Tools that earn
their place.

Instrumental

paid

AI inspection and failure analysis for electronics assembly. Cameras capture every unit at each build state, then models flag defects no golden-sample rule ever encoded.

Cursor

freemium

A VS Code fork built around agentic editing, with its own Composer models, a pull request review bot and SOC 2 controls for teams that want AI in the editor.

Roboflow

freemium

End-to-end computer vision platform for labelling, training and deploying detection models to cloud or edge hardware like Jetson, with a visual builder for multi-step vision pipelines.

vLLM

open-source Open source

Open-source inference server for self-hosted LLMs. PagedAttention and continuous batching for high-concurrency serving across Nvidia, AMD, Intel and CPU backends.

Semgrep

freemium Open source

Static analysis and AppSec platform where rules are readable code patterns, plus a plugin that scans every file an AI coding agent writes.

Zilliz Cloud

freemium Chinese AI

Managed vector database built on Milvus, the open-source engine behind most billion-scale retrieval systems, for teams who need hybrid search without running the cluster themselves.

Claude

freemium

AI assistant focused on safety, accuracy, and nuanced understanding for complex tasks and analysis.

Ultralytics YOLO26

open-source Open source

Current YOLO model family from Ultralytics: five sizes, NMS-free end-to-end detection plus segmentation, pose and oriented boxes, exportable to TensorRT, ONNX, OpenVINO and TFLite.

NVIDIA Isaac Sim

free

GPU-accelerated robotics simulator for physics-accurate testing, synthetic data generation and large-scale policy training, with ROS 2 bridging and sim-to-real workflows.

Databricks Mosaic AI

paid

The AI layer inside Databricks: Agent Bricks, model serving, vector search and MLflow, all resolving back to Unity Catalog governed data.

Hex

freemium

Collaborative SQL and Python notebook where an agent runs the analysis, wired into dbt, Cube or Snowflake semantic models so it answers against governed metric definitions.

Weights & Biases

freemium

Experiment tracking and model registry for ML training, plus Weave for tracing and evaluating production LLM agents. CoreWeave-owned since May 2025.

Glean

paid

Enterprise search and agent platform that indexes company systems with permissions intact, then exposes that context to internal agents and outside AI clients.

pgvector

open-source Open source

Postgres extension that adds vector types and approximate nearest neighbour indexes, so embeddings live in the same database as the rest of your data.

Qdrant

open-source Open source

Rust vector search engine with native hybrid dense and sparse retrieval, self-hostable under Apache 2.0 or run as a managed cloud cluster.

FLUX

paid Open weights

Image generation and editing models from Black Forest Labs, available as a hosted API or as downloadable weights you run on your own GPUs.

Recraft

freemium

Image model built for design output rather than art, with true SVG vector generation, locked brand styles and an API covering vectorize, upscale and background removal.

Trae

freemium Chinese AI

ByteDance's AI IDE and standalone SOLO agent that scaffolds projects, runs terminal commands and tests in a browser, at $10 a month for Pro against Cursor's $20.

Unitree UnifoLM

open-source Chinese AI Open source

Unitree's open robot learning stack: world models, a vision-language-action policy, Isaac and MuJoCo training environments and the SDK that drives Go2, G1 and R1 hardware.

GitHub Copilot

freemium

Microsoft's AI coding assistant across VS Code, JetBrains and the GitHub web, with background agents that open pull requests and org-level policy controls.

Elicit

freemium

Literature search and systematic review across 138 million papers, with screening and extraction accuracy figures the vendor actually publishes.

Dify

freemium Chinese AI Open source

Open-source LLM app platform from LangGenius for agentic workflows and RAG pipelines. Modified Apache 2.0: self-host freely, multi-tenant SaaS needs a commercial licence.

RAGFlow

open-source Chinese AI Open source

InfiniFlow's Apache 2.0 RAG engine built on deep document parsing. DeepDoc handles layout, tables and OCR before chunking, and every citation points back to a highlighted region in the source PDF.

