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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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Dify.ai
✓ verifiedFreemium
Open-source platform to build, deploy and monitor agentic AI workflows and RAG apps, with cloud, self-host and enterprise options.
1.1M visits/mo
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Vast ai
✓ verifiedPaid
GPU rental marketplace with per-second billing across thousands of GPUs, aimed at AI training, inference, and fine-tuning workloads.
1.4M visits/mo
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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
Pricing
No public pricing
Sandbox: Free (200 message credits)
Professional: $590/workspace/year
Team: $1,590/workspace/year
No public pricing
Free: $0
Pay-as-you-go: Per-token, no subscription
Enterprise: Talk to sales
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
- ✦Visual workflow studio for agents
- ✦RAG knowledge pipelines
- ✦Agent runtime with tools and memory
- ✦Marketplace of models and plugins
- ✦Publish as app, API or MCP tool
- ✦Logging, analytics and monitoring
- ✦On-demand GPU cloud with per-second billing
- ✦Interruptible instances at discounted rates for batch/fault-tolerant jobs
- ✦Reserved capacity with 1, 3, or 6-month terms for steady workloads
- ✦Serverless deployment with autoscale-to-zero for inference endpoints
- ✦Dedicated multi-node clusters with InfiniBand for large-scale training
- ✦Python SDK and CLI plus REST API for programmatic provisioning
- ✦Access to 68+ GPU types across 40+ data centers
- ✦Pre-configured templates for popular open-source models
- ✦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
Use cases
- →Free AI chat and assistance
- →Building apps via API
- →Reasoning and coding tasks
- →Low-cost LLM inference
- →Building AI agents and chatbots
- →Creating RAG-based knowledge apps
- →Deploying LLM apps at enterprise scale
- →ML engineers training or fine-tuning models on rented GPUs
- →Startups running inference at scale without owning hardware
- →Developers needing quick, low-cost access to specific GPU types
- →Teams building AI agents that autonomously provision compute
- →Accessing many LLMs through one integration
- →Adding provider redundancy to AI apps
- →Comparing model price and performance
- →Powering agents and AI-native products
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