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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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MiniMax
✓ verifiedFreemium

Chinese AGI company building multimodal LLMs, Hailuo video, speech and music models, plus AI apps and open APIs.

4.6M visits/mo
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Higress
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Open-source AI-native API gateway for routing, protecting and caching LLM/agent traffic, with a paid managed cloud.

29K visits/mo
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ApX Machine Learning
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Tools, model specs and courses for LLM engineers-VRAM calculator, benchmarks and model directory-with free and paid tiers.

355K visits/mo
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HEROZ
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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
Pricing

No public pricing

Max Token Plan: 119 CNY/mo (frontier models, up to ~7.1B tokens/mo)

No public pricing

Basic: $0/mo (free forever)
Pro: $19/mo
Pro+: $59/mo

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
  • MiniMax M-series LLMs (M3, 1M context, MSA)
  • Hailuo AI video generation
  • Speech and music generation models
  • MiniMax Code agentic coding tool
  • Consumer apps (Hailuo, Xingye)
  • Open API and Token Plan for developers
  • Unified proxy and protocol conversion across 100+ LLMs
  • Model-level fallback and routing
  • Semantic and exact-match AI caching
  • Token tracking and quota controls
  • Content-safety and data-protection filtering
  • MCP service hosting and plugin marketplace
  • VRAM/GPU-memory calculator for LLMs
  • LLM performance rankings and benchmarks
  • Model directory and comparison
  • AI/ML courses and learning roadmap
  • Calculator API and exportable cost reports
  • Engineering blog and guides
  • Deep-learning and machine-learning core technology
  • HEROZ ASK generative-AI platform
  • BtoB and BtoC AI solutions
  • BLOOMWORKS product
  • Industry AI deployment case studies
Use cases
  • Free AI chat and assistance
  • Building apps via API
  • Reasoning and coding tasks
  • Low-cost LLM inference
  • Coding and agentic tasks
  • AI video generation
  • Text-to-speech and music creation
  • Building on MiniMax model APIs
  • Centralizing access to multiple LLM providers
  • Building and governing AI agent/MCP services
  • Controlling token spend across teams
  • Adding caching and safety to LLM calls
  • Estimating GPU memory before training or inference
  • Comparing and selecting LLMs
  • Learning ML and LLM engineering
  • Modeling production deployment costs
  • Deploying generative AI in enterprises
  • Applying ML to industry-specific problems
  • AI-driven business transformation (DX)
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