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185 tools · 10 categories · re-verified monthly

The index of AI tools
that actually ship.

No affiliate lists, no phantom waitlists, no paid placements. Every entry is opened by hand, checked against its own pricing page, and filed by what it's genuinely best at — including the local and self-hosted options most directories quietly skip.

185 results

C4.9 / 5

ClaudeEditor's pick

The long-context reasoning workhorse.

Chat & AssistantsFreemium
L4.8 / 5

LovableEditor's pick

Ideas to full-stack apps, in a chat.

Web DevelopmentFreemium
C4.8 / 5

CursorEditor's pick

The editor that knows your repo.

Code & Dev ToolsFreemium
M4.8 / 5

MidjourneyEditor's pick

The house style of AI art.

Image GenerationPaid
E4.8 / 5

ElevenLabsEditor's pick

Voice that passes as human.

Audio & MusicFreemium
HF4.8 / 5

Hugging FaceEditor's pick

The public registry for models and datasets.

Code & Dev ToolsFreemium
C4.7 / 5

ChatGPTEditor's pick

The default general assistant.

Chat & AssistantsFreemium
O4.7 / 5

OllamaEditor's pick

One command to run a model locally.

Local & UncensoredOpen sourceLocal
N4.7 / 5

n8nEditor's pick

Automation you can self-host.

Agents & AutomationOpen sourceLocal
P4.6 / 5

PerplexityEditor's pick

Answers with receipts.

Search & ResearchFreemium
CC4.8 / 5

Claude Code

An agent that lives in your terminal.

Code & Dev ToolsPaid
N4.7 / 5

NotebookLM

A research notebook grounded in your sources.

Search & ResearchFree
W4.7 / 5

Whisper

Transcription you can run yourself.

Audio & MusicOpen sourceLocal
L4.7 / 5

llama.cpp

The inference engine everything else is built on.

Local & UncensoredOpen sourceLocal
D4.7 / 5

DeepL

Translation people actually prefer.

Writing & ContentFreemium
G4.6 / 5

Gemini

Google-scale multimodal reasoning.

Chat & AssistantsFreemium
F4.6 / 5

FLUX

Open weights, photoreal output.

Image GenerationOpen sourceLocal
S4.6 / 5

Suno

Full songs from a sentence.

Audio & MusicFreemium
O4.6 / 5

OpenRouter

One API key, every model.

Code & Dev ToolsFreemium
V4.6 / 5

vLLM

High-throughput serving for open models.

Code & Dev ToolsOpen sourceLocal
M4.6 / 5

Modal

Serverless GPUs from a Python decorator.

Code & Dev ToolsFreemium
G4.6 / 5

Groq

Absurdly fast inference on custom silicon.

Code & Dev ToolsFreemium
OW4.6 / 5

Open WebUI

A self-hosted ChatGPT-style front end.

Local & UncensoredOpen sourceLocal
Z4.6 / 5

Zotero

Reference management, free and open.

Search & ResearchOpen sourceLocal
E4.5 / 5

Elicit

Literature review, automated.

Search & ResearchFreemium
C4.5 / 5

ComfyUI

Node graphs for people who want control.

Local & UncensoredOpen sourceLocal
LS4.5 / 5

LM Studio

A desktop app for local models.

Local & UncensoredFreeLocal
R4.5 / 5

Runway

A video studio built around generation.

Video & AnimationFreemium
D4.5 / 5

DeepSeek

Frontier reasoning at commodity prices.

Chat & AssistantsFreemiumLocal
F4.5 / 5

Firecrawl

Turn any site into model-ready markdown.

Code & Dev ToolsFreemium
W4.5 / 5

Windsurf

Agentic IDE with a long memory.

Code & Dev ToolsFreemium
A4.5 / 5

Aider

Pair programming in the terminal, with git.

Code & Dev ToolsOpen source
L4.5 / 5

Langfuse

Tracing and evals for LLM apps.

Code & Dev ToolsOpen sourceLocal
WB4.5 / 5

Weights & Biases

Experiment tracking for model teams.

Code & Dev ToolsFreemium
R4.5 / 5

Replicate

Run open models with one API call.

