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DeepSeek V4
✓ verifiedFree
DeepSeek's official domain and foundation-model line; major AI lab.
👁 430M/mo
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OpenRouter
✓ verifiedFreemium
Unified API routing across many LLMs with pricing and uptime optimization.
👁 17M/mo
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Core features
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- ✦General large language models (LLM)
- ✦Code generation models
- ✦Mixture of Experts (MoE) models
- ✦API access to models
- ✦Context Caching
- ✦Unified API for multiple LLMs
- ✦Model routing visualization
- ✦Custom data policies
- ✦Price and performance optimization
- ✦Higher availability through distributed infrastructure
Use cases
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- →Chatbots and conversational AI
- →Code completion and generation
- →Reasoning and problem-solving
- →Text generation and summarization
- →Mathematical problem solving
- →Search
- →Writing
- →Reading
- →Accessing multiple LLMs through a single API
- →Implementing custom data policies for LLM usage
- →Ensuring high availability of AI models
- →Optimizing costs without sacrificing speed
- →Building AI applications with reliable and diverse models
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