Directory

AI Inference API Providers

Compare AI inference API providers side by side — pricing, supported models, features, and free tiers. Whether you need the cheapest LLM API, the fastest image generation endpoint, or a provider with OpenAI-compatible routing, find the right fit below.

Covering 43+ providers including OpenRouter, Together AI, Fireworks AI, fal.ai, Replicate, DeepInfra, Groq, and more. Filter by type, category, or browse the full directory.

AM

Amazon Bedrock

Platform Featured

Fully managed AWS service providing foundation models from Anthropic, Meta, Mistral, Cohere, and more. OpenAI-compatible API with enterprise-grade security and compliance.

12 models
Up to $200 in AWS free tier credits for new accounts free
OpenAI Compat Streaming Finetuning Embeddings Functions Vision SOC2 HIPAA GDPR Free Tier
AN

Anthropic

Proprietary Featured

Official Claude API. Direct access to Claude Opus, Sonnet, and Haiku models.

6 models
Streaming Functions Vision
CE

Cerebras

Serverless Featured

Ultra-fast AI inference on custom Wafer-Scale Engine chips. Up to 3000 tok/s output speed, 20x faster than GPU-based providers.

3 models
Free tier with all models, no credit card required free
OpenAI Compat Streaming Finetuning Functions Free Tier
DE

DeepInfra

Serverless Featured

Serverless inference for open-source LLMs and generative models. Pay-per-token with fast cold starts.

13 models
OpenAI Compat Streaming Finetuning Embeddings Vision Free Tier
FI

Fireworks AI

Serverless Featured

Fast serverless inference for open-source models with per-token pricing, fine-tuning, and on-demand deployments.

24 models
$1 in free credits free
OpenAI Compat Streaming Finetuning Embeddings Functions Vision Free Tier
GO

Google

Proprietary Featured

Official Gemini API via Google AI Studio and Vertex AI. Direct access to Gemini, Imagen, and Gemma models.

19 models
Streaming Embeddings Functions Vision Free Tier
GR

Groq

Serverless Featured

Fastest LLM inference powered by custom LPU chips. OpenAI-compatible API with sub-second latency.

4 models
OpenAI Compat Streaming Functions Vision Free Tier
KI

KIE AI

Aggregator Featured

Affordable AI API aggregator offering 259+ models across chat, image, video, and music at discounted prices.

55 models
OpenAI Compat Streaming Vision
MI

Mistral AI

Proprietary Featured

Official Mistral API. Direct access to Mistral Large, Small, and Ministral models. EU data residency available.

3 models
OpenAI Compat Streaming Functions Vision Free Tier
MU

Muapi

Aggregator Featured

AI API aggregator with 315+ model endpoints across text, image, video, and audio at competitive prices.

75 models
OpenAI Compat Streaming Vision
NO

Novita AI

Aggregator Featured

Budget AI inference platform with broad model catalog across LLM, image, video, and audio. Very competitive per-token pricing.

41 models
OpenAI Compat Streaming Vision Free Tier
OP

OpenAI

Proprietary Featured

Official OpenAI API. Direct access to GPT, DALL-E, Whisper, and embedding models.

18 models
OpenAI Compat Streaming Embeddings Functions Vision Free Tier
OP

OpenRouter

Aggregator Featured

Unified API for 300+ LLMs from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, and more. Routes to the best provider automatically.

58 models
OpenAI Compat Streaming Functions Vision Free Tier
RE

Replicate

Serverless Featured

Run and deploy machine learning models with a cloud API. Pay-per-use with serverless GPU infrastructure.

67 models
Streaming Finetuning Vision
SI

SiliconFlow

Serverless Featured

Fast and affordable AI inference platform. 2.3x faster speeds and 32% lower latency than major cloud platforms. Supports LLM, image, video, and audio models.

20 models
OpenAI Compat Streaming Vision Free Tier
TO

Together AI

Serverless Featured

Serverless and dedicated inference for open-source LLMs, image, video, and audio models. GPU clusters available.

9 models
OpenAI Compat Streaming Finetuning Embeddings Vision Free Tier
FA

fal.ai

Serverless Featured

Fast inference platform for generative media — image, video, audio, and 3D models with serverless GPU infrastructure.

70 models
Streaming Vision Free Tier
AI

AIMLAPI

Aggregator

Unified API for 400+ AI models across text, image, video, and audio. OpenAI-compatible with serverless inference.

25 models
OpenAI Compat Streaming Embeddings Vision Free Tier
AL

Alibaba Cloud

Proprietary

Alibaba Cloud Model Studio offers the Qwen model family including LLMs, image generation (Qwen Image, Wan), video generation (Wan), embeddings, and TTS.

19 models
Free quota on select models free
OpenAI Compat Streaming Embeddings Functions Vision Free Tier
AT

Atlas Cloud

Aggregator

Full-modal AI inference platform with 300+ models. Smart routing to cheapest servers with transparent pay-as-you-go pricing.

10 models
OpenAI Compat Streaming Vision Free Tier
BL

Black Forest Labs

Proprietary

Creator of the Flux model family. Offers image generation and editing via a credit-based API. Models range from real-time (Klein) to highest quality (Max).

