Which AI to pick
for the job in front of you

Hugging Face

The open-model repository the whole field links to

$9per month

The open model in the news is almost always hosted here: this is the field’s shared warehouse, not somebody’s product

• Open models and datasets
• Host your own model and demo
• GPU rental for training

MiniMax

In-house video, audio and text models in one place

$22per month

Runs its own video, speech and text models at once — a rare case of one team holding the full set, with some weights released openly

• Video, speech and text on in-house models
• Some weights released openly
• An API and an app at once

OpenRouter

One access point to every provider’s models

—on request

Serves every provider’s models through one key with no token markup — you pay the provider’s list price plus a percentage on top-up

• Over 300 models through one key
• No token markup, only a top-up fee
• Automatic failover to a backup provider

fal

Generative models as a fast API

—on request

Specialises in image and video latency — it sells the response time rather than the model, fast enough to work in real time

• Image and video models over an API
• GPU rental by the hour
• Host your own model

Nous Research

Open models the community keeps refining

—on request

Releases weights freely and trains distributed across other people’s machines — the opposite of the closed labs on this list

• Weights released freely
• Distributed training across participants’ machines
• Models run on your own server