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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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ZenMux
✓ verifiedPaid

Enterprise unified API gateway giving one integration point to 100+ LLMs like Claude, GPT, and Gemini with reliability guarantees.

435K visits/mo11K saves
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Jan.ai
✓ verifiedFree

Open-source desktop app for running AI chat models locally or via APIs, as a private ChatGPT alternative.

378K visits/mo609 saves
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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
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

No public pricing

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
  • Unified API for 100+ AI models
  • Intelligent request routing across models
  • AI Model Insurance for quality/reliability guarantees
  • Enterprise-focused LLM access layer
  • Run open-source LLMs locally
  • Connect to online models (OpenAI, Claude, Gemini)
  • Private, offline-capable AI chat
  • Open source and self-hostable
  • Model library via Hugging Face
  • Cross-platform desktop app
  • 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
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
  • 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
  • Private local AI chat
  • Using multiple models in one app
  • Avoiding cloud data sharing
  • Experimenting with open models
  • Compare which AI model produces the best design output
  • Track AI design model rankings
  • Discover models for a specific creative task
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