Code & Dev ToolsPaid
F4.5 / 5

Fathom

Free AI notetaker for sales calls.

Writing & ContentFreemium
G4.5 / 5

Granola

Notes that merge with your own typing.

Writing & ContentFreemium
RA4.5 / 5

Raycast AI

Models a keystroke away.

Chat & AssistantsFreemium
U4.5 / 5

Unsloth

Fine-tune open models on one GPU.

Code & Dev ToolsOpen sourceLocal
WA4.5 / 5

Wolfram Alpha

Computation, not generation.

Search & ResearchFreemium
RR4.5 / 5

Readwise Reader

Read-later with a model attached.

Writing & ContentPaid
L4.5 / 5

LiteLLM

Call 100+ providers with the OpenAI SDK.

Code & Dev ToolsOpen sourceLocal
GC4.4 / 5

GitHub Copilot

Autocomplete that stayed and grew up.

Code & Dev ToolsFreemium
B4.4 / 5

Bolt.new

Full-stack sandbox in the browser.

Web DevelopmentFreemium
K4.4 / 5

Kling

Long, coherent shots.

Video & AnimationFreemium
D4.4 / 5

Descript

Edit video by editing the transcript.

Video & AnimationFreemium
BU4.4 / 5

Browser Use

Give an agent a real browser.

Agents & AutomationOpen sourceLocal
S4.4 / 5

SillyTavern

Front end for roleplay and character chat.

Local & UncensoredOpen sourceLocal
QC4.4 / 5

Qwen Chat

Alibaba's multilingual model family.

Chat & AssistantsFreemium
SS4.4 / 5

Semantic Scholar

Free academic search with AI summaries.

Search & ResearchFree
E4.4 / 5

Exa

Search built for models, not people.

Search & ResearchFreemium
CC4.4 / 5

Codex CLI

OpenAI's terminal coding agent.

Code & Dev ToolsOpen source
C4.4 / 5

Cline

Open-source agent inside VS Code.

Code & Dev ToolsOpen source
SD4.4 / 5

Stable Diffusion

The open image model everything forked from.

Image GenerationOpen sourceLocal
H4.4 / 5

HeyGen

Avatar video and translation at scale.

Video & AnimationFreemium
A4.4 / 5

AssemblyAI

Speech APIs with the analysis included.

Audio & MusicFreemium
D4.4 / 5

Deepgram

Low-latency speech for voice agents.

Audio & MusicFreemiumLocal
G4.4 / 5

Gamma

Decks that build themselves.

Writing & ContentFreemium
CM4.4 / 5

Canva Magic Studio

Generative design inside Canva.

Image GenerationFreemium
M4.4 / 5

Make

Visual automation for non-developers.

Agents & AutomationFreemium
F4.4 / 5

fal

Fast inference for media models.

Code & Dev ToolsPaid
TA4.4 / 5

Together AI

Hosted open models with a fine-tuning path.

Code & Dev ToolsPaid
Q4.4 / 5

Qdrant

Rust vector search, self-hosted or managed.

Code & Dev ToolsOpen sourceLocal
M4.4 / 5

Mathpix

OCR that understands equations.

Search & ResearchFreemium
L4.4 / 5

LibreChat

Self-hosted multi-provider chat.

Local & UncensoredOpen sourceLocal
H4.4 / 5

Hex

Notebooks with an analyst copilot.

Search & ResearchFreemium
C4.4 / 5

Clay

GTM data enrichment with AI research.

Agents & AutomationFreemium
A4.4 / 5

Abridge

Clinical notes written during the visit.

Agents & AutomationPaid
S4.4 / 5

Scribe

Documentation that records itself.

Writing & ContentFreemium
M4.4 / 5

Mintlify

Docs sites with an AI answer layer.

Code & Dev ToolsFreemium
W4.4 / 5

Warp

A terminal that writes its own commands.

Code & Dev ToolsFreemium
P4.4 / 5

Promptfoo

Test prompts like code.

Code & Dev ToolsOpen sourceLocal
D4.4 / 5

Dify

An open platform for LLM applications.

