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Image Gen · 19 listed

  • Midjourney · Paid · 9.4/10 · Midjourney V7 produces images with rich colors, cinematic lighting, and a distinctive painterly aesthetic that stands out from competitors.
  • FLUX.2 · Freemium · 9.2/10 · Production-grade AI image generation from Black Forest Labs delivering 4MP photorealistic outputs with multi-reference control and open weights.
  • Adobe Firefly · Freemium · 8.8/10 · Adobe's commercially-safe AI image generator, trained only on licensed content. Integrated across Photoshop, Illustrator, and Express for professional creative workflows.
  • Google Imagen 3 · Freemium · 8.8/10 · Google's image model across Gemini and Vertex AI with strong prompt adherence, text rendering, and SynthID watermarking.
  • Ideogram · Freemium · 8.8/10 · Text-to-image AI with the best typography in the game — posters, logos, and marketing graphics where text actually looks right.
  • Leonardo.ai · Freemium · 8.7/10 · All-in-one creative AI platform for images, video, and 3D assets with fine-tuning, real-time canvas, and a generous free tier.
  • Recraft · Freemium · 8.7/10 · AI image generator built for designers — produces true vector SVGs, raster images, and illustrations with consistent brand styles.
  • Reve Image · Freemium · 8.7/10 · Text-to-image model with a layout-first architecture, native 4K output, and near-perfect in-image text rendering, plus natural-language editing.
  • Krea AI · Freemium · 8.6/10 · A real-time creative platform that generates and refines AI images, videos, and 3D assets interactively as you type and sketch.
  • Photoroom · Freemium · 8.5/10 · AI-powered product photography tool that removes backgrounds, isolates objects, and generates professional e-commerce images at scale.
  • Muse Image · Freemium · 8.5/10 · Meta's first image model from Superintelligence Labs — complex-prompt rendering, multi-photo composition, and in-place editing across Meta AI, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
  • Playground AI · Freemium · 8.4/10 · A beginner-friendly AI image platform combining multiple generation models with a built-in canvas editor for creating, editing, and upscaling images.
  • Grok Imagine Quality Mode · Paid · 8.4/10 · xAI's enhanced image generation API with higher realism, accurate text rendering, and creative control, trained on 300M+ Grok-generated images.
  • DALL-E 3 · Freemium · 8.3/10 · OpenAI's image generation inside ChatGPT, now powered by native GPT-4o image capabilities with accurate text rendering and conversational editing.
  • Nano Banana 2 Lite · Freemium · 8.2/10 · Google's fastest, cheapest Gemini image model — generates and edits images at high throughput for creative and design workflows.
  • Hyper3D WorldGen · Freemium · 8.2/10 · Generates structured, editable 3D scenes with independent assets and spatial relationships from a single image or text prompt.
  • Magnific · Freemium · 8/10 · AI creative suite built around a detail-hallucinating image upscaler, the Mystic photorealism model, and dozens of bundled third-party generators.
  • Stable Diffusion · Freemium · 7.8/10 · The most widely deployed open-weight image model, powering a massive ecosystem of community UIs, fine-tunes, and custom workflows.
  • Apob AI · Freemium · 7.5/10 · AI platform for generating hyper-realistic influencer portraits and model photography from text prompts or reference photos.

