The tools
worth your time.
Hand-picked, regularly audited. Every entry lists pricing and the last-updated date — no popularity contests.
Editor's picks
Four tools we actually use.
ChatGPT
The default AI assistant for most of the world. GPT-5.5 now powers the free tier.
- Massive feature breadth
- Best voice mode
- Sora video included on Plus
Cursor
An AI-first VS Code fork that has become the default IDE for AI-augmented development.
coding · freemium
Claude
Anthropic's flagship assistant, with the best long-context reasoning in the business.
chat · freemium
Midjourney
The image model with the most distinctive aesthetic — favoured by designers.
image · paid
Browse
By use case.
Chat
15General-purpose assistants. The default tools most people reach for.
Le Chatfreemium
Claudefreemium
Poefreemium
Coding
14IDEs, completions, agents — the tools writing code with you.
Tongyi Lingmafreemium
Devinfreemium
Continuepaid
Image
8Generate, edit, and direct images with words.
Civitaifree
Leonardo.Aifreemium
Stability AIfreemium
Video
9Text-to-video and editing tools that have actually shipped.
Hailuo AIfreemium
Kling AIfreemium
Hailuo AIfreemium
Voice
1TTS, voice cloning, and real-time conversational systems.
ElevenLabsfreemium
Search
2Answer engines and research tools that show their sources.
Perplexityfreemium
Perplexityfreemium
Agents
3Autonomous workers — browsing, scripting, multi-step tasks.
Manuspaid
ChatGLMfreemium
Browser-Usefreemium
Productivity
3Launchers, note-takers, calendar and email assistants.
Gensparkfreemium
Raycastfreemium
Linearfreemium
Design
2UI generation, prototyping and product design.
Lovablefreemium
v0freemium
Automation
1Workflows that wire LLMs into the rest of your stack.
n8nfreemium
Infrastructure
7Hosting, routing, gateways and the rest of the stack.
Hugging Facefreemium
Replicatepaid
Vercel AI SDKfree
APIs
4Direct provider APIs — the raw building blocks.
MiniMaxpaid
You.compaid
OpenAI APIpaid
Tongyi Lingma
Alibaba Cloud's AI coding assistant that provides intelligent code generation, R&D Q&A, and autonomous task execution for developers.
Alibaba Cloud's AI coding assistant that provides intelligent code generation, R&D Q&A, and autonomous task execution for developers.
coding
Freemium
Civitai
The largest community hub for discovering, sharing, and creating AI art models, images, and workflows.
The largest community hub for discovering, sharing, and creating AI art models, images, and workflows.
image
Free
Le Chat
Mistral AI's web-based chat interface for interactive, account-gated conversations.
Mistral AI's web-based chat interface for interactive, account-gated conversations.
chat
Freemium
Claude
A general-purpose AI assistant with advanced reasoning, coding, and agentic tools for individuals and enterprise teams.
A general-purpose AI assistant with advanced reasoning, coding, and agentic tools for individuals and enterprise teams.
chat
Freemium
Poe
Multi-model AI chat platform that lets users chat privately or in groups with thousands of bots including GPT, Claude, and Gemini.
Multi-model AI chat platform that lets users chat privately or in groups with thousands of bots including GPT, Claude, and Gemini.
chat
Freemium
Devin
An autonomous AI software engineer that plans, codes, and ships complex projects by orchestrating fleets of agents inside your existing dev tools.
An autonomous AI software engineer that plans, codes, and ships complex projects by orchestrating fleets of agents inside your existing dev tools.
coding
Freemium
Leonardo.Ai
A creator-first generative AI platform for producing images, art, and video from text prompts.
A creator-first generative AI platform for producing images, art, and video from text prompts.
image
Freemium
Continue
Source-controlled AI checks that enforce engineering standards on every GitHub pull request.
Source-controlled AI checks that enforce engineering standards on every GitHub pull request.
coding
Paid
Stability AI
Enterprise creative production platform powered by generative AI for marketing, gaming, and entertainment teams.
Enterprise creative production platform powered by generative AI for marketing, gaming, and entertainment teams.
image
Freemium
ERNIE
Baidu's multimodal AI assistant combining reasoning, writing, coding, and image generation for Chinese and global users.
