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LM Studio
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Site presenting LM Studio, a desktop app to download and run open-source LLMs locally and offline via a chat UI.
11K 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
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venice.ai
✓ verifiedFreemium
Privacy-focused AI platform offering uncensored chat, image, video, and audio generation across many third-party and open-source models.
12M visits/mo26K saves
Pricing
No public pricing
No public pricing
Free: $0/mo (10 text prompts/day, 15 image prompts/day)
Pro: $18/mo (unlimited text prompts, 1,000 images/day, 100 credits/month)
Pro Plus: $68/mo (7,500 credits/month)
Max: $200/mo (22,500 credits/month)
Core features
- ✦Run LLMs offline on your own computer
- ✦Download models from Hugging Face
- ✦In-app chat UI and OpenAI-compatible local server
- ✦Hardware compatibility checks
- ✦Run multiple models at once
- ✦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
- ✦Multi-provider chat, image, video, and audio generation
- ✦Zero data retention on private/self-hosted models
- ✦OpenAI-compatible API for agent integrations
- ✦Tiered privacy levels including TEE and end-to-end encryption
- ✦Uncensored open-source model access
- ✦Credit-based access to premium third-party models
Use cases
- →Experiment with open LLMs privately
- →Serve a local OpenAI-compatible API
- →Explore and download new models
- →Free AI chat and assistance
- →Building apps via API
- →Reasoning and coding tasks
- →Low-cost LLM inference
- →Chatting or generating content without prompt logging
- →Building AI agents via an OpenAI-compatible API
- →Generating images or video with fewer content restrictions
- →Accessing many leading AI models under one subscription
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