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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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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
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Atlas Cloud
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Unified pay-per-use API serving 400+ multimodal AI models (image, video, audio, 3D, LLM) through one OpenAI-compatible key.

958K visits/mo
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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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Modal
✓ verifiedFreemium

Serverless AI cloud for running inference, training and sandboxes on GPUs with fast cold starts and pay-per-use billing.

988K 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

Seedance 2.0 video: from $0.09/sec
GPT Image 2: from $0.009/image
Nano Banana 2: from $0.04/image

No public pricing

Starter: $0/mo + compute ($30 free credit)
Team: $250/mo + compute
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
  • 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
  • 400+ AI models via one unified API
  • Multimodal coverage: image, video, audio, 3D, LLM
  • On-demand, pay-per-use pricing
  • Day-0 access to new state-of-the-art models
  • OpenAI-compatible single key
  • SOC 2 and HIPAA compliance, 99.99% uptime
  • 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
  • Serverless GPU compute defined in Python
  • Sub-second container cold starts
  • Autoscale 0 to 1000+ GPUs
  • Inference, training and batch workloads
  • Secure sandboxes for untrusted code
  • Built-in logging and observability
Use cases
  • Drafting and refining written content
  • Building and debugging software
  • Analyzing datasets for insights
  • Research and learning support
  • Team and enterprise automation
  • 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
  • Integrate video and image generation
  • Access many LLMs through one API
  • Build multimodal AI applications
  • Batch generate and prototype cheaply
  • Prototype and train ML models in the cloud
  • Fine-tune and deploy foundation models
  • Run reproducible AI experiments collaboratively
  • Deploying and scaling model inference
  • Fine-tuning and training models
  • Running batch/parallel AI jobs
  • Executing untrusted code in sandboxes
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