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LLM Gateway
✓ verifiedFreemium
Unified API and gateway routing requests across 200+ models from 40+ providers, with cost tracking and a free BYOK tier.
76K visits/mo
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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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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
Free: $0 forever (BYOK)
Pay-as-you-go: 5% fee on credit usage
Free trial available
No public pricing
No public pricing
Core features
- ✦One API for 200+ models across 40+ providers
- ✦Provider switching without code changes
- ✦Real-time cost tracking
- ✦Bring-your-own-keys, free forever
- ✦Observability and guardrails
- ✦SOC 2 Type II certified
- ✦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
- ✦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
- →Route across many LLM providers from one API
- →Track and control AI spend
- →Avoid vendor lock-in with provider switching
- →Free AI chat and assistance
- →Building apps via API
- →Reasoning and coding tasks
- →Low-cost LLM inference
- →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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