AI tools guide
Practical guides to the best AI tools: ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, Ollama, CrewAI, NotebookLM, and more. Learn what each tool is best for and how to use it.
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A practical guide to Adobe Firefly, AI image generation built for commercial use, Creative Cloud integration, and design workflows.
Adobe Firefly is included with Creative Cloud subscriptions. Limited free credits are available. Check Adobe's website for current pricing and credit details.
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Aider is a terminal-based AI pair programming tool for editing code with language models. Works directly with your Git repository and supports most major coding languages.
Aider is free and open-source. You pay for the AI model API you use (Claude, GPT-5, etc.).
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AnythingLLM is a private AI workspace for chatting with your documents, files, and knowledge bases using local or cloud AI models.
AnythingLLM is free and open-source (self-hosted). A cloud-hosted version is available. Check the AnythingLLM website for pricing.
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AthenaHQ is an AI search visibility platform for monitoring brand presence in AI-generated answers and tracking performance across AI answer engines.
AthenaHQ has an ongoing free Essential tier (300 monthly credits, unlimited team members, tracking across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, Gemini, and Claude). Starter is $295/month for 9 AI models including Copilot and Grok. Enterprise is custom priced. Check athenahq.ai/pricing for current details.
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Atlas is an AI browser by OpenAI with ChatGPT integrated into the browsing experience for research, navigation, and web-based tasks.
Atlas is being developed by OpenAI. Check the OpenAI website for access and pricing details.
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Augment Code is an AI coding assistant built for large, complex codebases. Its Context Engine indexes your whole repository so its agents can make edits that respect existing patterns, dependencies, and legacy code.
Augment Code uses credit-based paid plans, starting with an entry tier and scaling up to team and enterprise plans. Exact credits and prices change, so check official pricing before you buy.
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Bolt is an AI app builder from StackBlitz that builds full-stack web applications from natural language descriptions, entirely in the browser, with no local setup required.
Bolt offers a free tier with limited token usage. Paid plans provide more tokens for longer and more complex builds. Check the official Bolt website for current pricing.
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Browser Use is an open-source framework for building AI agents that control a web browser. You connect it to an AI model and it can navigate sites, click, fill forms, and extract data to complete tasks.
The Browser Use framework is free and open-source. You bring your own AI model API key (Claude, GPT-5, Gemini, and others). A hosted cloud offering with its own pricing also exists, so check the official site for current details.
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BrowserAct gives AI agents a real browser to control, clicking, filling forms, and extracting live web data, with session persistence and human handoff for browser-based workflows.
BrowserAct offers a free trial to test on a real browser workflow. Check official pricing for current paid plans and details.
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A practical guide to Canva's AI features, Magic Write, Magic Design, text-to-image, and other AI tools inside Canva.
Canva has a free tier that includes some AI features. Canva Pro is around $15/mo and unlocks more. Check canva.com for current plan details.
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Captions is an AI video app built for creators. It handles captions, editing, dubbing, and AI-generated presenters, aimed at short-form and social video that would normally take an editor much longer to produce.
Captions has a free plan with limited credits, plus paid tiers that unlock auto-captioning and generative features. Pricing uses a credit model and changes over time, so check the official Captions pricing page before you subscribe.
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A practical guide to ChatGPT, its current models, best use cases, how to get better results, workflows, and alternatives.
There is a free tier. Paid plans start around $8/mo (Go) and $20/mo (Plus), up to about $200/mo (Pro), plus Business and Enterprise. Plans and model access change often, so check chatgpt.com for what is current.
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A practical guide to Claude by Anthropic, its current models, best use cases, Claude Code, and how it compares to ChatGPT.
There is a free tier with usage limits. Paid plans (Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise) add higher limits and access to the most capable models. Pricing and model availability change often, so check claude.ai for what is current.
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Claude Code is Anthropic's agentic coding tool for working with codebases from the terminal. It reads files, writes code, runs commands, and handles complex multi-step development tasks.
Claude Code is included with paid Claude plans (Pro from around $20/mo, plus higher Max tiers) and is also available through the Anthropic API. Check claude.ai for current access and pricing.
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Claude Design is an Anthropic Labs tool that turns prompts into prototypes, slides, one-pagers, and UI mockups, refined through conversation, inline comments, and custom sliders.
Claude Design is in research preview for Claude Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise subscribers. Check Anthropic's website for current availability and pricing.
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Claude Tag brings Claude into Slack as a shared AI teammate, mention @Claude in a channel to get help with shared thread context and connected-app context where available.
Claude Tag is available in beta for Claude Team and Enterprise customers and replaces the older Claude in Slack app. Check official pricing for current plans and availability.
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Clay is a sales and lead enrichment platform that helps teams research prospects, fill in missing data, and personalize outreach at scale.
Pricing and plans can change. Check the official Clay website for current plan details.