Video · 22 listed

  • Runway · Freemium · 9.3/10 · AI video platform with Gen-3 Alpha. Create cinematic video from text or images with realistic motion, lighting, and physics. The go-to tool for creative professionals.
  • Veo 3 · Freemium · 9.1/10 · Google DeepMind's flagship video model generates cinematic clips with synchronized native audio from text prompts.
  • Seedance 2.0 · Freemium · 9/10 · ByteDance's multimodal video model generating up to 15s of 1080p multi-shot footage with native synced audio, lip-sync, and director-level camera control.
  • Kling AI · Freemium · 8.9/10 · Filmmaker-friendly AI video with Kling Lab for team collaboration. Known for sweeping camera moves, excellent storytelling adherence, and the Kling 01 unified multimodal model.
  • HeyGen · Freemium · 8.8/10 · AI video platform that turns text scripts into realistic avatar videos with lip-sync, multilingual translation, and personalized video at scale.
  • Luma Dream Machine · Freemium · 8.8/10 · High-quality cinematic video generation from text or images using Luma's Ray2 model, known for realistic physics and fast rendering.
  • Synthesia · Paid · 8.7/10 · Create professional AI avatar videos in 160+ languages. The industry leader for training videos, onboarding, product explainers, and corporate communications without filming.
  • Descript · Freemium · 8.7/10 · AI-powered video and podcast editor that lets you cut footage by editing a text transcript, with Overdub voice cloning and eye contact correction.
  • Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash · Paid · 8.7/10 · Google's video generation model that produces controllable clips up to 40 seconds from text, image, or video inputs with scene extension and 4K upscaling.
  • Opus Clip · Freemium · 8.6/10 · Automatically turns long-form videos into dozens of short, viral-ready clips with AI-powered captioning, virality scoring, and B-roll suggestions.
  • Pika · Freemium · 8.5/10 · AI video creation platform built for creators. Intuitive controls, fast rendering, and creative effects like Inflate 3D and Modify Region make it easy to bring ideas to life.
  • Viggle AI · Freemium · 8.5/10 · AI character animation tool that makes any person or character move realistically from a single photo — no animation skills required.
  • Creatify AI · Freemium · 8.3/10 · AI video platform that turns product URLs or images into high-converting marketing and ad videos with AI avatars and voiceovers.
  • CapCut Director Mode · Freemium · 8.2/10 · AI filmmaking workflow inside CapCut Video Studio with scene-by-scene control, character consistency across shots, and an editable canvas for cinematic story production.
  • MiniMax H3 · Freemium · 8.2/10 · Open-weights video model from MiniMax generating native 2K clips up to 15 seconds with synchronized audio and multi-modal reference conditioning.
  • Visko Orbis · Free · 8.2/10 · Real-time interactive long-video generation model that streams living worlds with persistent memory and physics-grounded 4K/24fps output.
  • Captions (by Mirage) · Freemium · 8/10 · AI short-form video app that turns scripts, prompts, or raw footage into polished clips with auto-captions, AI avatars, and eye-contact correction.
  • Higgsfield AI · Freemium · 8/10 · Cinematic AI video platform that bundles Sora 2, Veo 3.1, Kling 3.0 and Seedance 2.0 under one subscription, with director-grade camera and lens controls.
  • Tavus · Freemium · 8/10 · Developer platform for real-time conversational video AI — build face-to-face video agents with digital human replicas and sub-second response latency.
  • Vidu AI · Freemium · 8/10 · AI video generator from Shengshu Technology whose standout trick is reference-to-video — upload subjects and keep them consistent across shots.
  • Hedra · Freemium · 8/10 · Turns one character image plus audio into a lip-synced, expressive performance video, with head motion and camera driven by an omnimodal model.
  • Varya · Paid · 7.4/10 · India's first distilled AI video model, trained on local cultural contexts with claimed 10-27x faster generation at a fraction of global competitors' cost.

