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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

MiniMax

✓ verifiedFreemium

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

4.6M visits/mo

Aura

✓ verifiedPaid

All-in-one digital-safety subscription protecting families from identity theft, fraud and online threats, with parental controls.

2.5M visits/mo762 saves

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

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

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

Kids: $10/mo billed annually

Individual: $12/mo billed annually (1 adult)

Couple: $22/mo billed annually (2 adults)

Family: $32/mo billed annually (5 adults)

Free trial available

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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

✦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

✦Identity theft protection with insurance
✦3-bureau credit monitoring and lock
✦Antivirus, VPN and password manager
✦Online data removal from brokers
✦Parental controls and safe-gaming alerts
✦Dark-web and financial-fraud alerts

✦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

✦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

→Coding and agentic tasks
→AI video generation
→Text-to-speech and music creation
→Building on MiniMax model APIs

→Protecting against identity theft
→Monitoring family credit and finances
→Keeping kids safe online
→Removing personal data from broker sites

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

→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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