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Replicate AI

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Pay-per-use cloud API to run, fine-tune, and deploy thousands of open-source and proprietary AI models with one line of code.

1.3M visits/mo17K saves

Nebius

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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

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

DeepSeek

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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

Jan.ai

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

378K visits/mo609 saves

Pricing

CPU (Small): $0.000025/sec ($0.09/hr)

Nvidia A100 80GB: $0.0014/sec ($5.04/hr)

Nvidia H100: $0.001525/sec ($5.49/hr)

Free trial available

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

Essential: $79 (1 seat, one-time)

Pro: $99 (2 seats + 1 mobile, one-time)

Team Perpetual: $99/seat/year

Free trial available

No public pricing

Core features

✦One-line API calls to run community and proprietary AI models
✦Support for image, video, speech, and LLM generation models
✦Fine-tuning and custom model deployment via Cog
✦Per-second usage billing on shared or dedicated hardware
✦Automatic scaling for high-traffic private models
✦Thousands of community-published models with production APIs

✦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%

✦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

✦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

✦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

→Developers embedding image/video/speech generation into an app via API
→Teams deploying and scaling their own fine-tuned models
→Builders comparing outputs from multiple AI models in one playground
→Companies avoiding GPU infrastructure management for ML inference

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

→Using multiple AI providers in one place
→Explaining or fixing on-screen content instantly
→Building reusable task-specific agents
→Analyzing documents and screenshots privately

→Free AI chat and assistance
→Building apps via API
→Reasoning and coding tasks
→Low-cost LLM inference

→Private local AI chat
→Using multiple models in one app
→Avoiding cloud data sharing
→Experimenting with open models

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