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Cline is an open-source AI coding agent for VS Code that can plan, edit files, run commands, and complete development tasks using your choice of AI model.
Cline is free and open-source. You pay for the AI model API you connect to it (Claude, GPT-5, Gemini, etc.).
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Codex is an AI coding agent by OpenAI for building, editing, and debugging code in a cloud-based environment. It reads your codebase, writes code, runs tests, and handles multi-step development tasks.
Codex is included with paid ChatGPT plans (Plus around $20/mo, Pro around $200/mo) and Team. Check the OpenAI website for current access and pricing.
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Coinbase x402 is an open payment protocol that lets apps, APIs, and AI agents make instant stablecoin payments over HTTP, using the HTTP 402 'Payment Required' status to automate machine-to-machine payments.
x402 is an open protocol that's free to adopt. Coinbase's hosted facilitator on the Coinbase Developer Platform offers a free tier (reported at 1,000 transactions/month); on-chain stablecoin payments still incur network and transaction costs. See the official docs for current details.
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Comet is an AI browser by Perplexity for research, browsing, and web-based tasks, with Perplexity's search AI integrated directly into the browsing experience.
Comet is being developed by Perplexity. Check the Perplexity website for access and pricing details.
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Conduit is a local-first MCP gateway that cuts tool-token overhead by routing many MCP servers through a small set of meta-tools, keeping an agent's context lean as you add tools.
Conduit is open-source and local-first. It's free to use, but it's an advanced developer tool that requires understanding of MCP and agent tooling to set up.
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Copy.ai is an AI writing platform focused on marketing copy, ads, emails, landing pages, social posts, and sales content. It's designed for marketing teams and agencies who need high-volume, on-brand content without starting from scratch every time.
Copy.ai offers a free plan with limited credits. Paid plans unlock unlimited content generation, workflows, and team features. Check the official Copy.ai website for current pricing.
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CrewAI is a framework for building and orchestrating teams of AI agents. Agents take on roles, share tools, and collaborate to complete complex workflows.
CrewAI is open-source and free to use as a framework. CrewAI+ (the managed platform) has paid tiers. Check the CrewAI website for current pricing.
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Cua is open-source infrastructure for computer-use agents, sandboxes, SDKs, and benchmarks that let AI agents control full desktops through CLI, MCP, and background automation.
Cua is open-source (MIT). It's free to use, but running computer-use agents still requires technical setup and compute resources.
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Cursor is an AI-native code editor built on VS Code. It's the dominant coding tool for developers using AI in 2026, with full codebase context, multi-file editing, and an AI that understands your entire project, not just the file you're in.
There is a free tier. Pro is around $20/mo, with higher Pro+ and Ultra tiers (roughly $60 and $200/mo). Check cursor.com for current pricing.
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Daemons by Charlie Labs are always-on AI agents that monitor PRs, issues, CI, docs, Slack, Linear, GitHub, and Sentry to keep engineering work moving without constant prompting.
Charlie Labs offers a free plan that can run several daemons; check the Charlie Labs website for current plans and pricing.
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Databricks Genie One is an agentic coworker for business teams that helps people work with company data, tools, and workflows, grounded in governed enterprise data.
Databricks Genie One is an enterprise product. Pricing is not publicly listed, contact Databricks sales or check official pricing for availability and details.
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A practical guide to DeepSeek, best use cases, how to get better results, and how it compares to ChatGPT and Claude.
DeepSeek is free to use on the web, and its developer API is low cost compared to most rivals. Check the official DeepSeek website for current details.
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Descript is an AI-powered video and podcast editor where you edit your audio and video by editing the transcript, like a document. It also removes filler words, cleans up audio, and lets you overdub your voice with AI.
Descript has a free plan. Paid plans start around $16 to $24/mo and scale up for full AI features and higher exports. Check descript.com for current pricing.
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Devin is an AI software engineering agent that plans, writes code, debugs, and ships tasks end-to-end. Designed to handle full development workflows with minimal manual direction.
Devin starts at around $500/month. Check the Devin website for current plans and pricing.
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Dia is an AI-first browser designed around browsing, search, and assistant-style workflows, combining traditional web browsing with integrated AI assistance.
Check the Dia website for current access and pricing.
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DiffusionGemma is an experimental open-weights Google Gemma model that generates text using diffusion, refining blocks of tokens in parallel instead of strictly one token at a time, for faster output.
DiffusionGemma is an open-weights, experimental model available free through Google's Gemma resources; you provide your own compute. Check the official documentation for access and license terms.
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A practical guide to ElevenLabs, AI voice generation, text-to-speech, voice cloning, and audio content creation.
ElevenLabs has a free tier with limited monthly credits. Paid plans start around $5/mo and scale up for more characters and voice cloning. Check elevenlabs.io for current pricing.
