AI tools
What each AI tool does, what the free plan really includes and what it costs, taken from each official site. No benchmark claims; pick by the job you need done.
AI tools head to head
- ChatGPT vs Claude
- ChatGPT vs Google Gemini
- ChatGPT vs Muse by Meta
- Cursor vs Windsurf (now Devin Desktop)
- GitHub Copilot vs Continue
- GitHub Copilot vs Cursor
- Grammarly vs QuillBot
- Grok vs ChatGPT
- Jan vs LM Studio
- Midjourney vs Adobe Firefly
- Midjourney vs ComfyUI
- Ollama vs LM Studio
- Otter.ai vs Fathom
- Perplexity vs ChatGPT
Picks and guides

OpenAI's AI chat assistant for text, voice, images, research and coding, on web, desktop and mobile.
- Freemium

Anthropic's AI chat assistant for writing, analysis, files and coding, on web, desktop and mobile.
- Freemium

Google's AI assistant app, with plans that bundle usage limits, Google app features and cloud storage.
- Freemium

AI assistant from xAI for chat, voice, file analysis, and image and video creation, on web, iOS, Android and X.
- Freemium

Mistral AI's chat assistant, now branded Mistral Vibe, combining an AI assistant and a coding agent.
- Freemium

Microsoft's consumer AI assistant: free with a Microsoft account, more usage via Microsoft 365 plans.
- Freemium

Meta's personal AI agent that carries out tasks for you, on mobile, the web and in WhatsApp.
- Freemium

AI search and assistant that answers with inline citations and lets paid users pick between several AI models.
- Freemium
AI image generation
Create images from a text description.
Adobe's web and mobile app for generating images, video and audio, with a free daily allowance.
- Freemium

Open-source studio for AI images and video, with 2D and 3D scene staging before you generate.
- Freemium
- Open source

Open-source node-based interface and engine for running generative AI models on your own machine.
- Freemium
- Open source

AI image and video generator with text-in-image tools and an editor, on web and iOS.
- Freemium

AI video
Generate and edit video clips.
Browser-based platform for generating and editing AI video, images and audio, with iOS, Android and API access.
- Freemium

AI platform for text to speech, voice cloning, dubbing, music and conversational agents, with an API.
- Freemium
AI coding assistant
Get code suggestions and edits inside your editor.
Open source AI coding agent as a VS Code extension, JetBrains plugin and CLI, using models you configure.
- Free
- Open source

An AI code editor and coding agent based on the VS Code codebase, with a CLI and cloud agents.
- Freemium

GitHub's AI assistant for code completion, chat and agent tasks in editors, the terminal and github.com.
- Freemium

An enterprise AI coding agent and assistant for IDEs and the CLI, deployable SaaS, in a private VPC or on-premises.
- Paid

An AI code editor with agents, now sold as Devin Desktop under the Devin brand (formerly Windsurf).
- Freemium
AI writing
Fix grammar and rewrite text.
AI writing assistant that checks grammar and spelling and suggests rewrites and tone changes.
- Freemium

Paraphrasing, grammar checking and summarizing tools for rewriting and polishing text.
- Freemium
AI meeting notes
Transcribe and summarise your meetings.
AI notetaker that records, transcribes and summarizes Zoom, Google Meet and Teams calls.
- Freemium

AI notetaker that records and transcribes meetings in Zoom, Microsoft Teams and Google Meet.
- Freemium
AI presentations
Turn an outline into slides.
AI tool that generates presentations, documents and web pages from a prompt or imported content.
- Freemium

Open-source desktop app for running AI models locally, with optional connections to cloud model providers.
- Free
- Open source

Desktop app for downloading, chatting with and serving open AI models on your own computer.
- Freemium

Command-line app and local server for downloading and running open AI models on your own computer.
- Freemium
- Open source

Self-hosted chat interface that connects to Ollama and OpenAI-compatible model servers.
- Free
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