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Claude

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Writing · Claude Opus / Sonnet
9.6

Anthropic's flagship assistant for long-form writing, analysis, and coding.

Freemium· Free tier; Pro $20/mo; Max $100–$200/molong-form writingsummarization

GPT-4o

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Writing · GPT-4o
9.4

OpenAI's multimodal flagship behind ChatGPT.

Freemium· Free tier; Plus $20/mo; Pro $200/mogeneral writingsummarization

LlamaIndex

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RAG · BYO (Claude / GPT / open)
8.7

Data framework for connecting LLMs to your data.

Freemium· Free open-source; LlamaCloud paidRAGdata ingestion

Udio

Audio · Udio (proprietary)
8.8

Suno's main rival for AI-generated full songs.

Freemium· Free; Standard $10/mo; Pro $30/mofull songsmusic demos

Ernie Bot

Agents · Baidu ERNIE 4.0 / ERNIE X1 / ERNIE Turbo (in-house)
8.7

Baidu's Mandarin-first ChatGPT rival, powered by the ERNIE model family

Freemium· Free tier for Ernie 3.5 access; Ernie 4.0 and premium features require a paid subscription (approximately CNY 59.9/month for individual plans); enterprise API pricing via Baidu AI Cloud Qianfan platform is metered per 1K tokens.Mandarin content writing and marketing copyChinese-language document Q&A and summarisation

Glean

Agents · Model-agnostic: routes across 35+ LLMs including GPT-4o, Claude 3.5/4 Sonnet, Gemini 1.5/2, Llama 3, Mistral, plus Glean in-house models
8.5

Work AI platform that unifies enterprise knowledge, search, and agents

Enterprise· Enterprise pricing only; commonly reported in the $40-50/user/month range with a floor typically starting around 100 seats. No public self-serve tier. Contact sales for a quote.Enterprise search across Slack, Drive, Confluence and JiraCompany-wide AI assistant with citations

ChatGLM (Zhipu Qingyan)

Agents · GLM-4, GLM-4V, GLM-4-Air/Flash, CogView, CogVideoX (ChatGLM family, Zhipu AI / Tsinghua KEG)
8.4

Zhipu AI's bilingual ChatGLM assistant with agents, code, image and video generation

Freemium· Free consumer tier (chatglm.cn); paid API tiers via Zhipu Open Platform (bigmodel.cn) priced per million tokens by model (GLM-4, GLM-4-Air, GLM-4-Flash, GLM-4V, CogVideoX); enterprise/private deployment on requestChinese-language document drafting and rewritingChinese-English translation and localisation

Semantic Kernel

Agents · Multi-model
8.4

Microsoft's open-source SDK for wiring LLMs, plugins, and agents into enterprise .NET, Python, and Java apps.

Free· Free, MIT-licensed SDK; you pay for the underlying model APIsagent-orchestrationllm-plugins

Weights & Biases

Evaluation · Platform (any LLM)
8.4

The ML experiment tracker, now with LLM eval features.

Freemium· Free personal; team from $50/mo per seatML experimentsLLM eval

Yi (01.AI)

Agents · Yi-Lightning (MoE), Yi-Large, Yi-1.5 (6B/9B/34B), Yi-VL, Yi-Coder — in-house 01.AI foundation models
8.4

Foundation models from 01.AI — open-weight Yi family plus frontier Yi-Lightning and Yi-Large

Freemium· Open-source Yi models free under permissive license; hosted API via platform.lingyiwanwu.com with pay-per-token pricing (Yi-Lightning positioned as a low-cost frontier tier; Yi-Large priced higher; exact per-token rates on the platform dashboard). Enterprise custom-training and consulting on quote.Self-hosted coding assistantBilingual English-Chinese chatbot

ClearML

Agents · Model-agnostic
8.3

End-to-end MLOps and GenAI platform with open-source experiment tracking and enterprise GPU orchestration.

Freemium· Free open-source + hosted tier; enterprise pricing on requestexperiment-trackinggpu-orchestration

Grain

Audio
8.3

AI meeting notes, coaching, and an MCP feed for your agents

Freemium· Free (45-min meeting cap, 90-day history) / Starter ~$15 per user/mo (unlimited meetings, advanced AI) / Business & Enterprise tiers with CRM sync and admin controlsAI meeting notes and summariesSales call transcription and coaching

H2O.ai

Agents · Multi-model
8.3

Enterprise AI platform combining AutoML, generative AI, and vertical agents for regulated industries.

