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ApX Machine Learning
✓ verifiedFreemium

Tools, model specs and courses for LLM engineers-VRAM calculator, benchmarks and model directory-with free and paid tiers.

355K visits/mo
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Chat01.ai
✓ verifiedFreemium

A paid gateway to premium OpenAI models with free daily credits, positioned as a ChatGPT Pro alternative.

103K visits/mo
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BoltAI
✓ verifiedPaid

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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MiniMax
✓ verifiedFreemium

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

4.6M visits/mo
LLM Gateway logo
LLM Gateway
✓ verifiedFreemium

Unified API and gateway routing requests across 200+ models from 40+ providers, with cost tracking and a free BYOK tier.

76K visits/mo
Pricing
Basic: $0/mo (free forever)
Pro: $19/mo
Pro+: $59/mo
Free: $0 (2 credits/day)
Starter: $9.99/mo (30 credits/day)
Basic: $19.99/mo (100 credits/day)
Pro: $39.99/mo (300 credits/day)
Credit packs: $9.99 / $19.99 / $79.99
Essential: $79 (1 seat, one-time)
Pro: $99 (2 seats + 1 mobile, one-time)
Team Perpetual: $99/seat/year

Free trial available

Max Token Plan: 119 CNY/mo (frontier models, up to ~7.1B tokens/mo)
Free: $0 forever (BYOK)
Pay-as-you-go: 5% fee on credit usage

Free trial available

Core features
  • 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
  • Access to premium OpenAI models
  • Daily free credits
  • Subscription and pay-as-you-go options
  • Model picker for thinking/pro models
  • Invite-based bonus credits
  • 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
  • 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
  • One API for 200+ models across 40+ providers
  • Provider switching without code changes
  • Real-time cost tracking
  • Bring-your-own-keys, free forever
  • Observability and guardrails
  • SOC 2 Type II certified
Use cases
  • Estimating GPU memory before training or inference
  • Comparing and selecting LLMs
  • Learning ML and LLM engineering
  • Modeling production deployment costs
  • Use OpenAI Pro-tier models affordably
  • Solve complex reasoning problems
  • Occasional AI use on free daily credits
  • Using multiple AI providers in one place
  • Explaining or fixing on-screen content instantly
  • Building reusable task-specific agents
  • Analyzing documents and screenshots privately
  • Coding and agentic tasks
  • AI video generation
  • Text-to-speech and music creation
  • Building on MiniMax model APIs
  • Route across many LLM providers from one API
  • Track and control AI spend
  • Avoid vendor lock-in with provider switching
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