Hume AI

ChatGPT

Conversational AI assistant for writing, coding, and analysis, free on a base model or unlocked further on paid tiers up to a developer API.

Midjourney

Subscription AI tool that generates images from text prompts, billed by monthly fast GPU hours, with no free plan.

Gemini

Gemini is Google's AI assistant, bundled with Google One cloud storage; paid plans range from $4.99 to $99.99+/month for expanded usage limits.

Ideogram

AI image generator with integrated text rendering: render text in images with 90% accuracy (vs 30% Midjourney), variations, remixing, and developer API. Fast and quality modes.

Perplexity

AI search engine with real-time answers, numbered citations, and advanced features like custom Spaces, academic search, and access to multiple frontier models.

GitHub Copilot

AI development assistant for GitHub: inline autocomplete, code chat, review, agent mode, and CLI. June 2026: moved to usage-based billing (credits); inline suggestions free on all plans.

Gumloop

AI no-code automation — build intelligent workflows with drag and drop.

Leonardo AI

Leonardo AI generates and edits images with proprietary and third-party AI models, using a token-based credit system across free and paid tiers.

Runway

AI video, image and audio generation and editing platform with multiple in-house models, 4K upscaling, and a one-time free credit grant.

Emergent

Build web and mobile apps with AI — MVP in hours, not weeks.

Magic Patterns

AI-powered UI component and prototype generator from prompts.

Rork

Build iOS and Android mobile apps with AI in minutes.

Claude

API platform for accessing Claude models (Opus, Sonnet, Haiku, Fable) with prompt caching, batch processing, and web search capabilities for production integration.

Krea AI

Unified interface aggregating 60+ AI image and video generation models with a shared compute-unit credit system.

Lovable

Lovable builds a working web app from a chat prompt, with Cloud hosting included, billed through a credit system starting at $25/month.

Base44

An AI tool that builds complete apps, including login and a database, from a prompt, without writing code.

Bolt.new

Bolt.new is an AI tool that generates deployable full-stack web apps from natural-language prompts, running entirely in the browser.

DeepSeek

Chinese AI API provider: V4 Flash and V4 Pro models with ultra-competitive pricing, prompt caching, and 5M free tokens at signup (no credit card required).

Firecrawl

Firecrawl is a web scraping and crawling API that turns sites into clean Markdown/JSON, with a free tier and paid plans from $19/month.

Google AI Studio

Google AI Studio is a free web playground plus API console for building with Google's Gemini models, billed per token from $0.30 per million input tokens on the entry model.