Music · 15 listed

  • Suno AI · Freemium · 9.2/10 · Generate full songs with vocals, lyrics, and instrumentals from a simple text prompt. Supports dozens of genres and styles, from pop hits to lo-fi beats to orchestral scores.
  • ElevenLabs · Freemium · 9.2/10 · AI voice platform for text-to-speech, cloning, and agents. Hosted MCP lets Claude and Claude Code manage those agents over OAuth.
  • Udio · Freemium · 8.8/10 · AI music generator known for high-fidelity audio quality and nuanced genre reproduction. Create radio-ready tracks with detailed control over structure, style, and lyrics.
  • Chatterbox · Freemium · 8.8/10 · Resemble AI's open-source (MIT) text-to-speech and zero-shot voice cloning model with emotion control, 23+ languages, and a watermark on every output.
  • AIVA · Freemium · 8.4/10 · AI composer specializing in emotional soundtrack music. Used by filmmakers, game developers, and advertisers to create custom orchestral, electronic, and cinematic scores.
  • Stable Audio · Freemium · 8.4/10 · Text-to-music and audio generation from Stability AI. Create royalty-ready tracks, sound effects, and loops with precise control over genre, mood, and tempo.
  • Lyria 3.5 · Freemium · 8.4/10 · Google DeepMind's July 2026 music model, with better musicality, vocals and lyric handling, shipped first inside Google Flow Music.
  • LALAL.AI · Freemium · 8.3/10 · AI-powered audio stem splitter that isolates vocals, instruments, drums, bass, and other stems from any track.
  • ZONOS2 · Freemium · 8.2/10 · Open-source real-time TTS model from Zyphra with high-fidelity voice cloning, emotion control, and Apache 2.0 licensing.
  • Beatoven.ai · Freemium · 8.1/10 · AI music composer that generates original, mood-adaptive tracks designed to sync with video edits and scene changes.
  • Mubert · Freemium · 8/10 · Generates unlimited royalty-free AI music tailored to mood, genre, tempo, and duration for videos, apps, podcasts, and streaming.
  • Loudly · Freemium · 8/10 · AI music generator that creates custom royalty-free tracks tailored to specific genres, moods, tempos, and durations for commercial use.
  • ElevenMusic · Freemium · 8/10 · ElevenLabs' text-to-song app built on a licensed music model, pitching indemnified commercial use as its edge over Suno and Udio.
  • Kits AI · Freemium · 7/10 · Browser-based AI vocal studio with licensed singing-voice models, custom voice cloning, stem separation, pitch correction and AI mastering.
  • Masterchannel · Paid · 7/10 · AI mastering service that finishes tracks at up to 192kHz/64-bit and offers a licensed AI clone of Grammy-winning engineer Wez Clarke.

Writing · 15 listed

  • Grammarly · Freemium · 9/10 · AI writing assistant that goes beyond grammar checking. Now with generative AI features for rewriting, tone adjustment, and content generation directly in your browser and apps.
  • DeepL · Freemium · 9/10 · AI translation tool covering 30+ languages, with a Write feature for polishing text and glossaries that lock brand terminology across documents.
  • Writer · Paid · 8.7/10 · Enterprise generative AI platform built on proprietary Palmyra LLMs for on-brand content, compliance guardrails, and autonomous AI agents.
  • Jasper AI · Paid · 8.6/10 · Enterprise-grade AI copywriting platform for marketing teams. Train it on your brand voice, generate ads, blog posts, and social content at scale with built-in collaboration.
  • Sudowrite · Paid · 8.5/10 · AI writing tool built specifically for fiction authors. Features like Story Engine, Describe, and Brainstorm help novelists overcome writer's block and develop richer narratives.
  • Anyword · Paid · 8.4/10 · AI copywriting platform that generates and scores marketing content using predictive performance analytics and data-backed optimization.
  • Copy.ai · Freemium · 8.3/10 · AI-powered content platform with workflow automation. Generate marketing copy, sales emails, product descriptions, and social posts with pre-built templates and team features.
  • Writesonic · Freemium · 8/10 · AI writing and SEO platform that drafts long-form articles and tracks how often your brand surfaces in AI search engines.
  • Surfer SEO · Paid · 8/10 · Content-optimization platform that scores your draft against top-ranking pages in real time, with a built-in AI writer that drafts SEO-ready articles.
  • NovelCrafter · Freemium · 8/10 · Browser-based fiction-writing studio with a Codex worldbuilding wiki, scene-based planning, and bring-your-own-key AI across GPT, Claude, Gemini, and local models.
  • KoalaWriter · Freemium · 8/10 · SEO-focused AI writer that reads live search results to draft optimized long-form articles, with built-in chat, images, and one-click WordPress publishing.
  • HyperWrite · Freemium · 7.8/10 · AI writing assistant that drafts, rewrites, and completes content with context awareness — works as a browser extension wherever you type.
  • Wordtune · Freemium · 7.8/10 · AI-powered rewriting and editing tool from AI21 Labs that improves clarity, tone, and style with one-click sentence rewrites.
  • Frase · Freemium · 7.8/10 · An AI SEO and GEO platform that researches the SERP, drafts and scores long-form content, and tracks brand visibility across Google and AI assistants.
  • AirOps · Paid · 7.8/10 · Builds multi-step AI content workflows wired to your brand voice, data and CMS — aimed at SEO and content teams publishing at volume.

