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  "license": "Catalog data published by bizn.org may be reused with attribution to bizn.org. Tool names and trademarks belong to their owners; verify pricing and features on each tool's official page.",
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      "description": "General AI assistant for drafting, summarizing, brainstorming, and turning rough notes into finished text.",
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        "analysis",
        "research"
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      "last_checked": "2026-10-26",
      "limitations": "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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      "price_detail": "Free $0; Go $8/mo; Plus $20/mo; Business $25/seat monthly or $20/seat billed annually (2-seat minimum); Enterprise custom.",
      "pricing": "free_tier_and_paid",
      "pricing_note": "Free tier available; paid plans \u2014 see official pricing page.",
      "url": "https://chatgpt.com/",
      "vendor": "OpenAI"
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      "commercial_relationship": "none",
      "description": "Careful long-form writing and analysis of long documents, plus a thoughtful second opinion.",
      "id": "claude",
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        "writing",
        "analysis"
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      "last_checked": "2026-10-26",
      "limitations": "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.",
      "name": "Claude",
      "price_detail": "Free $0; Pro $20/mo or $17/mo billed annually; Max from $100/mo; Enterprise $20/seat/mo plus API usage.",
      "pricing": "free_tier_and_paid",
      "pricing_note": "Free tier available; paid plans \u2014 see official pricing page.",
      "url": "https://claude.ai/",
      "vendor": "Anthropic"
    },
    {
      "commercial_relationship": "none",
      "description": "AI inside Gmail, Docs and Sheets \u2014 best if your business already runs on Google Workspace.",
      "id": "gemini",
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        "writing",
        "analysis",
        "research"
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      "last_checked": "2026-10-26",
      "limitations": "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.",
      "name": "Google Gemini",
      "price_detail": "Free $0; Google AI Plus $4.99/mo; Pro $19.99/mo; Ultra $99.99\u2013$199.99/mo; Enterprise Business from $21/seat/mo.",
      "pricing": "free_tier_and_paid",
      "pricing_note": "Free tier available; paid plans \u2014 see official pricing page.",
      "url": "https://gemini.google.com/",
      "vendor": "Google"
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      "api_docs_url": "https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365-copilot/extensibility/copilot-apis-overview",
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      "auth": "OAuth 2.0 via Microsoft Entra ID (Graph); Copilot license required",
      "commercial_relationship": "none",
      "description": "AI inside Word, Excel, Outlook and Teams \u2014 best if your business already runs on Microsoft 365.",
      "id": "copilot",
      "is_sponsored": false,
      "jobs": [
        "writing",
        "analysis"
      ],
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      "limitations": "Copilot inside Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote and Teams needs a paid license \u2014 free Chat does not include it; advanced AI experiences are billed by usage on top of the license.",
      "name": "Microsoft Copilot",
      "price_detail": "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).",
      "pricing": "free_tier_and_paid",
      "pricing_note": "Free tier available; paid plans \u2014 see official pricing page.",
      "url": "https://copilot.microsoft.com/",
      "vendor": "Microsoft"
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      "api_docs_url": "https://api-docs.deepseek.com/",
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        "context_window_tokens": 1000000,
        "function_calling": true,
        "streaming": true,
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      "description": "Low-cost chat and reasoning assistant; a budget-friendly option for analysis and drafting.",
      "id": "deepseek",
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        "analysis",
        "research"
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      "last_checked": "2026-10-26",
      "limitations": "No paid tier buys priority in the chat app \u2014 heavy users can hit throttling with no upgrade path; the API generates no images, video or audio.",
      "name": "DeepSeek",
      "price_detail": "Chat app free, no paid tier; API pay-as-you-go per 1M tokens \u2014 e.g. Flash output $0.60 off-peak / $1.20 peak, Pro output $1.98 off-peak / $3.96 peak.",
      "pricing": "free_tier_and_paid",
      "pricing_note": "Free tier available; paid plans \u2014 see official pricing page.",
