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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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BoltAI
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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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Verdent
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Credit-based AI coding agent that builds full applications from plain-language instructions, including backend, billing, and admin features.
1.0M visits/mo39K 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
Pricing
Max Token Plan: 119 CNY/mo (frontier models, up to ~7.1B tokens/mo)
Essential: $79 (1 seat, one-time)
Pro: $99 (2 seats + 1 mobile, one-time)
Team Perpetual: $99/seat/year
Free trial available
Starter: $19/mo (480 credits/mo including bonus)
Pro: $59/mo (1,500 credits/mo including bonus)
Max: $179/mo (4,500 credits/mo including bonus)
Teams: $20/user/mo (480 credits/user/mo)
Free trial available
No public pricing
Core features
- ✦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
- ✦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
- ✦Builds complete apps (auth, storage, payments, admin) from natural-language prompts
- ✦Runs on top of multiple frontier coding models
- ✦Retains full project context across sessions for incremental feature additions
- ✦Remote task submission via Slack/Telegram messaging
- ✦'Eco Mode' for lower-cost usage without consuming credits
- ✦VS Code and JetBrains IDE integrations plus a desktop app
- ✦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
Use cases
- →Coding and agentic tasks
- →AI video generation
- →Text-to-speech and music creation
- →Building on MiniMax model APIs
- →Using multiple AI providers in one place
- →Explaining or fixing on-screen content instantly
- →Building reusable task-specific agents
- →Analyzing documents and screenshots privately
- →Solo founders building a launchable product without a dev team
- →Developers offloading multi-step feature builds to an autonomous agent
- →Teams wanting a shared coding agent with pooled usage billing
- →Free AI chat and assistance
- →Building apps via API
- →Reasoning and coding tasks
- →Low-cost LLM inference
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