AI tools

AI startups

Independent companies built around AI, from model labs to coding agents and video tools, as opposed to products from big tech.

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  • ChatGPT OpenAI

    OpenAI’s assistant for writing, analysis, coding, image generation, voice conversations and web search.

    Free plan + paid API
  • Claude Anthropic

    Anthropic’s assistant for writing, analysis and coding, with projects, artifacts, skills and connectors to your tools.

    Free plan + paid API
  • Grok xAI

    xAI’s assistant with live access to posts on X, plus image generation.

    Free plan + paid API
  • Le Chat Mistral AI

    Mistral’s European assistant, with web search, document analysis and image generation.

    Free plan + paid API
  • DeepSeek DeepSeek

    A free chat assistant on DeepSeek’s open-weight models, known for strong reasoning.

    Free Open source API
  • Claude Code Anthropic

    Anthropic’s coding agent: it reads your codebase, edits files, runs commands and opens PRs, in the terminal, IDE, desktop and web.

    Paid API
  • Cursor Anysphere

    An AI code editor built on VS Code, with tab completion, chat and agents that change many files at once.

    Free plan + paid
  • OpenAI’s coding agent, in ChatGPT, a terminal CLI and IDE extensions, that works on tasks in the cloud or locally.

    Paid Open source API
  • Windsurf Cognition

    An AI code editor with an agent, Cascade, that plans and carries out multi-file changes.

    Free plan + paid
  • Devin Cognition

    An autonomous software engineer that takes tickets, works in its own cloud environment and opens pull requests.

    Paid API
  • Cline Cline

    An open source coding agent for VS Code that works with any model provider and asks before each step.

    Free Open source
  • Replit Replit

    A browser IDE whose Agent builds, hosts and deploys full apps from a description.

    Free plan + paid
  • Lovable Lovable

    Describe a web app and Lovable builds it, with a database, auth and hosting, editable by chat.

    Free plan + paid
  • Bolt.new StackBlitz

    Prompt, run, edit and deploy full-stack web apps in the browser.

    Free plan + paid
  • v0 Vercel

    Vercel’s app builder that turns prompts and screenshots into React and Next.js apps.

    Free plan + paid API
  • Tabnine Tabnine

    Code completion and chat for companies that need private or on-premises deployment.

    Paid
  • Perplexity Perplexity AI

    An answer engine that searches the web and replies with cited sources, plus its Comet browser.

    Free plan + paid API
  • You.com You.com

    AI search and research agents for teams, with a web search API for developers.

    Free plan + paid API
  • Exa Exa

    A search engine API built for AI: finds pages by meaning and returns their contents.

    Pay per use API
  • Tavily Tavily

    A web search and extraction API made for agents and RAG pipelines.

    Pay per use API
  • Midjourney Midjourney

    An image generator known for its artistic, polished style, with editing and short video.

    Paid
  • FLUX Black Forest Labs

    Image models with open-weight versions, strong at prompt following and image editing.

    Pay per use Open source API
  • Stable Diffusion Stability AI

    Open-weight image models you can run yourself, with a large community of fine-tunes.

    Free Open source API
  • Ideogram Ideogram

    An image generator that renders legible text well, for posters, logos and graphics.

    Free plan + paid API
  • Recraft Recraft

    AI image generation for designers, including vector graphics, icons and brand styles.

    Free plan + paid API
  • Krea Krea

    Real-time image generation, upscaling and video, with many third-party models in one place.

    Free plan + paid
  • Runway Runway

    Video generation and editing models for filmmakers, from text, images or existing footage.

    Free plan + paid API
  • Sora OpenAI

    OpenAI’s video model and app, generating clips with sound from text and images.

    Free plan + paid API
  • Video and image generation with Luma’s Ray models, editable by chatting.

    Free plan + paid API
  • Pika Pika Labs

    Playful short-video generation and effects for social media.

    Free plan + paid
  • Synthesia Synthesia

    Presenter videos with AI avatars and voices, for training and corporate communication.

    Free plan + paid API
  • HeyGen HeyGen

    AI avatar videos and video translation with lip sync, for marketing and sales.

    Free plan + paid API
  • ElevenLabs ElevenLabs

    Lifelike text to speech, voice cloning, dubbing and voice agents, with a developer API.

    Free plan + paid API
  • Suno Suno

    Make complete songs, vocals included, from a text prompt or your own lyrics.

    Free plan + paid
  • Udio Udio

    AI music generation with vocals, extending and remixing tracks.

    Free plan + paid
  • Descript Descript

    Edit podcasts and videos by editing their transcript, with AI voice, clean-up and clips.

    Free plan + paid
  • Otter.ai Otter.ai

    Joins your meetings to transcribe them, write summaries and answer questions about them.

    Free plan + paid
  • Notion AI Notion

    AI in Notion that writes, searches your workspace and connected apps, and records meetings.

    Paid
  • Grammarly Superhuman (formerly Grammarly)

    Grammar, tone and rewriting suggestions wherever you type, in the browser and desktop apps.

    Free plan + paid
  • DeepL DeepL

    AI translation and a writing assistant, DeepL Write, with an API for developers.

    Free plan + paid API
  • Jasper Jasper

    AI content for marketing teams, in their brand voice, from campaigns to blog posts.

    Paid API
  • Gamma Gamma

    Generates presentations, documents and simple websites from a prompt or notes.

    Free plan + paid API
  • Fireflies.ai Fireflies.ai

    A meeting assistant that records, transcribes and summarizes calls on Zoom, Meet and Teams.

