toolspool

Compare tools

Side-by-side features, use cases and pricing — because the right pick depends on your job and budget, not just the ranking.

DeepSeek logo
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
OpenRouter logo
OpenRouter
✓ verifiedFreemium

Unified API gateway that routes requests to 400+ LLMs across 70+ providers with failover and no subscription.

17M visits/mo
Abacus.AI logo
Abacus.AI
✓ verifiedPaid

AI super-assistant plus enterprise ML platform: ChatLLM for teams and end-to-end model building for enterprises; broad, pricing not shown.

4.3M visits/mo
Weights & Biases logo
Weights & Biases
✓ verifiedFreemium

Weights & Biases is a widely used MLOps platform for experiment tracking, model management and evaluating AI applications.

2.5M visits/mo
WaveSpeedAI logo
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
Pricing

No public pricing

Free: $0 (free models only, 50 requests/day)
Pay-as-you-go: 5.5% platform fee on inference

No public pricing

No public pricing

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

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
  • 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
  • ChatLLM access to multiple top AI models
  • AI agents and automation
  • No-code full-stack app creation
  • Enterprise generative AI platform
  • Structured ML model building
  • Optimization and forecasting
  • Experiment tracking and visualization for ML training runs
  • Model and artifact versioning and management
  • Hyperparameter optimization tooling
  • Collaborative dashboards and reports for ML teams
  • LLM application tracing and evaluation tooling
  • 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
Use cases
  • Free AI chat and assistance
  • Building apps via API
  • Reasoning and coding tasks
  • Low-cost LLM inference
  • Accessing many LLMs through one integration
  • Adding provider redundancy to AI apps
  • Comparing model price and performance
  • Powering agents and AI-native products
  • Chat with many AI models in one place
  • Build and deploy ML models
  • Automate tasks with AI agents
  • ML engineers tracking and comparing training experiments
  • Research teams versioning datasets and model checkpoints
  • Teams building and evaluating LLM-powered applications
  • Organizations collaborating on machine learning projects
  • 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
Visit
More in Model Hosting Inference