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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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Manus
✓ verifiedFreemium

General AI agent that executes multi-step tasks end to end — research, slides, design, browsing — instead of only answering questions.

28M visits/mo89K saves
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Groq
✓ verifiedFreemium

Fast, low-cost AI inference provider running LLMs on custom LPU chips via GroqCloud's pay-as-you-go API.

3.6M 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
Pricing

No public pricing

Max Token Plan: 119 CNY/mo (frontier models, up to ~7.1B tokens/mo)

No public pricing

GPT-OSS 20B: $0.075 per 1M input tokens ($0.30 per 1M output)
GPT-OSS 120B: $0.15 per 1M input tokens

No public pricing

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
  • Autonomous multi-step task execution
  • Website and app building
  • AI slides, design and image generation
  • Manus browser operator
  • Wide Research mode
  • Cross-platform web, desktop and mobile apps
  • LPU custom inference hardware
  • GroqCloud tokens-as-a-service API
  • High-speed, low-latency inference
  • Pay-as-you-go token pricing
  • Free API key to start
  • Broad open-model support
  • 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
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
  • Automate end-to-end digital tasks
  • Produce websites and presentations
  • Conduct broad research
  • Hand off browser tasks to an agent
  • Running LLM inference at high speed
  • Cutting inference costs at scale
  • Powering low-latency AI chat apps
  • Serving models via a hosted API
  • 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
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