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WaveSpeedAI
✓ verifiedFree trial

Pay-per-use API hub aggregating 1000+ image, video, and audio generation models for developers building AI media pipelines.

2.2M visits/mo
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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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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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Arize AI
✓ verifiedFreemium

AI observability and evaluation platform to trace, evaluate and improve LLM agents in production, with an open-source Phoenix core.

248K visits/mo
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Maxim AI
✓ verifiedFreemium

End-to-end evaluation and observability platform for building, testing, and monitoring AI agents and LLM apps.

102K visits/mo
Pricing
Silver: $100 top-up (higher rate limits)
Gold: $1,000 top-up (higher rate limits)
Ultra: $10,000 top-up (highest rate limits)

Free trial available

GPT-OSS 20B: $0.075 per 1M input tokens ($0.30 per 1M output)
GPT-OSS 120B: $0.15 per 1M input tokens
Hobby: Free (10,000 requests/mo)
Pro: $79/mo (unlimited seats)
Team: $799/mo (SOC-2 & HIPAA)

Free trial available

AX Free: $0/mo (25k spans/mo)
AX Pro: $50/mo (50k spans/mo)
Developer: $0 (3 seats, 10k logs/mo)
Professional: $29/seat/mo (100k logs/mo)
Business: $49/seat/mo (500k logs/mo)

Free trial available

Core features
  • Unified API access to 1000+ image/video/audio generation models
  • Pay-per-use pricing billed per image or per second of video
  • Includes chat/LLM model access (Claude, GPT, Gemini, etc.) priced per token
  • Account tiers unlock higher GPU limits and concurrency
  • CLI and desktop app for building workflows
  • Enterprise options with dedicated support and custom deployment
  • 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
  • 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
  • Agent and LLM tracing
  • Large-scale evaluations
  • Open-source Phoenix observability
  • Alyx AI engineering agent
  • OpenTelemetry-based instrumentation
  • Experiments and prompt playgrounds
  • 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
Use cases
  • Integrating AI image/video generation into an app via API
  • Building automated content pipelines needing multiple AI models
  • Testing and comparing many generative models from one account
  • Scaling AI media production with volume-based account tiers
  • Accessing both media-generation and LLM APIs from one platform
  • Running LLM inference at high speed
  • Cutting inference costs at scale
  • Powering low-latency AI chat apps
  • Serving models via a hosted API
  • Monitoring and debugging LLM apps
  • Analyzing model usage and cost
  • Caching responses to cut spend
  • Managing prompts and testing datasets
  • Debugging AI agents in production
  • Measuring LLM output quality
  • Catching regressions before deploy
  • Testing and comparing prompts and models
  • Evaluating and simulating AI agents
  • Monitoring agents in production
  • Running human evaluation pipelines
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