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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.
Pay-per-use cloud API to run, fine-tune, and deploy thousands of open-source and proprietary AI models with one line of code.
Enterprise unified API gateway giving one integration point to 100+ LLMs like Claude, GPT, and Gemini with reliability guarantees.
Unified pay-per-use API serving 400+ multimodal AI models (image, video, audio, 3D, LLM) through one OpenAI-compatible key.
Cloud platform from the makers of PyTorch Lightning for building, training and deploying AI in browser-based GPU Studios.
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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
- ✦One-line API calls to run community and proprietary AI models
- ✦Support for image, video, speech, and LLM generation models
- ✦Fine-tuning and custom model deployment via Cog
- ✦Per-second usage billing on shared or dedicated hardware
- ✦Automatic scaling for high-traffic private models
- ✦Thousands of community-published models with production APIs
- ✦Unified API for 100+ AI models
- ✦Intelligent request routing across models
- ✦AI Model Insurance for quality/reliability guarantees
- ✦Enterprise-focused LLM access layer
- ✦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
- ✦Browser-based Lightning Studios with on-demand GPUs
- ✦PyTorch Lightning training framework
- ✦Model training, fine-tuning and deployment
- ✦Collaborative, shareable ML environments
- ✦Scalable multi-GPU/multi-node compute
- →Free AI chat and assistance
- →Building apps via API
- →Reasoning and coding tasks
- →Low-cost LLM inference
- →Developers embedding image/video/speech generation into an app via API
- →Teams deploying and scaling their own fine-tuned models
- →Builders comparing outputs from multiple AI models in one playground
- →Companies avoiding GPU infrastructure management for ML inference
- →Building applications that need failover across multiple LLM providers
- →Consolidating billing/access to many AI models under one API
- →Enterprises requiring guaranteed model output reliability
- →Integrate video and image generation
- →Access many LLMs through one API
- →Build multimodal AI applications
- →Batch generate and prototype cheaply
- →Prototype and train ML models in the cloud
- →Fine-tune and deploy foundation models
- →Run reproducible AI experiments collaboratively