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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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Runpod
✓ verifiedPaid

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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Kie.ai
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Affordable API platform for running image and video models like Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image), priced pay-per-image.

1.7M 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
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
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
Nano Banana Pro: $0.09/image (1K-2K)
Nano Banana Pro: $0.12/image (4K)
Usage-based pay-as-you-go (e.g., Seedance 2.0 $0.198/s, GPT Image 2 from $0.015/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
  • 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
  • Pay-as-you-go access to Nano Banana Pro API
  • 1K/2K/4K image generation
  • Many models (Seedream, Grok, GPT, Gemini)
  • Playground for testing prompts
  • REST and SDK integration
  • Usage logs, analytics and quota monitoring
  • 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
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
  • 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
  • Adding AI image generation to apps
  • Integrating Nano Banana Pro at low cost
  • Batch and high-volume image pipelines
  • Prototyping across many AI models
  • 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
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