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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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Runable
✓ verifiedPaid

General AI agent executing tasks and integrating thousands of apps; very high traffic.

955K visits/mo125K saves
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Helicone
✓ verifiedFreemium

LLM observability platform and AI gateway that lets teams route, log, debug and analyze their model requests.

100K visits/mo
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Openlayer
✓ verifiedFreemium

AI governance and observability platform with 100+ automated tests and real-time guardrails to evaluate and monitor ML/LLM systems.

24K visits/mo
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OpenRouter
✓ verifiedFreemium

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

17M visits/mo
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

Hobby: Free (10,000 requests/mo)
Pro: $79/mo (unlimited seats)
Team: $799/mo (SOC-2 & HIPAA)

Free trial available

Basic: Free (20k inferences/mo, 1 member, 5 projects)
Free: $0
Pay-as-you-go: Per-token, no subscription
Enterprise: Talk to sales
Core features
  • 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
  • Create presentations, websites, reports, slides, documents, podcasts images & videos
  • Conduct deep research on any topic
  • Command a virtual computer to browse the web
  • Connect and automate with over 2700+ apps
  • Request logging and LLM observability
  • AI gateway with routing and automatic fallbacks
  • Caching and rate limiting
  • Session, user and custom-property analytics
  • Prompts, playground and datasets for testing
  • Integrations with OpenAI, Anthropic, Azure and more
  • 100+ automated AI tests
  • Offline evaluation and CI/CD for AI
  • Real-time observability and tracing
  • Guardrails against PII leaks, injection, hallucination
  • Data-quality and drift monitoring
  • Compliance/governance alignment
  • Git, SDK, CLI and REST API integration
  • 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
Use cases
  • Running LLM inference at high speed
  • Cutting inference costs at scale
  • Powering low-latency AI chat apps
  • Serving models via a hosted API
  • Generate a high-conversion landing page for a startup's ebook.
  • Build a web-based image cropper tool with live preview.
  • Create a beginner-friendly PDF cheatsheet for Python.
  • Develop a one-week travel itinerary for a destination like Vietnam.
  • Analyze social media mentions and sentiment for a specific entity.
  • Organize hiring task submissions from emails into a Google Sheets spreadsheet.
  • Clone a pixel-perfect website for design accuracy and responsive web experience.
  • Make a podcast on the rise of SpaceX, make it conversational and include fun facts.
  • Monitoring and debugging LLM apps
  • Analyzing model usage and cost
  • Caching responses to cut spend
  • Managing prompts and testing datasets
  • Evaluate models before production
  • Monitor live AI systems for issues
  • Prevent unsafe or non-compliant outputs
  • Catch data drift and quality problems
  • Accessing many LLMs through one integration
  • Adding provider redundancy to AI apps
  • Comparing model price and performance
  • Powering agents and AI-native products
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