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Unsloth AI
✓ verifiedFreemium
Open-source library and desktop app for fast, memory-efficient local fine-tuning and inference of open LLMs.
1.1M visits/mo29K saves
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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
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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
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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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Max Token Plan: 119 CNY/mo (frontier models, up to ~7.1B tokens/mo)
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Core features
- ✦Optimized LoRA/FFT/PT training kernels for 500+ models
- ✦Local offline model runner for Mac and Windows
- ✦No-code dataset creation from PDFs, CSVs, and JSON
- ✦Unlimited tool-calling and web search inside model runs
- ✦Data Recipes workflow to turn documents into training datasets
- ✦Export to safetensors or GGUF for llama.cpp, vLLM, Ollama
- ✦Multi-GPU support on paid tiers
- ✦LLM API router
- ✦OpenAI API proxy
- ✦Model aggregation (OpenAI, Gemini, DeepSeek, Llama, Qwen, Claude, etc.)
- ✦Unified OpenAI API standard
- ✦Unlimited concurrency
- ✦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
- ✦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
- ✦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
Use cases
- →ML engineers fine-tuning open models on a single GPU for free
- →Teams building custom datasets from unstructured documents
- →Developers wanting to run and compare LLMs fully offline
- →Enterprises needing faster, more accurate multi-node training
- →Integrating multiple AI models into applications using a single API
- →Accessing the latest AI models through a unified interface
- →Managing and scaling AI model usage with unlimited concurrency
- →Private local AI chat
- →Using multiple models in one app
- →Avoiding cloud data sharing
- →Experimenting with open models
- →Coding and agentic tasks
- →AI video generation
- →Text-to-speech and music creation
- →Building on MiniMax model APIs
- →Free AI chat and assistance
- →Building apps via API
- →Reasoning and coding tasks
- →Low-cost LLM inference
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