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✓ 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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DeepSeek
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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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ZenMux
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Enterprise unified API gateway giving one integration point to 100+ LLMs like Claude, GPT, and Gemini with reliability guarantees.
435K visits/mo11K saves
Pricing
Starter: $0/mo + compute ($30 free credit)
Team: $250/mo + compute
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No public pricing
Core features
- ✦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
- ✦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
- ✦Unified API for 100+ AI models
- ✦Intelligent request routing across models
- ✦AI Model Insurance for quality/reliability guarantees
- ✦Enterprise-focused LLM access layer
Use cases
- →Deploying and scaling model inference
- →Fine-tuning and training models
- →Running batch/parallel AI jobs
- →Executing untrusted code in sandboxes
- →Free AI chat and assistance
- →Building apps via API
- →Reasoning and coding tasks
- →Low-cost LLM inference
- →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
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