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fal's LTX LoRA trainers let you fine-tune custom LoRA adapters on Lightricks' LTX video models, training your own style or motion from a small set of videos, with optional synced audio.
fal's LTX trainer is usage-based, training is billed per step (around $0.0048/step, so a default 2,000-step run is roughly $9.60). Check fal.ai for current pricing.
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Fathom is an AI meeting notetaker that records, transcribes, and summarizes your video calls automatically. It's the highest-rated tool in its category, and its free plan includes unlimited recording with no time limits.
Fathom has a free plan with unlimited recording and AI summaries, one of the most generous free tiers in the meeting AI category. Paid plans add team features, CRM integrations, and additional sharing options. Check the official Fathom website for current pricing.
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Fellou is an agentic browser designed to help users browse, research, and automate web tasks using built-in AI assistance and agent capabilities.
Check the Fellou website for current access and pricing.
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Figma Make and Figma AI bring AI features into Figma to speed up design ideas, prototyping, and interface work for product and design teams.
Pricing and plans can change. Check the official Figma website for current plan details.
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Fin is Intercom's AI customer service agent that resolves customer support questions across helpdesk and support workflows, priced per successful resolution.
Fin is priced per successful resolution (around $0.99 per outcome), with additional costs if used inside Intercom's helpdesk. Check official pricing for current rates.
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Fireflies.ai is a team-focused AI meeting recorder that transcribes, summarizes, and makes every meeting searchable across your organization. It integrates with CRMs, project tools, and collaboration platforms to automate meeting follow-up.
Fireflies.ai has a free plan with limited storage and transcription minutes. Paid plans unlock unlimited storage, more AI features, and CRM integrations. Check the official Fireflies.ai website for current pricing.
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Framer is a no-code website builder with AI features that help you generate layouts, write and edit content, and publish a live site. It combines visual design with built-in hosting and a CMS.
Framer has a free plan plus paid tiers that add custom domains, more pages, CMS capacity, and AI credits. Prices and credit limits change, so check the official Framer pricing page before you commit.
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A practical guide to Gamma, the AI-powered presentation and document tool that turns prompts into polished slides.
Gamma has a free tier with limited AI credits. Paid plans start around $10 to $20/mo for more credits and features. Check gamma.app for current pricing.
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A practical guide to Google Gemini, its current models, Workspace integration, computer use, and how it compares to ChatGPT and Claude.
There is a free version. Paid access comes through Google AI plans (roughly $8/mo for Plus, $20/mo for Pro, and higher for Ultra), which bundle Gemini with Google One storage and other Google perks. Plans and model access change often, so check the official site for what is current.
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Gemini CLI is an open-source command-line AI assistant by Google for coding, debugging, file management, and developer workflows using Gemini models.
Gemini CLI is free and open-source. It uses the Gemini API, which has a free tier with generous limits. Check Google AI Studio for current API pricing.
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Gemini Code Assist is Google's AI coding assistant for the IDE. It brings Gemini models into editors like VS Code, JetBrains, and Android Studio for code generation, explanation, and chat, with a large context window for reasoning across a codebase.
Gemini Code Assist is offered in different editions, including options for individuals and for business and enterprise use. Availability, features, and prices vary by plan and can change, so check Google's official pricing before you rely on a tier.
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Genspark is an AI search and research tool for finding, organizing, and summarizing information across sources to build a clearer picture of a topic.
Pricing and plans can change. Check the official Genspark website for current plan details.
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GitHits gives AI coding agents source-backed access to open-source code, building a version-aware index of packages, dependencies, docs, and changelogs so agents stop guessing and reduce hallucinations.
GitHits is in beta (0.9). Check the GitHits website for current access and pricing.
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GitHub Spec Kit is an open-source toolkit for spec-driven development, guiding AI coding agents through a spec, plan, tasks, and code workflow instead of generating code straight from a vague prompt.
GitHub Spec Kit is free and open source. It works alongside whichever coding agent you already pay for, such as GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, or Gemini CLI. Check official sources for current details.
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GLM 5.2 is an open-weight AI model from Z.ai with a 1M-token context window, strong coding performance, and options for API access or self-hosting, built for coding, research, and agent workflows.
GLM 5.2 weights are open (MIT license) and free to download, but running them yourself needs serious hardware. Z.ai also offers paid API access and a GLM Coding Plan. Check official pricing for current rates.
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Google Vids is Google Workspace's AI-powered video creation tool for turning ideas, docs, and slides into videos, with templates, AI voiceovers, and AI avatars, right in your browser.
Google Vids is generally available on Business and Enterprise Google Workspace plans. Check Google Workspace for current plan details and pricing.
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A practical guide to Grammarly AI, AI writing assistance, grammar checking, tone adjustment, and GrammarlyGO features.
Grammarly has a free tier. Pro is around $12/mo on annual billing, more if paid monthly, and unlocks the AI writing features. Check grammarly.com for current pricing.
