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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

Modal

✓ verifiedFreemium

Serverless AI cloud for running inference, training and sandboxes on GPUs with fast cold starts and pay-per-use billing.

988K visits/mo

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

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

Deep Infra

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Low-cost inference cloud with developer APIs to run open ML models and on-demand GPUs, billed pay-per-use.

375K 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

Starter: $0/mo + compute ($30 free credit)

Team: $250/mo + compute

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

✦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

✦Serverless GPU compute defined in Python
✦Sub-second container cold starts
✦Autoscale 0 to 1000+ GPUs
✦Inference, training and batch workloads
✦Secure sandboxes for untrusted code
✦Built-in logging and observability

✦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

✦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

✦Hosted inference for many open models
✦Simple REST/OpenAI-compatible API
✦Pay-per-token or per-time billing
✦On-demand GPU rental
✦Broad catalog (Llama, DeepSeek, Qwen, Flux, etc.)
✦DeepStart and DeepCluster tooling

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

→Deploying and scaling model inference
→Fine-tuning and training models
→Running batch/parallel AI jobs
→Executing untrusted code in sandboxes

→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

→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

→Serving open-source models via API
→Building AI apps cost-efficiently
→Renting GPUs for inference or training
→Scaling inference up and down on demand

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