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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
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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
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Evolink AI Model API
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One API to access leading LLM, image, video, and audio models with pay-as-you-go, usage-based pricing.

363K visits/mo1.5K saves
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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
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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
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

Free: $0 (free models only, 50 requests/day)
Pay-as-you-go: 5.5% platform fee on inference
Usage-based pay-as-you-go (e.g., Seedance 2.0 $0.198/s, GPT Image 2 from $0.015/image)
Starter: $0/mo + compute ($30 free credit)
Team: $250/mo + compute

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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
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
  • Accessing many LLMs through one integration
  • Adding provider redundancy to AI apps
  • Comparing model price and performance
  • Powering agents and AI-native products
  • 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
  • Deploying and scaling model inference
  • Fine-tuning and training models
  • Running batch/parallel AI jobs
  • Executing untrusted code in sandboxes
  • Prototype and train ML models in the cloud
  • Fine-tune and deploy foundation models
  • Run reproducible AI experiments collaboratively
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