VoxCPM

open-source Chinese AI Open weights

OpenBMB's tokenizer-free TTS, Apache 2.0 on weights and code. VoxCPM2 is 2B parameters, 30 languages, 48kHz output and voice design from a written description with no reference clip.

Qwen-Image

open-source Chinese AI Open weights

Alibaba Qwen team's 20B MMDiT image foundation model plus its Edit and Layered variants, all Apache 2.0. Renders long-form Chinese and English text inside images at commercial quality.

InternVL 3.5

open-source Chinese AI Open weights

Shanghai AI Lab's open vision-language family (书生·万象), nine sizes from 1B to 241B-A28B under Apache 2.0. The default open VLM for OCR, document parsing and GUI agent work.

MiniMax M3

freemium Chinese AI Open weights

MiniMax's open-weight flagship LLM (稀宇科技), distinct from the Hailuo video product: 428B mixture-of-experts, 23B active per token, 1M context and native image and video input.

Ling 3.0

open-source Chinese AI Open weights

Ant Group's open-weight MoE family (百灵, Bailing): Ling-3.0-flash at 124B total and 5.1B active, a 7.9B tiny variant and trillion-parameter Ring reasoning models, all MIT.

MiniCPM

open-source Chinese AI Open weights

OpenBMB's on-device line (面壁小钢炮): MiniCPM5-1B at 1.08B parameters with a 131K context, plus MiniCPM-V 4.6 multimodal at 1.3B. Apache 2.0 on weights and code.

Milvus

open-source Chinese AI Open source

Apache 2.0 vector database from Zilliz, self-hostable from a pip install up to a billion-vector cluster. The open engine under Zilliz Cloud, minus the proprietary Cardinal search core.

Apache Doris

open-source Chinese AI Open source

MPP analytics database that began as Baidu's Palo. Version 4.0 put HNSW vector indexes, BM25 full-text search and SQL-callable LLM functions into the same engine that runs the OLAP queries.

AgiBot World

open-source Chinese AI Open weights

Open manipulation data and policy weights from AgiBot (智元机器人): a million-plus real robot trajectories, the GO-1 VLA and the Genie Envisioner world model, all non-commercial.

RoboBrain 2.5

open-source Chinese AI Open weights

BAAI's embodied brain model (悟界·RoboBrain), Apache 2.0 at 4B and 8B, shipped in parallel NVIDIA and Moore Threads builds. It plans and points in 3D for a controller underneath.

Baidu Apollo

open-source Chinese AI Open source

Baidu's Apache 2.0 autonomous driving platform (阿波罗). Version 11.0, January 2026, aims squarely at sweepers, delivery pods, patrol vehicles and campus shuttles rather than robotaxis.

Lark CLI

open-source Chinese AI Open source

MIT-licensed official CLI for Lark and Feishu (飞书), from ByteDance. 200+ commands and 24 agent skills over Docs, Base, Sheets, Calendar and approvals, built for AI agents.

WPS 365

freemium Chinese AI

Kingsoft's enterprise office AI platform (金山办公 WPS 365). AI runs inside the document, and Qingzhou AI puts private deployment on a single CPU server. From 199 RMB per seat a year.

OpenManus

open-source Chinese AI Open source

MIT-licensed open agent framework from the MetaGPT team, prototyped in three hours as the open answer to Manus. 58,100 stars and still pushing commits in August 2026.

Tripo

freemium Chinese AI Open weights

Image and text to 3D from VAST in Beijing. Hosted Tripo 3.0 Ultra reaches 2 million polygons, while TripoSG 1.5B, TripoSR and UniRig ship as MIT-licensed weights you can run yourself.

Fin

paid

AI support agent that runs on top of Zendesk, Salesforce, HubSpot or Intercom and bills $0.99 per outcome. Renamed from Intercom in May 2026, now under a $3.6B Salesforce acquisition.

Sierra

paid

Enterprise agent platform for chat, voice and email with a declarative Agent SDK, GitHub Actions CI/CD and simulation testing. Outcome-based pricing with no published rate card.