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Granola is an AI meeting notes tool that listens to your conversations and turns them into organized, useful notes and summaries, without you needing to type anything.
Granola offers a free tier with limited meetings per month. Paid plans unlock more meetings and features. Check the Granola website for current pricing.
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A practical guide to Grok by xAI, real-time web access, X integration, and how it compares to ChatGPT and Claude.
Grok has a free tier. Paid access starts at around $8/mo through X Premium, with higher SuperGrok tiers from about $30/mo. Check grok.com for current plans.
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Gumloop is an AI automation tool for building workflows that combine AI steps, data, and business tasks on a visual canvas.
Pricing and plans can change. Check the official Gumloop website for current plan details.
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herdr is an open-source, terminal-based agent multiplexer. It runs, monitors, and coordinates multiple AI coding agents from one terminal, with a live view of which agents are working, blocked, or done.
herdr is free and open-source (a single Rust binary, no account, no telemetry). You still pay for whatever AI agents and models you run inside it. Check the official GitHub repository for the current license and install steps.
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Hermes Agent is an open-source personal AI agent focused on long-term memory, skill building, and self-improving workflows that grow more useful over time.
Hermes Agent is free and open-source. You connect your own AI model API.
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HeyGen is an AI avatar video platform that lets you create professional presenter videos with realistic AI avatars, without appearing on camera yourself. Used widely for marketing, training, and multilingual content.
HeyGen has a free plan with limited videos. Paid plans start around $29/mo, with higher Pro and Business tiers. Check heygen.com for current pricing.
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Higgsfield AI is an AI video tool for creating short cinematic and social-style video content from prompts and visual ideas.
Pricing and plans can change. Check the official Higgsfield AI website for current plan details.
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Honen turns documents, recordings, videos, topics, or internal knowledge into structured training courses, with activities, projects, and a built-in AI tutor, that teams can actually complete.
Check the official site for current pricing and plans.
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Hugging Face is the central platform for open-source AI, home to thousands of models, datasets, and live demos that can be tested, downloaded, and deployed.
Hugging Face is free to use models and Spaces (demos). Paid tiers exist for compute, private models, and enterprise features. Check the Hugging Face website for current pricing.
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HumanLayer is an agentic IDE and collaboration platform for engineering teams, helping humans and AI coding agents work together on real implementation tasks with review built in.
HumanLayer is aimed at engineering teams. Check the official website for current plans and pricing.
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Ideogram is an AI image generator purpose-built for creating images that contain readable text. It achieves around 90% text accuracy, far ahead of most other AI image tools, making it the best choice for social graphics, posters, logos, and any image where readable text matters.
Ideogram offers a free tier with daily generation limits. Paid plans unlock more generations, faster processing, and private images. Check the official Ideogram website for current pricing.
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Jan is an open-source desktop app for running AI models privately and offline on your own computer, simple, free, and designed for everyday use.
Jan is free and open-source. No subscription required.
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A practical guide to Jasper AI, AI writing for marketing teams, brand voice consistency, and content at scale.
Jasper has no free tier but offers a trial. Paid plans start around $49/mo for individuals, with team plans from about $125/mo. Check jasper.ai for current pricing.
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Jules is an autonomous coding agent by Google for handling development tasks like bug fixes, feature implementation, and code changes on your codebase.
Jules is currently in beta via Google. Check the Jules website for access and pricing details.
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Killed by OpenAI is a community tracker that documents the lifecycle of OpenAI products, features, and APIs, marking what is alive, killed, or a zombie (shipped but left to rot).
Killed by OpenAI is a free public tracker / reference resource.
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Kilo Code is an open-source AI coding agent that works across VS Code, JetBrains, the command line, and the cloud, with support for hundreds of AI models and modes for planning, coding, and debugging.
Kilo Code is open source (Apache-2.0) and free to install; you pay for the AI models you connect to it. Check the official site for current details.
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Kimi Code is Moonshot AI's terminal coding agent, written in TypeScript and powered by Kimi models. It reads and edits code, runs shell commands, and dispatches coder, explore, and plan subagents for focused work.
The Kimi Code CLI is free and MIT-licensed. Using it needs model access through Kimi Code sign-in or a Moonshot AI Open Platform API key, which is paid. Check official pricing for current plans.
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Kimi K3 is Moonshot AI's open-weight frontier model, a 2.8-trillion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts system with native vision and a 1M-token context window, reported to rival Claude Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 on capability benchmarks.
Kimi K3 is open-weight, so the weights themselves are free to download once released. Using it through Kimi.com or the Moonshot AI Open Platform API is paid, usage-based access. Check official sources for current rates.
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Kling AI is a leading AI video generator known for cinematic quality, long video support, and strong prompt adherence, at a lower cost per second than most competitors.
Kling AI offers a free tier with limited credits. Paid plans offer more generation credits and access to higher-quality models. Check the official Kling AI website for current pricing.