Coding · 33 listed

  • Cursor · Freemium · 9.5/10 · AI-first code editor built on VS Code. Multi-file editing, intelligent refactoring, and a built-in chat that understands your entire codebase. A favorite among developers for…
  • GPT-5.5 · Paid · 9.4/10 · OpenAI's most capable frontier model, built for complex multi-step reasoning, agentic tool use, and deep coding tasks. Powers ChatGPT and Codex with up to 272K context.
  • Claude Code · Freemium · 9.3/10 · Anthropic's coding agent, running in the terminal, IDEs, Slack, the web and mobile, with parallel subagents and scheduled routines.
  • Windsurf · Freemium · 9.1/10 · Next-gen AI IDE that blends copilot and agent modes. Wave 13 introduced autonomous multi-step workflows, letting the AI plan, code, test, and iterate across your entire project.
  • v0 by Vercel · Freemium · 9/10 · AI-powered UI generator that turns text prompts or screenshots into production-ready React components using shadcn/ui and Tailwind CSS.
  • CodeRabbit · Freemium · 9/10 · AI code reviewer that posts inline, context-aware feedback on every pull request across GitHub, GitLab, Azure DevOps, and Bitbucket.
  • DeepSeek · Freemium · 8.9/10 · Open-weight AI models specializing in code generation, math, and complex reasoning at a fraction of closed-model API pricing.
  • GitHub Copilot · Freemium · 8.8/10 · The most widely adopted AI coding assistant. Multi-model completions, agentic coding, code review, and deep IDE integration — now with a free tier.
  • Replit Agent · Freemium · 8.8/10 · Describe what you want in natural language and Replit Agent builds the full application — frontend, backend, database, and deployment. No local setup required, everything runs in…
  • Amazon Q Developer · Freemium · 8.8/10 · AWS-backed AI assistant for code generation, transformation, security scanning, and deep cloud infrastructure integration.
  • Zed · Free · 8.8/10 · Rust-built code editor with native AI agents, edit prediction, and real-time collaboration — all at native speed that makes Electron editors feel sluggish.
  • OpenAI Codex · Freemium · 8.8/10 · OpenAI's coding agent across a CLI, an IDE extension, a cloud environment, ChatGPT and GitHub code review, powered by the GPT-5.6 family.
  • Ollama · Freemium · 8.8/10 · Runs open-weight models on your own machine with one command, and optionally spills over to Ollama's cloud when the model is too big for local hardware.
  • Bolt.new · Freemium · 8.7/10 · In-browser AI coding environment by StackBlitz that builds full-stack web apps from natural language prompts. No local setup needed.
  • GLM-5.2 · Freemium · 8.7/10 · Open-weight 744B-parameter frontier model from Zhipu AI built for coding, reasoning, and long-horizon agentic work, with a 1M-token context and an MIT license.
  • Lovable · Freemium · 8.6/10 · Prompt-to-app builder that turns natural language into live, functional web applications. Chat-based interface outputs real code with backend logic, perfect for rapid prototyping.
