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Kimi is Moonshot AI's conversational assistant known for long-context chat, coding help, and agentic tasks.
Chinese AI lab DeepSeek offering free chat apps and low-cost API access to its frontier V-series and R-series reasoning models.
A paid gateway to premium OpenAI models with free daily credits, positioned as a ChatGPT Pro alternative.
Unified API and gateway routing requests across 200+ models from 40+ providers, with cost tracking and a free BYOK tier.
Native macOS app that unifies 300+ AI models in one private workspace with agents, MCP tools, and one-time licensing.
No public pricing
No public pricing
Free trial available
Free trial available
- ✦Conversational AI assistant
- ✦Long-context document understanding
- ✦Coding assistance
- ✦Agent and plugin capabilities
- ✦Web and mobile app access
- ✦Free DeepSeek chat (web and app)
- ✦Open API platform
- ✦V-series and R-series reasoning models
- ✦DeepSeek-V4 with long context and stronger agent ability
- ✦OpenAI/Anthropic-compatible API
- ✦Extensive published model lineup
- ✦Access to premium OpenAI models
- ✦Daily free credits
- ✦Subscription and pay-as-you-go options
- ✦Model picker for thinking/pro models
- ✦Invite-based bonus credits
- ✦One API for 200+ models across 40+ providers
- ✦Provider switching without code changes
- ✦Real-time cost tracking
- ✦Bring-your-own-keys, free forever
- ✦Observability and guardrails
- ✦SOC 2 Type II certified
- ✦Switch across 300+ hosted and local AI models
- ✦Native macOS app with global shortcut and screenshot-to-answer
- ✦Reusable agents, projects, and forked chats
- ✦Multimodal analysis of PDFs, images, and code
- ✦MCP tools and code execution
- ✦Local chat storage with encryptable API keys
- →Answering questions and research
- →Summarizing long documents
- →Writing and editing help
- →Coding support
- →Free AI chat and assistance
- →Building apps via API
- →Reasoning and coding tasks
- →Low-cost LLM inference
- →Use OpenAI Pro-tier models affordably
- →Solve complex reasoning problems
- →Occasional AI use on free daily credits
- →Route across many LLM providers from one API
- →Track and control AI spend
- →Avoid vendor lock-in with provider switching
- →Using multiple AI providers in one place
- →Explaining or fixing on-screen content instantly
- →Building reusable task-specific agents
- →Analyzing documents and screenshots privately