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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.
Low-cost inference cloud with developer APIs to run open ML models and on-demand GPUs, billed pay-per-use.
Developer platform for fast serverless inference and training of open generative models, billed per token or GPU-second.
One API to access leading LLM, image, video, and audio models with pay-as-you-go, usage-based pricing.
A Japanese AI firm that grew from shogi-AI research into industry ML solutions and a generative-AI platform, HEROZ ASK.
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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
- ✦Hosted inference for many open models
- ✦Simple REST/OpenAI-compatible API
- ✦Pay-per-token or per-time billing
- ✦On-demand GPU rental
- ✦Broad catalog (Llama, DeepSeek, Qwen, Flux, etc.)
- ✦DeepStart and DeepCluster tooling
- ✦Serverless per-token inference with OpenAI/Anthropic-compatible APIs
- ✦On-demand dedicated and reserved GPU deployments
- ✦Fine-tuning and reinforcement-learning training pipelines
- ✦Large library of open LLM, vision, image and audio models
- ✦Optimized inference engine for throughput and latency
- ✦Single API for LLM, image, video, and audio models
- ✦Access to GPT, Claude, Gemini, Seedance, and more
- ✦Usage-based, pay-as-you-go pricing
- ✦Model comparison and documented capabilities
- ✦Smart Router for model selection
- ✦99.9% uptime, no credit card to start
- ✦Deep-learning and machine-learning core technology
- ✦HEROZ ASK generative-AI platform
- ✦BtoB and BtoC AI solutions
- ✦BLOOMWORKS product
- ✦Industry AI deployment case studies
- →Free AI chat and assistance
- →Building apps via API
- →Reasoning and coding tasks
- →Low-cost LLM inference
- →Serving open-source models via API
- →Building AI apps cost-efficiently
- →Renting GPUs for inference or training
- →Scaling inference up and down on demand
- →Serving open models in production apps and agents
- →Fine-tuning models on private data
- →Powering code assistants, chatbots and RAG at scale
- →Add multiple AI models to a product via one API
- →Switch between model providers without rewrites
- →Generate video, images, and audio programmatically
- →Build AI agents and workflows
- →Deploying generative AI in enterprises
- →Applying ML to industry-specific problems
- →AI-driven business transformation (DX)