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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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liteLLM
✓ verifiedFreemium
Open-source AI gateway giving dev teams unified access, fallbacks and spend tracking across 100+ LLMs.
703K visits/mo
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Fiddler AI
✓ verifiedFreemium
Enterprise AI observability and security platform to monitor, evaluate, and govern agentic and ML systems with guardrails.
51K visits/mo
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MiniMax
✓ verifiedFreemium
Chinese AGI company building multimodal LLMs, Hailuo video, speech and music models, plus AI apps and open APIs.
4.6M visits/mo
Pricing
Free: $0
Pay-as-you-go: Per-token, no subscription
Enterprise: Talk to sales
Open Source: $0 (self-hosted, 100+ providers)
Free trial available
Free: $0 (real-time guardrails)
Developer: $0.002 per trace
Max Token Plan: 119 CNY/mo (frontier models, up to ~7.1B tokens/mo)
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
- ✦Unified access to 100+ LLMs in OpenAI format
- ✦Cost/spend tracking per key, user and team
- ✦Budgets and rate limiting
- ✦Automatic provider fallbacks and retries
- ✦Virtual keys and team management
- ✦Logging and observability integrations
- ✦End-to-end agentic and ML observability
- ✦Real-time guardrails (hallucination, PII, jailbreak)
- ✦Continuous evaluations and custom judges
- ✦Root-cause analysis and decision lineage
- ✦AI governance, risk, and compliance controls
- ✦Flexible SaaS, VPC, or on-prem deployment
- ✦MiniMax M-series LLMs (M3, 1M context, MSA)
- ✦Hailuo AI video generation
- ✦Speech and music generation models
- ✦MiniMax Code agentic coding tool
- ✦Consumer apps (Hailuo, Xingye)
- ✦Open API and Token Plan for developers
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
- →Giving developers governed access to many LLMs
- →Attributing and controlling LLM spend
- →Keeping apps running during provider outages
- →Monitoring production AI agents
- →Enforcing safety guardrails on LLM apps
- →Evaluating and debugging model behavior
- →Governance and compliance for enterprise AI
- →Coding and agentic tasks
- →AI video generation
- →Text-to-speech and music creation
- →Building on MiniMax model APIs
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