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MiniMax
✓ verifiedFreemium

Chinese AGI company building multimodal LLMs, Hailuo video, speech and music models, plus AI apps and open APIs.

4.6M visits/mo
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DeepSeek
✓ verifiedFreemium

Chinese AI lab DeepSeek offering free chat apps and low-cost API access to its frontier V-series and R-series reasoning models.

430M 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
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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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Helicone
✓ verifiedFreemium

LLM observability platform and AI gateway that lets teams route, log, debug and analyze their model requests.

100K visits/mo
Pricing
Max Token Plan: 119 CNY/mo (frontier models, up to ~7.1B tokens/mo)

No public pricing

No public pricing

Open Source: $0 (self-hosted, 100+ providers)

Free trial available

Hobby: Free (10,000 requests/mo)
Pro: $79/mo (unlimited seats)
Team: $799/mo (SOC-2 & HIPAA)

Free trial available

Core features
  • MiniMax M-series LLMs (M3, 1M context, MSA)
  • Hailuo AI video generation
  • Speech and music generation models
  • MiniMax Code agentic coding tool
  • Consumer apps (Hailuo, Xingye)
  • Open API and Token Plan for developers
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
Use cases
  • Coding and agentic tasks
  • AI video generation
  • Text-to-speech and music creation
  • Building on MiniMax model APIs
  • Free AI chat and assistance
  • Building apps via API
  • Reasoning and coding tasks
  • Low-cost LLM inference
  • 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
  • Giving developers governed access to many LLMs
  • Attributing and controlling LLM spend
  • Keeping apps running during provider outages
  • Monitoring and debugging LLM apps
  • Analyzing model usage and cost
  • Caching responses to cut spend
  • Managing prompts and testing datasets
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