Baidu's multimodal AI assistant combining reasoning, writing, coding, and image generation for Chinese and global users.
chat
Freemium
Hailuo AI
Hailuo AI is a text-and-image-to-video generator with templates, Light Studio, and per-second pricing for short-form content creators.
Hailuo AI is a text-and-image-to-video generator with templates, Light Studio, and per-second pricing for short-form content creators.
video
Freemium
Kling AI
An all-in-one AI creative studio that generates cinematic 2K/4K images and consistent character-driven videos for filmmakers and digital artists.
An all-in-one AI creative studio that generates cinematic 2K/4K images and consistent character-driven videos for filmmakers and digital artists.
video
Freemium
Genspark
An all-in-one AI workspace bundling chat, slides, sheets, docs, image, video, music, and audio generation with Microsoft 365 plugins for teams and enterprises.
An all-in-one AI workspace bundling chat, slides, sheets, docs, image, video, music, and audio generation with Microsoft 365 plugins for teams and enterprises.
productivity
Freemium
Cursor
AI-native IDE and autonomous coding agent that turns ideas into production code for developers and enterprise teams.
AI-native IDE and autonomous coding agent that turns ideas into production code for developers and enterprise teams.
coding
Freemium
Manus
An autonomous AI agent for building websites, slides, apps, and research, now part of Meta.
An autonomous AI agent for building websites, slides, apps, and research, now part of Meta.
agents
Paid
Hailuo AI
Chinese AI video platform that turns text and photos into short films for creators and marketers.
Chinese AI video platform that turns text and photos into short films for creators and marketers.
video
Freemium
Yuanbao
Tencent’s all-in-one AI assistant with smart search, deep thinking, and support for 30+ file formats.
Tencent’s all-in-one AI assistant with smart search, deep thinking, and support for 30+ file formats.
chat
Free
Vidu AI
All-in-one AI image and video creation platform for creators, marketers, and animators who need fast, reference-consistent video generation.
All-in-one AI image and video creation platform for creators, marketers, and animators who need fast, reference-consistent video generation.
video
Freemium
Cline
Open-source AI coding assistant for VS Code and CLI with bring-your-own-key inference pricing.
Open-source AI coding assistant for VS Code and CLI with bring-your-own-key inference pricing.
coding
Freemium
Moonshot AI
Research-driven AI lab offering the Kimi assistant for coding, analysis, slides, and multimodal research with API access.
Research-driven AI lab offering the Kimi assistant for coding, analysis, slides, and multimodal research with API access.
chat
Freemium
Aider
AI pair programming in your terminal for developers who want deep codebase awareness and Git-native workflows.
AI pair programming in your terminal for developers who want deep codebase awareness and Git-native workflows.
coding
Free
ChatGLM
A Chinese-native AI assistant platform powered by the GLM-5.1 agentic model, offering long-running autonomous agents, multimodal tools, and team collaboration via WeChat and Feishu.
A Chinese-native AI assistant platform powered by the GLM-5.1 agentic model, offering long-running autonomous agents, multimodal tools, and team collaboration via WeChat and Feishu.
agents
Freemium
MiniMax
A full-stack multimodal AI platform offering text, video, voice, music, and agent capabilities for developers and creators.
A full-stack multimodal AI platform offering text, video, voice, music, and agent capabilities for developers and creators.
api
Paid
Wan
Alibaba Cloud's open-source AI suite for generating and editing images and videos with precise control over text, color, and characters.
Alibaba Cloud's open-source AI suite for generating and editing images and videos with precise control over text, color, and characters.
video
Paid
DeepSeek
Open-weight AI models and a free chatbot for reasoning, coding, and general assistance.
Open-weight AI models and a free chatbot for reasoning, coding, and general assistance.
chat
Freemium
Qwen
An open ecosystem of multilingual foundation models spanning chat, image generation, translation, and AI safety guardrails.
An open ecosystem of multilingual foundation models spanning chat, image generation, translation, and AI safety guardrails.
chat
Freemium
Google Gemini
Google's personal AI assistant for writing, planning, researching, and learning across web and mobile.
