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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

MuAPI

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Unified pay-per-generation API for 500+ image, video and audio models like FLUX, Kling and Seedance at low cost.

411K visits/mo

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

CometAPI

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Unified API to 500+ AI models (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, etc.) with OpenAI-compatible calls priced ~20% below official rates.

363K visits/mo4.8K saves

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

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

Pay-as-you-go, min top-up $10

GPT-5.6: $4 / 1M tokens

Claude Sonnet 5: $1.6 / 1M tokens

Free trial available

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

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

✦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 key for 500+ models
✦OpenAI-compatible API
✦Pay-as-you-go credits (~20% below list)
✦Multimodal: text, image, video, audio
✦Usage analytics and budget alerts
✦Integrations (Claude Code, n8n, Zapier, etc.)

✦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

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

→Prototype and train ML models in the cloud
→Fine-tune and deploy foundation models
→Run reproducible AI experiments collaboratively

→Consolidating multi-provider AI billing
→Switching models without re-integration
→Powering apps and automation pipelines
→Benchmarking models in one playground

→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

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