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DeepSeek
✓ verifiedFreemium
Chinese AI lab DeepSeek offering free chat apps and low-cost API access to its frontier V-series and R-series reasoning models.
430M visits/mo
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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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Runpod
✓ verifiedPaid
Developer-focused GPU cloud offering on-demand pods, serverless inference and multi-node clusters at per-second pricing for AI workloads.
2.3M visits/mo
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Nebius
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AI-focused cloud offering NVIDIA GPU compute, storage and MLOps tooling for training and inference at scale, with usage-based pricing.
678K visits/mo133K saves
Pricing
No public 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
Pods A40 48GB: $0.44/hr
Pods RTX 4090 24GB: $0.69/hr
Pods A100 SXM 80GB: $1.49/hr
Pods H100 SXM 80GB: $2.99/hr
Pods H200 141GB: $4.39/hr
Pods B300 288GB: $7.39/hr
NVIDIA H100: $3.85/GPU-hour on-demand ($2.15 preemptible)
NVIDIA H200: $4.50/GPU-hour on-demand
NVIDIA B200: $7.15/GPU-hour on-demand
Shared filesystem storage: $0.08/GiB per month
Core features
- ✦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
- ✦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
- ✦On-demand GPU pods across 30+ GPU types and 31 regions
- ✦Serverless GPU endpoints with sub-200ms cold starts
- ✦Zero idle cost billing for inference workloads
- ✦Multi-node clusters for distributed training
- ✦Persistent network storage for full pipelines
- ✦Real-time logs, monitoring and autoscaling from 0 to hundreds of workers
- ✦NVIDIA GPU instances (H100, H200, B200, GB200)
- ✦On-demand and preemptible GPU pricing
- ✦High-performance and object storage
- ✦Managed Kubernetes and Slurm (Soperator)
- ✦Serverless and managed inference (Token Factory)
- ✦MLOps tooling and 24/7 expert support
- ✦Commitment discounts up to 35%
Use cases
- →Free AI chat and assistance
- →Building apps via API
- →Reasoning and coding tasks
- →Low-cost LLM inference
- →Drafting and refining written content
- →Building and debugging software
- →Analyzing datasets for insights
- →Research and learning support
- →Team and enterprise automation
- →Renting GPUs for model training and fine-tuning
- →Deploying low-latency real-time inference APIs
- →Running AI agents that need to scale instantly
- →Processing compute-heavy batch or distributed workloads
- →Train large AI/ML models on GPU clusters
- →Run scalable inference workloads
- →Store and manage large training datasets
- →Run Slurm/Kubernetes AI pipelines
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