  • Aider · Free · 8.6/10 · Open-source command-line AI coding partner that edits code directly in your local git repo. Bring your own API key, pay only for what you use.
  • Cody · Freemium · 8.6/10 · Codebase-aware AI coding assistant from Sourcegraph with chat, autocomplete, and inline edits powered by your full repository context.
  • Codeium · Freemium · 8.5/10 · Free AI code completion and chat tool for individuals, with enterprise-grade privacy. Works across 70+ IDEs with fast, accurate suggestions.
  • Devin · Paid · 8.5/10 · Autonomous AI software engineer that can plan, code, debug, and deploy entire projects in its own sandboxed environment.
  • Laguna XS.2 · Free · 8.5/10 · Open-weight 33B MoE coding model from Poolside AI with only 3B active parameters. Hits 68.2% on SWE-bench Verified and runs locally on a single GPU or Mac with 36GB RAM.
  • Command A+ · Free · 8.5/10 · Cohere's open-source 218B Mixture-of-Experts LLM built for agentic coding workflows, multilingual tasks, and document processing — runs on as few as 2 H100s.
  • MiniMax M3 · Freemium · 8.5/10 · Open-weights multimodal model with 1M token context that matches frontier coding benchmarks at 5-10% of GPT-5.5 pricing.
  • LM Studio · Freemium · 8.5/10 · Desktop app for running open-weight models locally, with a GGUF and MLX runtime, an OpenAI-compatible local server, a CLI and Python and TypeScript SDKs.
  • DeepSeek Harness · Free · 8.4/10 · Open-source agent runtime from DeepSeek. Every piece — models, tools, sandboxes, UI — is a plugin. MIT-licensed developer preview launched August 13, 2026.
  • Grok Build · Freemium · 8.2/10 · xAI's terminal coding agent, now defaulting to Grok 4.6. Plan mode, subagents, skills, MCP, and sandboxed runs from your shell.
  • Goose · Free · 8.2/10 · Open-source AI coding agent from Block that runs locally on your machine. Supports any LLM provider, extends via MCP, and keeps your code private by default.
  • North Mini Code · Free · 8.2/10 · Cohere's open-source 30B/3B MoE coding model with 256K context, interleaved thinking, and strong SWE-Bench scores — all under Apache 2.0.
  • Muse Spark 1.1 · Freemium · 8.2/10 · Meta's multimodal reasoning model built for agentic coding, tool use, and computer control, with a 1M-token context window.
  • Codex Security CLI · Free · 8.2/10 · Open-source CLI from OpenAI that scans Git repositories for vulnerabilities, tracks findings across runs, and verifies fixes inside CI/CD.
  • Tabnine · Freemium · 8/10 · AI code assistant built for enterprise teams with personalized completions, chat, and zero data retention privacy guarantees.
  • T3MP3ST · Free · 7.8/10 · Open-source multi-agent framework that turns AI coding agents like Claude and Codex into autonomous red-teaming tools for vulnerability hunting.
  • Osaurus · Free · 7.5/10 · Open-source, native local LLM server for Apple Silicon Macs — runs models on-device via MLX with an OpenAI-compatible API for private coding and automation.

