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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

BoltAI

✓ verifiedPaid

Native macOS app that unifies 300+ AI models in one private workspace with agents, MCP tools, and one-time licensing.

81K visits/mo33K saves

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

Chat01.ai

✓ verifiedFreemium

A paid gateway to premium OpenAI models with free daily credits, positioned as a ChatGPT Pro alternative.

103K 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

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

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

Free: $0 (2 credits/day)

Starter: $9.99/mo (30 credits/day)

Basic: $19.99/mo (100 credits/day)

Pro: $39.99/mo (300 credits/day)

Credit packs: $9.99 / $19.99 / $79.99

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

Core features

✦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

✦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

✦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

✦Access to premium OpenAI models
✦Daily free credits
✦Subscription and pay-as-you-go options
✦Model picker for thinking/pro models
✦Invite-based bonus credits

✦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

→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

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

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

→Use OpenAI Pro-tier models affordably
→Solve complex reasoning problems
→Occasional AI use on free daily credits

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

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