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Open-source AI gateway giving dev teams unified access, fallbacks and spend tracking across 100+ LLMs.
Anthropic's AI assistant for writing, coding, and analysis across web, mobile, and desktop, plus a developer API.
Chinese AI lab DeepSeek offering free chat apps and low-cost API access to its frontier V-series and R-series reasoning models.
Fast, low-cost AI inference provider running LLMs on custom LPU chips via GroqCloud's pay-as-you-go API.
Open-source AI-agent observability platform for tracing sessions, clustering failures and running evals on live traffic.
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- ✦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
- ✦Conversational writing and editing
- ✦Code generation and debugging (Claude Code)
- ✦Data analysis and visualization
- ✦Web search plus memory across chats
- ✦Connectors and remote MCP integrations
- ✦Extended thinking for complex tasks
- ✦Free DeepSeek chat (web and app)
- ✦Open API platform
- ✦V-series and R-series reasoning models
- ✦DeepSeek-V4 with long context and stronger agent ability
- ✦OpenAI/Anthropic-compatible API
- ✦Extensive published model lineup
- ✦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 trace capture and conversation intelligence
- ✦Semantic and exact-text search across all traces
- ✦Automatic issue discovery with Slack/email/webhook alerts
- ✦OpenTelemetry-compatible SDK with no lock-in
- ✦Automated evals and golden dataset generation
- ✦Failure-mode clustering and MCP server integration
- →Giving developers governed access to many LLMs
- →Attributing and controlling LLM spend
- →Keeping apps running during provider outages
- →Drafting and refining written content
- →Building and debugging software
- →Analyzing datasets for insights
- →Research and learning support
- →Team and enterprise automation
- →Free AI chat and assistance
- →Building apps via API
- →Reasoning and coding tasks
- →Low-cost LLM inference
- →Running LLM inference at high speed
- →Cutting inference costs at scale
- →Powering low-latency AI chat apps
- →Serving models via a hosted API
- →Monitoring AI agents in production
- →Debugging and triaging agent failures
- →Building regression evals from real traffic
- →Getting alerted on new or escalating issues