LLM API · for Next.js

LLM API for Next.js

Among 292 makers' products we track that are built with Next.js, here's what they chose for LLM API — each counted from a live-product source.

Which provider, and whether to go through a gateway. Going direct to a provider gets its newest models and features first and the lowest latency; a gateway gives you one key and one bill for hundreds of models, with fallbacks when a provider is down, for a small markup or a proxy you run. The code that calls the model — an AI SDK or agent framework — is its own decision.

What makers on Next.js chose

Counts are live products with a source, not market share; a product using two options counts in both.

OpenAI APIModel provider

llms.txtIn Lovable, Replit

Best forThe broadest model lineup — text, images, speech, embeddings — and the largest ecosystem.

Trade-offFrequent model and API changes to keep up with, and no option to run its hosted models elsewhere.

214 of the 292 Next.js products here

ClaudeModel provider

llms.txtIn Lovable, Replit

Best forCoding, long documents and agent-style tool use.

Trade-offNo image generation or embedding models of its own, so those need a second provider.

122 of the 292 Next.js products here

Gemini APIModel provider

In Lovable, Replit

Best forVery long context and multimodal input, with a free tier to start.

Trade-offFree-tier prompts may be used to improve Google's products, so paid tier is the one for user data.

40 of the 292 Next.js products here · free tier

GroqOpen models, hosted

Best forVery low-latency inference on open models, for real-time features.

Trade-offOnly the open models it chooses to host, and no frontier closed models.

20 of the 292 Next.js products here · free tier

OpenRouterGateway (many providers, one API)

llms.txtIn Replit

Best forTrying many models from many providers with one API key and one bill, without opening an account at each.

Trade-offA fee on top of provider prices, and your traffic and data pass through a third party.

17 of the 292 Next.js products here · free tier

Mistral AIModel provider

llms.txtIn Replit

Best forA European provider whose API covers chat, coding, OCR and speech models.

Trade-offA smaller ecosystem of third-party integrations than the largest providers.

5 of the 292 Next.js products here · free tier

DeepSeekModel provider

Best forLow per-token prices on strong reasoning and coding models, with OpenAI- and Anthropic-format endpoints.

Trade-offServed from China, which matters for some customers' data requirements; peak-hour prices are double off-peak.

5 of the 292 Next.js products here

Azure OpenAIThrough your cloud

MCP

Best forOpenAI models inside an Azure account, with regional and EU/US data-zone deployments.

Trade-offMore setup than the OpenAI API (Azure resources, deployments per model), and new models can arrive later.

4 of the 292 Next.js products here

LiteLLMGateway (many providers, one API)

llms.txt MCP

Best forRunning your own OpenAI-compatible proxy in front of your own provider keys, with retries, routing and per-key budgets.

Trade-offYou deploy, monitor and upgrade it yourself; SSO and audit logs are in the paid enterprise tier.

3 of the 292 Next.js products here · free tier · open source

Together AIOpen models, hosted

Best forPer-token access to a wide catalog of open-weight models, with fine-tuning and dedicated GPUs from the same vendor.

Trade-offSeveral billing models to compare — per token, per GPU-hour, dedicated and reserved — and only the models it chooses to host.

3 of the 292 Next.js products here

Grok APIModel provider

llms.txtIn v0

Best forGrok models with built-in web and X search, plus image, video and voice APIs.

Trade-offReal-time data only arrives when you enable the search tools, which are billed as tool calls.

2 of the 292 Next.js products here

Vertex AIThrough your cloud

Best forGemini and partner models such as Claude on Google Cloud, with its regions, IAM and billing.

Trade-offMore setup than the Gemini API (a Cloud project, service accounts, regions), for the same models.

2 of the 292 Next.js products here

Fireworks AIOpen models, hosted

In Lovable

Best forServerless and dedicated inference on popular open-weight models, with fine-tuning and batch jobs at half the serverless price.

Trade-offKeeping requests in the US means choosing US-only model variants priced at 1.5× standard, and priority or fast variants cost more again.

2 of the 292 Next.js products here

MiniMaxModel provider

Best forLow per-token prices on open-weight coding and agent models, with speech, image, video and music models in the same account.

Trade-offA smaller ecosystem of integrations and guides than the largest providers; its open-weight models need multi-GPU servers if you want to self-host them.

1 of the 292 Next.js products here

DeepInfraOpen models, hosted

Best forLow per-token prices on a large catalog of open-weight models, plus embeddings, speech and image models, behind an OpenAI-compatible API.

Trade-offNo free tier — a card or prepaid balance comes first — and a default cap of 200 concurrent requests per model until you ask for more.

1 of the 292 Next.js products here