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Chinese AI lab DeepSeek offering free chat apps and low-cost API access to its frontier V-series and R-series reasoning models.
Unified pay-per-use API serving 400+ multimodal AI models (image, video, audio, 3D, LLM) through one OpenAI-compatible key.
Fast, low-cost AI inference provider running LLMs on custom LPU chips via GroqCloud's pay-as-you-go API.
Enterprise unified API gateway giving one integration point to 100+ LLMs like Claude, GPT, and Gemini with reliability guarantees.
Native macOS app that unifies 300+ AI models in one private workspace with agents, MCP tools, and one-time licensing.
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- ✦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
- ✦400+ AI models via one unified API
- ✦Multimodal coverage: image, video, audio, 3D, LLM
- ✦On-demand, pay-per-use pricing
- ✦Day-0 access to new state-of-the-art models
- ✦OpenAI-compatible single key
- ✦SOC 2 and HIPAA compliance, 99.99% uptime
- ✦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
- ✦Unified API for 100+ AI models
- ✦Intelligent request routing across models
- ✦AI Model Insurance for quality/reliability guarantees
- ✦Enterprise-focused LLM access layer
- ✦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 AI chat and assistance
- →Building apps via API
- →Reasoning and coding tasks
- →Low-cost LLM inference
- →Integrate video and image generation
- →Access many LLMs through one API
- →Build multimodal AI applications
- →Batch generate and prototype cheaply
- →Running LLM inference at high speed
- →Cutting inference costs at scale
- →Powering low-latency AI chat apps
- →Serving models via a hosted API
- →Building applications that need failover across multiple LLM providers
- →Consolidating billing/access to many AI models under one API
- →Enterprises requiring guaranteed model output reliability
- →Using multiple AI providers in one place
- →Explaining or fixing on-screen content instantly
- →Building reusable task-specific agents
- →Analyzing documents and screenshots privately