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Lightning AI
✓ verifiedFreemium

Cloud platform from the makers of PyTorch Lightning for building, training and deploying AI in browser-based GPU Studios.

467K visits/mo3.8K saves
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Replicate AI
✓ verifiedPaid

Pay-per-use cloud API to run, fine-tune, and deploy thousands of open-source and proprietary AI models with one line of code.

1.3M visits/mo17K saves
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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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Chat01.ai
✓ verifiedFreemium

A paid gateway to premium OpenAI models with free daily credits, positioned as a ChatGPT Pro alternative.

103K visits/mo
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Design Arena
✓ verifiedFree

Free crowdsourced benchmark that pits top AI models head-to-head on design tasks and ranks them by public votes.

1.5M visits/mo
Pricing

No public pricing

CPU (Small): $0.000025/sec ($0.09/hr)
Nvidia A100 80GB: $0.0014/sec ($5.04/hr)
Nvidia H100: $0.001525/sec ($5.49/hr)

Free trial available

No public pricing

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

No public pricing

Core features
  • Browser-based Lightning Studios with on-demand GPUs
  • PyTorch Lightning training framework
  • Model training, fine-tuning and deployment
  • Collaborative, shareable ML environments
  • Scalable multi-GPU/multi-node compute
  • One-line API calls to run community and proprietary AI models
  • Support for image, video, speech, and LLM generation models
  • Fine-tuning and custom model deployment via Cog
  • Per-second usage billing on shared or dedicated hardware
  • Automatic scaling for high-traffic private models
  • Thousands of community-published models with production APIs
  • 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
  • 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
  • Side-by-side model output comparison
  • Public voting on results
  • Leaderboards ranking AI models by 'taste'
  • Coverage of websites, games, 3D, UI, images, logos, SVG, video and slides
Use cases
  • Prototype and train ML models in the cloud
  • Fine-tune and deploy foundation models
  • Run reproducible AI experiments collaboratively
  • Developers embedding image/video/speech generation into an app via API
  • Teams deploying and scaling their own fine-tuned models
  • Builders comparing outputs from multiple AI models in one playground
  • Companies avoiding GPU infrastructure management for ML inference
  • Free AI chat and assistance
  • Building apps via API
  • Reasoning and coding tasks
  • Low-cost LLM inference
  • Use OpenAI Pro-tier models affordably
  • Solve complex reasoning problems
  • Occasional AI use on free daily credits
  • Compare which AI model produces the best design output
  • Track AI design model rankings
  • Discover models for a specific creative task
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