Enterprise· Contact sales; live demo on requestenterprise-agentsautoml

Qwen

Writing · Qwen3 / Qwen-Image / Qwen-MT / Qwen3Guard
8.3

Alibaba's open-weight foundation model family covering chat, vision, image generation, translation, and safety classification.

Freemium· Open weights free; hosted API priced per-token via Alibaba Cloud DashScopechatreasoning

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

AudioCraft

Audio · MusicGen, AudioGen, EnCodec
8.2

Meta's open-source research toolkit for generating music and sound effects from text via a single autoregressive language model.

Free· Free and open source; self-hostedtext-to-musicsound-effects

Fireflies.ai

Audio · Multi-model (proprietary ASR + LLM layer)
8.2

AI meeting assistant that joins calls, transcribes them, and turns the talk into searchable notes and action items.

Freemium· Free tier; paid plans roughly $10-$39/user/mo, Enterprise on requestmeeting transcriptioncall summaries

Giskard

Evaluation · Multi-model
8.2

Continuous AI red teaming platform that stress-tests LLM agents for vulnerabilities before they hit production.

Freemium· Open-source free tier; Giskard Hub enterprise pricing on requestllm-red-teamingagent-security-testing

Hermes Agent

Agents · Multi-model (300+ via Nous Portal)
8.2

Open-source multi-channel AI agent with persistent memory, scheduling, and subagent delegation from Nous Research.

Freemium· MIT-licensed self-host free; managed Portal tiers Free/Plus/Super/Ultra with creditspersonal-assistanttask-automation

LiveBench

Evaluation · Multi-model
8.2

Contamination-free LLM benchmark that refreshes its questions monthly to keep frontier models honest.

Free· Free and open source; self-hosted evaluation runnerllm-benchmarkingmodel-selection

Ludwig

Fine-tuning · Multi-model (PyTorch + HuggingFace Transformers)
8.2

Declarative, YAML-driven deep learning framework for fine-tuning LLMs and multi-modal models without writing training loops.

Free· Free, Apache 2.0 open sourcellm-fine-tuningmulti-modal-training

Msty

Writing · Multi-model (Ollama, Claude, GPT, Gemini, others)
8.2

Privacy-first desktop AI workspace that runs local and cloud models side by side.

Freemium· Free Studio tier; paid upgrades for Studio and Claw (see in-app pricing)local-llm-chatmulti-model-comparison

Scite

RAG · Multi-model
8.2

AI research assistant that grades citations as supporting, contrasting, or mentioning across 1.6B citation statements.

Freemium· Free tier; Personal ~$20/user/mo ($12 annual); Organization customliterature-reviewcitation-analysis

Vellum

Agents · Multi-model (Claude-class LLMs)
8.2

Personal AI assistant with persistent memory across email, calendar, and chat channels.

Freemium· Free tier + API costs; paid plans availablepersonal assistantemail triage

Berkeley Function-Calling Leaderboard

Evaluation · Multi-model
8.1

Open benchmark from UC Berkeley that ranks LLMs on real-world tool-use and function-calling accuracy.

Free· Free and open source; you pay only for inference when reproducing runs.function-calling evaltool-use benchmarking

Hugging Face AutoTrain

Fine-tuning · Multi-model (Hugging Face Hub)
8.1

No-code fine-tuning and training pipeline that spins up state-of-the-art models on the Hugging Face Hub.

Paid· Per-minute billing based on hardware tier; self-hosted OSS version is freellm-fine-tuningtext-classification

Kimi

Writing · Kimi K2 (K2.5 / K2.6 / K2.7 Code)
8.1

Moonshot AI's chat assistant with long-context document analysis, coding agents, and deep research built in.

Freemium· Free web chat; API pay-as-you-go from ~$0.60/MTok inputlong-document analysisdeep research

Lambda

Fine-tuning
8.1

On-demand NVIDIA GPU cloud built specifically for training, fine-tuning, and serving large AI models.

