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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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SiliconFlow
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Developer platform serving 200+ optimized LLMs via APIs; high traffic.
434K visits/mo1.1K saves
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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
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LLM Gateway
✓ verifiedFreemium
Unified API and gateway routing requests across 200+ models from 40+ providers, with cost tracking and a free BYOK tier.
76K visits/mo
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PicoClaw
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Ultra-lightweight, self-hosted open-source AI assistant in Go that runs on sub-$10 hardware like Raspberry Pi with under 10MB RAM.
81K 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
Free: $0 forever (BYOK)
Pay-as-you-go: 5% fee on credit usage
Free trial available
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
- ✦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.
- ✦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
- ✦One API for 200+ models across 40+ providers
- ✦Provider switching without code changes
- ✦Real-time cost tracking
- ✦Bring-your-own-keys, free forever
- ✦Observability and guardrails
- ✦SOC 2 Type II certified
- ✦Single self-contained binary requiring under 10MB RAM
- ✦Sub-1-second startup even on low-power processors
- ✦Support for 16+ chat channels including Telegram, Discord, Slack, WeCom
- ✦Compatibility with multiple LLM providers (OpenAI, Claude, DeepSeek, Gemini, etc.)
- ✦Runs on Raspberry Pi, RISC-V, ARM64, x86_64, Android, and Docker
- ✦Self-hosted design keeping data and configuration local
- ✦Gateway/API mode for connecting to chat platforms via MCP protocol
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
- →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.
- →Using multiple AI providers in one place
- →Explaining or fixing on-screen content instantly
- →Building reusable task-specific agents
- →Analyzing documents and screenshots privately
- →Route across many LLM providers from one API
- →Track and control AI spend
- →Avoid vendor lock-in with provider switching
- →Running a private AI assistant on minimal or embedded hardware
- →Local code assistance that keeps proprietary code off the cloud
- →Home automation and personal task scheduling via chat bots
- →Privacy-conscious users wanting self-hosted AI on low-cost devices
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