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Google's agentic development platform and IDE for building software with autonomous, Gemini-powered coding agents.
Chinese AI lab DeepSeek offering free chat apps and low-cost API access to its frontier V-series and R-series reasoning models.
Pay-per-use API hub aggregating 1000+ image, video, and audio generation models for developers building AI media pipelines.
Unified pay-per-generation API for 500+ image, video and audio models like FLUX, Kling and Seedance at low cost.
Low-cost inference cloud with developer APIs to run open ML models and on-demand GPUs, billed pay-per-use.
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- ✦Agent-first IDE experience
- ✦Autonomous planning and code execution
- ✦Integrated editor, terminal and browser control
- ✦Powered by Google's Gemini models
- ✦High-level developer supervision
- ✦Free DeepSeek chat (web and app)
- ✦Open API platform
- ✦V-series and R-series reasoning models
- ✦DeepSeek-V4 with long context and stronger agent ability
- ✦OpenAI/Anthropic-compatible API
- ✦Extensive published model lineup
- ✦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
- ✦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
- ✦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
- →Building apps with AI agents
- →Automating multi-step coding tasks
- →Prototyping and iterating on software
- →Assisting developers on complex work
- →Free AI chat and assistance
- →Building apps via API
- →Reasoning and coding tasks
- →Low-cost LLM inference
- →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
- →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
- →Serving open-source models via API
- →Building AI apps cost-efficiently
- →Renting GPUs for inference or training
- →Scaling inference up and down on demand