Agents & AutomationOpen sourceLocal
TL4.4 / 5

Topaz Labs

Desktop upscaling for photo and video.

Video & AnimationPaidLocal
V4.3 / 5

v0

UI generation with taste.

Web DevelopmentFreemium
G4.3 / 5

Grammarly

The line edit, everywhere you type.

Writing & ContentFreemium
Z4.3 / 5

Zapier

The widest integration net.

Agents & AutomationFreemium
LC4.3 / 5

Le Chat

European, fast, open-leaning.

Chat & AssistantsFreemiumLocal
VA4.3 / 5

Venice AI

Private, uncensored chat with open models.

Local & UncensoredFreemium
J4.3 / 5

Jan

Open-source, offline ChatGPT alternative.

Local & UncensoredOpen sourceLocal
C4.3 / 5

Consensus

What does the research actually say?

Search & ResearchFreemium
C4.3 / 5

CodeRabbit

An AI reviewer on every pull request.

Code & Dev ToolsFreemium
L4.3 / 5

Leonardo.Ai

Production image work with model training.

Image GenerationFreemium
I4.3 / 5

Ideogram

Image generation that spells correctly.

Image GenerationFreemium
K4.3 / 5

Krea

Realtime canvas for image and video.

Image GenerationFreemium
S4.3 / 5

Synthesia

Corporate video without a camera crew.

Video & AnimationPaid
U4.3 / 5

Udio

Music generation with fine editing control.

Audio & MusicFreemium
AP4.3 / 5

Adobe Podcast

Studio-quality audio from a bad mic.

Audio & MusicFreemium
L4.3 / 5

LALAL.AI

Stem separation that actually separates.

Audio & MusicFreemium
L4.3 / 5

LlamaIndex

Retrieval plumbing done properly.

Agents & AutomationOpen source
B4.3 / 5

Braintrust

Evaluation as part of the build loop.

Code & Dev ToolsFreemium
R4.3 / 5

RunPod

Cheap GPU rental by the minute.

Code & Dev ToolsPaid
CI4.3 / 5

Cerebras Inference

Wafer-scale speed for open models.

Code & Dev ToolsFreemium
P4.3 / 5

Pinecone

Managed vector search that scales.

Code & Dev ToolsFreemium
M4.3 / 5

Msty

One desktop app for local and cloud models.

Local & UncensoredFreemiumLocal
A4.3 / 5

AnythingLLM

Private document chat in a desktop app.

Local & UncensoredOpen sourceLocal
A4.3 / 5

Axolotl

Config-driven fine-tuning.

Code & Dev ToolsOpen sourceLocal
I4.3 / 5

Invoke

Professional local image generation.

Image GenerationOpen sourceLocal
JA4.3 / 5

Julius AI

A data analyst you can chat with.

Search & ResearchFreemium
FI4.3 / 5

Fin (Intercom)

Support agent that resolves tickets.

Agents & AutomationPaid
V4.3 / 5

Vapi

Build voice agents that answer the phone.

Agents & AutomationFreemium
K4.3 / 5

Khanmigo

A tutor that refuses to give the answer.

Chat & AssistantsFreemium
P4.3 / 5

Photomath

Point a camera at maths, get the steps.

Chat & AssistantsFreemium
G4.3 / 5

Glean

Enterprise search that respects permissions.

Search & ResearchPaid
H4.3 / 5

Helicone

One-line logging for LLM calls.

Code & Dev ToolsOpen sourceLocal
R4.3 / 5

Recraft

Vector-native generation for designers.

Image GenerationFreemium
FA4.3 / 5

Framer AI

Prompt to a published website.

Web DevelopmentFreemium
NA4.2 / 5

Notion AI

Writing help where the docs already are.

Writing & ContentPaid
FM4.2 / 5

Figma Make

Design files that become working apps.

Web DevelopmentPaid
TG4.2 / 5

Text Generation WebUI

The power-user interface for local text models.

Local & UncensoredOpen sourceLocal
P4.2 / 5

Poe

Many models behind one subscription.

Chat & AssistantsFreemium
C4.2 / 5

Continue

Open-source autocomplete and chat for any model.

