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Midjourney

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Image Generation · Midjourney v7
9.4

The gold standard for aesthetic AI image generation.

Paid· $10/mo Basic; up to $120/mo Megaillustrationconcept art

Braintrust

Featured
Evaluation · Platform (any LLM)
8.9

Eval, monitor, and improve AI products end-to-end.

Freemium· Free up to 1k events/day; team from $249/moevalsmonitoring

Cline

Coding · Model-agnostic: Claude (Anthropic), GPT (OpenAI), Gemini (Google), DeepSeek, Grok, Mistral, Cerebras, plus local Ollama/LM Studio
8.7

Open-source agentic coding assistant that plans, edits, and runs code inside your IDE

Freemium· Open Source: free (BYOK or pay model inference at cost via ClinePass) / Enterprise: custom pricing (contact sales for SSO, SLA, RBAC, team management)Multi-file feature scaffoldingLarge-scale refactors

Nano Banana (Gemini Image)

Image Generation · Gemini 3 Pro Image (Nano Banana Pro), Gemini 3.1 Flash Image (Nano Banana 2), Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite Image (Nano Banana 2 Lite)
8.7

Google DeepMind's Gemini-powered image generation and conversational editing model family

Paid· Consumer access via Gemini app (free tier + Google AI Pro/Ultra subscriptions). API usage-based: Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image) ~$0.134/image at 1K-2K, ~$0.24/image at 4K; Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image) ~$0.067/image at 1K, up to ~$0.151 at higher resolutions; Nano Banana 2 Lite priced lower for high-throughput use. Batch API roughly 50% off. Enterprise pricing via Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform and Vertex AI.Marketing hero imagesProduct mockups and packaging visualisations

Snowflake Cortex

RAG · Anthropic Claude, Meta Llama, Mistral Large 2, Snowflake Arctic
8.7

Generative AI and RAG built into the Snowflake data cloud

Enterprise· Consumption-based via Snowflake credits; requires a Snowflake account. Free trial available at signup.snowflake.com. LLM function usage priced per credit per million tokens; Cortex Search and Analyst billed separately by credits consumed.Enterprise RAG chatbot over governed dataNatural-language SQL for business analysts

Claude Agent SDK

Agents · Claude Opus / Sonnet
8.6

Anthropic's official SDK for building autonomous Claude agents.

Free· Free SDK; API usage billed at Claude ratesClaude agentstool use

DALL·E 3

Image Generation · DALL·E 3
8.6

OpenAI's image model — strong on prompt adherence and text-in-image.

Freemium· Included in ChatGPT Plus; pay-per-image via APIpostersinfographics

IBM watsonx

Agents · IBM Granite (3.x, Code, Time Series), Meta Llama 3.x, Mistral, plus other curated open models
8.6

Enterprise AI platform for building, deploying, and governing models and agents

Enterprise· watsonx.ai has a free tier on IBM Cloud with limited tokens; paid usage is metered per 1M tokens by model family (Granite, Llama, Mistral, etc.). watsonx.governance and watsonx.data are quoted per environment. Enterprise deals via IBM sales; on-prem/Cloud Pak for Data is separately licensed.Enterprise RAG chatbot over private documentsCustomer service agents with guardrails

Canva Magic Studio

Image Generation · Multi-model: partners including OpenAI (Magic Write historically on GPT models), Google Imagen and Runway for image/video, plus Canva's in-house design and layout models
8.5

Canva's all-in-one AI creative suite for design, image, video, copy, and presentations

Freemium· Free tier with limited Magic credits / Canva Pro ~$15/mo (or $120/yr) per user / Canva Teams ~$10/user/mo (3-seat min) / Canva Enterprise custom pricing. Pro unlocks higher Magic Write, Magic Media, and Magic Design usage caps.Social media post generationShort-form video ads

Doubao

Agents · Doubao Seed 2.1 Pro (in-house ByteDance), with Seed 2.0 / 1.5 on free tier
8.5

ByteDance's flagship AI assistant with a real agent mode and one of the largest user bases outside ChatGPT

