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70 tools we have actually run, each with a signed verdict and named limitations. No pay-to-list — every entry is a pull request you can audit.

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70 / 70 signals

Aider

Steady momentum

Open-source pair programming in the terminal — git-native, works with any model.

coding

free · free, open source; bring your own API key

OSSAPIFREE TIER

shipverified 2026-08-15

Anthropic API

Blueshift — gaining momentum

Claude models direct — the practitioner's pick for coding and long-form text.

models-api

paid · Sonnet $3/1M input, $15/1M output; Haiku from $0.80/1M input

API

shipverified 2026-08-15

ChatGPTfeatured

Steady momentum

The general-purpose AI assistant that set the category baseline.

writing

freemium · free tier; Plus $20/mo

FREE TIER

shipverified 2026-08-15

Claude

Blueshift — gaining momentum

Anthropic's assistant — the practitioner's favorite for prose and long documents.

writing

freemium · free tier; Pro $20/mo

FREE TIER

shipverified 2026-08-15

Claude Codefeatured

Blueshift — gaining momentum

Anthropic's terminal agent that edits, runs and tests code in your repo.

coding

paid · included in Claude Pro from $20/mo; API pay-per-token

API

shipverified 2026-08-15

Cohere

Steady momentum

Enterprise-focused models — Command generation plus best-in-class Rerank.

models-api

freemium · free trial keys; pay-as-you-go from $0.50/1M input tokens

APIFREE TIER

situationalverified 2026-08-15

Consensus

Steady momentum

Scientific search engine that answers questions with evidence from papers.

data

freemium · free tier; Premium from $10/mo

FREE TIER

situationalverified 2026-08-15

Continue

Steady momentum

Open-source AI autopilot for VS Code and JetBrains — completions, chat, agents.

coding

freemium · free, open source; paid Hub plans for teams

OSSAPIFREE TIER

situationalverified 2026-08-15

CrewAI

Steady momentum

Python framework for multi-agent crews — roles, tasks and processes.

agents

freemium · open source free; paid enterprise cloud

OSSAPIFREE TIER

shipverified 2026-08-15

Cursorfeatured

Blueshift — gaining momentum

AI-first code editor (VS Code fork) with agent mode and inline edits.

coding

freemium · from $20/mo (Pro)

FREE TIER

shipverified 2026-08-15

DALL-E 3

Redshift — losing momentum

OpenAI's earlier image model, still reachable via ChatGPT and the API.

image

paid · via ChatGPT Plus $20/mo; API from $0.04/image

API

skipverified 2026-08-15

Deepgram

Steady momentum

Speech-to-text API built for developers — fast, cheap, real-time.

audio

freemium · $200 free credits; then from ~$0.0043/min (Nova models)

APIFREE TIER

shipverified 2026-08-15

DeepSeek API

Blueshift — gaining momentum

Open-weights lab with frontier-ish reasoning at disruptive prices.

models-api

paid · deepseek-chat $0.27/1M input (cache miss), $1.10/1M output

API

situationalverified 2026-08-15

ElevenLabsfeatured

Blueshift — gaining momentum

The reference standard for AI voice — TTS, cloning, dubbing and voice agents.

audio

freemium · free tier (10k credits/mo); Starter $6/mo

APIFREE TIER

shipverified 2026-08-15

Elicit

Steady momentum

AI research assistant that extracts structured data from academic papers.

data

freemium · free tier; Plus from $10/mo

FREE TIER

situationalverified 2026-08-15

Fireflies.ai

Steady momentum

Meeting bot that records, transcribes and summarizes across platforms.

productivity

freemium · free tier; Pro from $10/seat/mo (annual)

APIFREE TIER

skipverified 2026-08-15

Fireworks AI

Steady momentum

Fast inference platform for open models — serverless and on-demand GPUs.

dev-infra

freemium · free credits; pay-per-token from ~$0.10/1M (small models)

