ChatGPT
OpenAI
✓ 17 Aug 2026
The default assistant for most people.
AI tools under $10
Every product whose cheapest paid plan is $10 a month or less. Free plans included.
38 products
editorially ranked — placement is never sold
ChatLLM
Abacus.AI
✓ 17 Aug 2026
Bundles frontier models plus agents at a flat monthly price, on a credit system.
Gemini
Google
✓ 17 Aug 2026
Wired into Gmail, Docs and Android.
Meta AI
Meta
✓ 17 Aug 2026
Free assistant embedded in WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger.
Pi
Inflection
✓ 17 Aug 2026
Conversational and deliberately gentle.
Poe
Quora
✓ 17 Aug 2026
One subscription, a hundred-plus models on a shared points system.
ElevenLabs
ElevenLabs
✓ 17 Aug 2026
The voice standard — cloning, dubbing into 30+ languages, sound effects and music on one unified credit system.
Krisp
Krisp
✓ 17 Aug 2026
Removes background noise and converts accents in real time on any call app.
LALAL.AI
LALAL.AI
✓ 22 Aug 2026
Stem separation that splits a mix into vocals, drums, bass and instruments.
Suno
Suno
✓ 17 Aug 2026
Full songs with vocals from a prompt, at roughly 5 credits a song.
Udio
Udio
✓ 17 Aug 2026
Section-level inpainting is its edge over Suno.
Cline
Cline
✓ 22 Aug 2026
An open-source autonomous coding agent for VS Code that you point at your own API key, so there is no subscription and no markup on inference.
GitHub Copilot
GitHub
✓ 22 Aug 2026
Completions and chat in every major IDE.
Zed
Zed Industries
✓ 22 Aug 2026
A GPU-accelerated editor written in Rust, with collaborative editing and agentic edits built in rather than bolted on.
Adobe Firefly
Adobe
✓ 17 Aug 2026
Commercially safe generation trained on licensed content, built into Photoshop and Illustrator.
Civitai
Civitai
✓ 22 Aug 2026
The largest open library of community image models and LoRAs, with on-site generation metered in Buzz.
Freepik AI
Freepik
✓ 17 Aug 2026
Bundles many third-party image and video models behind one credit pool.
Ideogram
Ideogram
✓ 17 Aug 2026
Best-in-class at rendering readable text inside images — posters, logos, packaging.
Krea
Krea AI
✓ 17 Aug 2026
150+ models on one real-time canvas, with node-based workflows.
Midjourney
Midjourney
✓ 17 Aug 2026
Still the aesthetic benchmark.
Baseten
Baseten
✓ 22 Aug 2026
Model deployment with fast cold starts and per-minute billing, so idle time costs nothing.
Groq
Groq
✓ 17 Aug 2026
Custom silicon delivering very high tokens-per-second on open models.
Modal
Modal
✓ 17 Aug 2026
Serverless GPUs for your own inference and training jobs, billed per second with a free starter allowance.
Ollama
Ollama
✓ 17 Aug 2026
Run open models locally on your own machine.
DeepSeek
DeepSeek
✓ 17 Aug 2026
Free chat with open-weight reasoning models, and the cheapest serious API anywhere — though DeepSeek announced a substantial price rise in August 2026.
Doubao
ByteDance
✓ 17 Aug 2026
China's most-used consumer assistant, with aggressive metered pricing via Volcano Engine.
Ernie Bot
Baidu
✓ 17 Aug 2026
Baidu's assistant, tied into its search and maps ecosystem.
Hugging Face
Hugging Face
✓ 22 Aug 2026
Where open weights live.
Llama
Meta
✓ 17 Aug 2026
Open weights you host yourself.
MiniMax
MiniMax
✓ 17 Aug 2026
Text, voice and video models under one roof, with open-weight text releases and a pay-as-you-go developer platform.
Qwen Chat
Alibaba
✓ 17 Aug 2026
The most widely forked open-weight family.
Yuanbao
Tencent
✓ 17 Aug 2026
Hunyuan models wrapped in a WeChat-native assistant.
Consensus
Consensus
✓ 17 Aug 2026
Searches peer-reviewed studies and shows where the evidence leans.
Kling
Kuaishou
✓ 17 Aug 2026
Strong physics and human motion, native 4K since April 2026, and the most generous free tier in the category at 66 credits a day.
Pika
Pika Labs
✓ 17 Aug 2026
The fastest of the big three on render time, and one of the few whose free output carries no visible watermark.
Gamma
Gamma
✓ 17 Aug 2026
Prompt to presentation with decent typography.
Make
Make
✓ 22 Aug 2026
Visual automation on a credit system, with a genuinely usable free tier at 1,000 credits a month.
Miro
Miro
✓ 22 Aug 2026
Collaborative whiteboarding with AI credits attached to each seat.