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Groq
✓ verifiedFreemium

Fast, low-cost AI inference provider running LLMs on custom LPU chips via GroqCloud's pay-as-you-go API.

3.6M visits/mo
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Runpod
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Developer-focused GPU cloud offering on-demand pods, serverless inference and multi-node clusters at per-second pricing for AI workloads.

2.3M visits/mo
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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
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CometAPI
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Unified API to 500+ AI models (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, etc.) with OpenAI-compatible calls priced ~20% below official rates.

363K visits/mo4.8K saves
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Atlas Cloud
✓ verifiedPaid

Unified pay-per-use API serving 400+ multimodal AI models (image, video, audio, 3D, LLM) through one OpenAI-compatible key.

958K visits/mo
Pricing
GPT-OSS 20B: $0.075 per 1M input tokens ($0.30 per 1M output)
GPT-OSS 120B: $0.15 per 1M input tokens
Pods A40 48GB: $0.44/hr
Pods RTX 4090 24GB: $0.69/hr
Pods A100 SXM 80GB: $1.49/hr
Pods H100 SXM 80GB: $2.99/hr
Pods H200 141GB: $4.39/hr
Pods B300 288GB: $7.39/hr
Usage-based pay-as-you-go (e.g., Seedance 2.0 $0.198/s, GPT Image 2 from $0.015/image)
Pay-as-you-go, min top-up $10
GPT-5.6: $4 / 1M tokens
Claude Sonnet 5: $1.6 / 1M tokens

Free trial available

Seedance 2.0 video: from $0.09/sec
GPT Image 2: from $0.009/image
Nano Banana 2: from $0.04/image
Core features
  • LPU custom inference hardware
  • GroqCloud tokens-as-a-service API
  • High-speed, low-latency inference
  • Pay-as-you-go token pricing
  • Free API key to start
  • Broad open-model support
  • On-demand GPU pods across 30+ GPU types and 31 regions
  • Serverless GPU endpoints with sub-200ms cold starts
  • Zero idle cost billing for inference workloads
  • Multi-node clusters for distributed training
  • Persistent network storage for full pipelines
  • Real-time logs, monitoring and autoscaling from 0 to hundreds of workers
  • 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
  • One key for 500+ models
  • OpenAI-compatible API
  • Pay-as-you-go credits (~20% below list)
  • Multimodal: text, image, video, audio
  • Usage analytics and budget alerts
  • Integrations (Claude Code, n8n, Zapier, etc.)
  • 400+ AI models via one unified API
  • Multimodal coverage: image, video, audio, 3D, LLM
  • On-demand, pay-per-use pricing
  • Day-0 access to new state-of-the-art models
  • OpenAI-compatible single key
  • SOC 2 and HIPAA compliance, 99.99% uptime
Use cases
  • Running LLM inference at high speed
  • Cutting inference costs at scale
  • Powering low-latency AI chat apps
  • Serving models via a hosted API
  • Renting GPUs for model training and fine-tuning
  • Deploying low-latency real-time inference APIs
  • Running AI agents that need to scale instantly
  • Processing compute-heavy batch or distributed workloads
  • 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
  • Consolidating multi-provider AI billing
  • Switching models without re-integration
  • Powering apps and automation pipelines
  • Benchmarking models in one playground
  • Integrate video and image generation
  • Access many LLMs through one API
  • Build multimodal AI applications
  • Batch generate and prototype cheaply
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