Model APIs, gateways, evals, vector DBs and observability for founders building AI products.
15 products, ranked by community upvotes. Every listing includes a note from its founder and real pricing.
Why built: To make deploying frontend apps (especially Next.js) as simple as git push, with no manual server, CDN, or CI setup. Best for: Frontend devs and teams using Next.js/React, and anyone who wants zero-config deploys with instant preview URLs per branch/PR. What…
Pricing: Hobby: $0/mo; Pro: $20/mo + usage; Enterprise: custom pricing
XCrawl gives developers one API for getting web data into AI apps. Scrape a URL into Markdown, JSON, HTML or a screenshot; crawl a site with depth and scope rules; map every URL on a domain; or get structured search results from Google, Bing and other engines. SDKs for Python…
Pricing: Freemium: 1,000 free credits on signup, no card; paid plans for more volume
EmpirioLabs provides specialized AI model hosting for open, proprietary and custom stacks: hosted open models, optimized proprietary endpoints, and turnkey deployment to real users.
Pricing: Pay-as-you-go from $0; Lite plan $19.90/month with weekly token allowances
Inline listing: a row among the products, from $7 for 7 days (Black Friday: 50% off).
ImgAPI is an image generation and editing API for developers and SaaS teams. Use GPT Image, Nano Banana and Seedream through one API key with prepaid USD credits. Generate from text prompts or reference images, then poll the task ID to retrieve results. API costs depend on the…
Pricing: Paid, usage-based. Prepaid USD credits; price varies by model and settings.
An independent third-party host for Jev, a decision model that returns typed labels and probabilities (choice, score, yes/no) for classify, route and moderate tasks. 5 free runs; prepaid packs from $5. Not TypeSafe official.
Pricing: 5 free runs; prepaid packs from $5
RouteMux is a reliability-first AI gateway. One API key reaches models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, xAI, DeepSeek, Qwen and more through the SDK you already use. Requests fail over across redundant routes, and you only pay for the ones that succeed. Pay-as-you-go pricing…
Pricing: Pay-as-you-go, starting at $10
AICost is an independent price desk for AI models, built around one question: what will this actually cost me? It tracks input, output and cache rates per million tokens for 300+ models from 30+ providers, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Mistral, DeepSeek, Qwen and Kimi.…
Pricing: Free tools and transparent AI model pricing comparisons.
One server instead of ten tabs Crypto data is spread over a dozen sites, each with its own API, key and names for the same project. AlphaGrowth pulls it together, matches every project to one slug and serves it all through one MCP server, including the funding rounds, token…
Self-hosted Chrome for connected AI agents via MCP/REST, with live viewing, human takeover, encrypted profiles, isolated sessions, file transfers and recordings. The connected agent supplies reasoning. Free AGPL-3.0-only software; requires your Linux x86-64 server, systemd and…
Pricing: Free AGPL-3.0-only; own Linux/Docker server and agent/model required. Their costs are separate.
AIReiter is a unified AI API platform for image, video, and text generation. Developers and teams can access leading image, video, and language models—including GPT-Image-2, FLUX.2 Pro, Seedream 5.0 Pro, Kling 3.0, Grok Imagine, Claude, and Kimi—through one API key, one billing…
Pricing: Freemium / Pay-as-you-go
Anthropic builds the Claude models and offers them through the Claude apps and a developer API with tools such as code execution. A solo founder can use the API to add Claude to a product, or use Claude directly for writing and coding. The API is billed per million tokens, and…
Pricing: API billed per million tokens; Claude Free, Pro €15/month billed annually
OpenRouter gives you a single API and key for hundreds of models, with automatic fallbacks when a provider goes down and routing by price or uptime. A solo founder can compare and switch models without changing integration code. It has 25+ free models, charges a 5.5% platform…
Pricing: Free tier (25+ free models); pay as you go with a 5.5% platform fee
OpenAI's API gives developers access to its language models for text, coding and agents, priced per token with different rates for standard, batch and faster processing modes. A solo founder adding an AI feature can start with a small model and move up as usage grows. The…
Pricing: Pay as you go per token; rates vary by model and processing mode
Hugging Face hosts a large library of open models, datasets and demo apps called Spaces, and offers a unified API to run models from many inference providers. A solo founder can find a model, try it in the browser and call it from code. You can use the Hub for free, PRO is $9 a…
Pricing: Free Hub; PRO $9/month, Team $20/user/month
Langfuse records traces of every LLM call, manages prompts and runs evaluations so you can see what your AI app does in production. A solo founder building an AI product can start on the free Hobby plan or self-host the open source code. Core is $29 a month, and you can add your…
Pricing: Free Hobby plan (50k units/month); Core $29/month; self-hosting available
