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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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WaveSpeedAI
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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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Verdent
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Credit-based AI coding agent that builds full applications from plain-language instructions, including backend, billing, and admin features.
1.0M visits/mo39K 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
Pricing
No public pricing
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
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
Starter: $19/mo (480 credits/mo including bonus)
Pro: $59/mo (1,500 credits/mo including bonus)
Max: $179/mo (4,500 credits/mo including bonus)
Teams: $20/user/mo (480 credits/user/mo)
Free trial available
Max Token Plan: 119 CNY/mo (frontier models, up to ~7.1B tokens/mo)
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
- ✦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
- ✦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
- ✦Builds complete apps (auth, storage, payments, admin) from natural-language prompts
- ✦Runs on top of multiple frontier coding models
- ✦Retains full project context across sessions for incremental feature additions
- ✦Remote task submission via Slack/Telegram messaging
- ✦'Eco Mode' for lower-cost usage without consuming credits
- ✦VS Code and JetBrains IDE integrations plus a desktop app
- ✦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
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
- →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
- →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
- →Solo founders building a launchable product without a dev team
- →Developers offloading multi-step feature builds to an autonomous agent
- →Teams wanting a shared coding agent with pooled usage billing
- →Coding and agentic tasks
- →AI video generation
- →Text-to-speech and music creation
- →Building on MiniMax model APIs
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