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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
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Runpod
✓ verifiedPaid
Developer-focused GPU cloud offering on-demand pods, serverless inference and multi-node clusters at per-second pricing for AI workloads.
2.3M visits/mo
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AI/ML API
✓ verifiedPaid
Single API and playground for 1000+ AI models (chat, image, video, audio) with pay-as-you-go billing.
223K visits/mo5.7K saves
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ZenMux
✓ verifiedPaid
Enterprise unified API gateway giving one integration point to 100+ LLMs like Claude, GPT, and Gemini with reliability guarantees.
435K visits/mo11K saves
Pricing
Free: $0
Pay-as-you-go: Per-token, no subscription
Enterprise: Talk to sales
Pods A40 48GB: $0.44/hr
Pods RTX 4090 24GB: $0.69/hr
Pods A100 SXM 80GB: $1.49/hr
Pods H100 SXM 80GB: $2.99/hr
Pods H200 141GB: $4.39/hr
Pods B300 288GB: $7.39/hr
Pay As You Go: $20 top-up (pay per use, all models)
Free trial available
No public pricing
Core features
- ✦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
- ✦On-demand GPU pods across 30+ GPU types and 31 regions
- ✦Serverless GPU endpoints with sub-200ms cold starts
- ✦Zero idle cost billing for inference workloads
- ✦Multi-node clusters for distributed training
- ✦Persistent network storage for full pipelines
- ✦Real-time logs, monitoring and autoscaling from 0 to hundreds of workers
- ✦One API for 1000+ models
- ✦OpenAI/Anthropic-compatible endpoints
- ✦Chat, image, video, audio and embedding models
- ✦AI playground/sandbox
- ✦Pay-as-you-go billing across models
- ✦Enterprise dedicated infrastructure option
- ✦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
- →Accessing many LLMs through one integration
- →Adding provider redundancy to AI apps
- →Comparing model price and performance
- →Powering agents and AI-native products
- →Renting GPUs for model training and fine-tuning
- →Deploying low-latency real-time inference APIs
- →Running AI agents that need to scale instantly
- →Processing compute-heavy batch or distributed workloads
- →Integrating many AI models via one API
- →Prototyping and scaling AI apps
- →Cost-controlled multi-model access
- →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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