ChatGPT
OpenAI
✓ 17 Aug 2026
The default assistant for most people.
AI tools under $20
Every product whose cheapest paid plan is $20 a month or less. Free plans included.
69 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.
Claude
Anthropic
✓ 22 Aug 2026
Long-context reasoning with Claude Code, Cowork and Design bundled into every paid tier.
Gemini
Google
✓ 17 Aug 2026
Wired into Gmail, Docs and Android.
Le Chat
Mistral AI
✓ 17 Aug 2026
The cheapest premium chat plan from a major lab.
Meta AI
Meta
✓ 17 Aug 2026
Free assistant embedded in WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger.
Microsoft 365 Premium
Microsoft
✓ 17 Aug 2026
Replaced standalone Copilot Pro for consumers in August 2026.
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.
Otter
Otter.ai
✓ 17 Aug 2026
Live meeting transcription with native Zoom, Meet and Teams bots.
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.
Base44
Wix
✓ 17 Aug 2026
Message-credit app builder for non-technical people.
Claude Code
Anthropic
✓ 17 Aug 2026
Terminal-first agent that edits repos, runs tests and opens PRs.
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.
Cursor
Anysphere
✓ 22 Aug 2026
The AI-native editor.
Devin
Cognition
✓ 17 Aug 2026
An autonomous engineer you assign tickets to.
GitHub Copilot
GitHub
✓ 22 Aug 2026
Completions and chat in every major IDE.
Jules
Google
✓ 17 Aug 2026
Async agent that works from your GitHub issues and returns a diff.
Replit
Replit
✓ 17 Aug 2026
Describe an app, get it built, hosted and deployed without leaving the browser.
v0
Vercel
✓ 17 Aug 2026
Generates React and Tailwind UI you can ship to Vercel in a click.
Windsurf
Cognition
✓ 17 Aug 2026
Agentic IDE with Cascade.
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.
Leonardo
Canva
✓ 17 Aug 2026
Fine-grained control with custom model training, aimed at game and concept art.
Midjourney
Midjourney
✓ 17 Aug 2026
Still the aesthetic benchmark.
Playground
Playground
✓ 22 Aug 2026
Image generation with a browser canvas and a shared credit pool across models.
Recraft
Recraft
✓ 17 Aug 2026
Vector-native generation with brand style locking — real SVGs with editable type.
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.
Kimi
Moonshot AI
✓ 17 Aug 2026
Million-token context and strong agentic browsing, with tiers named after tempo markings.
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.
Z.ai GLM
Zhipu AI
✓ 17 Aug 2026
GLM sold as a coding plan that heavily undercuts Western agents.
Consensus
Consensus
✓ 17 Aug 2026
Searches peer-reviewed studies and shows where the evidence leans.
Elicit
Elicit
✓ 17 Aug 2026
Systematic literature review across 138M papers — extracts findings into comparison tables with PRISMA support.
Manus
Butterfly Effect
✓ 17 Aug 2026
General agent that plans, browses and returns finished deliverables.
NotebookLM
Google
✓ 17 Aug 2026
Upload your sources, get grounded answers and audio overviews.
Perplexity
Perplexity
✓ 17 Aug 2026
Answer engine with citations on everything, and a model picker so you choose who answers each query.
Hailuo
MiniMax
✓ 17 Aug 2026
Cinematic camera moves and character reference, cheap per generation.
Higgsfield
Higgsfield
✓ 17 Aug 2026
Bundles Veo, Kling and Seedance behind its own camera-motion presets.
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.
OpusClip
OpusClip
✓ 22 Aug 2026
Cuts long video into short vertical clips and ranks them by predicted performance.
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.
Runway
Runway
✓ 17 Aug 2026
The filmmaker's toolkit — motion brush, camera control, video-to-video.