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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
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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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Chat01.ai
✓ verifiedFreemium
A paid gateway to premium OpenAI models with free daily credits, positioned as a ChatGPT Pro alternative.
103K visits/mo
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SiliconFlow
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Developer platform serving 200+ optimized LLMs via APIs; high traffic.
434K visits/mo1.1K saves
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
Free: $0
Pay-as-you-go: Per-token, no subscription
Enterprise: Talk to sales
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
No public pricing
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
- ✦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
- ✦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
- ✦Access over 200 optimized models, including LLMs, image, video, and audio processing.
- ✦Achieve low-latency, high-throughput inference with SiliconFlow's self-developed acceleration frameworks.
- ✦Deploy models via serverless inference, dedicated endpoints, or reserved GPUs to suit various workloads.
- ✦Customize models to your data with built-in monitoring and elastic compute resources.
- ✦Ensure data privacy and business security with dynamic scaling and fault tolerance mechanisms.
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
- →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
- →Use OpenAI Pro-tier models affordably
- →Solve complex reasoning problems
- →Occasional AI use on free daily credits
- →Quickly deploy various AI models via a simple API, supporting tasks like text, image, audio, and video processing.
- →Utilize serverless GPUs to automatically scale AI applications, ensuring flexibility and cost-efficiency.
- →Access high-performance GPUs for demanding workloads, such as large-scale inference and video generation.
- →Deploy custom models with guaranteed performance and scalability, tailored to specific business needs.
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