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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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MiniMax
✓ verifiedFreemium
Chinese AGI company building multimodal LLMs, Hailuo video, speech and music models, plus AI apps and open APIs.
4.6M visits/mo
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Fireworks AI
✓ verifiedPaid
Developer platform for fast serverless inference and training of open generative models, billed per token or GPU-second.
611K visits/mo1.3K saves
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Evolink AI Model API
✓ verifiedPaid
One API to access leading LLM, image, video, and audio models with pay-as-you-go, usage-based pricing.
363K visits/mo1.5K saves
Pricing
No public pricing
Max Token Plan: 119 CNY/mo (frontier models, up to ~7.1B tokens/mo)
On-Demand H100/H200: $7/GPU-hour
On-Demand B200: $10/GPU-hour
On-Demand B300: $12/GPU-hour
Fine-tuning (LoRA SFT, models up to 16B): from $0.50 per 1M training tokens
Usage-based pay-as-you-go (e.g., Seedance 2.0 $0.198/s, GPT Image 2 from $0.015/image)
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
- ✦MiniMax M-series LLMs (M3, 1M context, MSA)
- ✦Hailuo AI video generation
- ✦Speech and music generation models
- ✦MiniMax Code agentic coding tool
- ✦Consumer apps (Hailuo, Xingye)
- ✦Open API and Token Plan for developers
- ✦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
- ✦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
Use cases
- →Free AI chat and assistance
- →Building apps via API
- →Reasoning and coding tasks
- →Low-cost LLM inference
- →Coding and agentic tasks
- →AI video generation
- →Text-to-speech and music creation
- →Building on MiniMax model APIs
- →Serving open models in production apps and agents
- →Fine-tuning models on private data
- →Powering code assistants, chatbots and RAG at scale
- →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
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