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Lightning AI
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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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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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CometAPI
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Unified API to 500+ AI models (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, etc.) with OpenAI-compatible calls priced ~20% below official rates.
363K visits/mo4.8K saves
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Evolink AI Model API
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One API to access leading LLM, image, video, and audio models with pay-as-you-go, usage-based pricing.
363K visits/mo1.5K saves
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
Pay-as-you-go, min top-up $10
GPT-5.6: $4 / 1M tokens
Claude Sonnet 5: $1.6 / 1M tokens
Free trial available
Usage-based pay-as-you-go (e.g., Seedance 2.0 $0.198/s, GPT Image 2 from $0.015/image)
Core features
- ✦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
- ✦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
- ✦One key for 500+ models
- ✦OpenAI-compatible API
- ✦Pay-as-you-go credits (~20% below list)
- ✦Multimodal: text, image, video, audio
- ✦Usage analytics and budget alerts
- ✦Integrations (Claude Code, n8n, Zapier, etc.)
- ✦Single API for LLM, image, video, and audio models
- ✦Access to GPT, Claude, Gemini, Seedance, and more
- ✦Usage-based, pay-as-you-go pricing
- ✦Model comparison and documented capabilities
- ✦Smart Router for model selection
- ✦99.9% uptime, no credit card to start
Use cases
- →Prototype and train ML models in the cloud
- →Fine-tune and deploy foundation models
- →Run reproducible AI experiments collaboratively
- →Running LLM inference at high speed
- →Cutting inference costs at scale
- →Powering low-latency AI chat apps
- →Serving models via a hosted API
- →Consolidating multi-provider AI billing
- →Switching models without re-integration
- →Powering apps and automation pipelines
- →Benchmarking models in one playground
- →Add multiple AI models to a product via one API
- →Switch between model providers without rewrites
- →Generate video, images, and audio programmatically
- →Build AI agents and workflows
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