      "rate_limits": "Concurrency only: 2,500 (Flash), 500 (V4 Pro)",
      "status_url": "https://status.deepseek.com/",
      "url": "https://www.deepseek.com/",
      "vendor": "DeepSeek"
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      "commercial_relationship": "none",
      "description": "Search-first assistant that answers with sources cited; useful for research where references need checking.",
      "id": "perplexity",
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      "jobs": [
        "research"
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      "last_checked": "2026-10-26",
      "limitations": "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.",
      "name": "Perplexity",
      "price_detail": "Free $0; Pro $17/mo billed annually ($20 monthly); Max $167/mo billed annually ($200 monthly); Enterprise Pro $40/seat/mo.",
      "pricing": "free_tier_and_paid",
      "pricing_note": "Free tier available; paid plans \u2014 see official pricing page.",
      "url": "https://www.perplexity.ai/",
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      "api_docs_url": "https://help.otter.ai/hc/en-us/articles/36130822688279-Otter-ai-Public-API",
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      "auth": "API key (Bearer token; Enterprise workspaces)",
      "commercial_relationship": "none",
      "description": "Records and transcribes meetings, then pulls out the action items so nothing gets lost.",
      "id": "otter",
      "is_sponsored": false,
      "jobs": [
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      "last_checked": "2026-10-26",
      "limitations": "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.",
      "name": "Otter.ai",
      "price_detail": "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.",
      "pricing": "free_tier_and_paid",
      "pricing_note": "Free tier available; paid plans \u2014 see official pricing page.",
      "rate_limits": "10 requests/second (Enterprise)",
      "status_url": "https://status.otter.ai/",
      "url": "https://otter.ai/",
      "vendor": "Otter.ai"
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    {
      "commercial_relationship": "none",
      "description": "Catches the typos and tone problems in the emails and proposals your customers judge you by.",
      "id": "grammarly",
      "is_sponsored": false,
      "jobs": [
        "writing"
      ],
      "last_checked": "2026-10-26",
      "limitations": "AI prompts capped at 100/mo free and 2,000/member/mo on Pro \u2014 only Enterprise is unlimited; Pro allows only 1 style guide and 1 brand tone.",
      "name": "Grammarly",
      "price_detail": "Free $0; Pro $12/member/mo billed annually; Enterprise custom.",
      "pricing": "free_tier_and_paid",
      "pricing_note": "Free tier available; paid plans \u2014 see official pricing page.",
      "url": "https://www.grammarly.com/",
      "vendor": "Grammarly"
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      "api_docs_url": "https://developer.adobe.com/firefly-services/docs/firefly-api/",
      "api_last_checked": "2026-10-27",
      "auth": "OAuth 2.0 (client credentials) + API-key header",
      "commercial_relationship": "none",
      "description": "Generate and edit images for ads, posts and product shots, built into Adobe's creative tools.",
      "id": "firefly",
      "is_sponsored": false,
      "jobs": [
        "design"
      ],
      "last_checked": "2026-10-26",
      "limitations": "Everything premium runs on generative credits that do not roll over, and video burns them fast \u2014 check the credit model on the official page before buying for video-heavy work.",
      "name": "Adobe Firefly",
      "price_detail": "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).",
      "pricing": "free_tier_and_paid",
      "pricing_note": "Free tier available; paid plans \u2014 see official pricing page.",
      "status_url": "https://status.adobe.com",
      "url": "https://www.adobe.com/products/firefly.html",
      "vendor": "Adobe"
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    {
      "api_docs_url": "https://docs.zapier.com/powered-by-zapier/api-reference/zaps/create-a-zap",
      "api_last_checked": "2026-10-27",
      "auth": "OAuth 2.0 (authorization code; Bearer token)",
      "commercial_relationship": "none",
      "description": "Connects your apps so routine work \u2014 leads, invoices, follow-ups \u2014 happens by itself, now with AI steps.",
      "id": "zapier",
      "is_sponsored": false,
      "jobs": [
        "automation"
      ],
      "last_checked": "2026-10-26",
      "limitations": "Billing is per task \u2014 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.",
      "name": "Zapier",
      "price_detail": "Free $0 (100 tasks/mo); Professional from $19.99/mo; Team from $69/mo; Enterprise custom.",
      "pricing": "free_tier_and_paid",
      "pricing_note": "Free tier available; paid plans \u2014 see official pricing page.",
      "rate_limits": "60/min per IP, 150/min per partner (whichever first); 60s cooldown after 429",