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Starter from $9/month (500 credits). Pro $20/month (1,500 credits). Ultra $49/month (4,000 credits). Max $119/month (10,000 credits, team features). Guest mode available with 3 messages per day.
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Krea AI is a creative tool for generating, editing, and refining visuals, with real-time controls that make exploring image ideas fast.
Pricing and plans can change. Check the official Krea AI website for current plan details.
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LangGraph is an open-source framework for building stateful, controllable AI agent workflows with fine-grained control over agent logic, state, and flow.
LangGraph is open-source and free. LangSmith (the observability platform) has a free tier and paid plans. Check the LangChain website for details.
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Leonardo.ai is a popular AI image generation platform with a wide range of fine-tuned models, strong character consistency, and a large creative community. It's a versatile alternative to Midjourney with a generous free tier.
Leonardo.ai offers a free tier with daily token allowances. Paid plans provide more tokens, faster generation, and access to premium models and features. Check the official Leonardo.ai website for current pricing.
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Lindy is a no-code AI agent platform for automating business workflows, from email management and scheduling to customer support and lead handling.
Lindy offers a free tier with limited actions. Paid plans unlock more agents and automations. Check the Lindy website for current pricing.
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Linear Coding Sessions let the Linear Agent turn an issue into implementation, reading the issue and discussion, investigating the codebase, writing a fix in the cloud, and opening a pull request for review.
Coding sessions are available on Linear's Basic, Business, and Enterprise plans, and require a linked GitHub account. Check Linear for current plan details and pricing.
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LM Studio is a beginner-friendly desktop app for downloading and running AI models privately on your own device, no cloud required, no coding needed.
LM Studio is free to use. Some advanced features may require a subscription. Check the LM Studio website for details.
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LocalClicky is an open-source, offline Mac voice assistant that controls your computer by voice, opening apps, moving files, and clicking on-screen elements while keeping data local.
LocalClicky is open-source and free. It runs locally using models like Whisper and Ollama, so you supply the hardware and do some technical setup.
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Lovable is an AI app builder that creates full-stack web applications from conversation. Describe what you want to build and Lovable generates the frontend, backend, and database, no coding required.
Lovable has a free plan with limited message credits. Paid plans start around $25/mo (Pro), with a Business tier around $50/mo. Check lovable.dev for current pricing.
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Luma AI's Dream Machine generates video clips from text prompts, images, or visual concepts, making AI video accessible for creators and marketers.
Pricing and plans can change. Check the official Luma AI website for current plan details.
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Magic Patterns is an AI prototyping tool that turns prompts into UI prototypes and product screens, helping founders, designers, and product teams visualize ideas quickly.
Check the official site for current pricing and plans.
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Make is a visual automation platform for connecting apps, moving data between them, and building repeatable workflows without writing code.
Pricing and plans can change. Check the official Make website for current plan details.
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Manus is a general AI agent for researching, planning, building, and completing complex tasks that span multiple steps, tools, and sources.
Manus is currently invite-based. Check the Manus website for access and pricing details.
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Mem is an AI notes and knowledge assistant that captures, organizes, and surfaces your information automatically, so you can focus on thinking, not filing.
Mem offers a free tier with limited AI features. Pro plans unlock more AI usage and larger storage. Check the Mem website for current pricing.
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A practical guide to Meta AI, free AI assistant built into WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook, and Messenger.
Meta AI is completely free to use across all Meta platforms and at meta.ai.
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A practical guide to Microsoft Copilot, free GPT-5 access, Office 365 integration, and best use cases for work.
The web version at copilot.microsoft.com is free. Personal paid access comes through Microsoft 365 (around $20/mo), and Microsoft 365 Copilot for business is about $30/user/mo on top of an eligible plan. Check Microsoft for current pricing.
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A practical guide to Midjourney, AI image generation, best prompting techniques, and how it compares to other image tools.
Midjourney has no free tier. Paid plans run from about $10/mo (Basic) up to $120/mo (Mega). Check midjourney.com for current pricing.
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Miso One, also called Miso TTS, is an 8B open-weights text-to-speech model from Miso Labs focused on expressive, emotive voice generation, with weights available on Hugging Face.
Open-weights model (released under a modified MIT license), free to download and run yourself; you provide your own compute. Miso Labs has indicated hosted API access is coming. Check the official sources for details.
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ML Intern is an open-source AI research agent from Hugging Face that automates parts of the machine learning research loop, reading papers, finding datasets, running experiments, and evaluating models.
ML Intern is open-source and free to use, but running real experiments requires compute (GPUs) and model/API access, which carry costs.
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Muse Image is Meta's AI image generation model, built by Meta Superintelligence Labs. It creates and edits images from text prompts inside Meta AI, Instagram, and WhatsApp, and is rolling out to advertiser tools.
