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Openlayer
✓ verifiedFreemium
AI governance and observability platform with 100+ automated tests and real-time guardrails to evaluate and monitor ML/LLM systems.
24K visits/mo
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Higress
✓ verifiedFreemium
Open-source AI-native API gateway for routing, protecting and caching LLM/agent traffic, with a paid managed cloud.
29K visits/mo
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MuAPI
✓ verifiedPaid
Unified pay-per-generation API for 500+ image, video and audio models like FLUX, Kling and Seedance at low cost.
411K visits/mo
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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
Basic: Free (20k inferences/mo, 1 member, 5 projects)
No public pricing
No public pricing
Free: $0
Pay-as-you-go: Per-token, no subscription
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Core features
- ✦100+ automated AI tests
- ✦Offline evaluation and CI/CD for AI
- ✦Real-time observability and tracing
- ✦Guardrails against PII leaks, injection, hallucination
- ✦Data-quality and drift monitoring
- ✦Compliance/governance alignment
- ✦Git, SDK, CLI and REST API integration
- ✦Unified proxy and protocol conversion across 100+ LLMs
- ✦Model-level fallback and routing
- ✦Semantic and exact-match AI caching
- ✦Token tracking and quota controls
- ✦Content-safety and data-protection filtering
- ✦MCP service hosting and plugin marketplace
- ✦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
- ✦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
- →Evaluate models before production
- →Monitor live AI systems for issues
- →Prevent unsafe or non-compliant outputs
- →Catch data drift and quality problems
- →Centralizing access to multiple LLM providers
- →Building and governing AI agent/MCP services
- →Controlling token spend across teams
- →Adding caching and safety to LLM calls
- →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
- →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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