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Chinese AI lab DeepSeek offering free chat apps and low-cost API access to its frontier V-series and R-series reasoning models.
Low-cost inference cloud with developer APIs to run open ML models and on-demand GPUs, billed pay-per-use.
One API to access leading LLM, image, video, and audio models with pay-as-you-go, usage-based pricing.
Cloud platform from the makers of PyTorch Lightning for building, training and deploying AI in browser-based GPU Studios.
Unified API to 500+ AI models (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, etc.) with OpenAI-compatible calls priced ~20% below official rates.
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- ✦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
- ✦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
- ✦Single API for LLM, image, video, and audio models
- ✦Access to GPT, Claude, Gemini, Seedance, and more
- ✦Usage-based, pay-as-you-go pricing
- ✦Model comparison and documented capabilities
- ✦Smart Router for model selection
- ✦99.9% uptime, no credit card to start
- ✦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.)
- →Free AI chat and assistance
- →Building apps via API
- →Reasoning and coding tasks
- →Low-cost LLM inference
- →Serving open-source models via API
- →Building AI apps cost-efficiently
- →Renting GPUs for inference or training
- →Scaling inference up and down on demand
- →Add multiple AI models to a product via one API
- →Switch between model providers without rewrites
- →Generate video, images, and audio programmatically
- →Build AI agents and workflows
- →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