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OpenRouter
✓ verifiedFreemium

Unified API gateway that routes requests to 400+ LLMs across 70+ providers with failover and no subscription.

17M 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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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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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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Higress
✓ verifiedFreemium

Open-source AI-native API gateway for routing, protecting and caching LLM/agent traffic, with a paid managed cloud.

29K visits/mo
Pricing
Free: $0
Pay-as-you-go: Per-token, no subscription
Enterprise: Talk to sales

No public pricing

Max Token Plan: 119 CNY/mo (frontier models, up to ~7.1B tokens/mo)
Open Source: $0 (self-hosted, 100+ providers)

Free trial available

No public pricing

Core features
  • One unified, OpenAI-compatible API for 400+ models
  • Automatic provider failover for higher uptime
  • Edge routing for low latency
  • Custom data and provider policies
  • Pay-as-you-go credits usable across any model
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Unified proxy and protocol conversion across 100+ LLMs
  • Model-level fallback and routing
  • Semantic and exact-match AI caching
  • Token tracking and quota controls
  • Content-safety and data-protection filtering
  • MCP service hosting and plugin marketplace
Use cases
  • Accessing many LLMs through one integration
  • Adding provider redundancy to AI apps
  • Comparing model price and performance
  • Powering agents and AI-native products
  • 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
  • Coding and agentic tasks
  • AI video generation
  • Text-to-speech and music creation
  • Building on MiniMax model APIs
  • Giving developers governed access to many LLMs
  • Attributing and controlling LLM spend
  • Keeping apps running during provider outages
  • Centralizing access to multiple LLM providers
  • Building and governing AI agent/MCP services
  • Controlling token spend across teams
  • Adding caching and safety to LLM calls
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