Code & Dev ToolsOpen sourceLocal
C4.2 / 5

Codeium

Free completion for individual developers.

Code & Dev ToolsFreemium
RA4.2 / 5

Replit Agent

Build and host without leaving the tab.

Web DevelopmentFreemium
AW4.2 / 5

AUTOMATIC1111 WebUI

The classic Stable Diffusion interface.

Image GenerationOpen sourceLocal
MA4.2 / 5

Magnific AI

Upscaling that invents plausible detail.

Image GenerationPaid
P4.2 / 5

PhotoRoom

Product photos without a studio.

Image GenerationFreemium
LD4.2 / 5

Luma Dream Machine

Physically plausible motion from a prompt.

Video & AnimationFreemium
O4.2 / 5

OpusClip

Long videos into short clips, automatically.

Video & AnimationFreemium
M4.2 / 5

Mem0

A memory layer for your agents.

Agents & AutomationOpen source
S4.2 / 5

Sudowrite

A fiction writer's toolkit.

Writing & ContentPaid
AF4.2 / 5

Adobe Firefly

Commercially safe generation for Creative Cloud.

Image GenerationFreemium
ZA4.2 / 5

Zapier Agents

Agents on top of 7,000 app connections.

Agents & AutomationFreemium
L4.2 / 5

LangChain

The framework most agents start in.

Agents & AutomationOpen source
C4.2 / 5

Chroma

The vector store you can run locally.

Code & Dev ToolsOpen sourceLocal
W4.2 / 5

Weaviate

Vector database with built-in vectorisers.

Code & Dev ToolsOpen sourceLocal
U4.2 / 5

Unstructured

Messy documents into clean chunks.

Code & Dev ToolsOpen sourceLocal
O4.2 / 5

Otter.ai

Meeting notes without a note-taker.

Writing & ContentFreemium
C4.2 / 5

Civitai

The community model hub for image gen.

Image GenerationFreemium
F4.2 / 5

Fooocus

Local image generation with no knobs.

Image GenerationOpen sourceLocal
PL4.2 / 5

Perplexity Labs

Research briefs that build their own artefacts.

Search & ResearchPaid
S4.2 / 5

Sierra

Customer-facing agents that take actions.

Agents & AutomationPaid
H4.2 / 5

Harvey

AI built for law firms.

Agents & AutomationPaid
SC4.2 / 5

Snyk Code

Security review in the pull request.

Code & Dev ToolsFreemium
Q4.2 / 5

Qodo

Tests and PR review, generated.

Code & Dev ToolsFreemium
S4.2 / 5

Supermaven

Completion with a very long memory.

Code & Dev ToolsFreemium
D4.2 / 5

Dust

Company assistants over internal data.

Agents & AutomationPaid
P4.2 / 5

Portkey

A gateway with retries and budgets.

Code & Dev ToolsFreemiumLocal
F4.2 / 5

Flowise

Low-code LLM app builder.

Agents & AutomationOpen sourceLocal
M4.2 / 5

Meshy

Text and images into 3D assets.

Image GenerationFreemium
RA4.2 / 5

Retool AI

Internal tools with AI steps built in.

Web DevelopmentFreemium
H4.2 / 5

Hebbia

Document analysis for finance teams.

Search & ResearchPaid
DC4.1 / 5

Dolphin (Cognitive Computations)

Uncensored fine-tunes of popular open models.

Local & UncensoredOpen sourceLocal
K4.1 / 5

KoboldCpp

Single-file local inference for storytelling.

Local & UncensoredOpen sourceLocal
G4.1 / 5

Grok

xAI's assistant with a looser content policy.

Chat & AssistantsFreemium
C4.1 / 5

Cody

Code AI that reads the whole monorepo.

Code & Dev ToolsFreemium
P4.1 / 5

Pika

Short-form video with playful effects.

Video & AnimationFreemium
HA4.1 / 5

Hailuo AI (MiniMax)

Cheap, fast, surprisingly good video.

Video & AnimationFreemium
C4.1 / 5

Captions

Talking-head video on a phone.

Video & AnimationFreemium
OC4.1 / 5

Obsidian Copilot

Local-first AI over your own notes.

