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hCaptcha
✓ verifiedFreemium
Privacy-focused CAPTCHA and bot/fraud-detection service, a drop-in reCAPTCHA alternative for websites and apps.
4.4M visits/mo
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Lightning AI
✓ verifiedFreemium
Cloud platform from the makers of PyTorch Lightning for building, training and deploying AI in browser-based GPU Studios.
467K visits/mo3.8K saves
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MuAPI
✓ verifiedPaid
Unified pay-per-generation API for 500+ image, video and audio models like FLUX, Kling and Seedance at low cost.
411K visits/mo
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Runpod
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Developer-focused GPU cloud offering on-demand pods, serverless inference and multi-node clusters at per-second pricing for AI workloads.
2.3M visits/mo
Pricing
Basic: Free
Pro: $139/month billed monthly, $99/month billed yearly
Enterprise: Contact sales
Free trial available
No public pricing
No public pricing
Pods A40 48GB: $0.44/hr
Pods RTX 4090 24GB: $0.69/hr
Pods A100 SXM 80GB: $1.49/hr
Pods H100 SXM 80GB: $2.99/hr
Pods H200 141GB: $4.39/hr
Pods B300 288GB: $7.39/hr
Core features
- ✦AI bot detection
- ✦Transaction fraud protection
- ✦Account-takeover (ATO) defense
- ✦Pull-based SMS MFA
- ✦Private Learning ML risk models
- ✦Two-line reCAPTCHA migration
- ✦Hundreds of integrations
- ✦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
- ✦Single API for 500+ image, video and audio models
- ✦Pay-per-generation billing with no subscription
- ✦No charge on failed tasks
- ✦Workflows, agents and studio tools
- ✦MCP and CLI integrations, white-label option
- ✦On-demand GPU pods across 30+ GPU types and 31 regions
- ✦Serverless GPU endpoints with sub-200ms cold starts
- ✦Zero idle cost billing for inference workloads
- ✦Multi-node clusters for distributed training
- ✦Persistent network storage for full pipelines
- ✦Real-time logs, monitoring and autoscaling from 0 to hundreds of workers
Use cases
- →Blocking bots and spam signups
- →Preventing account takeover
- →Reducing transaction and payment fraud
- →Stopping credential stuffing
- →Prototype and train ML models in the cloud
- →Fine-tune and deploy foundation models
- →Run reproducible AI experiments collaboratively
- →Building apps on top of many generative models via one API
- →Generating images, video and audio at scale
- →Cutting model API costs versus direct providers
- →Deploying white-label AI generation studios
- →Renting GPUs for model training and fine-tuning
- →Deploying low-latency real-time inference APIs
- →Running AI agents that need to scale instantly
- →Processing compute-heavy batch or distributed workloads
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