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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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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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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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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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Fireworks AI
✓ verifiedPaid

Developer platform for fast serverless inference and training of open generative models, billed per token or GPU-second.

611K visits/mo1.3K saves
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
Free: $0 (free models only, 50 requests/day)
Pay-as-you-go: 5.5% platform fee on inference
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

No public pricing

On-Demand H100/H200: $7/GPU-hour
On-Demand B200: $10/GPU-hour
On-Demand B300: $12/GPU-hour
Fine-tuning (LoRA SFT, models up to 16B): from $0.50 per 1M training tokens
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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 per-token inference with OpenAI/Anthropic-compatible APIs
  • On-demand dedicated and reserved GPU deployments
  • Fine-tuning and reinforcement-learning training pipelines
  • Large library of open LLM, vision, image and audio models
  • Optimized inference engine for throughput and latency
Use cases
  • Drafting and refining written content
  • Building and debugging software
  • Analyzing datasets for insights
  • Research and learning support
  • Team and enterprise automation
  • Accessing many LLMs through one integration
  • Adding provider redundancy to AI apps
  • Comparing model price and performance
  • Powering agents and AI-native products
  • 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
  • Prototype and train ML models in the cloud
  • Fine-tune and deploy foundation models
  • Run reproducible AI experiments collaboratively
  • Serving open models in production apps and agents
  • Fine-tuning models on private data
  • Powering code assistants, chatbots and RAG at scale
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