Subframe

freemium

Visual editor that exports React, Tailwind, TypeScript and Radix. Components sync into your repo through a CLI, and the export is deterministic rather than model-generated.

CVAT

open-source Open source

MIT-licensed annotation tool for images, video and 3D point clouds. Self-host via Docker, plug SAM or YOLO into Nuclio for pre-labelling, export to COCO, YOLO, KITTI and 20 other formats.

FiftyOne

open-source Open source

Apache 2.0 Python library and app for curating vision datasets. Query and slice samples, explore embeddings, find label mistakes and push fixes back to CVAT or Label Studio.

BlenderProc

open-source Open source

GPL-3.0 Blender pipeline from DLR that renders photorealistic synthetic training images with RGB, depth, normals, segmentation and exact 6D pose, exporting to BOP and COCO.

Braintrust

freemium

Eval-first observability for agents: datasets, scorers and experiments in one loop. Unlimited seats on every tier, Pro at $249 a month flat. SaaS only unless you buy Enterprise.

ONNX Runtime

open-source Open source

Microsoft's cross-platform inference engine for ONNX models, with execution providers for CUDA, TensorRT, OpenVINO, CoreML, NNAPI, QNN, DirectML and XNNPACK.

llama.cpp

open-source Open source

C/C++ LLM inference engine behind the GGUF format, running quantised models on CPU, CUDA, Metal, Vulkan, ROCm and Hexagon NPUs with no Python at runtime.

Edge Impulse

freemium

Edge AI MLOps platform for MCU and NPU targets, covering sensor data capture, DSP blocks, training and C++ export with the EON Compiler. Qualcomm-owned since 2025.

Writer

paid

Enterprise AI content and agent platform on Writer's own Palmyra models, with a knowledge graph, brand guardrails and audit trails. No free tier, Starter is $29 per user a month annually.

Harvey

paid

Legal AI for law firms and in-house teams. Bulk document review in Vault, agentic drafting and research over licensed LexisNexis primary law, plus Agent Builder for firm workflows.

Boltz

open-source Open source

MIT-licensed co-folding models for structure and binding affinity prediction, plus BoltzGen for de novo binder design. Runs on a single GPU in roughly 20 seconds per prediction.

E2B

freemium Open source

Firecracker microVM sandboxes for running AI-generated code. Python and JS SDKs, 24-hour sessions, pause and resume with full memory state, Apache 2.0 core you can self-host.

Modal

freemium

Serverless Python compute with per-second GPU billing, sub-second cold starts and gVisor Sandboxes for agent code. H100 at $0.001097/s, scale to zero when idle.

Neon

freemium Open source

Serverless Postgres with copy-on-write branching and 350ms cold starts, now Databricks-owned. Its Agent Plan exists because most new databases on it are created by agents.

MuJoCo

open-source Open source

Google DeepMind's rigid-body physics engine for robotics. Contact-rich dynamics, MJCF models, plus MJX and MuJoCo Warp for batched GPU rollouts during policy training.

ChatGPT

freemium

OpenAI's assistant and API, now on the GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra and Luna tiers, with a 1M token context window on all three and reasoning effort you set per request.

ElevenLabs

freemium

Text to speech, voice cloning and transcription API covering 74 languages, aimed at teams shipping narration, dubbing and voice agents.

Groq

freemium

Inference API running open-weights models on custom LPU silicon. Sub-second responses and $0.05 per million input tokens, for latency-bound voice and agent workloads.

Snyk

freemium

Application security platform covering dependencies, code, containers and IaC, extended in 2026 to govern what AI coding agents are allowed to ship.

LlamaIndex

freemium Open source

Open-source Python and TypeScript framework for RAG and agentic workflows, paired with LlamaCloud for document parsing, extraction and managed indexes.

Adobe Firefly

freemium

Adobe's creative AI workspace, now a router for 30-plus models including its own indemnified Firefly Image Model 5, wired into Photoshop, Express and an enterprise-only API.

