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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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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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Deep Infra
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Low-cost inference cloud with developer APIs to run open ML models and on-demand GPUs, billed pay-per-use.

375K 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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OpenRouter
✓ verifiedFreemium

Unified API gateway that routes requests to 400+ LLMs across 70+ providers with failover and no subscription.

17M visits/mo
Pricing
Starter: $0/mo + compute ($30 free credit)
Team: $250/mo + compute
GPT-OSS 20B: $0.075 per 1M input tokens ($0.30 per 1M output)
GPT-OSS 120B: $0.15 per 1M input tokens

No public pricing

No public pricing

Free: $0
Pay-as-you-go: Per-token, no subscription
Enterprise: Talk to sales
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
  • 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
  • Hosted inference for many open models
  • Simple REST/OpenAI-compatible API
  • Pay-per-token or per-time billing
  • On-demand GPU rental
  • Broad catalog (Llama, DeepSeek, Qwen, Flux, etc.)
  • DeepStart and DeepCluster tooling
  • 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
  • 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
Use cases
  • Deploying and scaling model inference
  • Fine-tuning and training models
  • Running batch/parallel AI jobs
  • Executing untrusted code in sandboxes
  • Running LLM inference at high speed
  • Cutting inference costs at scale
  • Powering low-latency AI chat apps
  • Serving models via a hosted API
  • Serving open-source models via API
  • Building AI apps cost-efficiently
  • Renting GPUs for inference or training
  • Scaling inference up and down on demand
  • Prototype and train ML models in the cloud
  • Fine-tune and deploy foundation models
  • Run reproducible AI experiments collaboratively
  • Accessing many LLMs through one integration
  • Adding provider redundancy to AI apps
  • Comparing model price and performance
  • Powering agents and AI-native products
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