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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

Kimi Chat

✓ verifiedFree

Kimi is Moonshot AI's conversational assistant known for long-context chat, coding help, and agentic tasks.

103K visits/mo

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

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

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

No public pricing

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

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

Team Perpetual: $99/seat/year

Free trial available

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

✦Conversational AI assistant
✦Long-context document understanding
✦Coding assistance
✦Agent and plugin capabilities
✦Web and mobile app access

✦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

✦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

✦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

→Answering questions and research
→Summarizing long documents
→Writing and editing help
→Coding support

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

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

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

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