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ApX Machine Learning
✓ verifiedFreemium
Tools, model specs and courses for LLM engineers-VRAM calculator, benchmarks and model directory-with free and paid tiers.
355K 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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metaflow.org
✓ verifiedFree
Open-source Python framework, born at Netflix, for building, scaling, and deploying real-world ML, AI, and data science workflows.
20K visits/mo
Pricing
Basic: $0/mo (free forever)
Pro: $19/mo
Pro+: $59/mo
Open Source: $0 (self-hosted, 100+ providers)
Free trial available
Free: $0 (real-time guardrails)
Developer: $0.002 per trace
No public pricing
Core features
- ✦VRAM/GPU-memory calculator for LLMs
- ✦LLM performance rankings and benchmarks
- ✦Model directory and comparison
- ✦AI/ML courses and learning roadmap
- ✦Calculator API and exportable cost reports
- ✦Engineering blog and guides
- ✦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
- ✦Plain-Python workflow orchestration
- ✦Automatic versioning and experiment tracking
- ✦Scale-out compute with GPUs and parallel instances
- ✦One-command deployment to production
- ✦Runs on AWS, Azure, GCP, or Kubernetes
- ✦Event-based triggering of workflows
Use cases
- →Estimating GPU memory before training or inference
- →Comparing and selecting LLMs
- →Learning ML and LLM engineering
- →Modeling production deployment costs
- →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
- →Developing and debugging ML pipelines locally
- →Scaling model training to cloud GPUs
- →Deploying experiments to production unchanged
- →Building reactive, event-driven data systems
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