AI tools, alternatives and comparisons

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• AI assistants 10

  General-purpose chatbots that write, explain, analyse files and answer questions.

  • ChatGPT
  • Claude
  • Gemini
  • Microsoft Copilot
• AI coding tools 13

  Coding agents, AI editors and app builders that write and change code for you.

  • Claude Code
  • GitHub Copilot
  • Cursor
  • OpenAI Codex
• AI search 4

  Answer engines for people, and web search APIs built for AI agents.

  • Perplexity
  • You.com
  • Exa
  • Tavily
• AI image generators 8

  Text-to-image models and editors for illustrations, photos, logos and design.

  • Midjourney
  • FLUX
  • Stable Diffusion
  • Ideogram
• AI video generators 12

  Generate video clips from text or images, or make presenter videos with avatars.

  • Runway
  • Sora
  • Veo
  • Kling AI
• AI voice and music 6

  Text to speech, voice cloning, music generation, transcription and audio editing.

  • ElevenLabs
  • Suno
  • Udio
  • Descript
• AI writing and productivity 8

  Writing assistants, AI notes, meeting recorders and presentation makers.

  • Notion AI
  • Grammarly
  • DeepL
  • Jasper
• AI agents and automation 10

  Agent platforms, workflow automation with AI steps and frameworks for building agents.

  • n8n
  • Zapier
  • Make
  • Manus
• AI models and APIs 14

  Model providers, inference clouds and hubs developers build AI products on.

  • OpenAI API
  • Claude API
  • Gemini API
  • Mistral AI
• Claude skills 16

  Folders of instructions and scripts Claude loads when a task needs them, in Claude apps, Claude Code and the API.

  • docx
  • xlsx
  • pptx
  • pdf
• MCP servers 10

  Model Context Protocol servers that give Claude and other AI clients tools: GitHub, browsers, docs, files.

  • GitHub MCP Server
  • Playwright MCP
  • Chrome DevTools MCP
  • Context7