Google's personal AI assistant for writing, planning, researching, and learning across web and mobile.
chat
Freemium
Perplexity
An AI answer engine with live web search and agentic computer use for researchers, founders, and knowledge workers.
An AI answer engine with live web search and agentic computer use for researchers, founders, and knowledge workers.
search
Freemium
Grok
A fast, real-time AI chatbot built by xAI for users who want unfiltered answers with live web access.
A fast, real-time AI chatbot built by xAI for users who want unfiltered answers with live web access.
chat
Freemium
Microsoft Copilot
Microsoft’s AI companion for chatting, creating images, drafting text, and running code in your browser.
Microsoft’s AI companion for chatting, creating images, drafting text, and running code in your browser.
chat
Freemium
You.com
Real-time web search APIs that ground AI agents and LLMs with accurate, cited answers from live sources.
Real-time web search APIs that ground AI agents and LLMs with accurate, cited answers from live sources.
api
Paid
ChatGPT
OpenAI's flagship AI chatbot and productivity platform offering reasoning, coding, image generation, and enterprise integrations for individuals and teams.
OpenAI's flagship AI chatbot and productivity platform offering reasoning, coding, image generation, and enterprise integrations for individuals and teams.
chat
Freemium
Windsurf
An AI-native coding editor that pairs a local agent, Cascade, with a cloud agent, Devin, to ship code faster.
An AI-native coding editor that pairs a local agent, Cascade, with a cloud agent, Devin, to ship code faster.
coding
Freemium
Tabnine
AI coding platform that embeds enterprise context into secure, governed developer workflows for mission-critical engineering teams.
AI coding platform that embeds enterprise context into secure, governed developer workflows for mission-critical engineering teams.
coding
Freemium
Bolt
AI-powered builder that turns chat prompts into full-stack websites, apps, and prototypes with built-in hosting and databases.
AI-powered builder that turns chat prompts into full-stack websites, apps, and prototypes with built-in hosting and databases.
coding
Freemium
Replit
An AI-powered coding platform that lets individuals and teams build, deploy, and scale full-stack apps from natural-language prompts.
An AI-powered coding platform that lets individuals and teams build, deploy, and scale full-stack apps from natural-language prompts.
coding
Freemium
Claude Code
Anthropic's agentic AI coding agent that builds, debugs, and ships from your terminal, IDE, Slack, or the web.
Anthropic's agentic AI coding agent that builds, debugs, and ships from your terminal, IDE, Slack, or the web.
coding
Paid
Midjourney
A community-funded research lab building beautiful AI image and video models with an eye toward human flourishing and future hardware.
A community-funded research lab building beautiful AI image and video models with an eye toward human flourishing and future hardware.
image
Paid
Sora
OpenAI’s discontinued AI video generation platform with web, app, and API access.
OpenAI’s discontinued AI video generation platform with web, app, and API access.
video
Freemium
Krea
All-in-one creative AI suite for generating, editing, and upscaling images, video, and 3D content for designers, marketers, and creative teams.
All-in-one creative AI suite for generating, editing, and upscaling images, video, and 3D content for designers, marketers, and creative teams.
image
Freemium
Runway
Generative AI platform for cinematic video production, world simulation, and real-time interactive characters.
Generative AI platform for cinematic video production, world simulation, and real-time interactive characters.
video
Freemium
Bing Image Creator
Microsoft's free AI image and video generator for casual creators who want quick visuals, stickers, and short clips from text prompts.
Microsoft's free AI image and video generator for casual creators who want quick visuals, stickers, and short clips from text prompts.
image
Free
Pika
AI video generation and editing platform that turns images and text into stylized clips, featuring hyper-real lip-sync and near real-time rendering.
AI video generation and editing platform that turns images and text into stylized clips, featuring hyper-real lip-sync and near real-time rendering.
video
Freemium
Ideogram
AI image generation platform for designers and marketers that renders legible text, maintains character consistency, and supports custom brand models.
AI image generation platform for designers and marketers that renders legible text, maintains character consistency, and supports custom brand models.
image
Freemium
GitHub Copilot
AI pair programmer and workflow accelerator for developers and engineering teams, from IDE autocomplete to enterprise agents.
