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✓ verifiedFreemium
Serverless AI cloud for running inference, training and sandboxes on GPUs with fast cold starts and pay-per-use billing.
988K visits/mo
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Replicate AI
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Pay-per-use cloud API to run, fine-tune, and deploy thousands of open-source and proprietary AI models with one line of code.
1.3M visits/mo17K saves
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MuAPI
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Unified pay-per-generation API for 500+ image, video and audio models like FLUX, Kling and Seedance at low cost.
411K visits/mo
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PicoClaw
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Ultra-lightweight, self-hosted open-source AI assistant in Go that runs on sub-$10 hardware like Raspberry Pi with under 10MB RAM.
81K visits/mo
Pricing
No public pricing
Starter: $0/mo + compute ($30 free credit)
Team: $250/mo + compute
CPU (Small): $0.000025/sec ($0.09/hr)
Nvidia A100 80GB: $0.0014/sec ($5.04/hr)
Nvidia H100: $0.001525/sec ($5.49/hr)
Free trial available
No public pricing
No public pricing
Core features
- ✦Dialogue with GLM large model
- ✦AI search
- ✦AI drawing
- ✦AI reading
- ✦AI-generated video (沉思清影-AI生视频)
- ✦AI-generated PPT
- ✦Data analysis tools
- ✦Code assistance (代码速写)
- ✦Intelligent agents
- ✦Serverless GPU compute defined in Python
- ✦Sub-second container cold starts
- ✦Autoscale 0 to 1000+ GPUs
- ✦Inference, training and batch workloads
- ✦Secure sandboxes for untrusted code
- ✦Built-in logging and observability
- ✦One-line API calls to run community and proprietary AI models
- ✦Support for image, video, speech, and LLM generation models
- ✦Fine-tuning and custom model deployment via Cog
- ✦Per-second usage billing on shared or dedicated hardware
- ✦Automatic scaling for high-traffic private models
- ✦Thousands of community-published models with production APIs
- ✦Single API for 500+ image, video and audio models
- ✦Pay-per-generation billing with no subscription
- ✦No charge on failed tasks
- ✦Workflows, agents and studio tools
- ✦MCP and CLI integrations, white-label option
- ✦Single self-contained binary requiring under 10MB RAM
- ✦Sub-1-second startup even on low-power processors
- ✦Support for 16+ chat channels including Telegram, Discord, Slack, WeCom
- ✦Compatibility with multiple LLM providers (OpenAI, Claude, DeepSeek, Gemini, etc.)
- ✦Runs on Raspberry Pi, RISC-V, ARM64, x86_64, Android, and Docker
- ✦Self-hosted design keeping data and configuration local
- ✦Gateway/API mode for connecting to chat platforms via MCP protocol
Use cases
- →Engaging in conversations with an AI model
- →Generating images and videos using AI
- →Creating presentations with AI assistance
- →Analyzing data with AI tools
- →Assisting with code development
- →Deploying and scaling model inference
- →Fine-tuning and training models
- →Running batch/parallel AI jobs
- →Executing untrusted code in sandboxes
- →Developers embedding image/video/speech generation into an app via API
- →Teams deploying and scaling their own fine-tuned models
- →Builders comparing outputs from multiple AI models in one playground
- →Companies avoiding GPU infrastructure management for ML inference
- →Building apps on top of many generative models via one API
- →Generating images, video and audio at scale
- →Cutting model API costs versus direct providers
- →Deploying white-label AI generation studios
- →Running a private AI assistant on minimal or embedded hardware
- →Local code assistance that keeps proprietary code off the cloud
- →Home automation and personal task scheduling via chat bots
- →Privacy-conscious users wanting self-hosted AI on low-cost devices
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