Productivity · 35 listed

  • Grok Bot · Freemium · 9.6/10 · Always-on AI teammates with their own cloud computer. They sign into the apps you already use, finish the job, and only come back when something needs approval.
  • Notion AI · Paid · 9/10 · AI built into the all-in-one workspace. Summarize notes, generate content, extract action items from meetings, autofill databases, and ask questions across your entire Notion…
  • Zapier · Freemium · 8.9/10 · Connect 7,000+ apps with AI-powered automation. Zapier's AI features help build workflows from natural language, auto-generate Zaps, and add intelligent decision-making to your…
  • Fathom · Freemium · 8.8/10 · Free AI meeting assistant that records, transcribes, and summarizes your Zoom, Meet, and Teams calls — no bot required.
  • Granola · Freemium · 8.8/10 · AI notepad that listens to meetings via system audio — no bot joins the call — and enhances your personal notes into structured summaries.
  • Glean · Paid · 8.8/10 · Enterprise Work AI that connects to all your company's apps to deliver AI-powered search, knowledge management, and agentic automation.
  • n8n · Freemium · 8.7/10 · Open-source workflow automation with AI agent capabilities. Chain LLMs with operational tools like Slack and HubSpot. Build self-correcting workflows that reason through errors.
  • Fireflies.ai · Freemium · 8.7/10 · AI meeting assistant that records, transcribes, and summarizes calls across Zoom, Meet, and Teams with CRM sync.
  • tl;dv · Freemium · 8.7/10 · AI meeting notetaker for Zoom, Google Meet, and Teams that records, transcribes, and summarizes with CRM sync.
  • Make · Freemium · 8.7/10 · Visual automation platform connecting 3,000+ apps, with AI agents and a drag-and-drop canvas instead of a linear trigger-and-action list.
  • OpenClaw · Free · 8.6/10 · Open-source local-first AI agent that runs on your device and handles real tasks — email, calendar, browser, files — controlled via WhatsApp, Telegram, or iMessage.
  • WorkBeaver · Freemium · 8.5/10 · AI digital intern that learns your repetitive tasks by watching you work, then runs them autonomously across any desktop or browser app.
  • Otter.ai · Freemium · 8.5/10 · Real-time AI meeting transcription with speaker identification, automatic summaries, and action item extraction for Zoom, Teams, and Google Meet.
  • Gamma · Freemium · 8.5/10 · AI platform that generates polished presentations, documents, and webpages from prompts or uploaded files — no slide design needed.
  • Krisp · Freemium · 8.5/10 · AI-powered noise cancellation that removes background noise from calls in real-time, working across all communication apps at the system level.
  • Microsoft 365 Copilot · Paid · 8.5/10 · AI assistant embedded into Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Teams — drafts, analyzes, and summarizes using your org's data.
  • Tome · Freemium · 8.4/10 · AI-powered storytelling tool that generates complete narrative presentations, one-pagers, and interactive pages from a single prompt.
  • Comet · Freemium · 8.4/10 · Perplexity's Chromium-based browser with an assistant in every new tab that researches, handles email and runs agentic tasks on the pages you are already on.
  • Shortwave · Freemium · 8.3/10 · AI-powered email client that generates replies, summarizes threads, schedules events with natural language, and offers deep inbox search. The most AI-featured email app available.
  • Beautiful.ai · Paid · 8.3/10 · Smart slide design platform that uses AI to automatically format and lay out professional presentations — no design skills needed.
  • Read AI · Freemium · 8.3/10 · AI copilot that transcribes meetings, summarizes emails and messages, and builds a knowledge graph across your productivity stack.
  • Mem.ai · Freemium · 8.2/10 · AI-powered note-taking tool that automatically organizes your notes, surfaces relevant information, and helps you write — a second brain that actually works.
  • Fundraisly · Paid · 8.2/10 · AI agent that matches startups with relevant investors from a 300k+ database and automates outreach to book qualified meetings.
  • Mistral OCR 4 · Paid · 8.2/10 · Mistral's OCR model that turns documents into structured data — bounding boxes, block classification, and confidence scores across 170 languages.
  • Tadata · Freemium · 8.2/10 · Slack-native AI agent builder that connects to 50+ tools to automate workflows like meeting prep, lead research, and follow-ups with no code.
  • Zoom AI Companion · Freemium · 8.1/10 · Built-in AI assistant for Zoom that generates meeting summaries, smart recordings with chapters, and drafts emails and chats.
  • Cofounder 2 · Free · 8/10 · AI agent orchestration platform that deploys specialized agents across engineering, sales, marketing, design, and ops to run company workflows end-to-end.
  • Dia · Freemium · 7.9/10 · AI browser from The Browser Company that pulls calendar, inbox, Slack and Notion context into briefs, reports and decks alongside normal browsing.
  • Napkin AI · Freemium · 7.8/10 · Turns your text and notes into polished visual diagrams, flowcharts, and infographics in seconds — no design skills needed.
  • SellerClaw · Freemium · 7.8/10 · A coordinated team of AI agents that autonomously handles product sourcing, listings, ads, pricing, orders, fulfillment, and customer support across e-commerce platforms.
  • Jotform AI App Builder · Freemium · 7.8/10 · No-code AI builder that turns a text prompt, file, or URL into a working web and mobile app with forms, workflows, and data.
  • Jobbie · Freemium · 7.8/10 · AI auto-apply platform that scans job boards, tailors your resume to each role, and submits applications to 100+ matching jobs hands-free.
  • Migma AI · Freemium · 7.8/10 · AI email marketing tool that drafts full campaigns, automates sending, and tunes future sends against real performance data.
  • OpenYabby · Free · 7.7/10 · Open-source, voice-driven multi-agent platform that runs your terminal, browser, and Mac apps as autonomous agent teams.
  • Microsoft Scout · Paid · 7.5/10 · Always-on personal AI agent from Microsoft that autonomously handles tasks across Microsoft 365 apps, your browser, files, and shell in the background.

