Lambda
Lambda
✓ 22 Aug 2026
On-demand GPU instances billed by the minute with no egress fees, from a company that also builds the hardware.
AI tools
Every product in the index, with what each plan costs and when it was last verified.
Every price in this index was checked against its source 6 days ago,
on 17 Aug 2026. Figures are USD, monthly billing, individual plans.
Where annual billing is cheaper, the annual rate is shown beside the plan. Credit-metered
products are marked, because on those the sticker price is not what you end up paying.
96 products
editorially ranked — placement is never sold
Modal
Modal
✓ 17 Aug 2026
Serverless GPUs for your own inference and training jobs, billed per second with a free starter allowance.
Ollama
Ollama
✓ 17 Aug 2026
Run open models locally on your own machine.
OpenRouter
OpenRouter
✓ 17 Aug 2026
One API key, hundreds of models, automatic failover.
Replicate
Replicate
✓ 17 Aug 2026
Run thousands of community models by the second — image, video, audio, text.
RunPod
RunPod
✓ 22 Aug 2026
Per-second GPU rental across Community and Secure Cloud tiers, plus serverless inference workers.
Together AI
Together
✓ 17 Aug 2026
Fast serverless inference and fine-tuning for open-weight models, billed per token.
Command
Cohere
✓ 17 Aug 2026
Enterprise-leaning models built for RAG and search, with open weights released for research use.
DeepSeek
DeepSeek
✓ 17 Aug 2026
Free chat with open-weight reasoning models, and the cheapest serious API anywhere — though DeepSeek announced a substantial price rise in August 2026.
Doubao
ByteDance
✓ 17 Aug 2026
China's most-used consumer assistant, with aggressive metered pricing via Volcano Engine.
Ernie Bot
Baidu
✓ 17 Aug 2026
Baidu's assistant, tied into its search and maps ecosystem.
Hugging Face
Hugging Face
✓ 22 Aug 2026
Where open weights live.
Jamba
AI21 Labs
✓ 17 Aug 2026
Hybrid architecture built for very long documents and grounded answers.
Kimi
Moonshot AI
✓ 17 Aug 2026
Million-token context and strong agentic browsing, with tiers named after tempo markings.
Llama
Meta
✓ 17 Aug 2026
Open weights you host yourself.
MiniMax
MiniMax
✓ 17 Aug 2026
Text, voice and video models under one roof, with open-weight text releases and a pay-as-you-go developer platform.
Qwen Chat
Alibaba
✓ 17 Aug 2026
The most widely forked open-weight family.
Yuanbao
Tencent
✓ 17 Aug 2026
Hunyuan models wrapped in a WeChat-native assistant.
Z.ai GLM
Zhipu AI
✓ 17 Aug 2026
GLM sold as a coding plan that heavily undercuts Western agents.
Consensus
Consensus
✓ 17 Aug 2026
Searches peer-reviewed studies and shows where the evidence leans.
Elicit
Elicit
✓ 17 Aug 2026
Systematic literature review across 138M papers — extracts findings into comparison tables with PRISMA support.
Manus
Butterfly Effect
✓ 17 Aug 2026
General agent that plans, browses and returns finished deliverables.
NotebookLM
Google
✓ 17 Aug 2026
Upload your sources, get grounded answers and audio overviews.
Perplexity
Perplexity
✓ 17 Aug 2026
Answer engine with citations on everything, and a model picker so you choose who answers each query.