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MuAPI

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Unified pay-per-generation API for 500+ image, video and audio models like FLUX, Kling and Seedance at low cost.

411K visits/mo

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

WaveSpeedAI

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Pay-per-use API hub aggregating 1000+ image, video, and audio generation models for developers building AI media pipelines.

2.2M visits/mo

Manus

✓ verifiedFreemium

General AI agent that executes multi-step tasks end to end — research, slides, design, browsing — instead of only answering questions.

28M visits/mo89K saves

Claude

✓ verifiedFreemium

Anthropic's AI assistant for writing, coding, and analysis across web, mobile, and desktop, plus a developer API.

22M visits/mo231K 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

Silver: $100 top-up (higher rate limits)

Gold: $1,000 top-up (higher rate limits)

Ultra: $10,000 top-up (highest rate limits)

Free trial available

No public pricing

Free: $0

Pro: $17/month billed annually ($200 up front), or $20/month

Max: From $100/month

Team: $20/seat/month billed annually ($25 monthly); premium seats $100/seat/month annually ($125 monthly)

Enterprise: Contact sales

Core features

✦Single API for 500+ image, video and audio models
✦Pay-per-generation billing with no subscription
✦No charge on failed tasks
✦Workflows, agents and studio tools
✦MCP and CLI integrations, white-label option

✦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

✦Unified API access to 1000+ image/video/audio generation models
✦Pay-per-use pricing billed per image or per second of video
✦Includes chat/LLM model access (Claude, GPT, Gemini, etc.) priced per token
✦Account tiers unlock higher GPU limits and concurrency
✦CLI and desktop app for building workflows
✦Enterprise options with dedicated support and custom deployment

✦Autonomous multi-step task execution
✦Website and app building
✦AI slides, design and image generation
✦Manus browser operator
✦Wide Research mode
✦Cross-platform web, desktop and mobile apps

✦Conversational writing and editing
✦Code generation and debugging (Claude Code)
✦Data analysis and visualization
✦Web search plus memory across chats
✦Connectors and remote MCP integrations
✦Extended thinking for complex tasks

Use cases

→Building apps on top of many generative models via one API
→Generating images, video and audio at scale
→Cutting model API costs versus direct providers
→Deploying white-label AI generation studios

→Running LLM inference at high speed
→Cutting inference costs at scale
→Powering low-latency AI chat apps
→Serving models via a hosted API

→Integrating AI image/video generation into an app via API
→Building automated content pipelines needing multiple AI models
→Testing and comparing many generative models from one account
→Scaling AI media production with volume-based account tiers
→Accessing both media-generation and LLM APIs from one platform

→Automate end-to-end digital tasks
→Produce websites and presentations
→Conduct broad research
→Hand off browser tasks to an agent

→Drafting and refining written content
→Building and debugging software
→Analyzing datasets for insights
→Research and learning support
→Team and enterprise automation

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