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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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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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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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MuAPI
✓ verifiedPaid
Unified pay-per-generation API for 500+ image, video and audio models like FLUX, Kling and Seedance at low cost.
411K visits/mo
Pricing
Free: $0 (free models only, 50 requests/day)
Pay-as-you-go: 5.5% platform fee on inference
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
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No public pricing
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
- ✦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
- ✦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
- ✦Single API for 500+ image, video and audio models
- ✦Pay-per-generation billing with no subscription
- ✦No charge on failed tasks
- ✦Workflows, agents and studio tools
- ✦MCP and CLI integrations, white-label option
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
- →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
- →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
- →Building apps on top of many generative models via one API
- →Generating images, video and audio at scale
- →Cutting model API costs versus direct providers
- →Deploying white-label AI generation studios
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