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Audio & Video · Free + paid plans

ElevenLabs

A leading AI voice platform for realistic speech, narration, dubbing, and voice product experiences.

Best for: AI voice generation, dubbing, narration, and voice agents

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Audio & Video · Free + paid plans

Descript

An editor that lets creators edit audio and video by editing text, with AI cleanup and production features.

Best for: Podcast and video editing with transcript-based workflows

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Automation · Free + paid plans

Make

A visual automation platform for building app-to-app workflows, including AI steps and operational routing.

Best for: Visual automation scenarios and multi-step operational workflows

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Automation · Free + paid plans

Zapier AI

AI-assisted automation builder for connecting apps, triggering workflows, and reducing manual operational tasks.

Best for: Automating business workflows across apps

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Automation · Free self-hosted + paid cloud

n8n

A flexible automation platform for technical teams that want deeper workflow control and self-hosting options.

Best for: Technical workflow automation with self-hosting and AI agent options

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Creative · Free + paid plans / Adobe plans

Adobe Firefly

Adobe’s generative AI suite for images, text effects, edits, and creative production within the Adobe ecosystem.

Best for: Commercially oriented generative images and design assets inside Adobe workflows

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Audio & Video · Free + paid plans

ElevenLabs

A leading AI voice platform for realistic speech, narration, dubbing, and voice product experiences.

Audio & Video · Free + paid plans

Descript

An editor that lets creators edit audio and video by editing text, with AI cleanup and production features.

Automation · Free + paid plans

Make

A visual automation platform for building app-to-app workflows, including AI steps and operational routing.

Automation · Free + paid plans

Zapier AI

AI-assisted automation builder for connecting apps, triggering workflows, and reducing manual operational tasks.

Automation · Free self-hosted + paid cloud

n8n

A flexible automation platform for technical teams that want deeper workflow control and self-hosting options.

Creative · Free + paid plans / Adobe plans

Adobe Firefly

Adobe’s generative AI suite for images, text effects, edits, and creative production within the Adobe ecosystem.

Creative · Free + paid plans

Leonardo AI

A creative AI platform for image generation, asset production, style control, and visual experimentation.

Creative · Free trial credits + paid plans ($29.9/mo Basic, $49.9/mo Pro, $99.9/mo Ultimate; yearly 20–40% off; pay-as-you-go credit packs available)

AIBase

A credit-based subscription platform that wraps multiple third-party image and video models (Nano Banana 2, GPT Image 2, Seedream, Seedance, Veo 3.1 Fast/Pro, Wan 2.7, HappyHorse 1.0) behind one workspace with pay-as-you-go or monthly plans.

Creative · Paid plans

Midjourney

A premium image-generation tool for brand visuals, concept art, moodboards, and campaign creative.

Creative · Free + paid plans

Canva AI

AI-assisted design inside Canva’s familiar editor for quick branded assets and marketing production.

Development · Free + paid plans

Bolt.new

A browser-based AI development environment for quickly creating and iterating on web apps from prompts.

Development · Free tier; Pro $20/mo; Pro+ $60/mo; Ultra $200/mo; Teams $40/user/mo

Cursor

Developer-focused AI editor with its own frontier models (Grok 4.6 jointly trained with xAI, Composer 2.5), agent requests, cloud agents, and Bugbot code review.

Development · Paid plans

GitHub Copilot

A mature coding assistant integrated into GitHub and major IDE workflows.

Development · Free + paid plans

Lovable

An AI app builder focused on turning prompts into working web app prototypes and product interfaces.

Development · Free + paid plans

Replit AI

AI coding assistance inside Replit for prototyping, explaining, debugging, and shipping browser-based projects.

Development · Free + paid plans

v0

Vercel’s AI interface generator for UI components, React patterns, and rapid frontend iteration.

General AI Assistant · Free + paid plans

ChatGPT

A flexible AI assistant for drafting, analysis, brainstorming, coding help, and everyday knowledge work.

