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AI Agents · Free (97 templates; no paid tier, sponsorship-funded)

BotLoadout

A free library of 97 AI agent templates, each published in separate Claude, ChatGPT and Grok versions with the system prompt, the connectors to switch on, a short setup sequence, an example input and output, and stated limits. The full prompt text is public and there is no hosted runtime: the templates are copied into your own account, and the site is funded by newsletter sponsorship rather than subscriptions.

Best for: Starting a first Claude, ChatGPT or Grok agent from a worked template instead of writing the system prompt, connectors and setup from scratch

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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.

Best for: Busy executives who want an AI admin to schedule meetings, triage email, book travel, and make calls

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AI Agents · Free (300 credits/mo) + paid plans from $25/mo; optional live agent seats from $19/seat/mo

Robylon

An AI customer support platform whose agents work tickets rather than only answering them: they read the systems an answer lives in, act through tools built from your APIs, and hand anything they cannot finish to a person with the checking already done. It runs inside an existing helpdesk or standalone with its own inbox.

Best for: Resolving customer support tickets end to end across email, chat, voice and WhatsApp with AI agents that act inside the helpdesk you already run

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AI Agents · Free + paid plans

TypingMind

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

Best for: Self-hosted multi-model chat with unified prompts and model routing

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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.

Best for: browser speech enhancement and short studio sessions with a published free plan

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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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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 $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.

Best for: remote podcast recording, AI editing, clips, and hosting with a published free plan

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Audio & Video · Free + paid plans

Speechify

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

Best for: Text-to-speech reading assistant for documents, web, and learning

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Audio & Video · Free plan; Pro $8/mo ($96/yr); Premier $24/mo ($288/yr) (annual billing)

Suno

AI music generation with vocals, lyrics, and full song production.

Best for: Content creators, Podcast intros, Marketing music

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Audio & Video · Free 10 trial min + 5 min/week; one-time packs: $4.99/30 min, $9.99/90 min, $24.99/300 min

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.

Best for: AI vocal removal, stem splitting, and instrumental tracks in the browser

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Audio & Video · Free plan; Standard $8/mo ($96/yr); Pro $24/mo ($288/yr) (annual billing)

Udio

AI music generation focused on high-fidelity tracks and genre control.

Best for: Background music, Content scoring, Audio prototyping

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Automation · Free + paid plans

Browse AI

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

Best for: Visual web scraping and no-code browser automation

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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 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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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.

Best for: Building and running a Whop business programmatically from the terminal or via AI agents

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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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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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Paid tools worth comparing before you subscribe

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.

Best for: autonomous multi-tool agents, persistent memory, skills, and messaging workflows

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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.

Best for: self-hosted multi-channel AI agents and personal automation gateways

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Audio & Video · Starter $9.99/mo or $59.99/yr (30 songs/mo); Creator $19.99/mo or $119.99/yr (65); Studio $29.99/mo or $179.99/yr (100); one-time packs 20 songs $9.99, 40 songs $19.99, 90 songs $39.99; one introductory song per verified account

Words into Music

A browser song generator: describe an idea or paste your own lyrics, choose genre, instruments, vocal style, language (English, Spanish, German, French, Portuguese) and a 60-180 second target length, preview and edit the lyric draft, then generate a recording that stays in a private library and downloads as MP3. Writing tools (lyrics, titles, prompts) cost no song credits, and the same credit balance is exposed through a remote MCP server and an OpenAPI-described REST API plus CLI.

Best for: Turning a written idea or your own lyrics into a full sung song in five languages, without playing an instrument or booking studio time

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Creative · Basic $59.99/yr; Pro $99.99/yr; Max $199.99/yr (annual, credits granted upfront)

BeadPattern

A fuse-bead pattern generator: upload a photo or describe a subject and it produces a bead grid matched to Perler, Hama, Artkal, MARD and COCO palettes with per-colour bead counts, printable PDF and PNG export, and a browser-side editor. Photo conversion is free and costs no credits.

Best for: Turning a photo or a prompt into a fuse-bead grid with per-colour bead counts you can actually shop from

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Creative · Paid plans

Jasper

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

Best for: Marketing content workflows, brand voice, and campaign production

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Creative · Paid plans

Midjourney

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

Best for: High-quality image generation and concept visuals

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Creative · Packs $2.99-$10.99 (one-time); subscriptions $3.99/mo and $9.90/mo

TAROTAI.CHAT

An AI tarot reader on its own 78-card Rider-Waite deck with upright and reversed meanings, four spread types, six reader personas and follow-up questions within a session. Credits are charged per spread and the credit cost of each spread is published.

Best for: Drawing and interpreting tarot spreads in a chat interface, with follow-up questions inside a reading

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Development · Paid plans

GitHub Copilot

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

Best for: Autocomplete, code chat, and developer productivity in popular IDEs

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Auto-generated from our pricing verification runs — every deal below was found on the vendor's official pricing page with a checked date. Nothing scraped, nothing expired-on-purpose.

