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title: "Novita AI alternatives"
canonical: "https://router.xark.io/alternatives/novita"
description: "Alternatives to Novita AI for teams that want one unambiguous published rate, and why per-second video billing is a real reason to stay."
section: "alternatives"
updated: "2026-09-02"
source: "https://router.xark.io/alternatives/novita.md"
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# Novita AI alternatives

Novita is broad: 200+ models, six product surfaces, and small-model rates at the market floor. The reasons people look elsewhere are about certainty rather than coverage — their homepage and pricing page disagree on DeepSeek V4 Pro, the headline saving claim is unsourced, and per-token serverless billing shares an account with hourly GPU products.

## Why people leave

- Their homepage and pricing page disagree on DeepSeek V4 Pro — $1.74/$3.48 on one, $1.60/$3.20 on the other — so the rate you will actually be billed depends on which page you read.
- The "up to 50% less than major cloud providers" claim is unsourced and not broken out per model, so the saving cannot be checked against any particular workload.
- Six product surfaces share one account — serverless, dedicated endpoints, agent sandbox, GPU instances, serverless GPU and bare metal — with per-token serverless billing sitting alongside hourly GPU products on the same invoice.

## The options

| Option | Best for | Trade-off |
| --- | --- | --- |
| SiliconFlow | The closest like-for-like: one complete published rate card, cached-input pricing per model, 200+ optimised LLMs and multimodal models across text, image, video and audio, and the same Chinese open-weight lineup — DeepSeek, Qwen, GLM, Kimi and MiniMax all first-class and all priced publicly, with GLM-5 at $0.95/$2.55 and Kimi-K2.5 at $0.45/$2.25 per 1M. $1 in free credits, no minimum commitment. | Unrounded figures like $1.50162 and $1.302 indicate a rate card converted from CNY, so the unit cost moves with the exchange rate — a different kind of price uncertainty rather than none. Video is a flat $0.29 per video regardless of length or resolution, and billing is pay-as-you-go with optional monthly limits rather than a hard ceiling. |
| AI Token Router | One number per model from one source, with the model's official rate printed beside it so the saving is stated rather than implied. One product surface — prepaid credits, one key, seven OpenAI-compatible endpoints — and a balance that is a hard ceiling rather than a running tab. | 24 catalogued models against their 200+, with seven callable today. We bill every video clip at a fixed five-second duration during rollout where Novita bills Kling v3.0 on actual output length, and on small models their rates are at the market floor — Llama 3.1 8B at $0.02/$0.05 per 1M is very hard to beat. We also have no answer at all when serverless stops being enough: no sandboxes, no GPU instances, no bare metal. |
| DeepInfra | Staying at the price floor without the product sprawl. DeepInfra runs its own GPU fleet and is frequently the lowest published rate on open text models, across a broad open-model catalogue. | Video support is limited, which is a real loss coming from a provider that covers five modalities. They publish their own rate only, spending controls are account-level rather than per key, and the time to add a newly released model varies. |
| Replicate | Keeping the long tail. Thousands of community-contributed models, the deepest open-weight image and video catalogue on this list, new releases runnable within days, Cog for your own weights, and Wan 2.1 billed on actual output length at $0.09/sec (480p) and $0.25/sec (720p). | Many models bill by GPU-seconds of runtime ($0.000025–$0.0112/sec), so identical requests cost different amounts. The prediction API is its own shape rather than OpenAI-compatible, and text pricing is not competitive — DeepSeek-R1 is listed at $3.75 per 1M input tokens. |

## When to stay

Stay if you use more than the serverless API. Novita gives you somewhere to go when per-token inference stops being the right shape — dedicated endpoints, an agent sandbox, GPU instances, serverless GPU and bare metal on one account — and we have no answer to that at all. Their small-model text pricing is at the market floor, and if you generate a lot of short video clips their per-second billing on actual output length is straightforwardly better than our fixed five-second duration. The price-page inconsistency is worth an email to their support rather than a migration, if everything else fits.

## Migrating

The serverless half moves like any OpenAI-compatible migration: base URL, key, model id. What does not move is everything else on the account. Dedicated endpoints, agent sandboxes, GPU instances and bare metal have no equivalent on a token-only API, so inventory what you are actually using before you plan a cutover — a migration that quietly strands a GPU instance is worse than staying. If video is part of the workload, check the billing unit rather than the rate: actual-length billing and fixed-duration billing produce very different totals for short clips even at similar per-second numbers.

## Questions

### Which Novita alternative has a comparable model count?

SiliconFlow, with 200+ optimised LLMs and multimodal models across text, image, video and audio, and Replicate, with thousands of community-contributed models. Our catalogue is 24 with seven callable today — narrower by design, and the wrong answer if breadth is why you were there.

### How do I get a rate I can rely on?

Look for one published source per model. We print one rate per model with the model publisher's official rate beside it, from one page. SiliconFlow publishes a complete rate card including cached input. That is not the same as being cheapest — where a rival is lower on a model, it stays lower.

### What about video billing?

Novita's per-second billing on actual output length for Kling v3.0, at $0.084–$0.168 per second, is better than our fixed five-second duration for short clips, and Replicate bills Wan 2.1 the same way at $0.09/sec (480p) and $0.25/sec (720p). SiliconFlow charges a flat $0.29 per video regardless of length or resolution. If short clips are most of your usage, this is a reason to stay put.

### Can I keep GPU instances and move only inference?

You can, but you will be running two vendors and two bills. Hyperbolic sells on-demand H100 / H200 / B200 with no quota limits if you want the GPU half elsewhere as well — though note their pricing and inference pages both return 404 and no per-token rate card is published on their domain.

[Head to head: AI Token Router vs Novita AI](https://router.xark.io/compare/novita.md)