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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
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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
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MiniMax M2.7
✓ verifiedFreemium

MiniMax's general-purpose autonomous AI agent that plans and completes complex multi-step tasks from a single prompt.

1.1M visits/mo
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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
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Jan.ai
✓ verifiedFree

Open-source desktop app for running AI chat models locally or via APIs, as a private ChatGPT alternative.

378K visits/mo609 saves
Pricing
Free: $0
Pay-as-you-go: Per-token, no subscription
Enterprise: Talk to sales

No public pricing

No public pricing

Starter: $0/mo + compute ($30 free credit)
Team: $250/mo + compute

No public pricing

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
  • 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
  • Autonomous multi-step task execution
  • Natural-language task delegation
  • Powered by MiniMax frontier models
  • Handles research, building and content tasks
  • 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
  • Run open-source LLMs locally
  • Connect to online models (OpenAI, Claude, Gemini)
  • Private, offline-capable AI chat
  • Open source and self-hostable
  • Model library via Hugging Face
  • Cross-platform desktop app
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
  • Free AI chat and assistance
  • Building apps via API
  • Reasoning and coding tasks
  • Low-cost LLM inference
  • Delegating complex tasks to an AI agent
  • Automating research and analysis
  • Producing reports and deliverables
  • Deploying and scaling model inference
  • Fine-tuning and training models
  • Running batch/parallel AI jobs
  • Executing untrusted code in sandboxes
  • Private local AI chat
  • Using multiple models in one app
  • Avoiding cloud data sharing
  • Experimenting with open models
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