AI Tool Directory

Filter by the job you need done. Every listing shows who makes it, what it does, what it costs, and what to watch out for, plus API and capability details where the product documents them. Prices and limits were checked on official pages on October 26, 2026 (Muse: October 27, 2026; the agent listings — Hermes Agent, OpenClaw, Manus: October 29, 2026) — prices change and vary by country, so verify before buying. Agent listings are labeled by type: open source (you host it yourself) or hosted (the vendor runs it). Open-source vs hosted agents, compared → New: Before you give an AI agent access — the safety guide → Links go directly to official sites — no affiliate partnerships yet, except the Muse listing, which carries the site owner's labeled invite code. Seen a tool fail in a way we don't list? Email [email protected]. Every listing carries an is_sponsored flag in the catalog data (currently false for all tools). How we verify →

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writing · analysis · research

ChatGPT

General AI assistant for drafting, summarizing, brainstorming, and turning rough notes into finished text.

Maker: OpenAI · Free tier available; paid plans — see official pricing page. · Verified: official page checked 2026-10-26

Prices: Free $0; Go $8/mo; Plus $20/mo; Business $25/seat monthly or $20/seat billed annually (2-seat minimum); Enterprise custom.

Watch out for: Free and Go may show ads; Plus has usage caps at high demand; a subscription does not include API use, which is a separate metered bill.

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writing · analysis

Claude

Careful long-form writing and analysis of long documents, plus a thoughtful second opinion.

Maker: Anthropic · Free tier available; paid plans — see official pricing page. · Verified: official page checked 2026-10-26

Prices: Free $0; Pro $20/mo or $17/mo billed annually; Max from $100/mo; Enterprise $20/seat/mo plus API usage.

Watch out for: Usage limits reset on a rolling 5-hour window plus weekly caps, shared across web, mobile and code; hitting a limit means waiting, upgrading, or buying credits.

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writing · analysis · research

Google Gemini

AI inside Gmail, Docs and Sheets — best if your business already runs on Google Workspace.

Maker: Google · Free tier available; paid plans — see official pricing page. · Verified: official page checked 2026-10-26

Prices: Free $0; Google AI Plus $4.99/mo; Pro $19.99/mo; Ultra $99.99–$199.99/mo; Enterprise Business from $21/seat/mo.

Watch out for: Free gets only the Flash-Lite model, and usage is stated as multiples of Free rather than fixed quotas; much of Pro/Ultra's price is bundled storage and extras you may not need.

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writing · analysis

Microsoft Copilot

AI inside Word, Excel, Outlook and Teams — best if your business already runs on Microsoft 365.

Maker: Microsoft · Free tier available; paid plans — see official pricing page. · Verified: official page checked 2026-10-26

Prices: Copilot Chat included with an eligible Microsoft 365 plan; Business Standard with Copilot $23.50/user/mo, Premium $32.00/user/mo (yearly billing); Copilot Business add-on $18/user/mo (shown from $21).

Watch out for: Copilot inside Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote and Teams needs a paid license — free Chat does not include it; advanced AI experiences are billed by usage on top of the license.

API: Official API docs →

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analysis · research

DeepSeek

Low-cost chat and reasoning assistant; a budget-friendly option for analysis and drafting.

Maker: DeepSeek · Free tier available; paid plans — see official pricing page. · Verified: official page checked 2026-10-26

Prices: Chat app free, no paid tier; API pay-as-you-go per 1M tokens — e.g. Flash output $0.60 off-peak / $1.20 peak, Pro output $1.98 off-peak / $3.96 peak.

Watch out for: No paid tier buys priority in the chat app — heavy users can hit throttling with no upgrade path; the API generates no images, video or audio.

API: Official API docs →

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research

Perplexity

Search-first assistant that answers with sources cited; useful for research where references need checking.

Maker: Perplexity · Free tier available; paid plans — see official pricing page. · Verified: official page checked 2026-10-26

Prices: Free $0; Pro $17/mo billed annually ($20 monthly); Max $167/mo billed annually ($200 monthly); Enterprise Pro $40/seat/mo.

Watch out for: Free is search-only with basic models and limited daily use; agent tasks consume credits and pause when they run out; annual rates are paid up front.

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meetings

Otter.ai

Records and transcribes meetings, then pulls out the action items so nothing gets lost.

Maker: Otter.ai · Free tier available; paid plans — see official pricing page. · Verified: official page checked 2026-10-26

Prices: Basic free; Pro $16.99/mo or $8.33/mo billed annually; Business $19.99/mo billed annually ($24 monthly, first 3 months discounted); Enterprise custom.