Devin

freemium

Cognition's autonomous coding agent, now bundled with the desktop IDE that used to be Windsurf, aimed at teams offloading well-specified tickets to background runs.

Temporal

freemium Open source

Durable execution platform that keeps long-running agent and backend workflows alive across crashes, restarts and outages, with SDKs in Python, Go, Java, TypeScript and .NET.

OpenAI Agents SDK

open-source Open source

Minimal open-source Python and TypeScript framework for building agents with handoffs, guardrails, sessions and sandboxed code execution, usable with non-OpenAI models.

LMDeploy

open-source Chinese AI Open source

Apache 2.0 LLM serving and quantization toolkit from Shanghai AI Laboratory's InternLM group. Builds for NVIDIA, Huawei Ascend, Cambricon and AMD ROCm from a single codebase.

AgentScope

open-source Chinese AI Open source

Apache 2.0 agent framework from Alibaba Tongyi Lab's SysML team. Version 2.0 folded the separate Runtime project into the core, so sandboxing, agent serving and observability now ship as one...

PaddleOCR

open-source Chinese AI Open source

Baidu's Apache 2.0 OCR toolkit (飞桨 PaddleOCR). PP-OCRv6 ships at 1.5M, 7.7M and 34.5M parameters, and PaddleOCR-VL-1.6 is a 0.9B document parser covering 109 languages.

dots.ocr

open-source Chinese AI Open weights

RedNote's (小红书) MIT-licensed document parser. A single vision-language model does layout, reading order and text; dots.mocr at 3B added direct SVG output for charts in March 2026.

CosyVoice

open-source Chinese AI Open weights

Alibaba's FunAudioLLM TTS line, Apache 2.0 on both code and weights. Fun-CosyVoice3-0.5B covers 9 languages and 18+ Chinese dialects with roughly 150ms bi-streaming latency.

IndexTTS

open-source Chinese AI Open weights

Bilibili's zero-shot TTS with the finest emotion and duration control in the open field. IndexTTS-2.5 is 0.8B across five languages, but commercial use needs written bilibili authorization.

Wan 2.2

open-source Chinese AI Open weights

Alibaba Tongyi Lab's open-weight video generation family (通义万相 Wan). Apache 2.0 mixture-of-experts checkpoints you can download and fine-tune, separate from the closed Wan 3.0 API.

seekdb

open-source Chinese AI Open source

Ant Group's OceanBase team open-sourced this AI-native search database under Apache 2.0 (seekdb, from the OceanBase 蚂蚁 stack). Vector, full-text and scalar filters in one SQL query, embeddable in...

TiDB

open-source Chinese AI Open source

PingCAP's MySQL-compatible distributed SQL database, Apache 2.0 across TiDB, TiKV and TiFlash. Vector columns and HNSW indexes ride on the TiFlash columnar replica, next to transactional rows.

Qwen3-Coder

open-source Chinese AI Open weights

Alibaba's open-weights coding model family plus the Apache 2.0 Qwen Code terminal agent, separate artifacts from the hosted Qwen Chat product. Qwen3-Coder-Next runs 80B total, 3B active.

CodeFuse

open-source Chinese AI Open source

Ant Group's open-source code intelligence stack (蚂蚁 CodeFuse): an Apache 2.0 GödelScript static analysis engine, MIT-licensed Ling-Coder-Lite weights and an OpenSumi-based AI IDE.

Unitree Robotics Developer Stack

open-source Chinese AI Open source

The open repos behind Unitree's robots (宇树科技): BSD-3 C++ and Python SDKs, MuJoCo and IsaacLab RL training, ROS 2 packages and XR teleoperation for data capture.

ModelScope

freemium Chinese AI Open source

Alibaba's open model hub (魔搭社区). Apache 2.0 client library, 170,000+ open-weight models and 2,000 free API calls a day. Where most Chinese labs publish first.

Huawei Cloud ModelArts

paid Chinese AI

Huawei Cloud's full-lifecycle AI platform. Training and serving on Ascend NPUs through CANN, with Lite Server, Lite Cluster and a MaaS layer. Proprietary and quote-priced.

