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Claude
✓ verifiedFreemium
Anthropic's AI assistant for writing, coding, and analysis across web, mobile, and desktop, plus a developer API.
22M visits/mo231K saves
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Runpod
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Developer-focused GPU cloud offering on-demand pods, serverless inference and multi-node clusters at per-second pricing for AI workloads.
2.3M visits/mo
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SiliconFlow
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Developer platform serving 200+ optimized LLMs via APIs; high traffic.
434K visits/mo1.1K saves
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BoltAI
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Native macOS app that unifies 300+ AI models in one private workspace with agents, MCP tools, and one-time licensing.
81K visits/mo33K saves
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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
Pricing
Free: $0
Pro: $17/month billed annually ($200 up front), or $20/month
Max: From $100/month
Team: $20/seat/month billed annually ($25 monthly); premium seats $100/seat/month annually ($125 monthly)
Enterprise: Contact sales
Pods A40 48GB: $0.44/hr
Pods RTX 4090 24GB: $0.69/hr
Pods A100 SXM 80GB: $1.49/hr
Pods H100 SXM 80GB: $2.99/hr
Pods H200 141GB: $4.39/hr
Pods B300 288GB: $7.39/hr
No public pricing
Essential: $79 (1 seat, one-time)
Pro: $99 (2 seats + 1 mobile, one-time)
Team Perpetual: $99/seat/year
Free trial available
No public pricing
Core features
- ✦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
- ✦On-demand GPU pods across 30+ GPU types and 31 regions
- ✦Serverless GPU endpoints with sub-200ms cold starts
- ✦Zero idle cost billing for inference workloads
- ✦Multi-node clusters for distributed training
- ✦Persistent network storage for full pipelines
- ✦Real-time logs, monitoring and autoscaling from 0 to hundreds of workers
- ✦Access over 200 optimized models, including LLMs, image, video, and audio processing.
- ✦Achieve low-latency, high-throughput inference with SiliconFlow's self-developed acceleration frameworks.
- ✦Deploy models via serverless inference, dedicated endpoints, or reserved GPUs to suit various workloads.
- ✦Customize models to your data with built-in monitoring and elastic compute resources.
- ✦Ensure data privacy and business security with dynamic scaling and fault tolerance mechanisms.
- ✦Switch across 300+ hosted and local AI models
- ✦Native macOS app with global shortcut and screenshot-to-answer
- ✦Reusable agents, projects, and forked chats
- ✦Multimodal analysis of PDFs, images, and code
- ✦MCP tools and code execution
- ✦Local chat storage with encryptable API keys
- ✦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
Use cases
- →Drafting and refining written content
- →Building and debugging software
- →Analyzing datasets for insights
- →Research and learning support
- →Team and enterprise automation
- →Renting GPUs for model training and fine-tuning
- →Deploying low-latency real-time inference APIs
- →Running AI agents that need to scale instantly
- →Processing compute-heavy batch or distributed workloads
- →Quickly deploy various AI models via a simple API, supporting tasks like text, image, audio, and video processing.
- →Utilize serverless GPUs to automatically scale AI applications, ensuring flexibility and cost-efficiency.
- →Access high-performance GPUs for demanding workloads, such as large-scale inference and video generation.
- →Deploy custom models with guaranteed performance and scalability, tailored to specific business needs.
- →Using multiple AI providers in one place
- →Explaining or fixing on-screen content instantly
- →Building reusable task-specific agents
- →Analyzing documents and screenshots privately
- →Free AI chat and assistance
- →Building apps via API
- →Reasoning and coding tasks
- →Low-cost LLM inference
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