Meta says Muse Image is free for everyday use, with higher generation limits offered through Meta's subscription plans. It is newly launched and rolling out across Meta apps, so availability and limits vary. Check Meta's official pages for current access.
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n8n is an open-source workflow automation platform, a more flexible, self-hostable alternative to Zapier. It connects hundreds of apps and APIs, supports code nodes for custom logic, and has strong AI workflow capabilities including native LLM integration.
n8n can be self-hosted for free (open-source). n8n Cloud is available with a paid subscription for those who don't want to manage their own server. Check the official n8n website for current cloud pricing.
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Napkin AI turns your text into simple visuals, diagrams, and presentation-style graphics, so you can explain ideas without designing from scratch.
Pricing and plans can change. Check the official Napkin AI website for current plan details.
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Niobium is a hardware-accelerated fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) platform that lets applications and AI workloads compute on encrypted data without ever decrypting it, with decryption keys held only by the data owner.
Niobium's platform, The Fog, is in early access through a developer partner program rather than open general availability. Check the official site for current access terms and pricing.
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Norm AI builds regulatory AI agents for legal and compliance work. It turns regulations, laws, and corporate policies into structured AI systems that help regulated organizations review and govern their workflows.
Norm AI is an enterprise platform aimed at regulated organizations, and it does not publish standard consumer pricing. Check official pricing and contact Norm AI for access, availability, and terms.
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NotebookLM is a free AI research and learning tool by Google for analyzing sources, notes, documents, and ideas, turning your uploaded materials into an interactive AI knowledge base.
NotebookLM is free to use. NotebookLM Plus, with higher limits, is included in paid Google AI plans (around $20/mo). Check the Google website for current details.
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A practical guide to Notion AI, how it works, best use cases, and when it adds value inside Notion.
Notion has a free tier. AI features are now included in paid plans, with Plus around $10/seat/mo and Business around $20/seat/mo. Check notion.so for current pricing.
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Ollama is the easiest way to run AI language models on your own computer. Download models and run them locally with a single command, no cloud, no subscription.
Ollama is free and open-source. You run it on your own hardware at no cost.
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Ona (formerly Gitpod) is an AI agent platform built on secure, persistent cloud development environments, designed to run autonomous software-engineering agents across the development lifecycle.
Ona (formerly Gitpod) offers cloud plans, check the official site for current pricing. Note: in June 2026 OpenAI announced it is acquiring Ona to integrate its secure agent execution into the Codex ecosystem.
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Open Design is an open-source, local-first AI design tool focused on design systems, editing workflows, and code handoff, an agent-native, BYOK alternative to closed design apps.
Open Design is open-source (Apache-2.0) and free to use under a bring-your-own-key model, but setup is technical and you supply your own AI provider credentials.
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Open WebUI is a self-hosted web interface for using local and cloud AI models with a ChatGPT-style UI, runs on your own machine or server.
Open WebUI is free and open-source. You run it yourself on your own hardware or server.
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OpenClaw is a local-first personal AI agent for connecting tasks across apps, files, email, calendar, and messages, running on your own device.
OpenClaw is free and open-source. Runs locally on your device.
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OpenCode is an open-source AI coding agent for the terminal, IDE, and developer workflows. Bring your own AI model and use it to build, edit, and debug software.
OpenCode is free and open-source. You connect your own AI model API.
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OpenRouter is a unified API platform for accessing and comparing hundreds of AI models from different providers through a single API integration.
OpenRouter is pay-per-use based on model and token usage. Many models have free tiers. Check the OpenRouter website for current model pricing.
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OpenScience is an open-source, model-agnostic AI workbench for scientific research from Synthetic Sciences. It runs the full research loop across machine learning, biology, physics, and chemistry using agent skills and scientific databases.
OpenScience is open-source and released under a permissive license. It is bring-your-own-key: you supply your own model API keys (or run local models) and pay those providers directly. Check the official GitHub repository for the current license and setup.
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Otter.ai is an AI meeting assistant that records, transcribes, and summarizes conversations. Its OtterPilot bot joins Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams calls, captures a live transcript, and produces summaries with action items.
Otter.ai has a free plan with a monthly transcription-minute limit, plus Pro, Business, and Enterprise tiers that add more minutes and features. Minute limits and prices change, so check the official Otter.ai pricing page before you subscribe.
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Otterly AI is a monitoring tool for tracking how your brand, content, and products are mentioned and cited in AI search results and AI-generated answers.
Otterly AI starts at $29/month (Lite plan, 15 prompts, 4 AI engines: ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, Microsoft Copilot). Standard is $189/month and Premium is $489/month. Claude, Gemini, and Google AI Mode are paid add-ons rather than included by default. A free trial is available with no credit card required. Check otterly.ai/pricing for current details.
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Palmier Pro is an open-source macOS video editor built for AI agents, where you and tools like Claude or Codex can generate and edit video, images, and audio directly on the timeline.
