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Groq
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Fast, low-cost AI inference provider running LLMs on custom LPU chips via GroqCloud's pay-as-you-go API.
3.6M visits/mo
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Arize AI
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AI observability and evaluation platform to trace, evaluate and improve LLM agents in production, with an open-source Phoenix core.
248K visits/mo
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ApX Machine Learning
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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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Maxim AI
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End-to-end evaluation and observability platform for building, testing, and monitoring AI agents and LLM apps.
102K visits/mo
Pricing
GPT-OSS 20B: $0.075 per 1M input tokens ($0.30 per 1M output)
GPT-OSS 120B: $0.15 per 1M input tokens
AX Free: $0/mo (25k spans/mo)
AX Pro: $50/mo (50k spans/mo)
Basic: $0/mo (free forever)
Pro: $19/mo
Pro+: $59/mo
Developer: $0 (3 seats, 10k logs/mo)
Professional: $29/seat/mo (100k logs/mo)
Business: $49/seat/mo (500k logs/mo)
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Core features
- ✦LPU custom inference hardware
- ✦GroqCloud tokens-as-a-service API
- ✦High-speed, low-latency inference
- ✦Pay-as-you-go token pricing
- ✦Free API key to start
- ✦Broad open-model support
- ✦Agent and LLM tracing
- ✦Large-scale evaluations
- ✦Open-source Phoenix observability
- ✦Alyx AI engineering agent
- ✦OpenTelemetry-based instrumentation
- ✦Experiments and prompt playgrounds
- ✦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
- ✦Prompt IDE, versioning, and deployment
- ✦Agent simulation and evaluation
- ✦Production tracing and observability
- ✦Pre-built and custom evaluators
- ✦Human-in-the-loop evaluation
- ✦Bifrost LLM gateway
Use cases
- →Running LLM inference at high speed
- →Cutting inference costs at scale
- →Powering low-latency AI chat apps
- →Serving models via a hosted API
- →Debugging AI agents in production
- →Measuring LLM output quality
- →Catching regressions before deploy
- →Estimating GPU memory before training or inference
- →Comparing and selecting LLMs
- →Learning ML and LLM engineering
- →Modeling production deployment costs
- →Testing and comparing prompts and models
- →Evaluating and simulating AI agents
- →Monitoring agents in production
- →Running human evaluation pipelines
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