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AI Tools Directory

Plain-English profiles of AI tools: what each one does, who it suits, what it costs, and where it falls short. Filter by category or search by task.

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Developer ToolsAI Agents

Agent Plugins

Agent Plugins is an open, vendor-neutral standard, initiated by Vercel and backed by AWS, Cursor, GitHub, Microsoft, and OpenAI, that packages Agent Skills and MCP servers into one portable format usable across multiple AI coding clients.

Agent Plugins is a free, open specification, there's nothing to purchase for the standard itself. Individual AI clients that support it (Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, and others) have their own separate pricing.

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AI Search & GEOResearch

AthenaHQ

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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AI AgentsDeveloper Tools

Atlaso

Atlaso is a cross-tool AI memory layer that connects once to Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Claude Desktop, OpenCode, Antigravity, and any MCP-compatible tool, so your project context, decisions, and preferences follow you between them instead of resetting each session.

Atlaso has a free tier limited to one device and one AI tool. The Pro plan is $10/month for unlimited devices and tools plus Ambient Memory and background enrichment. The Build plan is $25/month and adds a developer memory API. Check atlaso.ai for current pricing.

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Video EditingContent Creation

Captions

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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WritingProductivity

ChatGPT

A practical guide to ChatGPT: how OpenAI's assistant, models, ChatGPT Work, Dots, Codex, and plugins fit together, what each plan includes, and when ChatGPT is the right tool.

Pricing checked October 2026. Free, Go (about $8/mo), Plus ($20/mo), and three Pro tiers ($100, $200, and $500/mo), plus Business, Business Premium, and Enterprise. API usage is billed separately per token. Plans and model access change often, so check chatgpt.com for what is current.

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AI AgentsProductivity

Claude Duet

Claude Duet is Anthropic's proactive agent app. It runs on its own cloud computer, checks your connected apps every few hours, sends a morning brief, and asks before it sends, pays, signs, or deletes anything.

Claude Duet is a research preview included with Claude Pro and Max at no extra cost, for US accounts admitted from the waitlist. It uses the same five-hour and weekly limits as chat, and background checks count toward them. Team and Enterprise are not supported yet.

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AI Coding AgentsCoding

Codex

Codex is OpenAI's AI coding agent. It reads your codebase, writes code, runs tests, and handles multi-step development tasks, locally in the terminal or your editor, or in OpenAI's cloud environments.

Codex is included with ChatGPT plans from Plus upward (Plus $20/mo; Pro at $100, $200, or $500/mo; Business and Enterprise), up to each plan's usage limits, and is also available through the OpenAI API. Pricing checked October 2026; check openai.com for current access.

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Developer ToolsAI Agents

Coinbase x402

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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CodingDeveloper Tools

Cursor

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). Origin, Cursor's code-hosting feature, is included at no extra charge during its early beta on Pro, Teams, and Enterprise plans, not on the free plan. Check cursor.com for current pricing.

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CodingDeveloper Tools

DeepSeek

DeepSeek is a Chinese AI lab that builds open-weight and low-cost API models for reasoning, coding, and agent work, plus web Search and Fetch APIs for grounding agents in current information.

DeepSeek's web chat is free. API pricing for deepseek-flash (V4.1 Flash) is $0.30 input / $1.20 output per million tokens at peak and half that off-peak, with very cheap cache hits. Search and Fetch cost $0.75 per 1,000 successful requests each. See the pricing section below and DeepSeek's official pricing page for current rates.

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AI AgentsDeveloper Tools

DeepSeek Harness

DeepSeek Harness (dsh) is DeepSeek's open-source, MIT-licensed agent harness built on an everything-is-a-plugin architecture, letting developers swap models, tools, sandboxes, and even call other coding agents as sub-agents inside one orchestrated workflow.

DeepSeek Harness is free and open-source under the MIT license. Running it costs whatever the models and tools you configure inside it cost, your own DeepSeek API usage, another provider's API, or a local model with no per-token fee.