Writing & ContentOpen sourceLocal
Q4.1 / 5

QuillBot

Paraphrasing and citation help for students.

Writing & ContentFreemium
C4.1 / 5

CrewAI

Multi-agent teams with defined roles.

Agents & AutomationOpen source
G4.1 / 5

GPT4All

Local chat with your documents, offline.

Local & UncensoredOpen sourceLocal
R4.1 / 5

Rows

A spreadsheet with AI functions built in.

Search & ResearchFreemium
RA4.1 / 5

Retell AI

Phone agents with a visual builder.

Agents & AutomationFreemium
S4.1 / 5

SciSpace

Explain this paper like I'm not a specialist.

Search & ResearchFreemium
L4.1 / 5

Lindy

Personal AI employees for busywork.

Agents & AutomationFreemium
G4.1 / 5

Gumloop

Drag-and-drop AI workflows for teams.

Agents & AutomationFreemium
P4.1 / 5

Pieces

On-device memory of what you were doing.

Code & Dev ToolsFreemiumLocal
P4.1 / 5

PlayAI

Voice cloning and realtime speech.

Audio & MusicFreemium
M4.1 / 5

Murf

Studio voiceover for presentations.

Audio & MusicFreemium
RA4.1 / 5

Resemble AI

Voice cloning with deepfake detection.

Audio & MusicPaid
HA4.1 / 5

Hume AI

A voice that hears how you feel.

Audio & MusicFreemium
T4.1 / 5

Tripo

Fast 3D model generation.

Image GenerationFreemium
SA4.1 / 5

Spline AI

3D scenes for the web, generated.

Image GenerationFreemium
WA4.1 / 5

Webflow AI

AI assistance in a real CMS.

Web DevelopmentFreemium
AO4.1 / 5

Airtable Omni

Agents that work your base.

Agents & AutomationPaid
S4.1 / 5

Spellbook

Contract drafting inside Word.

Agents & AutomationPaid
MC4.0 / 5

Microsoft Copilot

AI inside Windows and Office.

Chat & AssistantsFreemium
T4.0 / 5

Tabnine

Code completion with an air-gapped option.

Code & Dev ToolsPaidLocal
J4.0 / 5

Jasper

Marketing copy with brand guardrails.

Writing & ContentPaid
A4.0 / 5

AutoGen

Microsoft's conversational agent framework.

Agents & AutomationOpen source
P4.0 / 5

PrivateGPT

Ask your documents, disconnect the internet.

Local & UncensoredOpen sourceLocal
A4.0 / 5

Apollo.io

Prospecting database with AI sequencing.

Agents & AutomationFreemium
BA4.0 / 5

Bland AI

Phone calls at enterprise volume.

Agents & AutomationPaid
GA4.0 / 5

Guardrails AI

Validators between the model and your app.

Code & Dev ToolsOpen sourceLocal
F4.0 / 5

Filmora

Consumer video editing with AI helpers.

Video & AnimationPaid
D4.0 / 5

D-ID

Talking portraits from a single photo.

Video & AnimationFreemium
KA4.0 / 5

Kits AI

Voice conversion for musicians.

Audio & MusicFreemium
S4.0 / 5

Soundraw

Royalty-free music you can steer.

Audio & MusicPaid
C3.9 / 5

Copy.ai

Go-to-market workflows, not just copy.

Writing & ContentFreemium
T3.9 / 5

Tome

Narrative-first presentation generation.

Writing & ContentFreemium
B3.9 / 5

Beatoven.ai

Mood-based scoring for video.

Audio & MusicFreemium
U3.9 / 5

Uizard

Sketches into editable UI mockups.

Web DevelopmentFreemium
D3.8 / 5

Durable

A small business site in a minute.

Web DevelopmentPaid

How this index is built

01

Opened by hand

Every link is clicked. If it lands on a waitlist, a dead domain or a reseller wrapper, it doesn't get listed.

02

Filed by strength

Tools are tagged by what they're measurably best at, not by the marketing category they'd prefer.

03

Nothing for sale

No sponsored slots, no affiliate redirects. Ratings reflect use, and the verify date is printed on each entry.