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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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ZenMux
✓ verifiedPaid

Enterprise unified API gateway giving one integration point to 100+ LLMs like Claude, GPT, and Gemini with reliability guarantees.

435K visits/mo11K saves
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Modal
✓ verifiedFreemium

Serverless AI cloud for running inference, training and sandboxes on GPUs with fast cold starts and pay-per-use billing.

988K visits/mo
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Replicate AI
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Pay-per-use cloud API to run, fine-tune, and deploy thousands of open-source and proprietary AI models with one line of code.

1.3M visits/mo17K saves
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Evolink AI Model API
✓ verifiedPaid

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

No public pricing

Starter: $0/mo + compute ($30 free credit)
Team: $250/mo + compute
CPU (Small): $0.000025/sec ($0.09/hr)
Nvidia A100 80GB: $0.0014/sec ($5.04/hr)
Nvidia H100: $0.001525/sec ($5.49/hr)

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
  • Unified API for 100+ AI models
  • Intelligent request routing across models
  • AI Model Insurance for quality/reliability guarantees
  • Enterprise-focused LLM access layer
  • Serverless GPU compute defined in Python
  • Sub-second container cold starts
  • Autoscale 0 to 1000+ GPUs
  • Inference, training and batch workloads
  • Secure sandboxes for untrusted code
  • Built-in logging and observability
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Deploying and scaling model inference
  • Fine-tuning and training models
  • Running batch/parallel AI jobs
  • Executing untrusted code in sandboxes
  • 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
  • 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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