Research · 23 listed

  • Perplexity AI · Freemium · 9.4/10 · AI-powered search engine that replaced traditional search for many knowledge workers. Pro Search aggregates real-time web data into concise, cited reports with follow-up…
  • Gemini 3.8 Flash · Paid · 9.2/10 · Google's latest Flash model with a Cyber variant specialized for agentic workflows, software engineering, reasoning, and automated vulnerability detection.
  • DeepSeek V4.1-Flash · Paid · 9.2/10 · Efficient multimodal MoE model with 552B total params, 1M context, native vision, and low-cost API access for reasoning and agents.
  • NotebookLM · Free · 9.1/10 · Google's AI research notebook that lets you upload documents and have conversations with your sources. Generates audio overviews, summaries, and study guides from your uploaded…
  • Inkling-Small · Free · 8.8/10 · Thinking Machines Lab's open-weights 276B mixture-of-experts model: 12B active params, native audio and vision, and a 1M-token context window.
  • Phind · Freemium · 8.7/10 · AI search engine built for developers that answers technical questions with sourced, code-rich responses and step-by-step reasoning.
  • Consensus · Freemium · 8.7/10 · AI search engine that synthesizes answers from 250M+ peer-reviewed papers with evidence-based consensus meters.
  • WeatherNext 3 · Freemium · 8.7/10 · Google DeepMind's global AI weather model delivering hourly forecasts at 5km resolution from real-time satellite data.
  • Elicit · Freemium · 8.6/10 · AI research assistant that automates literature review. Search across 200M+ academic papers, extract key findings, identify methodologies, and synthesize results into structured…
  • Scite · Paid · 8.5/10 · AI-powered citation analysis showing whether scientific claims are supported, contradicted, or merely mentioned across 1.2B+ citations.
  • Bonsai 27B · Free · 8.5/10 · Open-source 27B multimodal model with 1-bit and ternary variants that run locally on a phone or laptop for on-device agentic workflows.
  • Genspark · Freemium · 8.4/10 · AI search engine that generates personalized 'Sparkpages' — curated reports with synthesized answers, cited sources, and embedded media.
  • Co-Scientist · Free · 8.2/10 · Google DeepMind's multi-agent AI system that generates, debates, and evolves novel scientific hypotheses — validated in a Nature paper.
  • OpenScience · Free · 8.2/10 · Open-source AI research workbench that runs any model, executes 250+ editable research skills, and automates the loop from goal to paper.
  • Parallel Search Turbo · Paid · 8.2/10 · A web search API built for AI agents, promising ~200ms median latency and $1 per 1,000 requests in its new Turbo mode.
  • Fugu-Cyber · Paid · 8.2/10 · Sakana AI's cybersecurity-specialized orchestration model, claiming state-of-the-art scores on real-world security benchmarks like CyberGym and CTI-REALM.
  • Gemini Robotics 2 · Paid · 8.2/10 · Google DeepMind's robotics model layer for whole-body control, dexterous manipulation, and robots that coordinate with each other on physical tasks.
  • Apodex · Freemium · 8.2/10 · Agentic AI workbench and model family for verifiable multi-step reasoning, complex professional work, and scientific discovery with agent teams.
  • You.com · Freemium · 8/10 · AI-powered search engine with customizable agents, multi-model chat, writing tools, and privacy-focused results.
  • SciSpace Deep Review · Freemium · 8/10 · An agentic literature-review feature inside SciSpace that searches a 280M-paper corpus and drafts a cited first-pass review.
  • Undermind · Freemium · 8/10 · An agentic literature-search engine that reads papers and follows citation trails to deliver synthesized, cited reports answering a specific scientific question.
  • Paperguide · Freemium · 8/10 · An all-in-one AI research assistant that searches 200M+ academic papers to run literature reviews, manage citations, write drafts, and chat with PDFs.
  • Bohrium · Freemium · 8/10 · AI-for-science research hub with citation-traceable search across 170M+ papers, a Deep Research literature writer, knowledge bases, and scientific computing tools.