APIFREE TIER

situationalverified 2026-08-15

FLUX (Black Forest Labs)

Blueshift — gaining momentum

Open-weights image models from the original Stable Diffusion team.

image

freemium · API from $0.04/image (FLUX1.1 pro); dev/schnell weights free

OSSAPIFREE TIER

shipverified 2026-08-15

GitHub Copilot

Steady momentum

AI completions, chat and agents inside VS Code and JetBrains, from GitHub.

coding

freemium · free tier; Pro $10/mo

FREE TIER

shipverified 2026-08-15

Google AI Studio / Gemini API

Blueshift — gaining momentum

Gemini API with a real free tier — huge context, multimodal, generous limits.

models-api

freemium · free tier; Gemini 2.5 Pro from $1.25/1M input

APIFREE TIER

shipverified 2026-08-15

Grammarly

Steady momentum

Writing assistant for grammar, tone and clarity, everywhere you type.

writing

freemium · free tier; Premium $12/mo (annual)

FREE TIER

situationalverified 2026-08-15

Granola

Blueshift — gaining momentum

AI notepad for meetings — your rough notes enhanced, no bot in the call.

productivity

freemium · free tier; Business from ~$14/user/mo

FREE TIER

shipverified 2026-08-15

Groq

Blueshift — gaining momentum

Ultra-fast inference on custom LPU hardware — open models at 500+ tok/s.

dev-infra

freemium · free tier; from $0.05/1M tokens (small models)

APIFREE TIER

shipverified 2026-08-15

HeyGen

Steady momentum

AI avatar videos — talking presenters, translation and lip-sync dubbing.

video

freemium · free (3 videos/mo); Creator $29/mo

APIFREE TIER

situationalverified 2026-08-15

Hugging Face

Steady momentum

The GitHub of AI — models, datasets, Spaces and inference endpoints.

dev-infra

freemium · free; PRO $9/mo; inference pay-as-you-go

APIFREE TIER

shipverified 2026-08-15

Ideogram

Steady momentum

Image generator with the strongest text-in-image rendering.

image

freemium · free tier; from $8/mo (Plus)

APIFREE TIER

situationalverified 2026-08-15

Jasper

Redshift — losing momentum

Marketing-focused AI writing platform for teams and brand voice.

writing

paid · Pro $69/seat/mo or $59/seat/mo billed yearly

API

skipverified 2026-08-15

Kling AI

Blueshift — gaining momentum

Kuaishou's video model — strong motion and physics at aggressive prices.

video

freemium · free daily credits; from $10/mo (Standard)

APIFREE TIER

shipverified 2026-08-15

LangGraph

Blueshift — gaining momentum

Graph-based agent orchestration from LangChain — stateful and controllable.

agents

freemium · open source free; LangSmith Plus $39/seat/mo

OSSAPIFREE TIER

shipverified 2026-08-15

Leonardo AI

Steady momentum

Production-oriented image suite with fine-tuning, canvas editing and team features.

image

freemium · free daily tokens; from $12/mo (Apprentice)

APIFREE TIER

situationalverified 2026-08-15

Lex

Steady momentum

Minimal AI-native writing app — Google Docs with a co-writer built in.

writing

freemium · free tier; Pro $25/mo or $15/mo billed yearly

FREE TIER

situationalverified 2026-08-15

Luma Dream Machine

Steady momentum

Fast ideation video model with strong start/end keyframe control.

video

freemium · free tier; from $10/mo (Lite)

APIFREE TIER

situationalverified 2026-08-15

Manus

Redshift — losing momentum

General-purpose autonomous agent that executes multi-step web tasks.

agents

freemium · free daily credits; Pro from $20/mo

FREE TIER

skipverified 2026-08-15

Midjourneyfeatured

Steady momentum

The aesthetic benchmark for AI image generation — Discord-born, now web-first.

image

paid · from $10/mo (Basic)

shipverified 2026-08-15

Mistral API (La Plateforme)

