Best AI API Tools & Software in 2026 (Free & Paid)

AI APIs provide programmable interfaces that allow developers to integrate machine learning capabilities such as natural language processing, computer vision, and speech recognition into their applications. They enable rapid development of AI-powered features, streamline workflows, and are used by software engineers, data scientists, and product teams to build intelligent applications without building models from scratch.

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Crun AI

Crun AI

Crun is a unified AI API platform that lets developers access 100+ top video, image, audio, and LLM models through one endpoint with cost-effective pricing and easy integration.

CN
8.65%
139.9K
5.0
HiAPI

HiAPI

HiAPI is a unified AI API gateway for image, video, and audio generation, providing developers with one endpoint, persistent artifact links, and agent-friendly integration.

US
32.73%
4.6K
3.0
Runway

Runway

Runway is an AI media platform offering Creative, Dev, and Robotics tools built on General World Models for video, image, audio generation, and real-world simulation.

US
25.06%
978.2K
5.0
Lemonade

Lemonade

Lemonade is a local AI runtime for text, images, and speech that is free, private, and omni‑modal, giving users chat, vision, image generation, coding, and speech capabilities on their own hardware.

US
16.56%
115.2K
5.0
智谱AI

智谱AI

智谱AI开放平台 is a leading Chinese AI platform offering powerful LLMs like GLM-5.2 and multimodal tools for coding, vision, and speech, all with generous free tokens for new users.

CN
81.65%
5.5M
5.0
GPTProto

GPTProto

GPTProto is an affordable all-in-one AI API that gives you access to 200+ models for text, image, and video through a single endpoint with pay-as-you-go pricing.

VN
35.79%
7.3K
3.0
Agnes AI

Agnes AI

Agnes AI provides a free omni-modal AI API with top-ranked text, image, and video models for building scalable generative AI applications.

CN
61.27%
1.6M
5.0
OfoxAI

OfoxAI

OfoxAI is a powerful AI model marketplace offering over 100 large language models from top providers with transparent pricing, smart filtering, and a 20% discount on OpenAI models throughout July.

CN
29.58%
205.0K
5.0
AILab Tools

AILab Tools

AILabTools offers a complete suite of free AI photo editing tools and APIs for background removal, colorization, upscaling, and face manipulation, enabling anyone to polish images or integrate smart features into apps.

US
11.19%
1.6M
5.0
PoYo.AI

PoYo.AI

PoYo.ai is a unified AI API platform offering 500+ models for image, video, music, chat, and 3D generation with credit-based pricing, no charge for failed tasks, and simple async workflows.

FR
12.15%
138.6K
5.0
HiAPI

HiAPI

HiAPI delivers a single, production-ready API for generating and persistently storing AI images and videos—so developers ship faster without managing infrastructure.

US
32.73%
4.6K
3.0
StepFun

StepFun

Step AI delivers high-performance, agent-ready large models with native multimodal understanding and open customization to scale real-world AI applications.

CN
71.74%
572.2K
5.0