Tencent Yuanbao

free Chinese AI

Tencent's consumer assistant app (腾讯元宝), distinct from the Hunyuan model family it serves. Its real edge is legal read access to the closed WeChat corpus. Mainland only.

Lovart

freemium Chinese AI

Design agent from LiblibAI (哩布哩布) that plans an entire deliverable set from one brief then builds it on an editable canvas. Ships as 星流 Agent inside mainland China.

ncnn

open-source Chinese AI Open source

Tencent's zero-dependency C++ inference library (腾讯 ncnn), BSD 3-Clause. Runs inside WeChat and QQ, with prebuilt libraries for HarmonyOS, WebAssembly, RISC-V and LoongArch.

PaddlePaddle

open-source Chinese AI Open source

Baidu's training and inference framework (飞桨), Apache 2.0, with kernels for Kunlunxin XPU, Ascend NPU, Hygon DCU and Cambricon MLU alongside CUDA. PaddleOCR is why most teams arrive.

MindSpore

open-source Chinese AI Open source

Huawei's Apache 2.0 framework (昇思) built around Ascend NPUs. Development is on Gitee, the GitHub mirror is stuck on 2024 and MindSpore Lite is the built-in AI engine in HarmonyOS.

garak

open-source Open source

Command line vulnerability scanner for LLMs, maintained by NVIDIA. Fires adversarial probe suites at a model endpoint, scores replies with detectors, writes JSONL plus an HTML digest.

Promptfoo

freemium Open source

Open source CLI for LLM evaluation and red teaming. Generates adversarial cases against your prompt templates and agents, runs them in CI, reports vulnerabilities. MIT licensed.

Gong

paid

Revenue intelligence over recorded calls, email and CRM activity, with an agent layer and MCP support. Strong analysis, but the REST API is capped at 3 requests per second.

Figma Make

paid

Prompt to working prototype inside Figma, with Make Kits that sync your npm packages and library styles so generated screens follow the real design system.

v0 by Vercel

freemium

Prompt-to-UI agent from Vercel. Outputs React, Next.js and Tailwind on shadcn/ui, pushes to a GitHub branch, and Design Mode edits styling without spending credits.

Arize Phoenix

open-source Open source

Self-hosted LLM tracing and evals built on OpenTelemetry. Free and uncapped under Elastic License 2.0, source-available rather than OSI open source. Runs in a notebook or on Kubernetes.

NVIDIA Jetson and TensorRT

paid

NVIDIA's edge inference stack: Jetson modules from Orin Nano to Thor T5000, with TensorRT compiling models into hardware-specific FP4, FP8, INT8 and INT4 engines.

Fireflies.ai

freemium

Meeting bot that records, transcribes and summarises Zoom, Meet and Teams calls, with a public GraphQL API and completion webhooks for piping transcripts into systems you control.

Mintlify

freemium

Hosted docs platform for developer products. MDX in Git, OpenAPI playground, auto-generated MCP server and llms.txt, plus an agent that opens pull requests to update docs after code changes.

LanguageTool

freemium Open source

Grammar, style and spelling checker for 30 plus languages. The LGPL Java core runs as a local HTTP server, so drafts never leave your machine. Cloud Premium adds closed ML rules.

NVIDIA Nemotron 3

open-source Open weights

NVIDIA's open-weight family, 31.6B Nano up to the 550B Ultra MoE. Hybrid Mamba-Transformer, 1M context, weights plus roughly 3T tokens of training data published.

Genesis World

open-source Open source

Open-source multi-physics simulator for robot learning. Rigid, FEM, MPM, SPH and PBD solvers share one Python scene, with a photoreal renderer and heavy GPU batching.

Google Gemini

freemium

Google's assistant and API. Gemini 3.1 Pro carries a 1,048,576 token context on every tier and the lowest frontier input price at $2 per million.