Palmier Pro is an open-source macOS app (macOS 26 Tahoe or later). Check the Palmier website for current details and any paid options.
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Peec AI is an analytics tool for monitoring brand visibility and citations in AI search engines and AI-generated answers.
Peec AI uses a four-tier plan structure: Starter, Pro, Advanced, and Enterprise (custom). Third-party pricing trackers report Starter around $89 to $95/month for a limited number of prompts and AI models, but Peec AI's own pricing page does not publish exact figures, so treat that number as a starting estimate and confirm on peec.ai/pricing.
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A practical guide to Perplexity AI, best use cases, how it differs from ChatGPT, and when to choose it for research.
There is a free tier. Perplexity Pro is around $20/mo, and a higher Max tier is around $200/mo. Pricing changes often, so check perplexity.ai for current plans.
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Perplexity Brain is a self-improving memory system for Perplexity's Computer agent that builds a living context graph of your projects, files, and sources so tasks start with prior context.
Brain is available in research preview for Perplexity Max and Enterprise Max subscribers. Check Perplexity for current availability and pricing.
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Pika is an AI video generator built for social creators. It specializes in short, expressive video clips with unique effects, designed for Reels, TikTok, and Shorts content.
Pika offers a free tier with limited credits. Paid plans provide more generation credits and access to advanced features. Check the official Pika website for current pricing.
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pool is Poolside's coding agent that runs in your terminal or integrates with any ACP-compatible editor, with support for MCP tools, skills, and AGENTS.md project context.
pool is Poolside's coding agent CLI. The CLI is free to install, but model/API usage may carry costs depending on your setup. Check official sources for current details.
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Laguna S 2.1 is Poolside's open-weight coding model, a 118-billion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts system built for agentic software engineering that runs on a single GPU and ships under Poolside's own OpenMDW-1.1 license.
Laguna S 2.1's weights are free to download under the OpenMDW-1.1 license. Running it yourself still costs GPU hardware or cloud compute. It's also available through OpenRouter on a usage basis. Check official sources for current details.
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Profound is an AI search visibility platform for tracking how brands, products, and content appear in AI-generated answers across tools like ChatGPT and Perplexity.
Profound doesn't publish self-serve pricing; its official pricing page is demo-gated. Third-party pricing trackers report a Starter plan around $99/month (ChatGPT only) and a Growth plan around $399/month (adds Perplexity and Google AI Overviews), with Enterprise custom-quoted and reportedly running $2,000 or more per month for full multi-engine coverage. Book a demo at tryprofound.com to confirm current pricing.
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Qwen3.8-Max is Alibaba's flagship 2.4-trillion-parameter multimodal model, currently available as a preview with no published model card or benchmarks, ahead of a promised future open-weight release.
Qwen3.8-Max Preview is accessed through Alibaba Cloud's Token Plan, which is usage-based. Alibaba has said an open-weight release is coming but has not confirmed a license, date, or price for self-hosting. Check official sources for current terms.
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Ramp Stack is an AI operating system for accounting firms and finance teams, built to automate bookkeeping, reconciliations, journal entries, and month-end close, with human review built into the process.
Ramp Stack is built for accounting firms and finance teams; pricing is not publicly listed. Contact Ramp for access and pricing.
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Relay is an AI phone receptionist that answers calls, books and reschedules appointments, and builds a working voice agent from your business website, aimed at small and service businesses.
Relay offers a free way to get started with no card required. Check official pricing for current paid plans and usage details.
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Replit Agent is an AI coding agent built into Replit that helps you build, edit, and ship web apps from plain-language instructions, without leaving the browser.
Pricing and plans can change. Check the official Replit website for current plan details.
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Rerun is a no-code platform for building AI agents that handle recurring operational tasks, like chasing invoices or qualifying leads, with live visibility and required approval before sensitive actions.
Check rerun.build for current pricing and plans, since no-code agent platforms often price by usage, seats, or workspace.
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Retool is a platform for building internal business apps, dashboards, and workflows fast, with AI features to help create and deploy internal tools without building everything from scratch.
Retool offers free and paid plans, typically priced per user across team, business, and enterprise tiers. Check official pricing for current details.
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Reve 2.0 is an AI image generation and editing model focused on high-resolution output and a layout-based approach that lets you position, resize, and rewrite individual elements before rendering.
Reve offers free credits with paid plans for heavier use. Check the official site for current pricing.
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A practical guide to Runway, AI video generation, video editing tools, and creative AI for video content creators.
Runway has a free tier with limited credits. Paid plans start around $12 to $15/mo and scale up for more generation credits. Check runwayml.com for current pricing.
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Screenpipe is an open-source, local-first tool that continuously records your screen and audio, turning your own computer activity into a searchable, private memory layer for AI agents.
Screenpipe is open source and free to self-host. Check the official site for any hosted or paid add-ons, since offerings can change.
