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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

MiniMax

✓ verifiedFreemium

Chinese AGI company building multimodal LLMs, Hailuo video, speech and music models, plus AI apps and open APIs.

4.6M visits/mo

WaveSpeedAI

✓ verifiedFree trial

Pay-per-use API hub aggregating 1000+ image, video, and audio generation models for developers building AI media pipelines.

2.2M visits/mo

Modal

✓ verifiedFreemium

Serverless AI cloud for running inference, training and sandboxes on GPUs with fast cold starts and pay-per-use billing.

988K visits/mo

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)

Silver: $100 top-up (higher rate limits)

Gold: $1,000 top-up (higher rate limits)

Ultra: $10,000 top-up (highest rate limits)

Free trial available

Starter: $0/mo + compute ($30 free credit)

Team: $250/mo + compute

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

✦Unified API access to 1000+ image/video/audio generation models
✦Pay-per-use pricing billed per image or per second of video
✦Includes chat/LLM model access (Claude, GPT, Gemini, etc.) priced per token
✦Account tiers unlock higher GPU limits and concurrency
✦CLI and desktop app for building workflows
✦Enterprise options with dedicated support and custom deployment

✦Serverless GPU compute defined in Python
✦Sub-second container cold starts
✦Autoscale 0 to 1000+ GPUs
✦Inference, training and batch workloads
✦Secure sandboxes for untrusted code
✦Built-in logging and observability

✦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

→Integrating AI image/video generation into an app via API
→Building automated content pipelines needing multiple AI models
→Testing and comparing many generative models from one account
→Scaling AI media production with volume-based account tiers
→Accessing both media-generation and LLM APIs from one platform

→Deploying and scaling model inference
→Fine-tuning and training models
→Running batch/parallel AI jobs
→Executing untrusted code in sandboxes

→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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