      "status_url": "https://status.zapier.com/",
      "url": "https://zapier.com/",
      "vendor": "Zapier"
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      "api_docs_url": "https://developers.notion.com/",
      "api_last_checked": "2026-10-27",
      "auth": "API token (Authorization header) or OAuth 2.0 (public connections)",
      "commercial_relationship": "none",
      "description": "AI inside your Notion workspace \u2014 answers from your own notes and docs, plus drafting help where your work already lives.",
      "id": "notion",
      "is_sponsored": false,
      "jobs": [
        "writing",
        "research"
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      "last_checked": "2026-10-26",
      "limitations": "Free and Plus include only a trial of Notion AI \u2014 full AI (Agent, Meeting Notes, Enterprise Search) needs Business or higher; Custom Agents are metered at $10 per 1,000 credits on top.",
      "name": "Notion AI",
      "price_detail": "Free $0; Plus $12/member/mo ($10 billed annually); Business $24/member/mo ($20 billed annually); Enterprise custom.",
      "pricing": "free_tier_and_paid",
      "pricing_note": "Free tier available; paid plans \u2014 see official pricing page.",
      "rate_limits": "600/min (Business/Enterprise), 180/min (other plans); ~3/sec data-source queries",
      "url": "https://www.notion.com/",
      "vendor": "Notion"
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    {
      "api_docs_url": "https://www.canva.dev/docs/apps/",
      "api_last_checked": "2026-10-27",
      "auth": "OAuth 2.0 (authorization code + PKCE)",
      "commercial_relationship": "none",
      "description": "Design social posts, presentations and marketing assets from templates, with AI that drafts, resizes and edits for you.",
      "id": "canva",
      "is_sponsored": false,
      "jobs": [
        "design"
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      "last_checked": "2026-10-26",
      "limitations": "Free gives 5 GB storage and up to 20 Standard or Premium AI uses; Pro is a single seat \u2014 a team needs Business.",
      "name": "Canva",
      "price_detail": "Free $0; Pro $18/mo or $144/yr for one person; Business $25/person/mo or $250/person/yr; Enterprise custom.",
      "pricing": "free_tier_and_paid",
      "pricing_note": "Free tier available; paid plans \u2014 see official pricing page.",
      "rate_limits": "Per operation (create design 20/min; get asset, list designs 100/min)",
      "url": "https://www.canva.com/",
      "vendor": "Canva"
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    {
      "commercial_relationship": "none",
      "description": "Text-to-image generation with a distinctive, polished look \u2014 best for standout visuals when you can prompt well.",
      "id": "midjourney",
      "is_sponsored": false,
      "jobs": [
        "design"
      ],
      "last_checked": "2026-10-26",
      "limitations": "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.",
      "name": "Midjourney",
      "price_detail": "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.",
      "pricing": "paid_only",
      "pricing_note": "Paid plans only \u2014 no free tier; see official pricing page.",
      "url": "https://www.midjourney.com/",
      "vendor": "Midjourney"
    },
    {
      "api_docs_url": "https://developers.jasper.ai/docs/authentication",
      "api_last_checked": "2026-10-27",
      "auth": "Workspace API key (X-API-Key) or OAuth 2.0 (authorization code + PKCE)",
      "commercial_relationship": "none",
      "description": "Marketing writing workspace with brand voice built in \u2014 best for teams producing a lot of on-brand content.",
      "id": "jasper",
      "is_sponsored": false,
      "jobs": [
        "writing"
      ],
      "last_checked": "2026-10-26",
      "limitations": "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.",
      "name": "Jasper",
      "price_detail": "Pro $69/seat/mo or $59/seat/mo billed annually; Business custom. 7-day Pro trial, no free tier.",
      "pricing": "paid_only",
      "pricing_note": "Paid plans with a free trial \u2014 see official pricing page.",
      "status_url": "https://status.jasper.ai",
      "url": "https://www.jasper.ai/",
      "vendor": "Jasper"
    },
    {
      "api_docs_url": "https://developers.make.com/",
      "api_last_checked": "2026-10-27",
      "auth": "API token (Token header); OAuth 2.0 for third-party apps",
      "commercial_relationship": "none",
      "description": "Visual automation builder that connects apps into multi-step workflows, with AI steps where judgement is needed.",
      "id": "make",
      "is_sponsored": false,
      "jobs": [
        "automation"
      ],
      "last_checked": "2026-10-26",
      "limitations": "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.",
      "name": "Make",
      "price_detail": "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).",
      "pricing": "free_tier_and_paid",
      "pricing_note": "Free tier available; paid plans \u2014 see official pricing page.",
      "status_url": "https://status.make.com/",
