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DeepSeek
✓ verifiedFreemium

Chinese AI lab DeepSeek offering free chat apps and low-cost API access to its frontier V-series and R-series reasoning models.

430M visits/mo
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Groq
✓ verifiedFreemium

Fast, low-cost AI inference provider running LLMs on custom LPU chips via GroqCloud's pay-as-you-go API.

3.6M visits/mo
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HEROZ
✓ verifiedPaid

A Japanese AI firm that grew from shogi-AI research into industry ML solutions and a generative-AI platform, HEROZ ASK.

1.9M visits/mo
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Design Arena
✓ verifiedFree

Free crowdsourced benchmark that pits top AI models head-to-head on design tasks and ranks them by public votes.

1.5M visits/mo
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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

No public pricing

GPT-OSS 20B: $0.075 per 1M input tokens ($0.30 per 1M output)
GPT-OSS 120B: $0.15 per 1M input tokens

No public pricing

No public pricing

Free: $0 forever (BYOK)
Pay-as-you-go: 5% fee on credit usage

Free trial available

Core features
  • 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
  • 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
  • Deep-learning and machine-learning core technology
  • HEROZ ASK generative-AI platform
  • BtoB and BtoC AI solutions
  • BLOOMWORKS product
  • Industry AI deployment case studies
  • Side-by-side model output comparison
  • Public voting on results
  • Leaderboards ranking AI models by 'taste'
  • Coverage of websites, games, 3D, UI, images, logos, SVG, video and slides
  • 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
  • Free AI chat and assistance
  • Building apps via API
  • Reasoning and coding tasks
  • Low-cost LLM inference
  • Running LLM inference at high speed
  • Cutting inference costs at scale
  • Powering low-latency AI chat apps
  • Serving models via a hosted API
  • Deploying generative AI in enterprises
  • Applying ML to industry-specific problems
  • AI-driven business transformation (DX)
  • Compare which AI model produces the best design output
  • Track AI design model rankings
  • Discover models for a specific creative task
  • Route across many LLM providers from one API
  • Track and control AI spend
  • Avoid vendor lock-in with provider switching
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