Top 50 AI tools right now

The fifty Raunak recommends, across every kind of work, in his order. Each links to what it does, what it costs and its alternatives.

1. 1ChatGPTOpenAI's everyday assistant: chat, files, pictures, voice and agents that browse and act for you.Free plan
2. 2ClaudeAnthropic's assistant, careful writing, long documents and serious coding help.Free plan
3. 3GeminiGoogle's assistant, plugged into Search, Gmail, Docs and your Android phone.Free plan
4. 4GrokxAI's assistant, with what people are posting on X right now in reach.Free plan
5. 5Microsoft CopilotMicrosoft's assistant across Windows, Edge and the Office apps.Free plan
6. 6DeepSeekFree chat with DeepSeek's open-weight reasoning models.Free
7. 7PerplexityAsk anything, get an answer written from the web with every source cited.Free plan
8. 8NotebookLMTurns your own documents into a notebook you can question, and a podcast about them.Free
9. 9Claude CodeAn agent that works in your terminal and editor: reads the codebase, makes changes, runs the tests.Paid
10. 10CursorA code editor built around AI, autocomplete that predicts edits, and agents that take tasks.Free plan
11. 11GitHub CopilotCode suggestions, chat and a coding agent inside your editor and on GitHub.Free plan
12. 12CodexOpenAI's coding agent, in the cloud, the terminal or your IDE, that ships pull requests.Paid
13. 13WindsurfAn AI-native editor whose agent follows along with what you're doing.Free plan
14. 14Google AntigravityGoogle's agent-first IDE: hand agents whole tasks and review what they did.Free plan
15. 15ReplitDescribe an app and its agent builds, hosts and deploys it in the browser.Free plan
16. 16LovableFull-stack web apps from a conversation, with a real database behind them.Free plan
17. 17BoltPrompt, run, edit and deploy full-stack apps without leaving the browser tab.Free plan
18. 18v0Vercel's builder for polished React interfaces and apps from a prompt or a sketch.Free plan
19. 19n8nVisual workflow automation with AI agents, self-host it for free or use their cloud.Free plan
20. 20Ronie: 3D AI Website AgentA free 3D AI agent for any website: grounded answers, an on-device neural voice, expressions, moves and games. An open template you can reuse.Open source
21. 21MidjourneyStill the one for striking, art-directed images, and now short videos too.Paid
22. 22IdeogramImage generation that gets the lettering right, posters, logos, covers.Free plan
23. 23FLUXBlack Forest Labs' image models for generating and editing, some with open weights.Free plan
24. 24Adobe FireflyAdobe's image and video models, made to be safe for commercial work.Free plan
25. 25KreaReal-time image generation as you draw, plus upscaling and many models in one place.Free plan
26. 26ComfyUINode-based workflows for open image and video models, run on your own GPU.Open source
27. 27RunwayVideo generation and editing tools for filmmakers, from text, images or footage.Free plan
28. 28Veo · FlowGoogle's Veo video model in a filmmaking tool, with sound generated alongside.Free plan
29. 29SoraOpenAI's video model, with sound, and an app for remixing each other's clips.Free plan
30. 30KlingKuaishou's video generator, strong on realistic motion.Free plan
31. 31HeyGenTalking-avatar videos, and translating your own videos with your voice.Free plan
32. 32DescriptEdit video and podcasts by editing the transcript, like a document.Free plan
33. 33YouTube Agentic AI StudioYAAS: a free agent pipeline that researches, scripts, narrates, animates and uploads faceless YouTube videos, with one command and no cost per video.Open source
34. 34OpusClipFinds the best moments in a long video and cuts them into vertical shorts.Free plan
35. 35ElevenLabsLifelike voices, voice cloning, dubbing and voice agents.Free plan
36. 36KokoroA tiny open text-to-speech model that sounds natural and runs right in the browser.Open source
37. 37WhisperOpenAI's open speech recognition, transcribes and translates nearly any language.Open source
38. 38Wispr FlowDictation that works in any app and tidies up what you said as you speak.Free plan
39. 39SunoWhole songs, vocals, lyrics and all, from a line of text, plus a studio to edit them.Free plan
40. 40UdioHigh-fidelity song generation, with fine control to extend and remix.Free plan
41. 41GammaPresentations, documents and simple sites, designed for you from an outline.Free plan
42. 42Notion AIWriting, search and meeting notes across your whole Notion workspace.Paid
43. 43GranolaMeeting notes without a bot joining the call, your notes, filled in by AI.Free plan
44. 44ResRescueA free desktop app that finds jobs and rewrites your résumé to get past applicant tracking systems, spots skill gaps and writes cover letters.Open source
45. 45FigmaThe design tool, now with Figma Make for turning prompts into working prototypes.Free plan
46. 46CanvaDesign for everyone, with AI to write, generate images and resize everything.Free plan
47. 47Hugging FaceHome of open AI: millions of models and datasets, and Spaces to demo them.Free plan
48. 48OllamaRun open models on your own machine with one command.Open source
49. 49Workers AIOpen models served from Cloudflare's network, with a free daily allowance.Free plan
50. 50LangChainFrameworks for LLM apps and agents, LangGraph for the stateful ones.Open source