Find your first AI tool

Five questions, three explained options. The finder only recommends tools from our verified catalog of 21 tools — every recommendation shows its price, its main limitation, and the date its price was checked on the vendor's official page. It runs entirely in your browser: nothing you answer is uploaded, stored, or sent anywhere.

These are editorial starting points matched to your answers, not test results — we check prices and limits on official pages; we do not hands-on test the tools. Verify the price on the official page before you buy, and start with one tool before adding a second.

1. What job do you need done first?
2. What budget?
3. How comfortable are you setting software up?
4. How sensitive is the information it will touch?
5. How much should it do on its own?

How the finder chooses

It filters the catalog by your answers, in this order: the job first, then budget, then whether you want it ready to use, then how much autonomy you allow. Within what survives, free and ready-to-use options sort first, and tools that act on their own sort last when your data needs protecting. The order is fit to your answers — it is not a quality ranking, and no vendor pays for a position. One listing, Muse, carries the site owner's invite code in the directory; the code is disclosed there and it does not affect these recommendations.

“None of these is a good fit” is a real outcome. If your answers rule every catalog tool out — for example, answers-only for a job that only an acting tool can do, or a $0 budget for a job with no free tier — the finder says so plainly and tells you which answer to change, instead of recommending the least-bad option as if it fit.

What the finder cannot do

Prices change, and a price checked on October 26 or 29, 2026 may already be out of date — check the vendor's official page before buying. “Verified” here means the price and limit were checked on an official page; it does not mean we tested the tool, and it is not a guarantee for sensitive data. If your data must be protected, read Before You Give an AI Agent Access before connecting any tool to your inbox, calendar, or files, and work out the real cost of an agent — review time, setup, and rework — before judging a price. If all you need is answers and drafts, you do not need an agent at all: an assistant is cheaper and safer.

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