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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

Modal

✓ verifiedFreemium

Serverless AI cloud for running inference, training and sandboxes on GPUs with fast cold starts and pay-per-use billing.

988K visits/mo

Nebius

✓ verifiedPaid

AI-focused cloud offering NVIDIA GPU compute, storage and MLOps tooling for training and inference at scale, with usage-based pricing.

678K visits/mo133K saves

Claude

✓ verifiedFreemium

Anthropic's AI assistant for writing, coding, and analysis across web, mobile, and desktop, plus a developer API.

22M visits/mo231K saves

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

Max Token Plan: 119 CNY/mo (frontier models, up to ~7.1B tokens/mo)

Starter: $0/mo + compute ($30 free credit)

Team: $250/mo + compute

NVIDIA H100: $3.85/GPU-hour on-demand ($2.15 preemptible)

NVIDIA H200: $4.50/GPU-hour on-demand

NVIDIA B200: $7.15/GPU-hour on-demand

Shared filesystem storage: $0.08/GiB per month

Free: $0

Pro: $17/month billed annually ($200 up front), or $20/month

Max: From $100/month

Team: $20/seat/month billed annually ($25 monthly); premium seats $100/seat/month annually ($125 monthly)

Enterprise: Contact sales

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

✦Serverless GPU compute defined in Python
✦Sub-second container cold starts
✦Autoscale 0 to 1000+ GPUs
✦Inference, training and batch workloads
✦Secure sandboxes for untrusted code
✦Built-in logging and observability

✦NVIDIA GPU instances (H100, H200, B200, GB200)
✦On-demand and preemptible GPU pricing
✦High-performance and object storage
✦Managed Kubernetes and Slurm (Soperator)
✦Serverless and managed inference (Token Factory)
✦MLOps tooling and 24/7 expert support
✦Commitment discounts up to 35%

✦Conversational writing and editing
✦Code generation and debugging (Claude Code)
✦Data analysis and visualization
✦Web search plus memory across chats
✦Connectors and remote MCP integrations
✦Extended thinking for complex tasks

✦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

→Coding and agentic tasks
→AI video generation
→Text-to-speech and music creation
→Building on MiniMax model APIs

→Deploying and scaling model inference
→Fine-tuning and training models
→Running batch/parallel AI jobs
→Executing untrusted code in sandboxes

→Train large AI/ML models on GPU clusters
→Run scalable inference workloads
→Store and manage large training datasets
→Run Slurm/Kubernetes AI pipelines

→Drafting and refining written content
→Building and debugging software
→Analyzing datasets for insights
→Research and learning support
→Team and enterprise automation

→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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