Paid· Pay-by-the-minute: A100 from $1.29/hr, H100 SXM from $3.99/hr, B200 from $6.69/hr; clusters priced by quotellm-trainingfine-tuning

Le Chat

Writing · Mistral Medium 3.5 / Small 4 / Voxtral
8.1

Mistral's ChatGPT-style assistant, now an agent that browses, codes, and plugs into your work tools.

Freemium· Free tier; Pro, Team, and Enterprise paid tierschat-assistantdeep-research

NotebookLM

RAG · Gemini 2.5
8.1

Google's source-grounded research notebook that turns your documents into chats, briefs, and AI-hosted podcasts.

Freemium· Free tier; Plus via Google One AI Premium ($19.99/mo) or Workspace add-ondocument Q&Aresearch synthesis

Optuna

Fine-tuning
8.1

Open-source Python framework for automated hyperparameter optimization across any ML stack.

Free· Free and open source (MIT)hyperparameter-tuningml-experiment-tracking

RAGFlow

RAG · Multi-model
8.1

Open-source RAG engine with deep document parsing, hybrid search, and visual agent orchestration.

Freemium· Free tier; Starter $29/mo; Pro $129/mo; Enterprise customdocument-qaenterprise-search

CAMEL-AI

Agents · Multi-model
8.0

Open-source Python framework for building multi-agent systems and synthetic data pipelines.

Free· Free, open-source; pay for the underlying LLM API callsmulti-agent-systemssynthetic-data-generation

ChatGPT

Writing · GPT-4o, GPT-4.1, o-series reasoning models
8.0

OpenAI's flagship conversational assistant, and the default benchmark every other chatbot is measured against.

Freemium· Free; Plus $20/mo; Pro $200/mo; Team $25-30/user/mo; Enterprise customwritingcoding

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

Genmo

Video · Mochi 1
8.0

Open-source text-to-video model (Mochi 1) with a hosted playground for turning prompts into short clips.

Freemium· Free playground; open weights available; paid tiers not clearly disclosedtext-to-videogenerative-video

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

Notion AI

Writing · Multi-model (OpenAI / Anthropic via API)
8.0

In-line AI inside your Notion docs and databases.

Paid· $10/mo per member add-ondoc summariesin-doc Q&A

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

Reflect

Writing · OpenAI GPT-4 + Whisper
8.0

Networked note-taking app with GPT-4 and Whisper baked into the writing surface.

Paid· $10/month billed annually; free trial availablenote-takingvoice transcription

Sesame

Audio · Sesame CSM (1B / 3B / 8B)
8.0

Conversational voice AI aiming to cross the uncanny valley with context-aware, emotionally aware speech.

Free· Free research preview; consumer product pricing not announcedconversational-voicetext-to-speech

Grammarly

Writing · Proprietary + multi-model
7.9

Cross-app AI writing assistant that catches errors, rewrites paragraphs, and adjusts tone in the tools you already use.

Freemium· Free; Pro $12/mo annual or $30/mo; Enterprise customgrammar-checktone-adjustment

Khoj

Agents · Multi-model
7.9

Open-source personal AI that builds agents, searches your documents, and automates research across local files and the web.

Freemium· Free self-hosted; paid cloud tier on app.khoj.devpersonal-knowledge-baseagent-building

LLM Stats

Evaluation · Multi-model
7.9

Live leaderboard and side-by-side comparison hub for 300+ frontier LLMs across reasoning, coding, and multimodal benchmarks.

Free· Free to browse; underlying model usage billed by each providermodel-comparisonbenchmark-tracking

Manus

Agents · Multi-model
7.9

Generalist agent for research, code, and web tasks.

Paid· Credit-based; tiers from $19/moresearchweb tasks

Humata.ai

RAG · Multi-model
7.8

Chat-with-your-documents RAG tool with citation-backed answers across uploaded PDFs and files.

Freemium· Free (60 pages); Expert $9.99/mo; Team $49/user/mo; Enterprise on requestdocument-qaresearch-summarization

Patronus

Evaluation · Platform (any LLM)
7.8

Automated LLM evaluation for hallucinations, safety, and quality.

Paid· Enterprise / contact saleshallucination detectionsafety

STORM

Writing · Multi-model (via LiteLLM)
7.5

Stanford's open-source research agent that turns a topic into a Wikipedia-style article with citations.

Free· Hosted demo free; self-host open-source (pay your own LLM/search API)long-form researchwikipedia-style articles