Freemium· Free tier (chat, search, writing, image gen, voice/video chats) / Doubao Pro RMB 68/mo (~$9.40) / RMB 200/mo (~$27.80) / RMB 500/mo (~$69.40). API: 6 yuan per 1M input tokens, 30 yuan per 1M output tokens for Doubao 2.1 Pro (cache-hit as low as 1.2 yuan).Long-document PDF and Office file summarizationAutonomous browser and local-computer agent tasks

Ideogram

Image Generation · Ideogram 2.0
8.5

Specialises in beautiful, accurate text rendering inside images.

Freemium· Free; Plus $8/mo; Pro $20/motypographylogos

Kittl

Image Generation · Multi-model: ByteDance Seedream 3-4.5, Ideogram 2A/3, Google Imagen 4 + Nano Banana, OpenAI DALL-E 3 / ChatGPT Image, Black Forest Labs Flux
8.5

AI-first design platform combining multi-model image and vector generation with a full browser editor

Freemium· Free (5 projects, 200 one-time AI tokens) / Pro $19/mo ($14/mo yearly, 30 daily AI credits, 10GB) / Expert $45/mo ($34/mo yearly, 80 daily AI credits, 100GB, 6,000 monthly tokens)T-shirt and merch graphic designBadge and vintage-style logo creation

Seedream

Image Generation · ByteDance Seedream (4.0 / 4.5 / 5.0 Lite family, in-house)
8.5

ByteDance's unified text-to-image and image-editing model, served via Volcengine.

Paid· Usage-based via Volcengine / third-party gateways. Approx: Seedream 4.0 ~$0.025-$0.069 per image; Seedream 4.5 ~$0.035-$0.045 per image (fal, OpenRouter list ~$0.04 flat); Seedream 5.0 Lite ~$0.035 per image. Cheaper CN gateway rates (¥0.12-0.20/image) available. Enterprise SLA pricing on request.High-volume ad creative generationE-commerce product photography and variants

Aider

Coding · BYO (Claude / GPT-4 / Gemini / DeepSeek)
8.4

Terminal-based AI pair programmer that writes commits.

Free· Free / open-source; you pay the underlying LLM API costsCLIgit workflow

Amp (Sourcegraph)

Coding · GPT-5.5, Claude Opus 4.8, GPT Image 2 (frontier multi-model)
8.4

Frontier coding agent from Sourcegraph with pass-through model pricing

Freemium· Pay-as-you-go with $5 minimum credit purchase, zero markup on provider API costs; Enterprise tier from $1,000 USD minimum with SSO/SAML, zero data retention, cost controls, and MCP allowlisting.Multi-file refactors across large repositoriesAgentic code generation with subagent parallelism

Magnific

Image Generation · Magnific proprietary + Stable Diffusion / Flux finetunes
8.4

Generative AI upscaler and enhancer that hallucinates believable detail into low-res or AI-generated images.

Paid· Pro $39/mo, Premium $99/mo, Business $299/mo; API from ~€0.10/opimage-upscalingimage-enhancement

Adobe Firefly

Image Generation · Firefly Image 3
8.3

Commercially-safe image gen, integrated into Photoshop and Express.

Freemium· Bundled with Creative Cloud; standalone $9.99/moenterprisePhotoshop integration

Figma AI

Image Generation · Multi-model: routes to OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, Google Gemini, and GitHub-hosted models plus Figma fine-tuned models
8.3

AI workflows built into the design tool product teams already use

Freemium· Included with Figma seats (Free / Professional / Organization / Enterprise); AI features metered via a shared team AI credit pool with pay-as-you-go and subscription top-ups. Exact per-credit rates are set at the team/enterprise level.AI-assisted UI generation from promptsDesign system-aware component search

LangChain

RAG · BYO (any major LLM)
8.3

The broad LLM application framework — chains, agents, retrievers.

