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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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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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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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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
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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
Free: $0 (free models only, 50 requests/day)
Pay-as-you-go: 5.5% platform fee on inference
GPT-OSS 20B: $0.075 per 1M input tokens ($0.30 per 1M output)
GPT-OSS 120B: $0.15 per 1M input tokens
Usage-based pay-as-you-go (e.g., Seedance 2.0 $0.198/s, GPT Image 2 from $0.015/image)

No public pricing

Seedance 2.0 video: from $0.09/sec
GPT Image 2: from $0.009/image
Nano Banana 2: from $0.04/image
Core features
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Accessing many LLMs through one integration
  • Adding provider redundancy to AI apps
  • Comparing model price and performance
  • Powering agents and AI-native products
  • Running LLM inference at high speed
  • Cutting inference costs at scale
  • Powering low-latency AI chat apps
  • Serving models via a hosted API
  • 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
  • Prototype and train ML models in the cloud
  • Fine-tune and deploy foundation models
  • Run reproducible AI experiments collaboratively
  • Integrate video and image generation
  • Access many LLMs through one API
  • Build multimodal AI applications
  • Batch generate and prototype cheaply
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