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HEROZ
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A Japanese AI firm that grew from shogi-AI research into industry ML solutions and a generative-AI platform, HEROZ ASK.

1.9M 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
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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
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SiliconFlow
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Developer platform serving 200+ optimized LLMs via APIs; high traffic.

434K visits/mo1.1K saves
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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
Pricing

No public pricing

Free: $0
Pay-as-you-go: Per-token, no subscription
Enterprise: Talk to sales

No public pricing

No public pricing

GPT-OSS 20B: $0.075 per 1M input tokens ($0.30 per 1M output)
GPT-OSS 120B: $0.15 per 1M input tokens
Core features
  • Deep-learning and machine-learning core technology
  • HEROZ ASK generative-AI platform
  • BtoB and BtoC AI solutions
  • BLOOMWORKS product
  • Industry AI deployment case studies
  • 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
  • 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
  • Access over 200 optimized models, including LLMs, image, video, and audio processing.
  • Achieve low-latency, high-throughput inference with SiliconFlow's self-developed acceleration frameworks.
  • Deploy models via serverless inference, dedicated endpoints, or reserved GPUs to suit various workloads.
  • Customize models to your data with built-in monitoring and elastic compute resources.
  • Ensure data privacy and business security with dynamic scaling and fault tolerance mechanisms.
  • 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
Use cases
  • Deploying generative AI in enterprises
  • Applying ML to industry-specific problems
  • AI-driven business transformation (DX)
  • Accessing many LLMs through one integration
  • Adding provider redundancy to AI apps
  • Comparing model price and performance
  • Powering agents and AI-native products
  • Free AI chat and assistance
  • Building apps via API
  • Reasoning and coding tasks
  • Low-cost LLM inference
  • Quickly deploy various AI models via a simple API, supporting tasks like text, image, audio, and video processing.
  • Utilize serverless GPUs to automatically scale AI applications, ensuring flexibility and cost-efficiency.
  • Access high-performance GPUs for demanding workloads, such as large-scale inference and video generation.
  • Deploy custom models with guaranteed performance and scalability, tailored to specific business needs.
  • Running LLM inference at high speed
  • Cutting inference costs at scale
  • Powering low-latency AI chat apps
  • Serving models via a hosted API
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