Freemium· Free open-source; LangSmith paidgeneral LLM appsRAG

Uizard

Image Generation · in-house Autodesigner (proprietary, LLM + diffusion stack)
8.3

AI-powered UI design and prototyping from text, screenshots, or sketches

Freemium· Free ($0, 3 AI generations/mo, 2 projects) / Pro $12 per user/mo billed annually (500 AI generations/mo, Autodesigner 2.0, up to 100 projects) / Business $39 per user/mo billed annually (5,000 AI generations/mo, unlimited projects, brand kit) / Enterprise custom (unlimited generations, SSO, dedicated support).Text-to-prototype app mockupsScreenshot-to-editable-mockup conversion

BentoML

Agents · Multi-model
8.2

Open-source framework and managed platform for serving and scaling AI models in production.

Freemium· OSS free (Apache 2.0); managed Bento cloud has free tier + usage-based pricingmodel-servingllm-inference

Browser Use

Agents · Multi-model (BYO LLM; Claude in hosted Box)
8.2

Open-source browser automation harness and cloud platform for LLM agents that drive real websites.

Freemium· Free open-source library; cloud usage-based with free tier and enterprise plansweb-automationscraping

CoreWeave

Fine-tuning
8.2

AI-native GPU cloud built for large-scale training, fine-tuning, and inference on NVIDIA hardware.

Enterprise· Contact sales; Capacity Plans with reserved GPU commitmentsmodel-trainingfine-tuning

Google Veo

Video · Veo 3.1
8.2

Google DeepMind's flagship text-to-video model with native audio generation and cinematic camera control.

Paid· Metered via Gemini API; also bundled in Google AI and Workspace planstext-to-videoimage-to-video

Higgsfield

Video · Multi-model (Sora 2, Veo 3.1, Kling 3.0, Seedance 2.0, Nano Banana Pro)
8.2

AI video and image generation suite that aggregates 30+ frontier models under one workflow.

Paid· Subscription tiers (pricing not clearly published on landing)text-to-videoimage-generation

Humanloop

Evaluation · Platform (any LLM)
8.2

Prompt management + evals for collaborative AI teams.

Paid· From $200/mo teamprompt managementteam collab

LanceDB

RAG
8.2

Open-source multimodal lakehouse and vector database built for AI training and retrieval at petabyte scale.

Freemium· Open-source free; LanceDB Cloud and Enterprise via contact salesvector-searchrag

Leonardo.ai

Image Generation · Phoenix / Lightning / fine-tuned variants
8.2

Production-grade image gen for games and design teams.

Freemium· Free 150 daily credits; from $12/mo Apprenticegame artdesign

Lovable

Coding · Undisclosed (multi-model)
8.2

Chat-driven app builder that turns natural-language prompts into deployable full-stack web apps.

Freemium· Free tier; paid plans on pricing page; student + founder discountsapp-prototypingno-code-webapps

Plus AI for Google Slides

Writing · Multi-model (undisclosed)
8.2

AI presentation generator that lives inside Google Slides and PowerPoint rather than forcing a new editor.

Freemium· 7-day free trial; paid plans (Pro/Team/Enterprise)presentation-generationslide-rewriting

Runway

Video · Gen-4.5, GWM-1, Aleph 2.0, Act-Two
8.2

Generative video and world-model platform from one of the original AI-video pioneers.

Freemium· Free credits; paid Standard/Pro/Unlimited tiers + Enterprisetext-to-videoimage-to-video

Writer

Writing · Palmyra (in-house)
8.2

Enterprise generative AI platform built around in-house Palmyra LLMs for regulated, brand-consistent content.

Enterprise· Team from ~$18/user/mo; Enterprise and AI Studio custom-pricedenterprise-writingbrand-voice

Athina AI

Evaluation · Multi-model
8.1

Collaborative LLM evaluation and observability platform for teams shipping AI features to production.

Freemium· Starter free (10k logs/mo); Pro & Enterprise customllm-evaluationprompt-management

Chroma

RAG · Hosted vector DB (not an LLM)
8.1

Embedded, developer-friendly vector store for Python.

