models
- →Run reproducible AI experiments collaboratively
- →Red-teaming and jailbreaking LLMs
- →Earning bounties for AI exploits
- →Learning AI attack techniques
- →Competing against other researchers
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