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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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Coze
✓ verifiedFreemium
ByteDance's Coze (Kouzi): an all-in-one AI office assistant for writing, slides, sheets, design, podcasts and images.
7.2M visits/mo
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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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MuAPI
✓ verifiedPaid
Unified pay-per-generation API for 500+ image, video and audio models like FLUX, Kling and Seedance at low cost.
411K visits/mo
Pricing
No public pricing
Free: $0 (free models only, 50 requests/day)
Pay-as-you-go: 5.5% platform fee on inference
No public pricing
Max Token Plan: 119 CNY/mo (frontier models, up to ~7.1B tokens/mo)
No public pricing
Core features
- ✦LLM API router
- ✦OpenAI API proxy
- ✦Model aggregation (OpenAI, Gemini, DeepSeek, Llama, Qwen, Claude, etc.)
- ✦Unified OpenAI API standard
- ✦Unlimited concurrency
- ✦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
- ✦AI writing
- ✦AI presentation/PPT generation
- ✦AI spreadsheets and tables
- ✦AI design
- ✦AI podcast generation
- ✦AI image generation
- ✦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
- ✦Single API for 500+ image, video and audio models
- ✦Pay-per-generation billing with no subscription
- ✦No charge on failed tasks
- ✦Workflows, agents and studio tools
- ✦MCP and CLI integrations, white-label option
Use cases
- →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
- →Accessing many LLMs through one integration
- →Adding provider redundancy to AI apps
- →Comparing model price and performance
- →Powering agents and AI-native products
- →Drafting documents
- →Building presentations
- →Generating spreadsheets
- →Creating designs and images
- →Producing podcasts
- →Coding and agentic tasks
- →AI video generation
- →Text-to-speech and music creation
- →Building on MiniMax model APIs
- →Building apps on top of many generative models via one API
- →Generating images, video and audio at scale
- →Cutting model API costs versus direct providers
- →Deploying white-label AI generation studios
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