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Adobe Firefly

The first-year promotional rates recorded on 2026-08-25 (US$34.97 Pro Plus and US$139.91 Premium) were no longer displayed on the official pricing page on 2026-10-01.

Verified from official pricing page · checked 2026-10-01

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AIBase

Yearly billing is 20–40% off (Basic yearly ~$180; Pro yearly equivalent ~$29.9 × 12 × 0.6 ≈ $215; Ultimate $99.9 × 12 with 40% off ≈ $720, saving $238.8 on the Pro tier).

Verified from official pricing page · checked 2026-09-18

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Microsoft Copilot

Microsoft 365 Copilot Business is displayed at a promotional $18/user/month, paid yearly, versus a $21 list price.

Verified from official pricing page · checked 2026-10-01

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Slack AI

The page was also displaying a 50%-off-for-three-months promotion for eligible Pro and Business+ purchases.

Verified from official pricing page · checked 2026-09-18

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You.com

The current public pricing page primarily lists APIs: Web Search $5/1,000 calls, Contents $1/1,000 pages, Answer $5/1,000 calls, Research from $12/1,000 calls, and Finance Research from $110/1,000 calls, with a $100 introductory credit.

Verified from official pricing page · checked 2026-10-01

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AllVideoAI

Promotional countdown timers and 'new customer offer' discounts appear on the pricing page; verify current prices before subscribing.

Verified from official pricing page · checked 2026-09-18

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LM Studio

Bionic+ at $20 USD/month for private, US-hosted open-source models, discounted bulk tokens, and web search with page extraction. Pro at $100 USD/month with 5x usage limits, discounted bulk tokens, and early access.

Verified from official pricing page · checked 2026-10-01

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Grantable

Qualifying 501(c)(3) organizations with annual operating budgets under approximately $500,000 get 50% off Starter and Pro for one year ($25/month and $75/month).

Verified from official pricing page · checked 2026-09-18

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TenantCloud

TenantCloud's official pricing page lists Starter at $25/month or $180/year billed annually ($15/month, advertised as 40% off); Growth at $35/month or $350/year ($29/month); Pro at $60/month or $600/year ($50/month); and Business starting at $100/month as a custom plan.

Verified from official pricing page · checked 2026-09-18

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TypingMind

TypingMind offers one-time lifetime licenses: Standard at $39 (basic chat, AI agents, voice input, chat sharing), Extended at $79 (adds image generation, web search, text-to-speech, vision/images, document upload), and Premium at $99 (discounted from $198, adds multi-model chats, unlimited plugins, projects and folders, artifacts, free updates). A Bulk License for up to 10 users on 50 devices is $395 (discounted from $790).

Verified from official pricing page · checked 2026-09-18

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AIDetector.cx

Free: 5 introductory checks total (1 guest + 4 signed-in), no recurring reset.

Verified from official pricing page · checked 2026-11-03

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Robylon

Yearly billing is 10% off, so Pro 500 credits is $22/mo and Business 4,500 is $162/mo.

Verified from official pricing page · checked 2026-10-16

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Words into Music

Payments via Stripe; one introductory song for an eligible verified account.

Verified from official pricing page · checked 2026-10-21

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GatsbyAI

The page states the yearly option as 50% off and the arithmetic is exact against twelve times the monthly price.

Verified from official pricing page · checked 2026-10-21

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HumanPen

Verified on three surfaces that agree - the rendered /pricing page (four cards, first-purchase prices shown beside list prices), the site's own public endpoint /api/backend/v1/credits/packages?locale=en (eight items: four 'first_*' packs at the discounted cents values and four standard packs at 1900/7900/14900/24900 cents, currency USD, every provider 'waffo', default_provider 'waffo', first_purchase_available true, no recurring flag on any item), and the pricing page metadata ('1,000 credits for $19, or $9.90 on your first purchase').

Verified from official pricing page · checked 2026-10-23

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Genjutsu AI

Banners read "Save up to 50%" with per-plan badges of 40% OFF (Save $238.8) on Pro and 50% OFF (Save $599.8) on Business; those two reconcile against the struck-through monthly prices, but the annual Starter plan has no anchor and costs more per credit than the monthly Starter.

Verified from official pricing page · checked 2026-10-26

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RapVideo AI

Yearly: badged 'up to 44% off' and auto-renewing; the only yearly figure in the served HTML is Basic at $299/year for 120 videos (about 17% below the monthly rate, ~$24.92/mo), while Pro and Agency yearly prices render only after the client-side toggle.

Verified from official pricing page · checked 2026-10-27

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CustomGPT.ai

Annual billing is 10% off (save $120 on Standard and $600 on Premium). Eligible education and nonprofit buyers are offered 20% off annual plans only.

Verified from official pricing page · checked 2026-10-27

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UMEVO

Sale badged '35% off' with a countdown that renders 00:00:00 and no stated end date.

Verified from official pricing page · checked 2026-10-27

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Makify AI

Annual cards show 17%, 33% and 50% off the monthly equivalents and the site carries a standing '-50%' promo badge.

Verified from official pricing page · checked 2026-11-10

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