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Runpod

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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

DeepSeek

✓ verifiedFreemium

Chinese AI lab DeepSeek offering free chat apps and low-cost API access to its frontier V-series and R-series reasoning models.

430M visits/mo

MiniMax

✓ verifiedFreemium

Chinese AGI company building multimodal LLMs, Hailuo video, speech and music models, plus AI apps and open APIs.

4.6M visits/mo

Lakera Guard

✓ verifiedFreemium

Security platform that guards GenAI apps and AI agents against prompt injection, data leaks and misuse for enterprise teams.

306K 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

Pricing

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

No public pricing

Max Token Plan: 119 CNY/mo (frontier models, up to ~7.1B tokens/mo)

No public pricing

Free trial available

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

Core features

✦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

✦Free DeepSeek chat (web and app)
✦Open API platform
✦V-series and R-series reasoning models
✦DeepSeek-V4 with long context and stronger agent ability
✦OpenAI/Anthropic-compatible API
✦Extensive published model lineup

✦MiniMax M-series LLMs (M3, 1M context, MSA)
✦Hailuo AI video generation
✦Speech and music generation models
✦MiniMax Code agentic coding tool
✦Consumer apps (Hailuo, Xingye)
✦Open API and Token Plan for developers

✦Runtime protection for AI agents and apps
✦Prompt-injection and jailbreak prevention
✦Data-leakage detection in prompts
✦Shadow-AI discovery across apps and browsers
✦Policy controls by user, app and action
✦AI red-teaming and adversarial testing

✦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

Use cases

→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

→Free AI chat and assistance
→Building apps via API
→Reasoning and coding tasks
→Low-cost LLM inference

→Coding and agentic tasks
→AI video generation
→Text-to-speech and music creation
→Building on MiniMax model APIs

→Securing conversational and RAG agents
→Governing employee use of AI tools
→Adversarial testing before deploying GenAI
→Meeting AI compliance requirements

→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

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