Chatbots · 25 listed

  • ChatGPT · Freemium · 9.5/10 · OpenAI's flagship AI assistant with o3/o4-mini reasoning, GPT-4o, Advanced Voice, Sora video gen, Operator agent, and Deep Research — the most feature-packed chatbot available.
  • Claude · Freemium · 9.5/10 · Anthropic's AI assistant with Opus 4.6, 1M-token context, computer use, agentic coding via Claude Code, and MCP integrations.
  • Gemini · Freemium · 9.2/10 · Google's multimodal AI assistant with Gemini 2.5 Pro/Flash, 2M-token context, Workspace integration, Gems agents, and native image generation.
  • GPT-6 Astra · Paid · 9.2/10 · OpenAI's flagship model for complex reasoning, coding, agentic workflows, and end-to-end document tasks.
  • GPT-5.6 Sol · Paid · 9.1/10 · OpenAI's flagship GPT-5.6 family (Sol, Terra, Luna) targeting frontier coding, agentic tasks, and cybersecurity — currently in limited preview.
  • Retell AI · Freemium · 8.9/10 · A developer platform for building production-grade voice AI agents that handle phone conversations with human-like latency and natural turn-taking.
  • Gemini 3.7 Flash · Freemium · 8.9/10 · Google's Aug 13, 2026 Flash workhorse for coding and agents. Introductory API price is $0.75/$3.75 per 1M tokens through December 31, 2026.
  • Vapi · Freemium · 8.8/10 · Developer platform for building, testing, and deploying voice and chat AI agents at scale with full-stack control over the entire pipeline.
  • Meta Llama · Free · 8.7/10 · Meta's open-weight LLM family. Llama 4 brings mixture-of-experts, native multimodal input, and up to 10M token context — all free to download and deploy.
  • Grok · Freemium · 8.7/10 · xAI's flagship chatbot on Grok 4.6. Consumer plans now run Free, SuperGrok $30, SuperGrok Plus $100, and Heavy $300, plus a separate API.
  • Sierra · Paid · 8.7/10 · Enterprise platform for building autonomous customer-service agents that work across chat, voice, SMS, WhatsApp and email — billed per resolved issue.
  • GPT-Live · Freemium · 8.7/10 · OpenAI's real-time voice model family that listens and speaks at the same time, powering natural full-duplex conversations inside ChatGPT.
  • Bland AI · Paid · 8.6/10 · API-first platform for building and deploying high-volume AI phone agents, optimized for enterprise outbound and inbound calling at scale.
  • Kimi K3 · Freemium · 8.5/10 · Moonshot AI's 2.8T-parameter multimodal chatbot with a 1M-token context window, tuned for coding and long-horizon agentic tasks.
  • Hume AI · Freemium · 8.4/10 · Empathetic voice interface with emotional intelligence model for expressive, human-like interactions that understand and respond to tone and sentiment.
  • Siri AI · Free · 8.3/10 · Apple's rebuilt assistant with deep personal context, onscreen awareness, and systemwide app actions across all Apple devices.
  • Character.AI · Freemium · 8.2/10 · Platform for creating and chatting with personalized AI characters for roleplay, companionship, creative writing, and entertainment.
  • Le Chat · Freemium · 8.2/10 · Mistral AI's chat assistant with frontier open-weight models, canvas editing, web search, and code execution — built with European data privacy at its core.
  • Poe · Freemium · 8.2/10 · Quora's multi-model AI platform giving you access to GPT-4o, Claude, Gemini, Llama, and 30+ models in one interface — plus a bot marketplace.
  • xAI Voice Agent Builder · Paid · 8.2/10 · xAI's no-code platform for building and deploying human-like voice agents powered by Grok Voice, with an API for support, sales, and custom call flows.
  • Qwen App · Free · 8.2/10 · Alibaba's consumer AI assistant, wired into Taobao, Alipay, Fliggy and Amap so a conversation can place an order or plan a trip end to end.
  • Pi · Free · 8/10 · Inflection AI's emotionally intelligent personal AI companion designed for natural, empathetic conversations rather than productivity tasks.
  • Amália · Free · 7.8/10 · Portugal's first open-source LLM, trained on European Portuguese for sovereign AI — weights, dataset and code free on Hugging Face.
  • Vinci · Free · 7.6/10 · An open-weight 4B-parameter chat model built to run locally on a laptop, tuned for blunt honesty and a distinct personality.
  • Overtone · Freemium · 7.3/10 · AI dating app where you talk to a voice assistant that learns your personality, then introduces you to people it judges compatible.
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