Steady momentum

European frontier lab — efficient models, open-weights options, EU hosting.

models-api

freemium · free experiment tier; Mistral Large $2/1M input

APIFREE TIER

situationalverified 2026-08-15

Motion

Steady momentum

AI project manager that auto-schedules tasks into your calendar.

productivity

paid · from $19/seat/mo (annual, Pro AI)

situationalverified 2026-08-15

Murf AI

Steady momentum

Business-focused voiceover studio for presentations and e-learning.

audio

freemium · free tier; Creator Lite $29/mo or $23/mo billed yearly

APIFREE TIER

situationalverified 2026-08-15

n8n

Blueshift — gaining momentum

Source-available workflow automation with strong AI agent nodes.

agents

freemium · self-host free; cloud Starter €24/mo (€20/mo billed yearly)

OSSAPIFREE TIER

shipverified 2026-08-15

NotebookLM

Blueshift — gaining momentum

Google's research notebook — grounded Q&A and audio overviews over your own sources.

data

freemium · free; Plus via Google AI Pro $20/mo

FREE TIER

shipverified 2026-08-15

Notion AI

Steady momentum

AI assistant embedded in Notion — summarize, draft and search your workspace.

writing

paid · add-on from $8/user/mo (annual billing)

situationalverified 2026-08-15

OpenAI API

Steady momentum

GPT-5 family and o-series reasoning models behind one API.

models-api

paid · GPT-5 $1.25/1M input, $10/1M output; mini from $0.25/1M input

API

shipverified 2026-08-15

OpenAI Responses API

Blueshift — gaining momentum

OpenAI's agent-building API — tools, web search and file search built in.

agents

paid · pay-per-token; e.g. GPT-5 mini $0.25/1M input

API

shipverified 2026-08-15

OpenRouterfeatured

Blueshift — gaining momentum

One API for every major model — unified billing, fallbacks and routing.

dev-infra

freemium · pay-per-token pass-through plus a small fee

APIFREE TIER

shipverified 2026-08-15

Otter.ai

Steady momentum

Meeting transcription and summaries with deep calendar integration.

productivity

freemium · free (300 min/mo); Pro from $8/mo (annual)

APIFREE TIER

situationalverified 2026-08-15

Perplexity

Blueshift — gaining momentum

Answer engine with citations — search rebuilt around LLMs.

data

freemium · free tier; Pro $20/mo

APIFREE TIER

shipverified 2026-08-15

Pika

Steady momentum

Fast, playful video generation with viral creative effects (Pikaffects).

video

freemium · free tier; from $10/mo (Standard)

FREE TIER

situationalverified 2026-08-15

Pinecone

Steady momentum

Managed vector database — the serverless default for embeddings at scale.

data

freemium · free Starter; Builder $20/mo; Standard pay-as-you-go (min $50/mo)

APIFREE TIER

situationalverified 2026-08-15

Qdrant

Blueshift — gaining momentum

Rust-built open-source vector DB — fast, lean and easy to self-host.

data

freemium · self-host free; managed cloud free tier, paid usage-based

OSSAPIFREE TIER

shipverified 2026-08-15

Raycast

Blueshift — gaining momentum

macOS launcher with built-in AI chat, commands and a huge extension store.

productivity

freemium · free; Pro with AI from $8/mo (annual)

FREE TIER

shipverified 2026-08-15

Reclaim.ai

Steady momentum

AI calendar that defends focus time, habits and tasks automatically.

productivity

freemium · free tier; from $8/user/mo (annual)

FREE TIER

shipverified 2026-08-15

Recraft

Blueshift — gaining momentum

Design-focused image model with vector output and brand style controls.

image

freemium · free tier; from $10/mo (Basic)

APIFREE TIER

situationalverified 2026-08-15

Relevance AI

Steady momentum

No-code platform for building AI agent workforces for ops teams.

