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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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MiniMax
✓ verifiedFreemium
Chinese AGI company building multimodal LLMs, Hailuo video, speech and music models, plus AI apps and open APIs.
4.6M visits/mo
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Abacus.AI
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AI super-assistant plus enterprise ML platform: ChatLLM for teams and end-to-end model building for enterprises; broad, pricing not shown.
4.3M visits/mo
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LLM Gateway
✓ verifiedFreemium
Unified API and gateway routing requests across 200+ models from 40+ providers, with cost tracking and a free BYOK tier.
76K visits/mo
Pricing
Starter: $0/mo + compute ($30 free credit)
Team: $250/mo + compute
Max Token Plan: 119 CNY/mo (frontier models, up to ~7.1B tokens/mo)
No public pricing
No public pricing
Free: $0 forever (BYOK)
Pay-as-you-go: 5% fee on credit usage
Free trial available
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
- ✦MiniMax M-series LLMs (M3, 1M context, MSA)
- ✦Hailuo AI video generation
- ✦Speech and music generation models
- ✦MiniMax Code agentic coding tool
- ✦Consumer apps (Hailuo, Xingye)
- ✦Open API and Token Plan for developers
- ✦ChatLLM access to multiple top AI models
- ✦AI agents and automation
- ✦No-code full-stack app creation
- ✦Enterprise generative AI platform
- ✦Structured ML model building
- ✦Optimization and forecasting
- ✦Dialogue with GLM large model
- ✦AI search
- ✦AI drawing
- ✦AI reading
- ✦AI-generated video (沉思清影-AI生视频)
- ✦AI-generated PPT
- ✦Data analysis tools
- ✦Code assistance (代码速写)
- ✦Intelligent agents
- ✦One API for 200+ models across 40+ providers
- ✦Provider switching without code changes
- ✦Real-time cost tracking
- ✦Bring-your-own-keys, free forever
- ✦Observability and guardrails
- ✦SOC 2 Type II certified
Use cases
- →Deploying and scaling model inference
- →Fine-tuning and training models
- →Running batch/parallel AI jobs
- →Executing untrusted code in sandboxes
- →Coding and agentic tasks
- →AI video generation
- →Text-to-speech and music creation
- →Building on MiniMax model APIs
- →Chat with many AI models in one place
- →Build and deploy ML models
- →Automate tasks with AI agents
- →Engaging in conversations with an AI model
- →Generating images and videos using AI
- →Creating presentations with AI assistance
- →Analyzing data with AI tools
- →Assisting with code development
- →Route across many LLM providers from one API
- →Track and control AI spend
- →Avoid vendor lock-in with provider switching
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