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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

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

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

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

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)

Pay As You Go: $20 top-up (pay per use, all models)

Free trial available

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

✦Unified API for 100+ AI models
✦Intelligent request routing across models
✦AI Model Insurance for quality/reliability guarantees
✦Enterprise-focused LLM access layer

✦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

✦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

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

→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

→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

→Integrating many AI models via one API
→Prototyping and scaling AI apps
→Cost-controlled multi-model access

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