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OpenRouter

✓ verifiedFreemium

Unified API gateway that routes requests to 400+ LLMs across 70+ providers with failover and no subscription.

17M visits/mo

Abacus.AI

✓ verifiedPaid

AI super-assistant plus enterprise ML platform: ChatLLM for teams and end-to-end model building for enterprises; broad, pricing not shown.

4.3M visits/mo

hCaptcha

✓ verifiedFreemium

Privacy-focused CAPTCHA and bot/fraud-detection service, a drop-in reCAPTCHA alternative for websites and apps.

4.4M visits/mo

WaveSpeedAI

✓ verifiedFree trial

Pay-per-use API hub aggregating 1000+ image, video, and audio generation models for developers building AI media pipelines.

2.2M visits/mo

MiniMax

✓ verifiedFreemium

Chinese AGI company building multimodal LLMs, Hailuo video, speech and music models, plus AI apps and open APIs.

4.6M visits/mo

Pricing

Free: $0

Pay-as-you-go: Per-token, no subscription

Enterprise: Talk to sales

No public pricing

Basic: Free

Pro: $139/month billed monthly, $99/month billed yearly

Enterprise: Contact sales

Free trial available

Silver: $100 top-up (higher rate limits)

Gold: $1,000 top-up (higher rate limits)

Ultra: $10,000 top-up (highest rate limits)

Free trial available

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

Core features

✦One unified, OpenAI-compatible API for 400+ models
✦Automatic provider failover for higher uptime
✦Edge routing for low latency
✦Custom data and provider policies
✦Pay-as-you-go credits usable across any model

✦ChatLLM access to multiple top AI models
✦AI agents and automation
✦No-code full-stack app creation
✦Enterprise generative AI platform
✦Structured ML model building
✦Optimization and forecasting

✦AI bot detection
✦Transaction fraud protection
✦Account-takeover (ATO) defense
✦Pull-based SMS MFA
✦Private Learning ML risk models
✦Two-line reCAPTCHA migration
✦Hundreds of integrations

✦Unified API access to 1000+ image/video/audio generation models
✦Pay-per-use pricing billed per image or per second of video
✦Includes chat/LLM model access (Claude, GPT, Gemini, etc.) priced per token
✦Account tiers unlock higher GPU limits and concurrency
✦CLI and desktop app for building workflows
✦Enterprise options with dedicated support and custom deployment

✦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

Use cases

→Accessing many LLMs through one integration
→Adding provider redundancy to AI apps
→Comparing model price and performance
→Powering agents and AI-native products

→Chat with many AI models in one place
→Build and deploy ML models
→Automate tasks with AI agents

→Blocking bots and spam signups
→Preventing account takeover
→Reducing transaction and payment fraud
→Stopping credential stuffing

→Integrating AI image/video generation into an app via API
→Building automated content pipelines needing multiple AI models
→Testing and comparing many generative models from one account
→Scaling AI media production with volume-based account tiers
→Accessing both media-generation and LLM APIs from one platform

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

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