Mistral AI

open-source Open weights

European lab publishing open weight models you can run on your own hardware. Large 3 is a 675B MoE with 41B active, 256K context and Apache 2.0 weights.

Google Veo 3.1

paid

Google's video model with native synchronized audio, billed per output second through the Gemini API and Vertex AI, with consumer access in Flow and the Gemini app.

Cartesia

freemium

Low-latency voice models for real-time agents: Sonic-3.6 text to speech and Ink-2 streaming transcription, deployable in cloud, VPC or on device.

Siemens Industrial Copilot

paid

Generative AI assistant built into the Siemens automation stack: writes SCL for Simatic PLCs inside TIA Portal, explains machine faults on the line and runs air-gapped on an industrial PC.

Tulip

paid

No-code platform for shop-floor apps: operator work instructions, machine and device data capture, traceability records and OEE dashboards, priced per interface with public numbers.

Runway

freemium

Video generation and in-context editing platform built on Gen-4.5 and Aleph 2.0, with a developer API fronting third-party models and a robotics simulation toolkit on top of GWM-1.

Descript

freemium

Text-based video and audio editor with an agentic assistant, Underlord, for teams producing demos, talks and podcasts without learning a timeline editor.

Ollama

freemium Open source

Local LLM runtime with a one-command install and an OpenAI-compatible server on localhost. For laptop development, edge deployment and air-gapped environments.

Deepgram

paid

Speech recognition API for production voice pipelines: Nova-3 batch and streaming, Flux for turn-aware agents and a supported self-hosted deployment path.

LangGraph

open-source Open source

Low-level orchestration framework for stateful, long-running LLM agents, with checkpointing, human-in-the-loop pauses and a managed deployment tier through LangSmith.

Gemini Notebook

freemium

Google's grounded research notebook, renamed from NotebookLM in July 2026. Upload sources, get answers with inline citations and run code against them in a per-notebook sandbox.

Granola

freemium

Meeting notes app that merges your typed notes with system audio, then exposes the result as a queryable store of company conversation context over API and MCP.

MinerU

open-source Chinese AI Open source

Document-to-Markdown engine from Shanghai AI Lab's OpenDataLab. Relicensed off AGPLv3 in April 2026, reported at 95.4 on OmniDocBench v1.6 and running on ten domestic AI chip families.

RapidOCR

open-source Chinese AI Open source

PaddleOCR's models converted to ONNX and shipped without the PaddlePaddle framework. Apache 2.0, a 27.3 MB wheel, PP-OCRv6 small by default and fully offline CPU deployment.

FunASR

open-source Chinese AI Open source

Alibaba DAMO's industrial ASR toolkit. MIT code, Apache 2.0 Fun-ASR-Nano weights, 1.80% Chinese CER, plus VAD, punctuation, diarization and an OpenAI-compatible self-hosted server.

Hunyuan3D 2.1

free Chinese AI Open weights

Tencent's open image-to-3D model with PBR texture synthesis and full training code. A separate artifact from the Hunyuan chat product, and not under an OSI-approved licence.

InternLM

open-source Chinese AI Open weights

Shanghai AI Lab's open-weight family (书生·浦语), now the Intern-S scientific multimodal line: 35B up to 1T parameters, Apache 2.0, trained on domestic computing infrastructure.

Qoder

freemium Chinese AI

Alibaba's agentic IDE, which absorbed Tongyi Lingma (通义灵码) as Qoder CN on 20 May 2026. Repo Wiki and Quest Mode on credit-based pricing, with Linux builds since version 1.0.

Tencent CodeBuddy

freemium Chinese AI

Tencent Cloud's coding assistant (腾讯云代码助手), a distinct product from the Hunyuan chatbot. Standalone IDE, editor plugins and a CLI with native Agent Client Protocol support.

Manus

freemium Chinese AI

General AI agent from Butterfly Effect, the Wuhan and Beijing team now based in Singapore. Runs long multi-step tasks in a cloud VM. Blocked from mainland China since 2025.

