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Midjourney

Featured
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

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

Ideogram

Image Generation · Ideogram 2.0
8.5

Specialises in beautiful, accurate text rendering inside images.

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

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

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

LangChain

RAG · BYO (any major LLM)
8.3

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

Freemium· Free open-source; LangSmith paidgeneral LLM appsRAG

Humanloop

Evaluation · Platform (any LLM)
8.2

Prompt management + evals for collaborative AI teams.

Paid· From $200/mo teamprompt managementteam collab

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

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

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

OpenAI Swarm

Agents · OpenAI models (designed for, but extensible)
7.4

Lightweight multi-agent orchestration in Python.

Free· Free / open-sourceeducationprototyping

AI Boost

Image Generation · Multi-model

Mobile-first AI photo and video editor with face swap, avatars, and text-to-art generation.

Freemium· Free download with in-app purchase subscriptionface-swapai-avatars

AI Dungeon

Writing · Multi-model (rotating open-weights: Mixtral, Llama, Hermes variants)

AI-powered text adventure platform where the story is generated turn-by-turn by an LLM.

Freemium· Free tier; paid tiers roughly $10-$30/mo (Adventurer / Champion / Mythic)interactive-fictionai-roleplay

AI Poem Generator

Writing

Free single-purpose web app that turns a one-line prompt into a rhyming poem.

Free· Free, no signuprhyming-poemsgreeting-cards

AI Prompt Genius

Writing

Open-source Chrome extension that turns your browser into a searchable, taggable prompt library for any AI chatbot.

Free· Free and open-sourceprompt-managementprompt-library

AI Watermark Remover

Image Generation

Free browser-based watermark eraser that inpaints brushed-over regions in photos.

Free· Free, no signup requiredwatermark-removalobject-removal

AI-Flow

Agents · Multi-model (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Replicate, xAI)

Visual node-based builder for chaining OpenAI, Anthropic, Replicate and other model APIs into content pipelines.

Freemium· Free tier: 25 welcome credits + 20 BYOK runs/day; paid plans for extended storageworkflow-automationcontent-pipelines

Affogato

Image Generation · Multi-model (Nano Banana Pro, Veo, Kling, FLUX, Sora)

Multi-model image and video generation studio bundling 170+ third-party models behind one credit-based workspace.

Paid· Standard $24/mo, Ultra $69/mo, Pro Max $251/mo, Team from $99/motext-to-imagetext-to-video

AgentMail

Agents

API-first email provider purpose-built for autonomous AI agents.

Freemium· Free (3 inboxes); Developer $20/mo; Startup $200/mo; Enterprise customagent-emailinbox-provisioning

Aispect

Image Generation

Turns live audio at events into AI-generated visuals on the fly, in 30+ languages.

Freemium· 5 free credits; PAYG $12.50/30 credits; Basic $34.90/mo (100 credits); Pro $149.90/mo (500 credits)live-event-visualsspeech-to-image

Architecture Helper

Image Generation

AI-powered architectural style analyzer and image generator for buildings and neighborhoods.

Paid· $5/mo or $50/yr (2 months free)architecture analysisstyle identification

Artbreeder

Image Generation · SDXL, BigGAN, StyleGAN

Collaborative image generation playground built on GAN heritage with modern SDXL composer and gene-style splicing.

Freemium· Free tier; Starter $7.49/mo, Advanced $15.99/mo, Champion $30.99/motext-to-imagecharacter-design

Athina AI

Evaluation · Multi-model

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

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

Autodesk Flow Studio

Video · Wonder 3D + Neural Layer

AI-powered cloud toolset that converts live footage into fully controllable CG scenes for VFX and animation pipelines.

Freemium· Free tier; Lite from $10/mo; Standard, Pro, Enterprise tiers; credit-basedai-motion-capturevfx-character-replacement

Based Labs

Video · Multi-model (FLUX, Seedance, WAN, Kling, Nano Banana)

Multi-model AI playground for image, video, and voice generation with a generous free tier.

Freemium· Free credits with no signup; paid plans for higher limitstext-to-videotext-to-image

BentoML

Agents · Multi-model

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

Bing Image Creator

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

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

Brandmark

Image Generation · Undisclosed (proprietary generative AI + curated assets)

AI logo maker that spits out a full brand kit from a name and a few keywords.

