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Groq
✓ verifiedFreemium
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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Runable
✓ verifiedPaid
General AI agent executing tasks and integrating thousands of apps; very high traffic.
955K visits/mo125K saves
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Helicone
✓ verifiedFreemium
LLM observability platform and AI gateway that lets teams route, log, debug and analyze their model requests.
100K visits/mo
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Openlayer
✓ verifiedFreemium
AI governance and observability platform with 100+ automated tests and real-time guardrails to evaluate and monitor ML/LLM systems.
24K 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
No public pricing
Hobby: Free (10,000 requests/mo)
Pro: $79/mo (unlimited seats)
Team: $799/mo (SOC-2 & HIPAA)
Free trial available
Basic: Free (20k inferences/mo, 1 member, 5 projects)
No public pricing
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
- ✦Create presentations, websites, reports, slides, documents, podcasts images & videos
- ✦Conduct deep research on any topic
- ✦Command a virtual computer to browse the web
- ✦Connect and automate with over 2700+ apps
- ✦Request logging and LLM observability
- ✦AI gateway with routing and automatic fallbacks
- ✦Caching and rate limiting
- ✦Session, user and custom-property analytics
- ✦Prompts, playground and datasets for testing
- ✦Integrations with OpenAI, Anthropic, Azure and more
- ✦100+ automated AI tests
- ✦Offline evaluation and CI/CD for AI
- ✦Real-time observability and tracing
- ✦Guardrails against PII leaks, injection, hallucination
- ✦Data-quality and drift monitoring
- ✦Compliance/governance alignment
- ✦Git, SDK, CLI and REST API integration
- ✦Open-Source AI Gateway
- ✦Multi-LLM Management & Cost Optimization
- ✦Efficient and Secure LLMs Invocation
- ✦Unified API Signature for LLMs
- ✦Load Balancer for seamless switching between LLMs
- ✦Fine-Grained Traffic Control for LLMs
- ✦LLM Quota Management
- ✦Real-time LLM Traffic Monitoring
- ✦Caching Strategies for AI in Production
- ✦Flexible Prompt Management
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
- →Generate a high-conversion landing page for a startup's ebook.
- →Build a web-based image cropper tool with live preview.
- →Create a beginner-friendly PDF cheatsheet for Python.
- →Develop a one-week travel itinerary for a destination like Vietnam.
- →Analyze social media mentions and sentiment for a specific entity.
- →Organize hiring task submissions from emails into a Google Sheets spreadsheet.
- →Clone a pixel-perfect website for design accuracy and responsive web experience.
- →Make a podcast on the rise of SpaceX, make it conversational and include fun facts.
- →Monitoring and debugging LLM apps
- →Analyzing model usage and cost
- →Caching responses to cut spend
- →Managing prompts and testing datasets
- →Evaluate models before production
- →Monitor live AI systems for issues
- →Prevent unsafe or non-compliant outputs
- →Catch data drift and quality problems
- →Building API portals for secure sharing of internal APIs with partners.
- →Tracking API usage and driving API monetization.
- →Managing and securing API access in compliance with enterprise policies.
- →Connecting to multiple AI large models simultaneously.
- →Optimizing LLM costs and improving efficiency.
- →Protecting against LLM attacks and data leaks.
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