Rodin (Hyper3D)

freemium Chinese AI

Deemos (影眸科技), a ShanghaiTech spinout, builds Rodin. Gen-2.5 emits native quad meshes at 4k to 50k quads, which is why it survives real pipelines. Hosted only, no weights.

SpatialLM

open-source Chinese AI Open weights

Manycore Tech (群核科技) of Hangzhou, behind Kujiale and Coohom, open-sourced its indoor spatial stack. SpatialLM turns point clouds into structured layouts, SpatialGen generates scenes.

Meshy

freemium Chinese AI

Beijing engineering team, Santa Clara registration, founded by Taichi author Yuanming Hu. Meshy 6 reached general availability on 18 January 2026 with meshes to roughly 600K faces.

MNN

open-source Chinese AI Open source

Alibaba's on-device inference engine (阿里 MNN), Apache 2.0. Runs Qwen3, Qwen3-VL and DeepSeek distills on phones across CPU, OpenCL, Metal, Vulkan, CUDA and Qualcomm Hexagon.

NVIDIA NeMo Guardrails

open-source Open source

Open source guardrails runtime from NVIDIA. Wraps an LLM app with input, retrieval, execution and output rails, plus Colang for multi-turn dialogue policy. Apache 2.0, version 0.24.0.

HiddenLayer

paid

Enterprise AI security platform covering model file scanning, AI asset discovery, attack simulation and runtime detection. Agentless, no access to weights or training data required.

Clay

freemium

Spreadsheet-shaped GTM data platform that chains enrichment vendors into waterfalls and runs LLM research agents per row. Free tier exists; the HTTP API starts at $446 a month.

Onlook

open-source Open source

Apache 2.0 visual editor for Next.js and Tailwind repos. Maps DOM elements back to source lines, so canvas edits become real code changes instead of a fresh generation.

Label Studio

open-source Open source

Apache 2.0 labelling tool covering images, audio, text, video and time series in one config-driven UI. Self-host free, or $99 a month for HumanSignal's hosted Starter tier.

Langfuse

open-source Open source

Open-source LLM tracing, prompt management and evals. MIT core with no seat or usage caps when self-hosted, cloud from $29 a month. Acquired by ClickHouse in January 2026.

Anarlog

open-source Open source

Local-first meeting notepad that records device audio instead of joining calls as a bot, transcribes on-device and keeps notes in a local SQLite file. MIT licensed, formerly Hyprnote.

Shortwave

paid

Gmail-only AI email client with custom embeddings indexing the whole mailbox, agentic tasklets and MCP tool connections. The permanent free plan was withdrawn in 2026.

Motion

paid

AI calendar that re-solves your whole schedule whenever a task or meeting moves, now bundled with projects, docs and prebuilt agents. No free plan, 7-day trial only.

DeepL

freemium

German translation engine covering about 120 languages, with glossaries that inflect terms correctly, document translation and a streaming Voice API. API Free and API Pro retired in July 2026.

Rogo

paid

Agentic research platform for investment banks and funds. Tuned on filings, credit agreements and transcripts, producing cited memos, Excel models and slide decks.

OpenEvidence

free

Clinical answer engine for verified US clinicians. Cites licensed full text from NEJM, all eleven JAMA journals and 300+ other sources. Free at the point of use, funded by pharma ads.

Google Gemma 4

open-source Open weights

Google's open-weight family in five sizes, 2B effective up to 31B dense, text and image in with audio on the smaller ones, 256K context and Apache 2.0 weights since April 2026.

Ai2 Olmo 3

open-source Open source

Ai2's fully open family at 7B and 32B with Base, Instruct, Think and RL Zero variants. Weights, training data, every intermediate checkpoint, logs and code under Apache 2.0.

Meta Muse Glimmer

open-source Open weights

Meta's 30B dense multimodal agent model. Apache 2.0, 131K context, 4-bit checkpoints under 20GB and none of the Llama licence conditions attached.

Convex

freemium Open source

Reactive TypeScript backend where queries, mutations and durable workflows run inside the database. Agent and Workflow components handle long-running tool loops.