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AI Coding AgentsCoding

Devin

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 now offers a Free tier, Pro at $20/seat/month, Max at $200/seat/month, and Teams at $80/month base plus $40/month per full developer seat, plus custom Enterprise pricing. This is a significant change from Devin's earlier flat enterprise-style pricing, so check the Devin website for current plans.

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AI Coding AgentsCoding

Devin Desktop (formerly Windsurf)

Windsurf, the AI code editor, is now called Devin Desktop. Cognition renamed it in 2026 and paired the editor with a command center for running Devin agents locally and in the cloud.

Checked October 2026 on devin.ai. Free ($0), Pro ($20/month), Max ($200/month), Teams ($80/month plus $40/month per full seat), and Enterprise (contact sales). Cognition says existing Windsurf plans, pricing, extensions, and settings carried over to Devin Desktop.

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AudioContent Creation

ElevenLabs

A practical guide to ElevenLabs: realistic text-to-speech and voice cloning, Scribe transcription, music generation, ElevenAgents for voice agents, and the new Eleven Realtime and Realtime Translation models.

ElevenLabs has a free tier with limited monthly credits and paid plans that scale up for more audio, voice cloning, and commercial use. API and agent usage is billed by usage. Realtime Translation is an enterprise-only alpha. Check elevenlabs.io for current pricing.

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ProductivityMeetings

Fathom

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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ProductivityMeetings

Fireflies.ai

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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AI AgentsDeveloper Tools

Foundation by Chroma

Foundation is Chroma's research-preview solution to AI agent memory: a self-improving, wiki-like knowledge base built from agent sessions, with versioning, lineage, concurrency, and access control, rather than a raw conversation log.

Foundation is a free research preview as of this writing. It's built on Chroma's open-source database and Context-1 retrieval engine; Chroma's core database is free and open-source under Apache 2.0, while Chroma Cloud (the managed hosting option) uses usage-based pricing. Foundation-specific commercial pricing hasn't been published yet; check Chroma's official pages for current terms.

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WritingResearch

Gemini

A practical guide to Google Gemini: the app, its current models, Gemini Tasks, Workspace integration, and how Gemini, AI Studio, Antigravity, Gemini CLI, and Code Assist fit together.

Pricing checked October 2026 (US). Free tier; Google AI Plus ($4.99/mo since June 8, 2026, with 400 GB storage), Google AI Pro ($19.99/mo), and Google AI Ultra in two tiers ($99.99/mo and $199.99/mo), bundled with Google One storage. API usage is billed per token separately. Prices vary by country, so check Google's plans page.

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AI Coding AgentsCoding

Gemini CLI

Gemini CLI is Google's open-source terminal coding agent. Since June 18, 2026 it no longer serves free, AI Pro, or AI Ultra accounts; it still works with paid API keys and Code Assist business licenses, and Google points individuals to Antigravity CLI.

Status checked October 2026. Since June 18, 2026, Gemini CLI no longer serves free individual, Google AI Pro, or Google AI Ultra accounts (no more 'Login with Google'). It still works with paid Gemini API keys (billed per token) and with Gemini Code Assist Standard or Enterprise licenses. Google's suggested replacement for individuals is Antigravity CLI.

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AI Coding AgentsCoding

Gemini Code Assist

Gemini Code Assist is Google's IDE coding assistant for VS Code, JetBrains, and Android Studio. The individual tier stopped working on June 18, 2026, and Google stopped selling Standard and Enterprise on October 9, 2026.

Status checked October 2026. The free individual tier and access through Google AI Pro/Ultra ended on June 18, 2026. New Gemini Code Assist Standard and Enterprise subscriptions have not been sold since October 9, 2026; existing subscriptions continue under Google's separate sunset schedule. Check Google's sunset page for renewal dates.

