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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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Kiro AI
✓ verifiedFreemium
Kiro is a spec-driven agentic coding tool for IDE, CLI and web that turns prompts into specs and catches bugs with property-based tests.
3.8M 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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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
GPT-OSS 20B: $0.075 per 1M input tokens ($0.30 per 1M output)
GPT-OSS 120B: $0.15 per 1M input tokens
Free: $0/mo (50 credits)
Pro: $20/user/mo (1,000 credits)
Pro+: $40/user/mo (2,000 credits)
Pro Max: $100/user/mo (5,000 credits)
Power: $200/user/mo (10,000 credits)
Max Token Plan: 119 CNY/mo (frontier models, up to ~7.1B tokens/mo)
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Core features
- ✦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
- ✦Spec-driven development (requirements, design, tasks)
- ✦Parallel agents, local or cloud
- ✦Property-based and correctness testing
- ✦Works in IDE, CLI, web and mobile
- ✦Multiple models (Claude, open-weight, Auto)
- ✦Headless CLI for CI/CD
- ✦Context from tools like Figma and Terraform
- ✦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
- ✦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
- →Running LLM inference at high speed
- →Cutting inference costs at scale
- →Powering low-latency AI chat apps
- →Serving models via a hosted API
- →Turning prompts into maintainable, spec-matched code
- →Catching bugs unit tests miss
- →Reviewing PRs and fixing bugs in CI/CD
- →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
- →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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