ChatGPT
- Freemium
- Free plan
OpenAI's general-purpose AI assistant for writing, analysis, images and more
Best for Everyday questions, writing, brainstorming and file analysis
Updated October 2026 · 54 tools · 20 tasks
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Claude
- Freemium
- Free plan
Anthropic's AI assistant known for strong writing, long documents and coding
Best for Long-form writing, document analysis and coding
Cursor
- Freemium
- Free plan
AI-first code editor that edits across your whole codebase
Best for Professional developers who want AI in every step
ElevenLabs
- Freemium
- Free plan
Realistic text-to-speech, voice cloning and dubbing
Best for Voiceovers, audiobooks and dubbing
Midjourney
- Paid
Image generator known for striking, artistic results
Best for Artistic, high-quality images and concept art
Perplexity
- Freemium
- Free plan
- No sign-up
AI answer engine that searches the web and cites its sources
Best for Quick research with sources you can check
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Hugging Face
- Freemium
- Free plan
The main hub for open AI models, datasets and demo apps
LM Studio
- Free
Desktop app to discover, download and chat with local AI models
Ollama
- Free
- Open source
Run open AI models on your own computer with one command
n8n
- Open source
Workflow automation and AI agents you can self-host
Make
- Freemium
- Free plan
Visual automation builder with AI modules
Zapier
- Freemium
- Free plan
Connect thousands of apps and add AI steps to automated workflows
DeepL
- Freemium
- Free plan
- No sign-up
High-quality translation for text and whole documents
Beautiful.ai
- Free trial
Presentation software with smart slides that design themselves
Gamma
- Freemium
- Free plan
Create presentations, documents and web pages from a prompt
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