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68 tools across 11 categories. Each listing states the vendor, what it actually is, and its current status.

Code & Development

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Aider

Paul Gauthier (Open Source) · CLI Tool

CLI-based AI pair programmer that edits code directly in your local git repository with multi-model support, git-native commits, and autonomous debugging.

Open Source (Bring Your Own API Key)
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Amazon Q Developer

Amazon Web Services · Cloud Service & IDE Platform (IDE/CLI sunsetting)

AWS's agentic development assistant. The IDE and CLI experiences are being retired in favour of Kiro, with signups closed and end of support on April 30,…

Freemium
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Claude Code

Anthropic · CLI Tool

Anthropic's frontier AI CLI. Claude Code combines Claude Opus 5 with native Computer Use, MCP support, and autonomous multi-file engineering.

Freemium
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Cline

Cline Bot (Open Source) · VS Code Extension

Open-source autonomous AI coding agent for VS Code. Reads files, writes code, runs terminal commands, and uses MCP to control local development environments.

Open Source (Bring Your Own API Key)
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Cursor

Anysphere · Desktop Application

AI-native code editor with intelligent completion, parallel and cloud agents, and frontier models built in. SpaceX closed its Anysphere buyout in August 2026.

Freemium
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Devin

Cognition AI · Cloud Agent Platform

Cognition's autonomous AI software engineer. Cloud agents take a ticket, plan the work, open a pull request, and review code — from a web app, CLI,…

Freemium
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Gemini CLI

Google · Open Source CLI Tool

Google's open-source terminal agent. Retired for personal accounts on 18 June 2026 and replaced by Antigravity CLI; still supported on enterprise licences.

Open Source (Paid License Required)
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GitHub Copilot

GitHub/Microsoft · IDE Extension & Platform

The world's most adopted AI coding assistant. Features multi-model choice, an autonomous coding agent, a CLI, and deep IDE integration.

Freemium
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Google Antigravity

Google · Agentic IDE & CLI

Google's agent-first development platform — a desktop IDE and the agy terminal agent. Successor to Gemini CLI and Gemini Code Assist since June 2026.

Freemium
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Kimi Code

Moonshot AI · CLI Tool & Editor Integration

Moonshot AI's open-source terminal coding agent: an MIT-licensed CLI with MCP and editor integration, driving Kimi K3 and K2.7 Code via Kimi membership.

Freemium
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OpenAI Codex

OpenAI · CLI Tool & Platform

OpenAI's coding agent for terminal, IDE, web and iOS. Runs GPT-6 Astra inside an OS-level sandbox and ships as Apache-2.0 open source.

Freemium
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Qwen Code

Alibaba Qwen · CLI Tool & Platform

Alibaba's open-source AI coding agent that lives in your terminal. Apache 2.0, model-agnostic across OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Qwen and local providers.

Open Source
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Replit AI

Replit · Web Application

AI-powered online IDE that turns ideas into working apps via natural language, with a built-in database, auth, and one-click deployment.

Freemium
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Tabnine

Tabnine · Plugin & Enterprise Platform

Enterprise-grade AI coding platform. Offers air-gapped deployment, personalized LLMs trained on your codebase, and autonomous multi-file code completions.

Freemium
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Windsurf (now Devin Desktop)

Cognition AI · IDE / Desktop Application (renamed Devin Desktop)

Windsurf was renamed Devin Desktop on June 2, 2026. Cognition's agent-native IDE, now built around the Devin Local agent and an Agent Command Center.

Freemium

AI Platform

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AgentGPT

Reworkd AI · Web Application

Open-source, browser-based autonomous AI agent from Reworkd. You name a goal, the agent plans tasks, executes them, and learns from the results.

Freemium
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Base44

Base44 (Wix) · Web Application

No-code AI app builder with a fully managed backend — database, auth, storage, and hosting included. Bootstrapped by a solo founder and acquired by Wix in…

Freemium
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Bolt

StackBlitz · Web Application

StackBlitz's AI app builder. Prompts become full-stack web and React Native apps running in the browser via WebContainers, with hosting, auth, and databases.

Freemium
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Laddr

AgnetLabs · Platform

Python framework for building distributed, horizontally scalable multi-agent systems, with Redis Streams messaging, automatic tracing, and a React dashboard.

Open Source
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Lovable

Lovable · Web & Desktop Application

Full-stack AI engineer that autonomously builds, tests, and deploys production-ready React applications with native Supabase and database integration.