General AI Assistant · Free + paid plans

Claude

A thoughtful assistant especially useful for editing, long-context analysis, and turning messy notes into structured outputs.

General AI Assistant · Free + API pricing

DeepSeek

An AI assistant and model provider known for reasoning and coding capabilities with strong price-performance interest.

General AI Assistant · Free + paid plans

Gemini

Google’s AI assistant with strong multimodal capabilities and a natural fit for people already working in Google products.

General AI Assistant · Free tier; SuperGrok $30/mo; SuperGrok Plus $100/mo; API from $1–$6 per 1M tokens

Grok

xAI’s assistant family: flagship Grok 4.6 model for coding and agents, Grok Bot always-on agents, Grok Build coding agent with Build Mode apps, Grok Imagine image/video, Grok Voice, and real-time X data.

General AI Assistant · Free

Meta AI

Meta’s assistant for consumer chat, image generation, social contexts, and broad AI access across Meta surfaces.

General AI Assistant · Free + paid plans

Mistral Le Chat

Mistral’s assistant for general chat, reasoning, writing, coding help, and working with Mistral’s model family.

Creative · Free + paid plans

Copy.ai

An AI platform for marketing and sales content workflows, from copy generation to GTM process support.

Creative · Paid plans

Jasper

A marketing-focused AI writing platform for brand voice, campaign assets, and content operations.

Meetings · Free + paid team plans

Fathom

An AI meeting assistant for recording calls, generating summaries, and sharing highlights with teams.

Meetings · Free + paid plans

Fireflies.ai

A meeting intelligence tool for recording, transcribing, searching, and summarizing team conversations.

Meetings · Free + paid plans

Otter.ai

A meeting assistant for recording, transcribing, summarizing, and extracting follow-up items.

General AI Assistant · Free + paid plans

Poe

A multi-model chat platform for comparing assistants, using specialized bots, and testing different model behaviors.

Productivity · Free + paid plans

Gamma

A fast AI presentation and document builder for turning ideas into polished decks and shareable pages.

Productivity · Paid plan availability varies

Airtable AI

AI capabilities inside Airtable for summarizing records, categorizing data, drafting text, and powering operational workflows.

Productivity · Free + paid plans

Microsoft Copilot

Microsoft’s AI assistant for workplace productivity, search, writing, meetings, and enterprise software workflows.

Productivity · Paid add-on / included in some plans

Notion AI

AI features inside Notion for summarizing docs, drafting pages, searching knowledge, and turning notes into plans.

Productivity · Paid add-on / plan availability varies

Slack AI

AI features inside Slack for summarizing channels, catching up on threads, and finding workplace context.

Research · Free + paid plans

Perplexity

A research-first AI search engine that keeps sources visible while answering questions.

Research · Free + paid plans

You.com

An AI search and assistant platform for web answers, research, productivity, and agent-style tasks.

Video · Free + paid plans

HeyGen

A business video platform for AI avatars, translation, personalized videos, and presenter-led content.

Video · Free + paid plans

Runway

A creative video platform for generative video, editing, and motion experiments.

Video · Paid plans

Synthesia

An AI video platform for creating training, enablement, and explainer videos with avatars and templates.

Productivity · Free + paid plans

Grammarly

A writing assistant for grammar, tone, clarity, rewriting, and communication support across everyday business apps.

Video · Free tier + credit plans from $17/month

AllVideoAI

A browser-based AI video workspace that generates video from prompts or reference images and lets you work across multiple generation models without separate subscriptions.

AI Agents · Open source + model/provider costs

Hermes Agent

An open-source autonomous agent framework from Nous Research with tools, skills, memory, profiles, messaging gateways, delegation, MCP, and scheduled routines.

AI Agents · Open source + model/provider and hosting costs

OpenClaw

An open-source multi-channel gateway for AI agents that can run on your own infrastructure and connect conversations, tools, and model providers.

