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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

Vast ai

✓ verifiedPaid

GPU rental marketplace with per-second billing across thousands of GPUs, aimed at AI training, inference, and fine-tuning workloads.

1.4M 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

Kimi Chat

✓ verifiedFree

Kimi is Moonshot AI's conversational assistant known for long-context chat, coding help, and agentic tasks.

103K visits/mo

Claude

✓ verifiedFreemium

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

22M visits/mo231K saves

Pricing

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

No public pricing

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

Team: $250/mo + compute

No public pricing

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

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

✦On-demand GPU cloud with per-second billing
✦Interruptible instances at discounted rates for batch/fault-tolerant jobs
✦Reserved capacity with 1, 3, or 6-month terms for steady workloads
✦Serverless deployment with autoscale-to-zero for inference endpoints
✦Dedicated multi-node clusters with InfiniBand for large-scale training
✦Python SDK and CLI plus REST API for programmatic provisioning
✦Access to 68+ GPU types across 40+ data centers
✦Pre-configured templates for popular open-source models

✦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

✦Conversational AI assistant
✦Long-context document understanding
✦Coding assistance
✦Agent and plugin capabilities
✦Web and mobile app access

✦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

Use cases

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

→ML engineers training or fine-tuning models on rented GPUs
→Startups running inference at scale without owning hardware
→Developers needing quick, low-cost access to specific GPU types
→Teams building AI agents that autonomously provision compute

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

→Answering questions and research
→Summarizing long documents
→Writing and editing help
→Coding support

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

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