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mcp-use
✓ verifiedFreemium
Full-stack MCP framework and cloud to build, deploy, and monitor MCP apps and servers for ChatGPT, Claude, and agents.
1.0K visits/mo
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Claude for Chrome
✓ verifiedFree
Anthropic's Claude AI assistant (Chrome); category-defining LLM product.
953M visits/mo
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DeepSeek
✓ verifiedFreemium
Chinese AI lab DeepSeek offering free chat apps and low-cost API access to its frontier V-series and R-series reasoning models.
430M visits/mo
Pricing
Free: $0/mo ($5 credits, 2 projects)
Hobby: $25/mo ($30 credits, 5 projects)
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No public pricing
Core features
- ✦Open-source MCP SDK
- ✦Cloud hosting for MCP apps and servers
- ✦Cross-client testing across ChatGPT, Claude, and more
- ✦Cloud inspector to trace and debug MCP traffic
- ✦Publishing and compliance checks
- ✦Usage, latency, and reliability analytics
- ✦Natural language interaction for task assistance
- ✦Free DeepSeek chat (web and app)
- ✦Open API platform
- ✦V-series and R-series reasoning models
- ✦DeepSeek-V4 with long context and stronger agent ability
- ✦OpenAI/Anthropic-compatible API
- ✦Extensive published model lineup
Use cases
- →Building MCP servers for AI agents
- →Publishing apps to the ChatGPT Apps Store
- →Debugging MCP traffic in production
- →Assisting with various tasks through natural language instructions.
- →Free AI chat and assistance
- →Building apps via API
- →Reasoning and coding tasks
- →Low-cost LLM inference
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