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Scrunch AI is an AI visibility tool for helping brands understand and improve how they appear in AI-generated answers and search responses.
Scrunch AI's Starter plan is $250/month billed annually (or $300/month month-to-month), covering ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Google AI Mode, and Meta AI on every plan. Growth is $417/month annual ($500 month-to-month). A 7-day free trial of Starter is available with no credit card. Check scrunch.com/pricing for current details.
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Seedance is ByteDance's AI video generation model family from the Seed team. It creates cinematic video from text and images, with newer versions adding native audio and multimodal audio-video generation.
Seedance is accessed through ByteDance's Volcano Engine and through third-party API providers rather than a single consumer plan. Check official pricing and access options. Availability may vary by platform, region, and provider.
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A practical guide to Suno, AI music generation, creating songs from text prompts, and use cases for creators and marketers.
Suno has a free tier with daily credits. Paid plans start around $10/mo, with a higher Premier tier around $30/mo. Check suno.com for current pricing and licensing.
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Synthesia is an enterprise AI avatar video platform for creating professional training, onboarding, and communication videos using 230+ AI avatars in 140+ languages, without cameras, studios, or video crews.
Synthesia has a free plan with limited minutes. Paid plans start around $18 to $29/mo and scale up by video minutes and team size. Check synthesia.io for current pricing.
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Tana is an AI-powered knowledge and productivity workspace for structured notes, tasks, and thinking, designed around a flexible, node-based structure.
Check the Tana website for current pricing and availability.
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Tinker is Thinking Machines Lab's managed API for fine-tuning open-weight language models, handling distributed training infrastructure while letting you write the training loop yourself.
Tinker is a paid, usage-based API for managed fine-tuning. Check thinkingmachines.ai for current pricing.
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Udio is an AI music generation platform that creates complete songs from text prompts. It's Suno's main rival, known for cleaner mixes, better instrumental quality, and more hands-on control over the generation process.
Udio offers a free tier with monthly generation credits. Paid plans provide more credits and additional features. Check the official Udio website for current pricing.
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v0 is Vercel's AI UI generator. Describe a user interface in plain language and v0 produces production-quality React and Next.js components, ready to copy into your project or deploy directly to Vercel.
v0 has a free tier with daily credits. Paid plans start around $20/mo for more credits and features. Check v0.dev for current pricing.
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Vapi is a developer platform for building, testing, and deploying conversational voice AI agents for phone calls, support, sales, and automated voice workflows.
Vapi charges a per-minute platform fee (from around $0.05/min) on top of the model, transcription, voice, and telephony costs you bring, so total per-minute cost varies. Check the official pricing page for current rates.
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Vellum is a memory-first personal AI assistant from Vellum AI that learns your preferences, remembers context across channels like macOS, Slack, and Telegram, and can take actions on your behalf. It's open source and self-hostable.
Vellum is open source (MIT) and can be self-hosted for free plus your own model/API costs. A managed Vellum Cloud offers a free tier and paid plans. Check official pricing for current details.
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Veo is Google's AI video generation model, available through Google and Gemini. It's known for the highest level of realism in AI video and is the only model that generates synchronized dialogue and ambient audio natively.
Veo is available through Google's AI products and Gemini. Access and pricing depend on which Google product or plan you use. Check Google's official pages for current availability and pricing.
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Willow is an AI voice dictation tool that turns speech into clean written text across your apps. It formats as you speak, removes filler words, and learns your writing style for email, notes, messages, and prompts.
Willow offers a free way to try it without a credit card, plus paid plans. Prices and limits change, so check the official Willow pricing page for current details.
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Windsurf is an AI-native code editor for building software with integrated coding agents. Built by Codeium, it competes directly with Cursor with its own agentic coding features.
Windsurf has a free tier with limited AI features. Pro plans unlock more AI usage and advanced features. Check the Codeium website for current pricing.
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Winn.AI is an AI sales assistant that joins sales calls in real time, takes notes, updates CRM fields, helps with follow-ups, and gives reps live guidance and playbook prompts.
Winn.AI does not list public pricing on its homepage. Check the official site for current plans and pricing.
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Zapier is the most widely used no-code automation platform, connecting 7,000+ apps so they work together automatically. With built-in AI features, you can now build automations that include AI-powered steps, not just data transfers.
Zapier offers a free plan with limited Zaps and tasks per month. Paid plans unlock more Zaps, tasks, and premium app connections. Pricing scales with the number of tasks automated monthly. Check the official Zapier website for current pricing.
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ZCode is Z.ai's official agentic development environment for GLM-5.2, with a built-in terminal, git tools, and a Goals workflow for planning, editing, and verifying code across long-running tasks.
ZCode is free to download for macOS, Windows, and Linux. It runs on a paid GLM Coding Plan underneath (tiers start around $16.20/month at the time of writing). Check official pricing for current rates.
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