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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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Vast ai
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GPU rental marketplace with per-second billing across thousands of GPUs, aimed at AI training, inference, and fine-tuning workloads.
1.4M 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
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
No public pricing
Nano Banana Pro: $0.09/image (1K-2K)
Nano Banana Pro: $0.12/image (4K)
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 cloud with per-second billing
- ✦Interruptible instances at discounted rates for batch/fault-tolerant jobs
- ✦Reserved capacity with 1, 3, or 6-month terms for steady workloads
- ✦Serverless deployment with autoscale-to-zero for inference endpoints
- ✦Dedicated multi-node clusters with InfiniBand for large-scale training
- ✦Python SDK and CLI plus REST API for programmatic provisioning
- ✦Access to 68+ GPU types across 40+ data centers
- ✦Pre-configured templates for popular open-source models
- ✦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
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
- →ML engineers training or fine-tuning models on rented GPUs
- →Startups running inference at scale without owning hardware
- →Developers needing quick, low-cost access to specific GPU types
- →Teams building AI agents that autonomously provision compute
- →Adding AI image generation to apps
- →Integrating Nano Banana Pro at low cost
- →Batch and high-volume image pipelines
- →Prototyping across many AI models
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