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Local AICoding

GLM 5.3

GLM 5.3 is Z.ai's current open-weight coding model, a post-training update to GLM 5.2 with a reported 50% coding-capability jump, a 1M-token context window, and strong results on cybersecurity-focused evaluation.

GLM 5.3 costs $1.40 per million input tokens and $4.40 per million output tokens via the Z.ai API, with cached input at $0.26 per million tokens (limited-time free as of launch). The separate GLM Coding Plan starts at $18/month on a credit basis rather than per-token metering. Open weights are free to download once released. Check z.ai for current rates.

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ResearchWriting

Grok

A practical guide to Grok by xAI: the current Grok 4.7 model, real-time web and X integration, long-running agent work, and how it compares to ChatGPT and Claude.

Grok has a free tier through X. Full access comes via X Premium (roughly $8/mo) or SuperGrok tiers (from about $30/mo). Separately, the Grok 4.7 API costs $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens for prompts under 200K tokens (double above that), checked against xAI's model docs in October 2026. Consumer and API pricing are billed separately; check grok.com and x.ai for current rates.

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Image GenerationDesign

Ideogram

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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VideoOpen Models

LTX-2.5

LTX-2.5 is Lightricks' open-weight AI video model, a 22-billion-parameter diffusion transformer that generates synchronized video and audio from text, an image, or an audio track, with weights on Hugging Face for local use and fine-tuning.

LTX-2.5's weights are open on Hugging Face, and organizations under $10 million in annual revenue can use it commercially at no licensing cost. Hosted inference is available through providers like fal.ai on a usage-based, per-generation basis. Check official sources for current terms above the revenue threshold.

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AI ModelsDeveloper Tools

Mercury 3

Mercury 3 is Inception's flagship diffusion language model. Instead of writing one token at a time, it refines many tokens in parallel, which Inception says delivers over 1,000 tokens per second with a 1M-token context.

List price is $0.20 per million input tokens and $0.70 per million output tokens, with cached input 90% off. Inception ran a 50% launch discount ($0.10 / $0.35) and offers 100 million free tokens on its API platform. Check Inception's pricing for current rates.

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WritingProductivity

Meta AI

A practical guide to Meta AI, free AI assistant built into WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook, and Messenger.

The core Meta AI assistant is free across WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook, Messenger, and at meta.ai, with daily/monthly limits on messages and image or video generation. Meta has started testing paid Meta One AI tiers (Plus and Premium) in select markets for higher limits and deeper reasoning. Check meta.ai for what's currently available in your region.

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AI Coding AgentsDeveloper Tools

Meta Muse Code

Muse Code is Meta's terminal coding agent. It runs Meta's Muse Wonder and Muse Spark models, works across large repositories with parallel workers and background reviewers, and is sold as monthly plans or pay-per-token API access.

Pricing checked October 2026. Monthly plans: Everyday $5, High $15, Power $50 (includes Muse Wonder Full), Maximum $200. Or pay per token through the Meta Model API: Muse Wonder $4 / $20 per million input/output tokens; Muse Spark 1.3 $1.25 / $4.25, or $0.10 / $0.20 on the Contributor tier, which allows training. Check Meta's Muse Code page for current terms.

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AI ModelsOpen Models

MiniMax M3.1 Flash

MiniMax M3.1 Flash is a low-cost open-weight Mixture-of-Experts model (428B total, 23B active) with a 1M-token context, built for coding, agents, and computer use at $0.15 per million input tokens.

MiniMax lists API pricing at $0.15 per million input tokens, $0.60 per million output tokens, and $0.015 per million cached input tokens, flat across the full 1M context. Weights are free to download under the MiniMax Community License. Check MiniMax's platform for current rates.

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AI ModelsOpen Models

Mistral Large 4

Mistral Large 4 is Mistral AI's roughly 1-trillion-parameter multimodal Mixture-of-Experts model, in public preview on the Mistral API since October 6, 2026, with open weights promised by the end of October.

