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Jan.ai
✓ verifiedFree
Open-source desktop app for running AI chat models locally or via APIs, as a private ChatGPT alternative.
378K visits/mo609 saves
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BoltAI
✓ verifiedPaid
Native macOS app that unifies 300+ AI models in one private workspace with agents, MCP tools, and one-time licensing.
81K visits/mo33K saves
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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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Chat01.ai
✓ verifiedFreemium
A paid gateway to premium OpenAI models with free daily credits, positioned as a ChatGPT Pro alternative.
103K visits/mo
Pricing
No public pricing
No public pricing
Essential: $79 (1 seat, one-time)
Pro: $99 (2 seats + 1 mobile, one-time)
Team Perpetual: $99/seat/year
Free trial available
Max Token Plan: 119 CNY/mo (frontier models, up to ~7.1B tokens/mo)
Free: $0 (2 credits/day)
Starter: $9.99/mo (30 credits/day)
Basic: $19.99/mo (100 credits/day)
Pro: $39.99/mo (300 credits/day)
Credit packs: $9.99 / $19.99 / $79.99
Core features
- ✦Run open-source LLMs locally
- ✦Connect to online models (OpenAI, Claude, Gemini)
- ✦Private, offline-capable AI chat
- ✦Open source and self-hostable
- ✦Model library via Hugging Face
- ✦Cross-platform desktop app
- ✦LLM API router
- ✦OpenAI API proxy
- ✦Model aggregation (OpenAI, Gemini, DeepSeek, Llama, Qwen, Claude, etc.)
- ✦Unified OpenAI API standard
- ✦Unlimited concurrency
- ✦Switch across 300+ hosted and local AI models
- ✦Native macOS app with global shortcut and screenshot-to-answer
- ✦Reusable agents, projects, and forked chats
- ✦Multimodal analysis of PDFs, images, and code
- ✦MCP tools and code execution
- ✦Local chat storage with encryptable API keys
- ✦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
- ✦Access to premium OpenAI models
- ✦Daily free credits
- ✦Subscription and pay-as-you-go options
- ✦Model picker for thinking/pro models
- ✦Invite-based bonus credits
Use cases
- →Private local AI chat
- →Using multiple models in one app
- →Avoiding cloud data sharing
- →Experimenting with open models
- →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
- →Using multiple AI providers in one place
- →Explaining or fixing on-screen content instantly
- →Building reusable task-specific agents
- →Analyzing documents and screenshots privately
- →Coding and agentic tasks
- →AI video generation
- →Text-to-speech and music creation
- →Building on MiniMax model APIs
- →Use OpenAI Pro-tier models affordably
- →Solve complex reasoning problems
- →Occasional AI use on free daily credits
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