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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.
Privacy-focused CAPTCHA and bot/fraud-detection service, a drop-in reCAPTCHA alternative for websites and apps.
Developer platform for fast serverless inference and training of open generative models, billed per token or GPU-second.
Low-cost inference cloud with developer APIs to run open ML models and on-demand GPUs, billed pay-per-use.
Unified pay-per-use API serving 400+ multimodal AI models (image, video, audio, 3D, LLM) through one OpenAI-compatible key.
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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
- ✦AI bot detection
- ✦Transaction fraud protection
- ✦Account-takeover (ATO) defense
- ✦Pull-based SMS MFA
- ✦Private Learning ML risk models
- ✦Two-line reCAPTCHA migration
- ✦Hundreds of integrations
- ✦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
- ✦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
- ✦400+ AI models via one unified API
- ✦Multimodal coverage: image, video, audio, 3D, LLM
- ✦On-demand, pay-per-use pricing
- ✦Day-0 access to new state-of-the-art models
- ✦OpenAI-compatible single key
- ✦SOC 2 and HIPAA compliance, 99.99% uptime
- →Free AI chat and assistance
- →Building apps via API
- →Reasoning and coding tasks
- →Low-cost LLM inference
- →Blocking bots and spam signups
- →Preventing account takeover
- →Reducing transaction and payment fraud
- →Stopping credential stuffing
- →Serving open models in production apps and agents
- →Fine-tuning models on private data
- →Powering code assistants, chatbots and RAG at scale
- →Serving open-source models via API
- →Building AI apps cost-efficiently
- →Renting GPUs for inference or training
- →Scaling inference up and down on demand
- →Integrate video and image generation
- →Access many LLMs through one API
- →Build multimodal AI applications
- →Batch generate and prototype cheaply