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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

hCaptcha

✓ verifiedFreemium

Privacy-focused CAPTCHA and bot/fraud-detection service, a drop-in reCAPTCHA alternative for websites and apps.

4.4M visits/mo

WaveSpeedAI

✓ verifiedFree trial

Pay-per-use API hub aggregating 1000+ image, video, and audio generation models for developers building AI media pipelines.

2.2M visits/mo

Lightning AI

✓ verifiedFreemium

Cloud platform from the makers of PyTorch Lightning for building, training and deploying AI in browser-based GPU Studios.

467K visits/mo3.8K saves

PicoClaw

✓ verifiedFree

Ultra-lightweight, self-hosted open-source AI assistant in Go that runs on sub-$10 hardware like Raspberry Pi with under 10MB RAM.

81K visits/mo

Pricing

No public pricing

Basic: Free

Pro: $139/month billed monthly, $99/month billed yearly

Enterprise: Contact sales

Free trial available

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

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

✦AI bot detection
✦Transaction fraud protection
✦Account-takeover (ATO) defense
✦Pull-based SMS MFA
✦Private Learning ML risk models
✦Two-line reCAPTCHA migration
✦Hundreds of integrations

✦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

✦Browser-based Lightning Studios with on-demand GPUs
✦PyTorch Lightning training framework
✦Model training, fine-tuning and deployment
✦Collaborative, shareable ML environments
✦Scalable multi-GPU/multi-node compute

✦Single self-contained binary requiring under 10MB RAM
✦Sub-1-second startup even on low-power processors
✦Support for 16+ chat channels including Telegram, Discord, Slack, WeCom
✦Compatibility with multiple LLM providers (OpenAI, Claude, DeepSeek, Gemini, etc.)
✦Runs on Raspberry Pi, RISC-V, ARM64, x86_64, Android, and Docker
✦Self-hosted design keeping data and configuration local
✦Gateway/API mode for connecting to chat platforms via MCP protocol

Use cases

→Free AI chat and assistance
→Building apps via API
→Reasoning and coding tasks
→Low-cost LLM inference

→Blocking bots and spam signups
→Preventing account takeover
→Reducing transaction and payment fraud
→Stopping credential stuffing

→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

→Prototype and train ML models in the cloud
→Fine-tune and deploy foundation models
→Run reproducible AI experiments collaboratively

→Running a private AI assistant on minimal or embedded hardware
→Local code assistance that keeps proprietary code off the cloud
→Home automation and personal task scheduling via chat bots
→Privacy-conscious users wanting self-hosted AI on low-cost devices

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