Which AI Model Providers tools are open source?

1 of the 20 we track have a public repository: 01.AI Yi (Apache-2.0). Licence matters more than the label — check whether the licence covers the production server as well as the library.

What does an AI Model Providers tool actually cost?

Published monthly prices run from $0.000025 to $29, averaging about $9/month across 10 tools that publish a figure. 7 offer a free tier. The rest quote contact-sales or usage-based pricing, where the sticker price matters less than your usage volume.

Model Providers

Foundation models, inference APIs, and hosted endpoints. The base layer agents call when they need to think. 20 tracked on AgentsIndex, with pricing and licences checked.

20 listed7 free1 open sourceavg $2/month

Reviewed by AgentsIndex · Updated Aug 17, 2026

The AI Model Providers catalog on AgentsIndex lists 20 tools built for this job. Most are built for data scientists, developers, mid-market teams. Entry pricing is at the cheap end of the index — a median of $9/mo against $23.99/mo — so the cost of being wrong is low. At 20 entries this is one of the widest categories here, which makes shortlisting the real work.

AI Model Providers compared

The 10 most-used tools in this category, by published pricing. Everything we know about each one is on its listing.

Tool	Price from	Free tier	Deployment & compliance
DeepSeek	billed per 1M tokens	Not stated	—
AI21 Labs	Free	Yes	Self-Hosted
MiniMax	$19/mo	Yes	Self-Hosted · Open Source
Replicate	$0.000025/mo	Not stated	Open Source
Qwen	$29/mo	Yes	Open Source
OpenAI	$0.75/mo	Not stated	No Training on Your Data · GDPR · SOC 2 · HIPAA
Groq	$0.075/mo	Not stated	BYOK
Cohere	North Custom	Not stated	SOC 2
OpenRouter	Free	Yes	BYOK · GDPR · SOC 2
Together AI	$10/mo	Not stated	SOC 2

Claude API

Claude gateway for developers with SDK-compatible routing and low latency.

AI Model Providers

API

Claude API routes Claude requests with SDK-compatible access, multi-region routing, and usage-based pricing from $0.8.

Microsoft Phi

Model access, routing, and governance inside Microsoft Foundry.

AI Model Providers

Microsoft Phi gives teams model routing, fine-tuning, and agent orchestration in Foundry. Plans start at $19,000/year.

Replicate

AI model inference and fine-tuning through a simple API.

AI Model Providers

Replicate exposes AI models through an API for images, speech, video, and LLMs. Usage pricing starts at CPU (Small) $0.000025/sec.

OpenRouter

One API to compare models, switch providers, and route requests.

AI Model Providers

OpenRouter routes requests across 400+ models with auto-routing, prompt caching, and policy-based routing. Plans run Free, Pay-as-you-go, and Enterprise.

Qwen

AI models for multilingual translation, image editing, and moderation.

AI Model Providers

Qwen provides multilingual translation, image editing, and real-time safety moderation across GitHub, Hugging Face, ModelScope, Qwen Chat, and Qwen API.

Together AI

AI cloud for inference, fine-tuning, and GPU clusters.

AI Model Providers

API

Together AI runs serverless inference, fine-tuning, and GPU clusters for AI teams. Usage-based tiers start at $0.30 for MiniMax M2.7.

MiniMax

Multimodal AI for text, voice, agents, and deployable infrastructure.

AI Model Providers

API

MiniMax turns text, audio, video, and music into outputs with Agent Harness, coding APIs, and private cluster deployment.

01.AI Yi

Enterprise AI models for text, image, and code workloads.

AI Model Providers

Open source

01.AI Yi offers enterprise AI models for text, image, and code tasks, with releases on Hugging Face, ModelScope, and GitHub.

Groq

AI inference platform with OpenAI-compatible APIs and prompt caching.

AI Model Providers

API

Groq serves low-latency AI inference with OpenAI-compatible APIs, prompt caching, and usage tiers starting at $0.05.

Fireworks AI

Open-model inference, tuning, and deployment in one cloud stack.

AI Model Providers

Fireworks AI runs open-model inference, tuning, and deployment with Code Assistance, Search, and Agentic Systems. Starts with $1 in free credits.

Hugging Face

A shared hub for models, datasets, and AI apps.

AI Model Providers

Hugging Face is an AI hub for models, datasets, and apps, with Spaces, Inference Providers, and Inference Endpoints. PRO starts at $9/month.

DeepSeek

AI model platform for chat, mobile, and API workflows.

AI Model Providers

API

DeepSeek offers chat, mobile app, and API access to latest models, with free chat and docs for developers.

Cohere

Enterprise AI for search, agents, and private deployments.

AI Model Providers

Cohere powers enterprise search, agents, and private deployments. Model Vault starts at $2,500/month, with North and Compass on custom plans.

AI21 Labs

Enterprise AI workflows with orchestration, validation, and long-context models.

AI Model Providers

AI21 Labs turns enterprise data into verified outputs with Maestro and Jamba, including 256K context and flexible deployment.

Gemma

Open models for generation, retrieval, and safety checks.

AI Model Providers

API

Gemma offers open models for text, audio, image, retrieval, and safety checks, with deployment across devices and cloud.

Anthropic

Frontier AI for coding, agents, and enterprise workflows.

AI Model Providers

Anthropic powers coding and agents with Claude Opus 4.7, a 1M context window, and access through Claude.ai, Bedrock, Vertex AI, and Foundry.

Mistral AI

Enterprise AI platform for building, deploying, and operating tailored systems.

AI Model Providers

API

Mistral AI combines Agent Runtime, observability, and codebase-aware coding with GitHub, Jira, and Snowflake integrations.

OpenAI

AI platform for chat, voice, and API workflows.

AI Model Providers

API

OpenAI combines ChatGPT, voice, Web search, and Containers. Pricing starts at GPT-5.5 $5.00 / 1M tokens.

RunPod

GPU cloud for AI teams running training, inference, and agents.

AI Model Providers

RunPod provides GPU cloud for AI workloads, with Cloud GPUs, Serverless, and Clusters across 31 global regions. Pods: GPU is custom.

Poe

Compare AI models, generate media, and search the web in one app.

AI Model Providers

Poe lets you compare AI models, generate media, and search the web in one app with GPT-4, Claude, Gemini, Runway, and Ideogram.

Model Providers

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