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MiniMax
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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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Openlayer
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AI governance and observability platform with 100+ automated tests and real-time guardrails to evaluate and monitor ML/LLM systems.
24K 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
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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
Pricing
Max Token Plan: 119 CNY/mo (frontier models, up to ~7.1B tokens/mo)
Basic: Free (20k inferences/mo, 1 member, 5 projects)
Developer: $0 (3 seats, 10k logs/mo)
Professional: $29/seat/mo (100k logs/mo)
Business: $49/seat/mo (500k logs/mo)
Free trial available
Basic: $0/mo (free forever)
Pro: $19/mo
Pro+: $59/mo
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
- ✦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
- ✦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
- ✦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
Use cases
- →Coding and agentic tasks
- →AI video generation
- →Text-to-speech and music creation
- →Building on MiniMax model APIs
- →Evaluate models before production
- →Monitor live AI systems for issues
- →Prevent unsafe or non-compliant outputs
- →Catch data drift and quality problems
- →Testing and comparing prompts and models
- →Evaluating and simulating AI agents
- →Monitoring agents in production
- →Running human evaluation pipelines
- →Estimating GPU memory before training or inference
- →Comparing and selecting LLMs
- →Learning ML and LLM engineering
- →Modeling production deployment costs
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