AI pair programmer and workflow accelerator for developers and engineering teams, from IDE autocomplete to enterprise agents.
coding
Freemium
OpenAI API
The default AI API — broad model selection, including GPT-5.5 and Sora.
The default AI API — broad model selection, including GPT-5.5 and Sora.
api
Paid
ChatGPTFeatured
The default AI assistant for most of the world. GPT-5.5 now powers the free tier.
The default AI assistant for most of the world. GPT-5.5 now powers the free tier.
chat
Freemium
Anthropic API
Direct API access to Claude — the platform that powers most AI dev tooling.
Direct API access to Claude — the platform that powers most AI dev tooling.
api
Paid
Mistral
European AI lab with the best open-weights MoE models on the market.
European AI lab with the best open-weights MoE models on the market.
chat
Freemium
Hugging Face
The open-source AI hub — models, datasets, and now a zero-shot router.
The open-source AI hub — models, datasets, and now a zero-shot router.
infrastructure
Freemium
Perplexity
An AI-powered answer engine. Best when you want sources, not just text.
An AI-powered answer engine. Best when you want sources, not just text.
search
Freemium
CursorFeatured
An AI-first VS Code fork that has become the default IDE for AI-augmented development.
An AI-first VS Code fork that has become the default IDE for AI-augmented development.
coding
Freemium
ClaudeFeatured
Anthropic's flagship assistant, with the best long-context reasoning in the business.
Anthropic's flagship assistant, with the best long-context reasoning in the business.
chat
Freemium
Replicate
Run any open model with a single API call, now with sub-100ms cold start.
Run any open model with a single API call, now with sub-100ms cold start.
infrastructure
Paid
Raycast
The Spotlight replacement with AI commands and a Claude-powered chat baked in.
The Spotlight replacement with AI commands and a Claude-powered chat baked in.
productivity
Freemium
GitHub Copilot
The IDE assistant that started it all — now bundling Claude Code on Pro.
The IDE assistant that started it all — now bundling Claude Code on Pro.
coding
Paid
ElevenLabs
The voice model leader — both for narration and for real-time conversation.
The voice model leader — both for narration and for real-time conversation.
voice
Freemium
MidjourneyFeatured
The image model with the most distinctive aesthetic — favoured by designers.
The image model with the most distinctive aesthetic — favoured by designers.
image
Paid
Vercel AI SDK
The most ergonomic TypeScript SDK for building with LLMs — now with built-in MCP.
The most ergonomic TypeScript SDK for building with LLMs — now with built-in MCP.
infrastructure
Free
Lovable
Build full-stack apps by chatting — from idea to deployed code.
Build full-stack apps by chatting — from idea to deployed code.
design
Freemium
Linear
The fastest issue tracker — now with GA AI agents that triage, draft and route work.
The fastest issue tracker — now with GA AI agents that triage, draft and route work.
productivity
Freemium
Runway
Pro-grade AI video generation and editing for creators.
Pro-grade AI video generation and editing for creators.
video
Freemium
n8n
Open-source workflow automation with first-class LLM nodes.
Open-source workflow automation with first-class LLM nodes.
automation
Freemium
Groq
The fastest inference cloud — by an order of magnitude — using custom LPU silicon.
The fastest inference cloud — by an order of magnitude — using custom LPU silicon.
infrastructure
Freemium
v0
Vercel's generative UI tool — design, prototype, and ship React/Tailwind from a prompt.
Vercel's generative UI tool — design, prototype, and ship React/Tailwind from a prompt.
design
Freemium
OpenRouterFeatured
One API key for 200+ models, with automatic cost-routing across providers.
One API key for 200+ models, with automatic cost-routing across providers.
infrastructure
Freemium
Supabase
The open-source Firebase, now with first-class pgvector + Iceberg integration.
The open-source Firebase, now with first-class pgvector + Iceberg integration.
infrastructure
Freemium
Modal
Run Python code in the cloud — including GPU workloads — with a function decorator.
Run Python code in the cloud — including GPU workloads — with a function decorator.
infrastructure
Paid
Browser-Use
Open-source agentic browsing library. 1.0 stable with first-class Playwright support.
Open-source agentic browsing library. 1.0 stable with first-class Playwright support.
agents
Freemium