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Top LLM APIs compared in the United States

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Top LLM APIs compared in the United States
#	Provider	Score	Features	Key facts	Actions
1	BytePlusTop pick Model: pay-per-use	8.7/10	Free tier	Models offered: Dreamina Seedance 2.5, Dola Seedream 5.0 Pro, Dola Seed 2.0 pro, and 2 more Free credits: Free image and video tokens Compliance certifications: ISO 9001, ISO 20000, ISO 22301, and 10 more	Review Compare Visit
2	Zhipu AI (Z.ai)	9.4/10		Input price from: $0.030 to $2.20 Output price from: $0.030 to $8.90 Models offered: GLM-5.3-Flash, GLM-5.3-FlashX, GLM-5.3, and 22 more	Review Compare Visit
3	WaveSpeedAI Model: pay-per-use	8.8/10	Free tier	Input price from: $0.10 to $10 Output price from: $0.50 to $50 Models offered: GPT, Claude, Gemini, and 5 more	Review Compare Visit
4	Azure AI Foundry Pay as you go or try Azure free for up to 30 days	9.6/10		Models offered: GPT-6-astra, GPT-6-luna, GPT-6-sol, and 39 more Largest context window: 1,050,000 Free credits: USD 200 in Azure credits	Review Compare See alternatives
5	Salad Model: Flat monthly subscription or pay per token	9.6/10	Hourly	GPU models: NVIDIA RTX 3060, NVIDIA RTX 3070, NVIDIA RTX 3070 Ti, and 6 more GPU hour from: $0.015 Billing granularity: Per second	Review Compare See alternatives
6	AI/ML API Model: Pay-as-you-go per-model pricing per 1M tokens on a prepaid balance; minimum top-up $20	9.5/10		Input price from: $0.0516 to $41.26 Output price from: $0.138 to $206.31 Models offered: GPT-5.6 Sol, GPT-5.5, GPT-5, and 34 more	Review Compare See alternatives
7	Amazon Web Services AWS Business Support free trial: AWS Business Support at no cost for up to 60 days	9.5/10	Hourly	Input price from: $0.040 Output price from: $0.040 Models offered: Amazon Nova, Amazon Titan, Anthropic Claude, and 18 more	Review Compare See alternatives
8	IBM watsonx Free trial of watsonx.ai (free Toolbox playground): Up to 300,000 foundation model tokens, 20 CUH of machine learning tools and 100 text extraction documents per month at no cost	9.5/10	Free tier	Input price from: $0.0636 to $3.18 Output price from: $0.265 to $9.50 Models offered: Granite-speech-4-1-2b, Granite-4-1-3b, Granite-4-1-8b, and 50 more	Review Compare See alternatives
9	Parasail	9.5/10	Hourly	Input price from: $0.010 to $18.50 Output price from: $0.20 to $15 Models offered: Kimi K3, Kimi K2.7 Code, Kimi K2.6, and 37 more	Review Compare See alternatives

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