Paid· Free previews; one-time purchase tiers (historically ~$25-$175)logo-designbrand-identity

Browser Use

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

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

Canva

Image Generation · Multi-model (incl. OpenAI, Google Imagen, in-house Magic models)

Drag-and-drop design platform with a built-in AI suite (Magic Studio) for copy, images, video, and presentations.

Freemium· Free tier; Pro ~$15/mo; Teams from ~$10/user/mo; Enterprise customsocial-graphicspresentations

Canva AI

Image Generation · Multi-model (partner models incl. Imagen, plus Canva fine-tunes)

AI image generation baked into the design tool everyone already uses.

Freemium· Free with limited credits; Canva Pro $15/mo or $120/yr; Teams from $10/user/motext-to-imageinpainting

Cleanlab TLM

Evaluation · Multi-model (wraps any LLM)

Trustworthiness scoring layer that flags LLM hallucinations in real time.

Freemium· Free tier for evaluation; usage-based API pricing; enterprise/private deployment via saleshallucination-detectionrag-evaluation

Clipdrop

Image Generation · Stable Diffusion-based (multi-model)

AI image editing suite with one-click background removal, cleanup, upscaling, and text-to-image generation.

Freemium· Free web tier with limits; Pro subscription unlocks HD output and API accessbackground-removalimage-cleanup

Cogram

Agents

AI assistant for architecture, engineering, and construction teams that automates meeting minutes, RFIs, field reports, and project correspondence.

Enterprise· Contact sales; guided free trial availablemeeting-minutesfield-reports

CoreWeave

Fine-tuning

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

Coze Studio

Agents · Multi-model

Self-hostable visual AI agent development platform from ByteDance with workflows, RAG, and plugin tooling.

Free· Free, Apache 2.0; self-hostedai-agentsworkflow-automation

Craiyon

Image Generation · Proprietary Craiyon model (descendant of DALL-E Mini)

Free, no-login AI image generator that prioritises unlimited generations over fidelity.

Freemium· Free unlimited; Supporter ~$5/mo; Professional ~$24/mo; higher tiers up to ~$70/motext-to-imagememe-generation

Cursor Talk to Figma MCP

Agents · Multi-model (Cursor / Claude Code via MCP)

Open-source MCP bridge that lets Cursor and Claude Code read and edit Figma files directly from the editor.

Free· Free, open-source (MIT)figma-automationdesign-to-code

D-ID

Video · Proprietary face-animation + multi-model LLM/TTS

Talking-head avatar video generator with real-time conversational agents and a developer API.

Freemium· Free trial; tiered Studio plans + credit-based APItalking-avatar-videoai-presenters

DaVinci Resolve

Video · DaVinci Neural Engine (proprietary)

Hollywood-grade post-production suite with a Neural Engine that quietly automates the tedious parts of editing, color, and audio.

Freemium· Free; Studio one-time $295 (unlocks AI Neural Engine)video-editingcolor-grading

Dia

Audio · Dia-1.6B

Open-weights 1.6B text-to-dialogue model that generates ultra-realistic multi-speaker conversations in one pass.

Free· Free, open weights (Apache 2.0); hosted larger version waitlisteddialogue-generationvoice-cloning

Elicit

RAG · Claude Opus 4.5

AI research assistant that searches, screens, and extracts data from 138M+ academic papers at scale.

Freemium· Free tier; paid Plus, Pro, and Enterprise plansliterature-reviewsystematic-review

Exa

RAG · Proprietary neural + keyword search

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

Framelink

Coding · Multi-model (BYO agent: Cursor, Claude Code, VS Code, etc.)

Open-source MCP server that pipes Figma designs into AI coding agents as structured, low-noise context.

Free· Free and open source; paid tier on waitlistfigma-to-codedesign-to-code

FutureHouse Platform

RAG · Multi-model

Multi-agent AI research stack for scientists, with retrieval over 175M+ papers, patents, and trials.

Freemium· Free tier for academics; paid plans for higher rate limitsscientific-literature-searchautonomous-research-agent

Gamma

Writing · Multi-model (Flux, Ideogram, Imagen, GPT-class)

AI-powered generator for presentations, documents, and webpages from a single prompt.

Freemium· Free (400 credits); Plus ~$10/mo; Pro ~$20/moai-presentationspitch-decks