Freemium· Free open-source; Chroma Cloud paidprototypingembedded RAG

InVideo AI

Video · Multi-model (Sora 2, Veo 3.1, Kling 3.0, ElevenLabs, Minimax, 200+ others)
8.1

Agentic AI video platform that turns scripts into fully edited, multi-shot videos across 200+ models.

Freemium· Free tier with limits; paid Individual and Team/Enterprise plans (see pricing page)text-to-videoai-video-editing

NightCafe

Image Generation · Multi-model (Flux, DALL-E 3, Ideogram, SDXL, Imagen, Runway, Kling)
8.1

Multi-model AI art generator with a heavy social-network bent and daily community challenges.

Freemium· Free daily credits; PRO subscription for more credits and premium modelstext-to-imageai-video

Recraft

Image Generation · Recraft V4.1
8.1

AI image and vector generator built for designers who actually need editable, brand-consistent output.

Freemium· Free tier in Recraft Studio; paid plans and enterprise tier availabletext-to-imagevector-generation

Windsurf

Coding · SWE-1.6 Fast (plus Claude Agent, OpenCode via ACP)
8.1

AI-native IDE turned agent command center, now folded into Cognition's Devin lineup.

Freemium· Free; Pro $20/mo; Max $200/mo; Teams $80/mo + $40/seat; Enterprise customai-idecoding-agents

Exa

RAG · Proprietary neural + keyword search
8.0

Web search API built for AI agents, with structured outputs and token-efficient highlights.

Freemium· Free playground; paid usage-based plans; enterprise on requestagent-web-searchrag-retrieval

Hume AI

Audio · Octave, EVI, TADA
8.0

Emotionally intelligent voice AI with expressive TTS, speech-to-speech, and human-feedback evaluation APIs.

Freemiumexpressive-ttsvoice-cloning

NovelCrafter

Writing · Multi-model (BYO key: OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Mistral, OpenRouter, Ollama)
8.0

Bring-your-own-key novel-writing workspace with a wiki-style codex and multi-model AI assistance.

Freemium· From $4/mo; 21-day free trial (no credit card); BYO AI API keysnovel-writingworldbuilding

Pika

Video · Pika 2.0
8.0

Playful, social-first AI video generator with creative effects.

Freemium· Free credits; from $10/mo Standard; $35/mo Prosocial videomemes

Playground

Image Generation · Multi-model (GPT Image 2, Nano Banana Pro, Seedream)
8.0

Multi-model AI image generator wrapped in a template-driven design studio and print-on-demand pipeline.

Freemium· Free to start, no credit card; paid tiers for higher usagetext-to-imagetemplate design

Rivet

Agents · Multi-model
8.0

Open-source visual IDE for building and debugging LLM agent graphs.

Free· Free and open source (MIT)agent-orchestrationprompt-chaining

Bing Image Creator

Image Generation · DALL-E 3 (transitioning to Microsoft's newer image/video model)
7.9

Microsoft's free text-to-image generator built into Bing, with daily boost credits and mobile video.

Free· Free; 10 fast generations/day, unlimited slow queue, extra boosts via Microsoft Rewardstext-to-imagetext-to-video

Kaiber

Video · Proprietary (undisclosed)
7.9

AI video generator built around music-reactive animation and image-to-video transforms.

Freemium· Free trial credits; paid plans typically start around $5-15/momusic-videotext-to-video

Google Flow

Video · Veo 3.1, Gemini Omni, Nano Banana
7.8

Google's AI filmmaking studio built around Veo 3.1, Gemini, and natural-language scene editing.

Freemium· Free 50 daily credits; AI Plus $4.99/mo; Pro $19.99/mo; Ultra $99.99–$199.99/motext-to-videovideo-editing

Hedra

Video · Character-3 (proprietary) + multi-model canvas
7.8

AI creative agent for character-driven video, image, and audio generation built around the Character-3 model.

Freemium· Free tier; Basic $15/mo, Creator $30/mo, Professional/Teams $75/mo, Enterprise customtalking-avatar-videocharacter-animation