agents

freemium · free tier; paid plans usage-based from ~$19/mo

APIFREE TIER

situationalverified 2026-08-15

Replicate

Steady momentum

Run any community model via API — pay per second, no GPU wrangling.

dev-infra

paid · pay per run; image models from ~$0.003/image

API

shipverified 2026-08-15

Runwayfeatured

Steady momentum

The incumbent AI video suite — Gen-4 generation plus a full editing toolchain.

video

freemium · free one-time credits; from $15/mo (Standard)

APIFREE TIER

shipverified 2026-08-15

Sora

Steady momentum

OpenAI's video model, bundled into ChatGPT subscriptions.

video

paid · ChatGPT Plus $20/mo; serious use needs Pro $200/mo

situationalverified 2026-08-15

Sourcegraph Cody

Redshift — losing momentum

AI coding assistant with deep code-search context from Sourcegraph.

coding

freemium · free tier; Pro $9/mo

FREE TIER

skipverified 2026-08-15

Stable Diffusion (Stability AI)

Steady momentum

The open-weights classic — the largest community ecosystem of checkpoints and tools.

image

freemium · weights free under community license; API pay-per-image

OSSAPIFREE TIER

situationalverified 2026-08-15

Sudowrite

Steady momentum

Fiction-first AI writing — brainstorm, expand and revise novels.

writing

paid · from $10/mo (Hobby & Student)

situationalverified 2026-08-15

Suno

Blueshift — gaining momentum

Full-song generation — vocals, lyrics, arrangement — from a text prompt.

audio

freemium · free (50 credits/day); Pro $10/mo

FREE TIER

shipverified 2026-08-15

Superhuman

Steady momentum

Premium email client with AI triage, drafts and follow-ups.

productivity

paid · $30/mo

situationalverified 2026-08-15

Together AI

Steady momentum

Cloud inference for open models — serverless endpoints and fine-tuning.

dev-infra

freemium · starter credits; from $0.10/1M tokens (small open models)

APIFREE TIER

shipverified 2026-08-15

Udio

Redshift — losing momentum

High-fidelity music generation, strong on vocals and mix quality.

audio

freemium · free tier; Standard $10/mo

FREE TIER

situationalverified 2026-08-15

Veo 3featured

Blueshift — gaining momentum

Google's video model with native audio generation — the current quality leader.

video

paid · via Google AI Pro $20/mo (limited); API from $0.75/sec

API

shipverified 2026-08-15

Vercel AI SDK

Blueshift — gaining momentum

TypeScript toolkit for AI apps — unified providers, streaming UI primitives.

dev-infra

free · free, open source

OSSAPIFREE TIER

shipverified 2026-08-15

Weaviate

Steady momentum

Open-source vector database with hybrid search and modular ML integrations.

data

freemium · self-host free; cloud free tier, Flex from $45/mo

OSSAPIFREE TIER

shipverified 2026-08-15

Whisper

Steady momentum

OpenAI's open-weights speech recognition — the default transcription model.

audio

free · free (open weights); hosted API $0.006/min

OSSAPIFREE TIER

shipverified 2026-08-15

Windsurf

Steady momentum

Agentic IDE (VS Code fork) built around the Cascade agent flow.

coding

freemium · from $15/mo (Pro)

FREE TIER

situationalverified 2026-08-15

xAI API

Blueshift — gaining momentum

Grok models via API — strong reasoning, X integration, big context.

models-api

paid · Grok 4 $3/1M input, $15/1M output

API

situationalverified 2026-08-15

Zapier

Steady momentum

The automation incumbent — 7000+ app integrations, now with AI steps.

agents

freemium · free tier (100 tasks/mo); Professional from $20/mo

APIFREE TIER

situationalverified 2026-08-15

Zed

Blueshift — gaining momentum

Blazing-fast open-source editor (Rust) with a built-in AI panel and agent mode.

coding

freemium · editor free; hosted AI plans from $10/mo

OSSFREE TIER

situationalverified 2026-08-15