Public preview API pricing is $1.36 per million input tokens, $0.14 per million cached input tokens, and $4.18 per million output tokens. A 50% launch discount ran for two weeks after October 6. Open weights and their license had not been published as of October 24, 2026.

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Image GenerationContent Creation

Muse Image

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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AI ModelsOpen Models

Muse Spark Open

Muse Spark Open is Meta's open-weight Mixture-of-Experts model for coding and agent work: 816B total parameters, 42B active per token, a 1M-token context, and text, image, video, and audio input.

The weights are free to download under the Muse Model License, after a gated access form. Hosted access is paid and priced by each provider (Baseten, Fireworks AI, Groq, Together AI, OpenRouter, and others). Meta does not list its own per-token price for this model.

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AutomationAI Workflows

n8n

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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ProductivityWriting

Notion AI

A practical guide to Notion AI: the AI layer across your Notion workspace for search, writing, meetings, databases, and agents, with an Auto router that picks a model for each task.

Notion has a free plan with limited AI. Business and Enterprise seats include 1,500 Standard credits (Notion picks the model) and 500 Select credits (you pick the model or run Custom Agents) each month, with more available to buy. The new credit system reaches existing customers on November 2, 2026. Check notion.com for current pricing.

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Developer ToolsAI Infrastructure

OpenAI Decisions API

The OpenAI Decisions API returns typed answers instead of prose: a probability that something is true, a choice from options you define, or a score on a scale. It is generally available and runs on GPT-6 Luna.

Uncached input is $0.10 per million tokens, with discounted cache reads and charged cache writes. Output tokens are not billed. Regional processing premiums and long-context multipliers apply. Check OpenAI's pricing page for current rates.

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AI AgentsProductivity

OpenAI Dots

OpenAI Dots are always-on AI agents inside ChatGPT. Each dot has its own cloud computer and browser, keeps working on a goal after you stop chatting, and checks in when it needs you.

At launch, Dots are included with ChatGPT Pro and Business Premium in eligible regions, with your first dot at no extra cost. Enterprise, Edu, and Healthcare workspaces can turn them on as a beta. OpenAI has said post-launch usage terms will follow, so check current plan details.

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AI AgentsProductivity

OpenClaw

OpenClaw is a free, open-source, self-hosted AI agent you message through apps like Slack, WhatsApp, Telegram, and Discord. Version 2.0 added easier setup, shared multi-user sessions, rebuilt memory, and team permissions.

OpenClaw is free and open source, stewarded by the nonprofit OpenClaw Foundation. You run it yourself and pay only for hardware and whichever model providers you connect, or nothing extra with local models. OpenClaw Enterprise, an open-source multi-tenant control plane, is in pilot.

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AI ResearchDeveloper Tools

OpenScience

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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Personal AI AssistantAI Agents

OpenWorker

OpenWorker is an open-source, local-first desktop AI coworker from Andrew Ng that returns finished deliverables, like a written document, a Slack reply, or an updated calendar, instead of just chat, with 25-plus integrations and your choice of AI model.

OpenWorker itself is free and open-source (MIT license). You bring your own API key for whichever model provider you choose (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, DeepSeek, and others), or run fully local models through Ollama at no per-token cost. Check each model provider's own pricing separately.

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ProductivityMeetings

Otter.ai

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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AI Search & GEOResearch

Otterly AI

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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Creative AIAI Video

Palette

Palette is a creative AI studio that generates images, video, and music from one workspace, using automatic model routing across providers like Seedance, Veo, and Kling to balance cost, speed, and quality.

Palette uses a credit system priced at $0.01 per credit on its individual tier, with credits charged only for successful generations (failed jobs refund automatically). Roughly 1,000 credits covers a full character reel (character sheet, storyboard, and 15 seconds of character-consistent video). Enterprise pricing is custom; check the official site for current rates.