Watch out for: Free gives 300 transcription minutes/month with a 30-minute cap per conversation and only 3 lifetime file imports; minutes are a shared pool with no rollover; API and SSO are Enterprise-only.

API: Official API docs →

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writing

Grammarly

Catches the typos and tone problems in the emails and proposals your customers judge you by.

Maker: Grammarly · Free tier available; paid plans — see official pricing page. · Verified: official page checked 2026-10-26

Prices: Free $0; Pro $12/member/mo billed annually; Enterprise custom.

Watch out for: AI prompts capped at 100/mo free and 2,000/member/mo on Pro — only Enterprise is unlimited; Pro allows only 1 style guide and 1 brand tone.

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design

Adobe Firefly

Generate and edit images for ads, posts and product shots, built into Adobe's creative tools.

Maker: Adobe · Free tier available; paid plans — see official pricing page. · Verified: official page checked 2026-10-26

Prices: Free daily generations (count not published); Standard $9.99/mo (2,000 credits); Pro $19.99/mo (4,000); Pro Plus $49.99/mo (10,000); Premium $199.99/mo (50,000).

Watch out for: Everything premium runs on generative credits that do not roll over, and video burns them fast — check the credit model on the official page before buying for video-heavy work.

API: Official API docs →

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automation

Zapier

Connects your apps so routine work — leads, invoices, follow-ups — happens by itself, now with AI steps.

Maker: Zapier · Free tier available; paid plans — see official pricing page. · Verified: official page checked 2026-10-26

Prices: Free $0 (100 tasks/mo); Professional from $19.99/mo; Team from $69/mo; Enterprise custom.

Watch out for: Billing is per task — every successful step costs one, and AI steps cost more, so multi-step Zaps burn the allowance fast; with overage off, Zaps pause at the limit.

API: Official API docs →

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writing · research

Notion AI

AI inside your Notion workspace — answers from your own notes and docs, plus drafting help where your work already lives.

Maker: Notion · Free tier available; paid plans — see official pricing page. · Verified: official page checked 2026-10-26

Prices: Free $0; Plus $12/member/mo ($10 billed annually); Business $24/member/mo ($20 billed annually); Enterprise custom.

Watch out for: Free and Plus include only a trial of Notion AI — full AI (Agent, Meeting Notes, Enterprise Search) needs Business or higher; Custom Agents are metered at $10 per 1,000 credits on top.

API: Official API docs →

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design

Canva

Design social posts, presentations and marketing assets from templates, with AI that drafts, resizes and edits for you.

Maker: Canva · Free tier available; paid plans — see official pricing page. · Verified: official page checked 2026-10-26

Prices: Free $0; Pro $18/mo or $144/yr for one person; Business $25/person/mo or $250/person/yr; Enterprise custom.

Watch out for: Free gives 5 GB storage and up to 20 Standard or Premium AI uses; Pro is a single seat — a team needs Business.

API: Official API docs →

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design

Midjourney

Text-to-image generation with a distinctive, polished look — best for standout visuals when you can prompt well.

Maker: Midjourney · Paid plans only — no free tier; see official pricing page. · Verified: official page checked 2026-10-26

Prices: Basic $10/mo ($8/mo billed annually); Standard $30/mo ($24); Pro $60/mo ($48); Mega $120/mo ($96). Extra Fast GPU time $4/hour.

Watch out for: No free tier or trial; Basic has no Relax mode and only 3.3 Fast GPU hours/month; private (Stealth) mode is Pro/Mega only; companies over $1M/year revenue must buy Pro or Mega.

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writing

Jasper

Marketing writing workspace with brand voice built in — best for teams producing a lot of on-brand content.

Maker: Jasper · Paid plans with a free trial — see official pricing page. · Verified: official page checked 2026-10-26

Prices: Pro $69/seat/mo or $59/seat/mo billed annually; Business custom. 7-day Pro trial, no free tier.

Watch out for: Pro includes only 1 seat and caps at 2 Brand Voices, 5 Knowledge assets, 3 Audiences; API access and enterprise controls are Business-only, with pricing undisclosed.

API: Official API docs →

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automation

Make

Visual automation builder that connects apps into multi-step workflows, with AI steps where judgement is needed.

