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Claude
✓ verifiedFreemium

Anthropic's AI assistant for writing, coding, and analysis across web, mobile, and desktop, plus a developer API.

22M visits/mo231K saves
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Lightning AI
✓ verifiedFreemium

Cloud platform from the makers of PyTorch Lightning for building, training and deploying AI in browser-based GPU Studios.

467K visits/mo3.8K saves
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Replicate AI
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Pay-per-use cloud API to run, fine-tune, and deploy thousands of open-source and proprietary AI models with one line of code.

1.3M visits/mo17K saves
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Evolink AI Model API
✓ verifiedPaid

One API to access leading LLM, image, video, and audio models with pay-as-you-go, usage-based pricing.

363K visits/mo1.5K saves
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Deep Infra
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Low-cost inference cloud with developer APIs to run open ML models and on-demand GPUs, billed pay-per-use.

375K visits/mo
Pricing
Free: $0
Pro: $17/month billed annually ($200 up front), or $20/month
Max: From $100/month
Team: $20/seat/month billed annually ($25 monthly); premium seats $100/seat/month annually ($125 monthly)
Enterprise: Contact sales

No public pricing

CPU (Small): $0.000025/sec ($0.09/hr)
Nvidia A100 80GB: $0.0014/sec ($5.04/hr)
Nvidia H100: $0.001525/sec ($5.49/hr)

Free trial available

Usage-based pay-as-you-go (e.g., Seedance 2.0 $0.198/s, GPT Image 2 from $0.015/image)

No public pricing

Core features
  • Conversational writing and editing
  • Code generation and debugging (Claude Code)
  • Data analysis and visualization
  • Web search plus memory across chats
  • Connectors and remote MCP integrations
  • Extended thinking for complex tasks
  • Browser-based Lightning Studios with on-demand GPUs
  • PyTorch Lightning training framework
  • Model training, fine-tuning and deployment
  • Collaborative, shareable ML environments
  • Scalable multi-GPU/multi-node compute
  • One-line API calls to run community and proprietary AI models
  • Support for image, video, speech, and LLM generation models
  • Fine-tuning and custom model deployment via Cog
  • Per-second usage billing on shared or dedicated hardware
  • Automatic scaling for high-traffic private models
  • Thousands of community-published models with production APIs
  • Single API for LLM, image, video, and audio models
  • Access to GPT, Claude, Gemini, Seedance, and more
  • Usage-based, pay-as-you-go pricing
  • Model comparison and documented capabilities
  • Smart Router for model selection
  • 99.9% uptime, no credit card to start
  • Hosted inference for many open models
  • Simple REST/OpenAI-compatible API
  • Pay-per-token or per-time billing
  • On-demand GPU rental
  • Broad catalog (Llama, DeepSeek, Qwen, Flux, etc.)
  • DeepStart and DeepCluster tooling
Use cases
  • Drafting and refining written content
  • Building and debugging software
  • Analyzing datasets for insights
  • Research and learning support
  • Team and enterprise automation
  • Prototype and train ML models in the cloud
  • Fine-tune and deploy foundation models
  • Run reproducible AI experiments collaboratively
  • Developers embedding image/video/speech generation into an app via API
  • Teams deploying and scaling their own fine-tuned models
  • Builders comparing outputs from multiple AI models in one playground
  • Companies avoiding GPU infrastructure management for ML inference
  • Add multiple AI models to a product via one API
  • Switch between model providers without rewrites
  • Generate video, images, and audio programmatically
  • Build AI agents and workflows
  • Serving open-source models via API
  • Building AI apps cost-efficiently
  • Renting GPUs for inference or training
  • Scaling inference up and down on demand
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