      "url": "https://www.make.com/",
      "vendor": "Make"
    },
    {
      "commercial_relationship": "none",
      "description": "Research assistant that answers only from documents you upload, with citations back to the source.",
      "id": "notebooklm",
      "is_sponsored": false,
      "jobs": [
        "research"
      ],
      "last_checked": "2026-10-26",
      "limitations": "Google's page only promises 'expanded access' per tier \u2014 exact notebook and source limits per tier are not published there; answers come only from documents you upload.",
      "name": "NotebookLM",
      "price_detail": "Free with a Google account; higher limits via Google AI plans \u2014 Plus $4.99/mo, Pro $19.99/mo, Ultra from $99.99/mo. No standalone NotebookLM subscription.",
      "pricing": "free",
      "pricing_note": "Free with a Google account \u2014 see official page.",
      "url": "https://notebooklm.google.com/",
      "vendor": "Google"
    },
    {
      "commercial_relationship": "referral",
      "description": "Personal AI agent that does tasks for you instead of only answering \u2014 email, calendar, forms, bookings, and purchases \u2014 and keeps working in the background after you close the app.",
      "id": "muse",
      "is_sponsored": false,
      "jobs": [
        "agents",
        "automation",
        "meetings",
        "research",
        "writing"
      ],
      "last_checked": "2026-10-27",
      "limitations": "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.",
      "name": "Muse",
      "openness": "hosted",
      "price_detail": "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).",
      "pricing": "free_tier_and_paid",
      "pricing_note": "Free tier available; paid plans \u2014 see official pricing page.",
      "referral": "Site owner's invite code 34Z8NF \u2014 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.",
      "url": "https://muse.ai/",
      "vendor": "Meta"
    },
    {
      "commercial_relationship": "none",
      "description": "Self-improving open-source agent that lives in Telegram, Discord, Slack, WhatsApp, Signal, email and the terminal \u2014 one memory across all of them. It schedules jobs, spawns subagents, and turns tasks it has solved into reusable skills.",
      "id": "hermes-agent",
      "is_sponsored": false,
      "jobs": [
        "agents",
        "automation",
        "research"
      ],
      "last_checked": "2026-10-29",
      "limitations": "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 \u2014 never expose its dashboard publicly without authentication.",
      "name": "Hermes Agent",
      "openness": "open_source",
      "price_detail": "Software free (MIT license, self-hosted) \u2014 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).",
      "pricing": "free",
      "pricing_note": "Free open-source software; optional paid Nous Portal plans \u2014 see official page.",
      "url": "https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/",
      "vendor": "Nous Research"
    },
    {
      "commercial_relationship": "none",
      "description": "Open-source personal agent you run on your own machine \u2014 '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.",
      "id": "openclaw",
      "is_sponsored": false,
      "jobs": [
        "agents",
        "automation",
        "meetings"
      ],
      "last_checked": "2026-10-29",
      "limitations": "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 \u2014 isolate it (separate machine, VPS or Docker) before connecting real accounts.",
      "name": "OpenClaw",
      "openness": "open_source",
      "price_detail": "Free and open source (MIT license); no paid tier and no hosted service \u2014 you pay only for the model you connect (API usage or an existing subscription) and for any computer or VPS it runs on.",
      "pricing": "free",
      "pricing_note": "Free open-source software \u2014 see official page.",
      "url": "https://openclaw.ai/",
      "vendor": "OpenClaw project"
    },
    {
      "commercial_relationship": "none",
      "description": "Hosted general-purpose agent that takes a whole task and hands back finished work \u2014 research reports, slide decks, websites and data analysis \u2014 planning the steps and running them on its own cloud computer while you do something else.",
      "id": "manus",
      "is_sponsored": false,
      "jobs": [
        "agents",
        "research",
        "analysis",
        "writing"
      ],
      "last_checked": "2026-10-29",
      "limitations": "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 \u2014 about a quarter of the entry plan. Work can stop if credits run out mid-task.",
      "name": "Manus",
      "openness": "hosted",
      "price_detail": "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.",
      "pricing": "paid_only",
      "pricing_note": "Paid plans on the public pricing page \u2014 see official pricing page.",
      "url": "https://manus.im/",
      "vendor": "Manus AI"
    }
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  "updated": "2026-10-29",
  "version": "1.5.0"
}
