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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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PureCode AI
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Enterprise AI agent control plane that orchestrates coding agents across the SDLC on any model, deployable on-prem or air-gapped.
113K 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
Pricing
No public pricing
No public pricing
Free trial available
Max Token Plan: 119 CNY/mo (frontier models, up to ~7.1B tokens/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
- ✦Orchestration of AI agents across the SDLC
- ✦Model-agnostic, bring-your-own-model support
- ✦On-prem, VPC, and air-gapped deployment
- ✦Hybrid Context Engine for codebase-scoped answers
- ✦Spec, Agent, and Chat modes
- ✦Reusable skills, tool permissions, and coding-standard rules
- ✦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
- ✦LLM API router
- ✦OpenAI API proxy
- ✦Model aggregation (OpenAI, Gemini, DeepSeek, Llama, Qwen, Claude, etc.)
- ✦Unified OpenAI API standard
- ✦Unlimited concurrency
Use cases
- →Free AI chat and assistance
- →Building apps via API
- →Reasoning and coding tasks
- →Low-cost LLM inference
- →Migrating and modernizing legacy .NET code
- →Running autonomous feature and refactor workflows
- →Enforcing company coding standards across teams
- →Answering questions and debugging across large codebases
- →Coding and agentic tasks
- →AI video generation
- →Text-to-speech and music creation
- →Building on MiniMax model APIs
- →Integrating multiple AI models into applications using a single API
- →Accessing the latest AI models through a unified interface
- →Managing and scaling AI model usage with unlimited concurrency
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