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AI Search & GEOResearch

Peec AI

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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ResearchSearch

Perplexity

A practical guide to Perplexity: cited AI search, the Comet browser, Perplexity Computer and the Personal Computer desktop agent for Mac and Windows, and the developer API platform.

There is a free tier. Perplexity Pro is around $20/mo and Max around $200/mo, with Enterprise plans for organizations. Computer tasks use credits tied to your plan; work handled by a local model does not. The developer API platform is billed separately per use. Check perplexity.ai for current rates.

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AI ModelsOpen Models

Poolside Laguna S 2.1

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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AI Search & GEOResearch

Profound

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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AI ModelsOpen Models

Qwen3.8-27B

Qwen3.8-27B is Alibaba's open-weight, 27-billion-parameter dense multimodal model, released under Apache 2.0 and built to run on a single consumer GPU, a practical local sibling to the trillion-scale Qwen3.8-Max.

Qwen3.8-27B's weights are free to download from Hugging Face or ModelScope under the Apache 2.0 license. There's no per-token API fee for self-hosting; you pay only for your own hardware. Third-party providers and OpenRouter also host it for pay-per-token API access if you'd rather not self-host.

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AI ModelsOpen Models

Qwen3.8-Max

Qwen3.8-Max is Alibaba's flagship 2.4-trillion-parameter multimodal model, available through Alibaba Cloud's API and, since August 13, 2026, as text-only open weights under a custom license.

Qwen3.8-Max is available through Alibaba Cloud's Model Studio at $2.00 per million input tokens and $6.00 per million output tokens as of its August 3, 2026 GA launch. Open weights (Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B) were published on August 13, 2026 under a custom license. Check official sources for current terms.

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AI Search & GEOResearch

Scrunch AI

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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AI BrowsersDeveloper Tools

Stagehand

Stagehand is Browserbase's open-source SDK for browser agents, letting developers script natural-language browser actions alongside precise code, with v4 adding a browser extension mode, self-healing actions, and result caching.

Stagehand itself is free and open-source under the MIT license. You provide your own AI model API key (OpenAI, Anthropic, or Google, via the Vercel AI SDK) and pay that provider directly. Browserbase, the company behind Stagehand, offers a separate paid hosted browser runtime with free, $20, and $99 tiers plus custom enterprise pricing, if you'd rather not manage browser infrastructure yourself.

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AudioContent Creation

Suno

Suno is an AI music generator that creates complete songs with vocals and instruments from text, audio, images, or video. Its v6 models add section editing, single-lyric changes, mashups, and sampling.

Pricing checked October 2026. Free: 50 credits a day, v6-mini only, no commercial use. Pro: $10/mo ($8 billed yearly), 2,500 credits. Premier: $30/mo ($24 yearly), 10,000 credits plus Suno Studio. A generation of two songs costs about 10 credits. Check suno.com for current plans and terms.

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AI MusicAudio

Udio

Udio is an AI music platform that creates complete songs from text prompts, known for clean mixes and hands-on editing. Since October 2025, downloads are switched off while it moves to a licensed platform, so tracks stay inside Udio.

Plans checked October 2026: a free tier with 10 credits a day (up to 100 a month), Standard at $10/mo (up to 2,400 credits), and Pro at $30/mo (up to 6,000 credits). Downloads are disabled on every plan. Check udio.com for current plans.

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Local AIDeveloper Tools

Unsloth

Unsloth is a local AI toolkit for running, fine-tuning, and deploying open-weight models, now available as a free, open-source Desktop app for Mac, Windows, and Linux, alongside its original Python library and web-based Studio interface.

Unsloth is free and open-source. The core package uses the Apache 2.0 license; some optional components, including the Unsloth Studio UI, use AGPL-3.0. There's no subscription for the software itself; you provide your own hardware or cloud compute.

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AutomationProductivity

Zapier

Zapier is the most widely used no-code automation platform, connecting 9,000+ 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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