Maker: Make · Free tier available; paid plans — see official pricing page. · Verified: official page checked 2026-10-26

Prices: Free $0 (1,000 credits/mo); Core $16/mo monthly or $12/mo billed annually; Pro $28 or $21; Teams $51 or $38; Enterprise custom (prices at the 10,000-credit setting).

Watch out for: Every module action consumes credits, so one run can cost from 2 to thousands of credits; scenarios stop when credits run out, and unused credits expire at term end.

API: Official API docs →

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research

NotebookLM

Research assistant that answers only from documents you upload, with citations back to the source.

Maker: Google · Free with a Google account — see official page. · Verified: official page checked 2026-10-26

Prices: Free with a Google account; higher limits via Google AI plans — Plus $4.99/mo, Pro $19.99/mo, Ultra from $99.99/mo. No standalone NotebookLM subscription.

Watch out for: Google's page only promises 'expanded access' per tier — exact notebook and source limits per tier are not published there; answers come only from documents you upload.

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agents · automation · meetings · research · writing

Muse

Personal AI agent that does tasks for you instead of only answering — email, calendar, forms, bookings, and purchases — and keeps working in the background after you close the app.

Maker: Meta · Free tier available; paid plans — see official pricing page. · Verified: official page checked 2026-10-27

Type: Hosted — the vendor runs it

Prices: Free $0 (generous weekly limit of 100M tokens, as metered on a free account; Meta does not publish the figure); Power $20/mo (500M tokens/week); Maximum $100/mo (3B tokens/week).

Watch out for: Available only in countries where Muse has launched, and subscriptions are in limited testing; 18 or age of majority; sensitive actions (payments, messages on your behalf) wait for your approval; the free weekly limit can run out on long tasks.

Invite code: Site owner's invite code 34Z8NF — redeem within 48 hours of joining and you get 1 billion Muse tokens; the referrer gets the same. Where Muse is available, 18+, limited redemptions per code; Meta's terms govern. It does not affect this listing's placement, price checks, or inclusion.

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agents · automation · research

Hermes Agent

Self-improving open-source agent that lives in Telegram, Discord, Slack, WhatsApp, Signal, email and the terminal — one memory across all of them. It schedules jobs, spawns subagents, and turns tasks it has solved into reusable skills.

Maker: Nous Research · Free open-source software; optional paid Nous Portal plans — see official page. · Verified: official page checked 2026-10-29

Type: Open source — you host it yourself

Prices: Software free (MIT license, self-hosted) — you pay for the model you connect. Optional Nous Portal: Free $0 (free models only, $0 credits); Plus $20/mo ($22 in monthly credits, $10 rollover cap); Super $100/mo ($110 credits, $50 cap); Ultra $200/mo ($220 credits, $100 cap).

Watch out for: You host and secure it yourself: setup is an installer and terminal work, the model bill and any server are on you, and an always-on agent with shell access needs sandboxing and command approvals — never expose its dashboard publicly without authentication.

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agents · automation · meetings

OpenClaw

Open-source personal agent you run on your own machine — 'the AI that actually does things': clears inboxes, sends email, manages calendars and runs background tasks, all from WhatsApp, Telegram or other chat apps, with persistent memory and community-built skills.

Maker: OpenClaw project · Free open-source software — see official page. · Verified: official page checked 2026-10-29

Type: Open source — you host it yourself

Prices: Free and open source (MIT license); no paid tier and no hosted service — you pay only for the model you connect (API usage or an existing subscription) and for any computer or VPS it runs on.

Watch out for: Self-hosted and technical: installs, updates and security are yours. It can run shell commands and touch your files, and its default setup assumes a trusted operator with sandboxing off — isolate it (separate machine, VPS or Docker) before connecting real accounts.

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agents · research · analysis · writing

Manus

Hosted general-purpose agent that takes a whole task and hands back finished work — research reports, slide decks, websites and data analysis — planning the steps and running them on its own cloud computer while you do something else.

Maker: Manus AI · Paid plans on the public pricing page — see official pricing page. · Verified: official page checked 2026-10-29

Type: Hosted — the vendor runs it

Prices: Standard $20/mo (4,000 credits; about $17/mo billed annually); Customizable from $40/mo (8,000 credits); Extended $200/mo (40,000 credits); Team from $20/seat/mo. Manus's help docs reference a free plan, but no free plan was shown on the public pricing page when checked.

Watch out for: Everything runs on credits, and the cost of a task is not shown before it runs; monthly credits do not roll over, and a single deep-research task can burn roughly 900 credits — about a quarter of the entry plan. Work can stop if credits run out mid-task.

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