Local AI · Free local runtime + optional cloud plans

Ollama

A local model runtime and API that makes it straightforward to download, run, and integrate open models on a computer, with optional cloud access.

Local AI · Free local use + optional pay-as-you-go cloud models

LM Studio

A desktop application for discovering and running local LLMs with a polished chat experience and developer-facing APIs, plus optional cloud model access.

Local AI · Open source + optional enterprise/support considerations

Open WebUI

A self-hosted web interface for interacting with local and compatible model providers, with document, RAG, tool, and multi-user workflows.

Healthcare · Free + paid Clinician and Teams plans

Heidi Health

A clinician-facing AI documentation product with a published free plan plus paid Clinician and Teams tiers. It is positioned for visit notes and related clinical admin work; licensed clinicians remain responsible for every finalized record.

Healthcare · Free for healthcare professionals, per official homepage

OpenEvidence

A medical knowledge platform that official pages describe as free and unlimited for healthcare professionals, with content agreements involving publishers such as NEJM, JAMA, Nature, NCCN, and Cochrane. It is a research/reference surface, not a substitute for clinical judgment.

Healthcare · Sales-assisted Microsoft licensing; no self-serve public list price

Microsoft Dragon Copilot

Microsoft's AI clinical assistant for physicians, nurses, and radiologists. Official pages describe documentation, information surfacing, and task automation, plus a migration path from Dragon Medical One. Pricing is not published as a self-serve consumer price list.

Legal · Sales-assisted demo / quote; no self-serve public list price

Harvey

An enterprise legal AI platform for law firms and in-house teams. Official pages route buyers to a demo and describe security controls such as SAML SSO, audit logs, and data lifecycle management. It is not a substitute for licensed legal judgment.

Legal · Custom per-seat subscription; no public self-serve price list on the official homepage

Spellbook

A Word-native AI product for commercial contract review and drafting. Official pages describe redlines against your standards, drafting in Word, and vendor confidentiality controls. Pricing is not published as a self-serve checkout list.

Legal · Sales-quoted; official Westlaw Advantage with CoCounsel Essentials starts at $415.35/month

CoCounsel Legal

Thomson Reuters’ legal AI assistant grounded in Westlaw content and Practical Law guidance. Official product pages describe research, analysis, and drafting; an official Westlaw plans page lists a starting price for the Westlaw Advantage with CoCounsel Essentials bundle.

Education · Free $0 for individual teachers; Plus $12.99/mo or $8.33/mo billed annually ($99.96/year); Enterprise custom

MagicSchool

An education-specific AI platform for teachers and schools. Official pricing lists a forever-free individual teacher plan, a self-serve Plus plan, and custom Enterprise for districts. Vendor privacy pages claim FERPA, COPPA, and SOC 2 alignment; those are vendor claims, not certifications by this site.

Education · Teacher tools officially free in supported locales; learners/families $4/month or $44/year; district tools by quote

Khanmigo

Khan Academy's AI teaching assistant and tutor. The official teacher page states Khanmigo is free for teachers. Official pricing lists $4/month or $44/year for learners and families, with district tools sold by quote. Teacher-free access is not the same as classroom student access.

Nonprofit · Discover $299/mo billed annually ($349 monthly); Pre-Award $499/$579; Full Lifecycle $999/$1,159; Enterprise custom; 14-day free trial

Instrumentl

A grant operating system for finding, drafting, and managing awards. Official pricing starts at $299/month when paid annually for Discover, with higher Pre-Award and Full Lifecycle tiers. A 14-day free trial is advertised. Vendor ROI marketing figures are not independently verified here.

Nonprofit · Free $0 with 5 chat messages/day; Starter $50/mo; Pro $150/mo; qualifying 501(c)(3)s under ~$500K get 50% off for 1 year ($25/$75)

Grantable

An AI grant-writing workspace with a real free plan. Official pricing lists Starter at $50/month and Pro at $150/month, plus a one-year 50% nonprofit discount for qualifying 501(c)(3) organizations under about $500K operating budget. Docs also describe a Pro+ tier whose public dollar price was not listed on the main pricing page during this check.

