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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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metaflow.org
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Open-source Python framework, born at Netflix, for building, scaling, and deploying real-world ML, AI, and data science workflows.
20K visits/mo
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portkey.ai
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AI gateway and observability suite for governing and optimizing LLM apps; strong dev-tool traffic.
266K visits/mo
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Weights & Biases
✓ verifiedFreemium
Weights & Biases is a widely used MLOps platform for experiment tracking, model management and evaluating AI applications.
2.5M visits/mo
Pricing
Basic: $0/mo (free forever)
Pro: $19/mo
Pro+: $59/mo
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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
- ✦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
- ✦AI Gateway for reliable LLM routing
- ✦Prompt Engineering for collaborative prompt management
- ✦Guardrails for enforcing reliable LLM behavior
- ✦Observability Suite for monitoring costs, quality, and latency
- ✦MCP Client for building AI agents with real-world tool access
- ✦Experiment tracking and visualization for ML training runs
- ✦Model and artifact versioning and management
- ✦Hyperparameter optimization tooling
- ✦Collaborative dashboards and reports for ML teams
- ✦LLM application tracing and evaluation tooling
Use cases
- →Estimating GPU memory before training or inference
- →Comparing and selecting LLMs
- →Learning ML and LLM engineering
- →Modeling production deployment costs
- →Developing and debugging ML pipelines locally
- →Scaling model training to cloud GPUs
- →Deploying experiments to production unchanged
- →Building reactive, event-driven data systems
- →Monitor costs, quality, and latency of AI applications.
- →Route to 250+ LLMs reliably with a single endpoint.
- →Streamline and scale prompt engineering.
- →Enforce reliable LLM behavior with guardrails.
- →Build agents with access to real-world tools.
- →ML engineers tracking and comparing training experiments
- →Research teams versioning datasets and model checkpoints
- →Teams building and evaluating LLM-powered applications
- →Organizations collaborating on machine learning projects
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