Looking for an alternative to OpenAI API? Compare 8 other llm providers & apis tools on pricing, ratings and what each one is actually good at.
Free to explore on AI Master Tools — the independent directory of 654+ AI tools. Search by name or by the job you need done, filter by free, freemium or paid, check ratings and real pricing, and compare any two tools side by side to choose the right one in minutes.
OpenAI API is a llm providers & apis tool (Usage Based). These are the closest 8 alternatives in the same category, ranked by rating.
Mistral AI — Frontier AI in your hands. (Freemium, rated 4.9/5)
Hugging Face — The AI community building the future. (Freemium, rated 4.8/5)
Perplexity API — API access to Perplexity's online LLMs. (Freemium, rated 4.7/5)
DeepSeek — DeepSeek appears in the LLM Providers & APIs section of AI Master Tools' directory, listed as freemium with a 4.7/5 rating. (Freemium, rated 4.7/5)
Cohere — The leading AI platform for enterprise. (Freemium, rated 4.6/5)
Groq — The LPU Inference Engine provider. (Freemium, rated 4.6/5)
Together AI — Cloud platform for training and inferencing AI models. (Freemium, rated 4.6/5)
Mistral Large — AI Master Tools catalogues Mistral Large in the LLM Providers & APIs category — freemium, rated 4.6/5 in this directory. (Freemium, rated 4.6/5)