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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

WaveSpeedAI

✓ verifiedFree trial

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

2.2M visits/mo

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

Evolink AI Model API

✓ verifiedPaid

One API to access leading LLM, image, video, and audio models with pay-as-you-go, usage-based pricing.

363K visits/mo1.5K saves

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

Pricing

Free: $0 (free models only, 50 requests/day)

Pay-as-you-go: 5.5% platform fee on inference

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

Usage-based pay-as-you-go (e.g., Seedance 2.0 $0.198/s, GPT Image 2 from $0.015/image)

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

✦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

✦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

✦Single API for LLM, image, video, and audio models
✦Access to GPT, Claude, Gemini, Seedance, and more
✦Usage-based, pay-as-you-go pricing
✦Model comparison and documented capabilities
✦Smart Router for model selection
✦99.9% uptime, no credit card to start

✦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

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

→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

→Prototype and train ML models in the cloud
→Fine-tune and deploy foundation models
→Run reproducible AI experiments collaboratively

→Add multiple AI models to a product via one API
→Switch between model providers without rewrites
→Generate video, images, and audio programmatically
→Build AI agents and workflows

→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

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