11 models
Flux 2 Dev is free for local development free
Vision Free Tier
BY

BytePlus

Proprietary

ByteDance's international AI platform offering Seedream image generation and Seedance video generation models via the ModelArk API.

5 models
50 free images (Seedream 5.0 Lite), 2M free tokens (Seedance) free
OpenAI Compat Streaming Vision Free Tier
CL

Cloudflare Workers AI

Serverless

Edge AI inference across 200+ cities worldwide. Serverless, pay-per-use with OpenAI-compatible API.

12 models
OpenAI Compat Streaming Embeddings Vision Free Tier
CO

Cohere

Proprietary

Creator of the Command and Embed model families. Enterprise-focused NLP platform with LLMs, embeddings, and reranking. OpenAI-compatible API.

3 models
Trial key with 1,000 API calls/month free
OpenAI Compat Streaming Finetuning Embeddings Functions Free Tier
DE

DeepSeek

Proprietary

Creator of DeepSeek V3 and R1 models. Offers extremely competitive pricing on high-quality LLMs with thinking/reasoning modes. OpenAI-compatible API.

2 models
OpenAI Compat Streaming Functions
EL

ElevenLabs

Proprietary

Creator of industry-leading text-to-speech, speech-to-text, music generation, and sound effects models. Credit-based pricing with free tier.

5 models
10k credits/month (~20 min Flash TTS) free
Streaming Free Tier
FR

Friendli AI

Serverless

Fast serverless and dedicated AI inference. Korean provider with competitive pricing on open-source models and prompt caching support.

7 models
Up to 50K inference credit for new users free
OpenAI Compat Streaming Functions Free Tier
HY

Hyperbolic

Serverless

Open-access AI cloud with serverless inference and dedicated hosting. Zero data retention, privacy-first design. Unified per-token pricing.

7 models
10 dollars free credits on signup free
OpenAI Compat Streaming Vision Free Tier
KL

Kling AI

Proprietary

Creator of the Kling video and image generation models by Kuaishou. Offers text-to-video, image-to-video, and image generation via API.

6 models
Vision
LU

Luma AI

Proprietary

Creator of Ray 2 video generation and Photon image generation models. Pixel-based pricing with upscaling and audio options.

4 models
Vision
MI

MiniMax

Proprietary

Creator of Hailuo video generation, MiniMax M2.5/M2.7 LLMs, Music 2.5, and Speech models. Full multimodal API platform with Anthropic-compatible endpoints.

6 models
OpenAI Compat Streaming Functions Vision
MO

Moonshot AI

Proprietary

Creator of the Kimi model family. Known for long-context LLMs with strong code and agent capabilities. OpenAI-compatible API at platform.moonshot.ai.

2 models
OpenAI Compat Streaming Functions Vision
NE

Nebius

Serverless

European AI inference on Token Factory. Two flavors: fast (low latency) and base (cost-efficient). Batch at 50% off.

8 models
1 dollar in free credits to start free
OpenAI Compat Streaming Finetuning Embeddings Functions Free Tier
PA

Parasail

Serverless

Distributed AI inference network with serverless, dedicated, and batch endpoints. No rate limits, no contracts, up to 30x cheaper than legacy cloud.

13 models
Free credits on signup free
OpenAI Compat Streaming Vision Free Tier
QU

QuiverAI

Proprietary

Creator of the Arrow vector SVG generation models. Offers text-to-SVG and image-to-SVG (vectorize) via REST API with credit-based pricing. Raised $8.3M seed led by a16z.

3 models
20 free credits on signup (~5 generations) free
Streaming Vision Free Tier
RE

Recraft

Proprietary

Creator of the Recraft image generation models. Offers raster and SVG vector image generation with per-image API pricing.

4 models
OpenAI Compat Vision
RU

Runway

Proprietary

Creator of Gen-4.5 and Aleph video generation models. Credit-based API at $0.01/credit. Also offers image generation and audio models.

2 models
Vision
SA

Sambanova

Serverless

AI inference on custom SN50 chips. OpenAI-compatible API with fast output speeds. GPT OSS 120B at 600+ tok/s.

7 models
OpenAI Compat Streaming Functions
VE

Venice AI

Serverless

Privacy-focused AI inference with no logging. Supports open-source and proprietary models including Claude, GPT, Grok, and open-weight LLMs.

15 models
OpenAI Compat Streaming Embeddings Functions
VO

Voyage AI

Proprietary

Creator of the Voyage embedding and reranking models. Specializes in high-quality text embeddings with domain-specific models for code, law, and finance.

3 models
200M free tokens/month for current models free
OpenAI Compat Embeddings Free Tier
WA

WaveSpeed AI

Serverless

Fast AI inference platform specializing in image and video generation with serverless GPU infrastructure.

16 models
OpenAI Compat Streaming Vision
ZH

Zhipu AI

Proprietary

Creator of the GLM model family. Offers LLMs, vision models, image generation (CogView), and video generation (CogVideoX) via an OpenAI-compatible API at z.ai.

5 models
GLM-4.7-Flash and GLM-4.5-Flash are free free
OpenAI Compat Streaming Functions Vision Free Tier
XA

xAI

Proprietary

Creator of the Grok model family. Offers LLMs with reasoning modes, image generation, and video generation. Batch API available at 50% discount.

3 models
OpenAI Compat Streaming Functions Vision