Audio & Video · Free $0 with 2 hours one-off multi-track; Pro $24/mo billed annually ($29 monthly, $288/year); Grow $34/$39; Webinar $79/$99; Business custom

Riverside

A remote recording studio for podcasts and video shows. Official pricing lists a $0 Free plan with a 2-hour one-off multi-track allowance, then Pro, Grow, and Webinar self-serve tiers and custom Business. Official FAQ states annual billing saves up to 20%. Recording itself is described as unlimited; separate-track download hours are the billed cap.

Audio & Video · Free plan with published daily limits; Premium via official 30-day trial — no public USD list price on the plans page during this check

Adobe Podcast

Adobe's browser podcast tools for Enhance Speech cleanup and Studio recording. The official plans page publishes a Free plan and a Premium plan with a 30-day free trial. Exact Premium US-dollar pricing was not listed on that page during this check, so no unofficial third-party dollar figure is recorded.

Property Management · Starter $25/mo or $180/year ($15/mo); Growth $35/$350 ($29/mo); Pro $60/$600 ($50/mo); Business from $100/mo custom; 14-day trial

TenantCloud

A rental-operations platform for landlords and property managers. Official pricing lists Starter, Growth, Pro, and a custom Business tier starting at $100/month. A 14-day trial is advertised. This is property software with listing and lease tools, not a fair-housing or tenant-screening certification.

Property Management · Go Free for up to 3 units; Pro $12/mo or $144/year; Pro Plus $28/mo or $366/year; 14-day Pro trial

Landlord Studio

All-in-one software for independent landlords. Official pricing starts at $0/month on the Go plan for up to 3 units, then Pro at $12/month or $144/year and Pro Plus at $28/month or $366/year. Official copy advertises a 14-day Pro trial with no credit card. Vendor savings calculators are marketing, not audited results.

Productivity · Free + Pro $9.90/mo (launch offer) + credit packs from $1

HtmlSlides

An AI HTML presentation maker that turns prompts into interactive, browser-playable slide decks you can share, embed, and export as video.

Automation · Free (Whop platform fees apply on sales)

Whop CLI

A command-line interface that exposes Whop's end-to-end business API — deploy apps, create products, set pricing, run ads, pull stats, and move money from the terminal or through AI agents.

Creative ·

Ideogram

Video · Plus $30/month, Pro $90/month, Ultra $300/month

Luma AI

Luma AI is a 3D and video generation platform that creates photorealistic 3D models and AI-generated video from text prompts or reference images, targeting product demos, social video, and 3D prototyping workflows.

Video ·

Pika

Audio & Video ·

Suno

Audio & Video ·

Udio

Productivity · Free + paid plans

Shortwave

An AI email client that adds triage, summaries, reminders, and scheduled send to Gmail.

Automation · Free + paid plans

Browse AI

A visual web automation platform that turns site monitoring and extraction into repeatable robots.

Productivity · Free + paid plans

Rows

A spreadsheet built for teams that want AI transformations and direct integrations inside the grid.

Research · Free

NotebookLM

Google's document research tool that grounds answers in uploaded files and produces audio overviews.

AI Agents · Free + paid plans

TypingMind

A self-hostable chat interface that unifies multiple LLM providers under one prompt library and usage dashboard.

Audio & Video · Free + paid plans

Speechify

A text-to-speech reading assistant that turns documents, web pages, and PDFs into listenable audio.

AI Agents · $99/month billed monthly (10-day free trial; cancel anytime)

Catch

An AI admin assistant that schedules meetings, drafts email, books travel, and places phone calls over Slack, Messages, email, or voice — positioned as action-taking rather than suggest-or-summarize.

Audio & Video · Free + paid minutes

Tunii

Browser-based AI vocal remover and stem splitter. Upload a song to create instrumentals, isolate vocals, or split into stems — no desktop audio editor needed.

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