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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

MuAPI

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Unified pay-per-generation API for 500+ image, video and audio models like FLUX, Kling and Seedance at low cost.

411K visits/mo

MiniMax

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

4.6M visits/mo

hCaptcha

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Privacy-focused CAPTCHA and bot/fraud-detection service, a drop-in reCAPTCHA alternative for websites and apps.

4.4M visits/mo

Groq

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Fast, low-cost AI inference provider running LLMs on custom LPU chips via GroqCloud's pay-as-you-go API.

3.6M 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)

Basic: Free

Pro: $139/month billed monthly, $99/month billed yearly

Enterprise: Contact sales

Free trial available

GPT-OSS 20B: $0.075 per 1M input tokens ($0.30 per 1M output)

GPT-OSS 120B: $0.15 per 1M input tokens

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

✦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

✦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

✦AI bot detection
✦Transaction fraud protection
✦Account-takeover (ATO) defense
✦Pull-based SMS MFA
✦Private Learning ML risk models
✦Two-line reCAPTCHA migration
✦Hundreds of integrations

✦LPU custom inference hardware
✦GroqCloud tokens-as-a-service API
✦High-speed, low-latency inference
✦Pay-as-you-go token pricing
✦Free API key to start
✦Broad open-model support

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

→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

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

→Blocking bots and spam signups
→Preventing account takeover
→Reducing transaction and payment fraud
→Stopping credential stuffing

→Running LLM inference at high speed
→Cutting inference costs at scale
→Powering low-latency AI chat apps
→Serving models via a hosted API

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