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

2.2M visits/mo
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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
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MimicPC
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Cloud platform to run open-source AI apps like ComfyUI and Stable Diffusion and train LoRAs on rented GPUs, billed hourly.

299K visits/mo
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Replicate AI
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Pay-per-use cloud API to run, fine-tune, and deploy thousands of open-source and proprietary AI models with one line of code.

1.3M visits/mo17K saves
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Vast ai
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GPU rental marketplace with per-second billing across thousands of GPUs, aimed at AI training, inference, and fine-tuning workloads.

1.4M visits/mo
Pricing
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

Essential: $13.95/mo (+$12 credit)
Advanced: $26.95/mo (+$25 credit)
GPU hardware: from $0.29/hr

Free trial available

CPU (Small): $0.000025/sec ($0.09/hr)
Nvidia A100 80GB: $0.0014/sec ($5.04/hr)
Nvidia H100: $0.001525/sec ($5.49/hr)

Free trial available

No public pricing

Core features
  • 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
  • Pre-installed open-source AI apps (ComfyUI, SD, Fooocus)
  • LoRA and custom model training
  • Image, video, audio, and LLM workflows
  • Hourly GPU rental across several tiers
  • Private storage and shareable workflows
  • No-deployment, browser-based access
  • One-line API calls to run community and proprietary AI models
  • Support for image, video, speech, and LLM generation models
  • Fine-tuning and custom model deployment via Cog
  • Per-second usage billing on shared or dedicated hardware
  • Automatic scaling for high-traffic private models
  • Thousands of community-published models with production APIs
  • On-demand GPU cloud with per-second billing
  • Interruptible instances at discounted rates for batch/fault-tolerant jobs
  • Reserved capacity with 1, 3, or 6-month terms for steady workloads
  • Serverless deployment with autoscale-to-zero for inference endpoints
  • Dedicated multi-node clusters with InfiniBand for large-scale training
  • Python SDK and CLI plus REST API for programmatic provisioning
  • Access to 68+ GPU types across 40+ data centers
  • Pre-configured templates for popular open-source models
Use cases
  • 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
  • Running ComfyUI/Stable Diffusion without a local GPU
  • Training custom LoRA models
  • Face swapping and voice conversion
  • Generating images, video, and audio at scale
  • Developers embedding image/video/speech generation into an app via API
  • Teams deploying and scaling their own fine-tuned models
  • Builders comparing outputs from multiple AI models in one playground
  • Companies avoiding GPU infrastructure management for ML inference
  • ML engineers training or fine-tuning models on rented GPUs
  • Startups running inference at scale without owning hardware
  • Developers needing quick, low-cost access to specific GPU types
  • Teams building AI agents that autonomously provision compute
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