Postshot

freemium

Desktop Gaussian splatting trainer from Jawset. Video or photo sets into radiance fields on a local NVIDIA GPU, with PLY and SPZ export. Windows only, subscription.

Zoo Design Studio

freemium

Mechanical CAD where parts are text. KCL source files that live in git, plus Zookeeper, an agent that writes and edits parametric models from prompts, images or sketches.

OpenClaw

free Open source

Open-source AI agent framework for building autonomous AI systems that can interact with tools, APIs, and environments.

DeepSeek

freemium Chinese AI Open weights

Chinese AI lab producing open-source LLMs that rival proprietary models at a fraction of the cost, with strong reasoning and coding abilities.

Wenxin Yige / 文心一格

freemium Chinese AI

Baidu’s AI image generation platform offering text-to-image creation with strong Chinese artistic style generation and commercial design capabilities.

Jimeng AI / 即梦AI

freemium Chinese AI

ByteDance’s AI image and video generation platform integrated with Jianying (CapCut’s Chinese version), offering creative content generation tools.

Tiangong AI / 天工AI

free Chinese AI

Kunlun Tech’s AI search and assistant platform offering real-time web search with AI-powered answers and content generation.

Quark / 夸克

freemium Chinese AI

Alibaba’s AI-powered search and productivity app combining intelligent search, document tools, cloud storage, and AI assistant capabilities.

Meitu AI / 美图AI

freemium Chinese AI

Meitu’s suite of AI-powered image and video editing tools, specializing in portrait enhancement, commercial photography, and design automation.

Tongyi Wanxiang / 通义万相

freemium Chinese AI

Alibaba’s AI image generation platform offering text-to-image creation with strong aesthetic quality and Chinese cultural understanding.

SenseNova / 商汤日日新

freemium Chinese AI

SenseTime’s comprehensive AI platform offering large language models, image generation, video generation, and enterprise AI solutions.

Yi / 零一万物

freemium Chinese AI Open weights

Kai-Fu Lee’s open-source AI model family offering high-performance bilingual models with strong benchmark results across reasoning and coding tasks.

Baichuan / 百川智能

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Baichuan AI’s open-source large language models focused on Chinese language understanding and enterprise AI applications.

Tencent Hunyuan / 腾讯混元

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Tencent’s large language model and AI platform, integrated across WeChat, Tencent Cloud, and the broader Tencent ecosystem.

iFlytek Spark / 讯飞星火

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Flytek’s AI assistant powered by the Spark cognitive model, with industry-leading Chinese speech recognition and voice AI capabilities.

Kling AI / 可灵

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Kuaishou’s AI video and image generation platform that has gained global recognition for producing high-quality, realistic AI videos from text and image prompts.

Hailuo AI / 海螺 AI

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MiniMax’s consumer AI platform offering conversational AI, industry-leading AI video generation, and music creation capabilities.

Zhipu ChatGLM / 智谱清言

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hipu AI’s bilingual AI assistant powered by the GLM-4 model series, with strong academic roots from Tsinghua University and excellent bilingual capabilities

Kimi / Moonshot AI (月之暗面)

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Moonshot AI’s long-context AI assistant, pioneering ultra-long document processing with a 2 million token context window.

Coze / 扣子

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ByteDance’s AI bot-building platform that enables anyone to create custom AI assistants with plugins, workflows, and knowledge bases without coding.

Doubao / 豆包

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ByteDance’s AI chatbot and productivity assistant, one of China’s most popular AI apps with deep integration across ByteDance’s ecosystem including Feishu (Lark).

Tongyi Qianwen / 通义千问 (Qwen)

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Alibaba’s open-source large language model family and AI assistant, offering strong multilingual capabilities and deep enterprise integration with Alibaba Cloud.

Ernie Bot / 文小言 (Wénxiǎoyán)

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Baidu’s flagship AI chatbot powered by ERNIE 4.5 and reasoning model ERNIE X1, offering multimodal capabilities across text, image, audio, and video.