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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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Reka Core
✓ verifiedPaid

AI research lab building multimodal 'omni' foundation models and infrastructure aimed at robotics and physical-world applications.

252K 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
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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
Free: $0 forever (BYOK)
Pay-as-you-go: 5% fee on credit usage

Free trial available

No public pricing

No public pricing

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
  • 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
  • Omni multimodal model research and development
  • Real-time inference API (Infer) for enterprise use
  • Video tagging, search, and clipping infrastructure
  • Training data generation from egocentric and robotics footage
  • 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
  • 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
  • Route across many LLM providers from one API
  • Track and control AI spend
  • Avoid vendor lock-in with provider switching
  • Powering robotics perception with multimodal AI
  • Running large-scale video search and analysis via API
  • Sourcing specialized training data for frontier AI models
  • Compare which AI model produces the best design output
  • Track AI design model rankings
  • Discover models for a specific creative task
  • 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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