    Free plan + paid API
  • n8n n8n

    Workflow automation with AI agent steps, self-hostable under a fair-code licence.

    Free plan + paid Open source API
  • Manus Manus

    A general AI agent that researches, browses and builds things in its own cloud computer.

    Free plan + paid API
  • LangChain LangChain

    Open source frameworks for LLM apps and agents (LangChain, LangGraph) plus LangSmith for tracing.

    Free Open source API
  • CrewAI CrewAI

    An open source Python framework for teams of AI agents with roles, plus a hosted platform.

    Free plan + paid Open source API
  • The agent loop behind Claude Code as a TypeScript and Python library, with tools, skills, MCP and subagents.

    Pay per use API
  • OpenAI API OpenAI

    GPT models for text, vision, images, audio and realtime voice, plus the Agents SDK.

    Pay per use API
  • Claude API Anthropic

    Claude models for developers, with tool use, prompt caching, batches and skills; also on AWS, Google Cloud and Azure.

    Pay per use API
  • Mistral AI Mistral AI

    European models, open-weight and commercial, with an API and on-premises deployment.

    Pay per use Open source API
  • Cohere Cohere

    Models for enterprise search and RAG: Command, Embed and Rerank, deployable privately.

    Pay per use API
  • Hugging Face Hugging Face

    The hub for open models and datasets, with Spaces for demos and inference endpoints.

    Free plan + paid Open source API
  • OpenRouter OpenRouter

    One API and bill for hundreds of models from every major provider, with fallbacks.

    Pay per use API
  • Groq Groq

    Very fast inference for open models on Groq’s own LPU chips.

    Pay per use API
  • Together AI Together AI

    A cloud for running and fine-tuning open models, plus GPU clusters.

    Pay per use API
  • Replicate Replicate (Cloudflare)

    Run thousands of open image, video, audio and language models with one API call.

    Pay per use API
  • Ollama Ollama

    Run open models like Llama, Gemma, Qwen and DeepSeek on your own computer.

    Free Open source API

At a glance

ToolMakerPricingOpen sourceAPIWhere
ChatGPTOpenAIFree plan + paidWeb, Desktop, Mobile
ClaudeAnthropicFree plan + paidWeb, Desktop, Mobile
GrokxAIFree plan + paidWeb, Mobile
Le ChatMistral AIFree plan + paidWeb, Mobile
DeepSeekDeepSeekFreeWeb, Mobile, API
Claude CodeAnthropicPaidTerminal, IDE, Desktop, Web
CursorAnysphereFree plan + paidIDE, Desktop, Terminal
OpenAI CodexOpenAIPaidTerminal, IDE, Web
WindsurfCognitionFree plan + paidIDE, Desktop
DevinCognitionPaidWeb
ClineClineFreeIDE, Terminal
ReplitReplitFree plan + paidWeb, Mobile
LovableLovableFree plan + paidWeb
Bolt.newStackBlitzFree plan + paidWeb
v0VercelFree plan + paidWeb
TabnineTabninePaidIDE, Self-hosted
PerplexityPerplexity AIFree plan + paidWeb, Desktop, Mobile, API
You.comYou.comFree plan + paidWeb, API
ExaExaPay per useAPI
TavilyTavilyPay per useAPI
MidjourneyMidjourneyPaidWeb
FLUXBlack Forest LabsPay per useAPI, Self-hosted
Stable DiffusionStability AIFreeAPI, Self-hosted
IdeogramIdeogramFree plan + paidWeb, Mobile, API
RecraftRecraftFree plan + paidWeb, API
KreaKreaFree plan + paidWeb
RunwayRunwayFree plan + paidWeb, Mobile, API
SoraOpenAIFree plan + paidWeb, Mobile
Luma Dream MachineLuma AIFree plan + paidWeb, Mobile, API
PikaPika LabsFree plan + paidWeb, Mobile
SynthesiaSynthesiaFree plan + paidWeb, API
HeyGenHeyGenFree plan + paidWeb, API
ElevenLabsElevenLabsFree plan + paidWeb, Mobile, API
SunoSunoFree plan + paidWeb, Mobile
UdioUdioFree plan + paidWeb
DescriptDescriptFree plan + paidWeb, Desktop
Otter.aiOtter.aiFree plan + paidWeb, Mobile
Notion AINotionPaidWeb, Desktop, Mobile
GrammarlySuperhuman (formerly Grammarly)Free plan + paidWeb, Desktop, Mobile
DeepLDeepLFree plan + paidWeb, Desktop, Mobile, API
JasperJasperPaidWeb
GammaGammaFree plan + paidWeb
Fireflies.aiFireflies.aiFree plan + paidWeb, Mobile, API
n8nn8nFree plan + paidWeb, Self-hosted
ManusManusFree plan + paidWeb, Mobile
LangChainLangChainFreeAPI, Self-hosted
CrewAICrewAIFree plan + paidAPI, Self-hosted
Claude Agent SDKAnthropicPay per useAPI
OpenAI APIOpenAIPay per useAPI
Claude APIAnthropicPay per useAPI
Mistral AIMistral AIPay per useAPI, Self-hosted
CohereCoherePay per useAPI, Self-hosted
Hugging FaceHugging FaceFree plan + paidWeb, API
OpenRouterOpenRouterPay per useAPI
GroqGroqPay per useAPI
Together AITogether AIPay per useAPI
ReplicateReplicate (Cloudflare)Pay per useAPI
OllamaOllamaFreeDesktop, Terminal, Self-hosted

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