Freemium
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Manus

Manus (part of Meta) · Platform & Desktop Application

Universal AI agent that autonomously executes complex, multi-step workflows across your browser and desktop for end-to-end task automation and research.

Freemium
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n8n

n8n · Web Application

Open-source agentic workflow automation. Build and scale autonomous AI agents from a low-code visual canvas. SAP took a stake at a $5.2B valuation in May 2026.

Freemium
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OpenRouter

OpenRouter · API Gateway & Platform

Unified, OpenAI-compatible API for 400+ AI models from 70+ providers, with automatic failover, provider routing, and a single bill.

Freemium
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Replit Agent

Replit · Web Application

Replit's autonomous app builder. Agent 3 runs up to 200 minutes unattended, tests its own work in a browser, fixes what it breaks, and can build…

Freemium
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Salesforce Agentforce

Salesforce · Platform

Salesforce's autonomous AI platform. Consumption-based Flex Credits pricing, per-user licensing, and the Atlas Reasoning Engine across the Salesforce ecosystem.

Enterprise
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Vercel · Web & Mobile Application

Vercel's agentic app builder. Generates production-ready Next.js, React, Tailwind, and shadcn/ui apps, with Git workflows, databases, and a Platform API.

Freemium
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You.com

You.com · Enterprise Platform & API

Enterprise AI search and agent platform. Provides a Web Search API for LLMs, multi-agent orchestration, and secure RAG solutions with source citations.

Enterprise & Pay-as-you-go

Video

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Descript

Descript Inc. · Desktop & Web Application

AI-first video and audio editor that turns media into text, featuring the Underlord AI co-editor, voice cloning, and translation into 30+ languages.

Freemium
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HeyGen

HeyGen · Web Application & API

Leading AI video platform for creating avatar-based videos and translating content into 175 languages and dialects with lip-sync and expressive animations.

Freemium
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Kling AI

Kuaishou Technology · Web Application & API

Kuaishou's AI video platform, known for realistic human motion and high-fidelity image-to-video conversion. Now running the Kling 3.0 model family.

Freemium
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Luma Dream Machine

Luma AI · Web Application & API

Luma AI's video generation platform. Ray3 was the first video model to reason about a shot before generating it, and the first to output native 16-bit…

Freemium
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Minimax (Hailuo AI)

MiniMax · Web Application & API

MiniMax's AI video generation platform known for exceptional physical motion quality and fast generation speeds for high-fidelity cinematic video clips.

Freemium
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Runway

Runway AI, Inc. · Web & API Platform

Leading AI video platform. Gen-4.5 tops the Artificial Analysis text-to-video leaderboard, alongside Aleph 2.0 video editing and Act-Two performance capture.

Freemium
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Sora (Discontinued)

OpenAI · API Platform (discontinued — apps closed April 2026, API ends September 2026)

OpenAI's video generator. The Sora apps closed April 26, 2026; the API shuts down September 24, 2026, and OpenAI has no replacement.

Paid API, until September 24, 2026
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Synthesia

Synthesia · Web Application & API

The enterprise AI video platform for creating presenter videos with AI avatars in 160+ languages, used by 50,000+ companies for training and communications.

Paid (Starter plan available)
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Wan2.1 (Alibaba)

Alibaba Research (Tongyi) · Open-Source Model & API

Alibaba's open-weights video foundation model, Apache 2.0 licensed and widely supported via ComfyUI. Superseded by Wan2.2, which is also open-weights.

Free (Open Weights) / Paid (Cloud API)

AI Assistant

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Character.ai

Character Technologies Inc. · Web & Mobile Application

Platform for character-driven AI. Create and chat with virtual personas featuring voice chat, animated avatars, and a social feed.

Freemium
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DeepSeek

DeepSeek AI · Web Application & API

DeepSeek's AI platform offering frontier-class reasoning and coding at disruptive prices with a powerful free web interface and high-speed API endpoints.

Freemium
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Dola (formerly Cici)

ByteDance · Web, Mobile & Desktop Application

ByteDance's overseas AI assistant, renamed from Cici in November 2025. Free chat, translation and image generation, region-locked out of the US and China.

Free
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Doubao (豆包)

ByteDance · Web & Mobile Application

ByteDance's multimodal AI assistant, combining chat, image and video generation, and agents. Free to use; available internationally as Cici.

Free
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Google Gemini

Google · Web & Native Application

Google's flagship AI assistant. Runs the Gemini 3 family with a 1M-token multimodal context, Project Astra real-time vision, and Workspace integration.

Freemium
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Grok

SpaceXAI (SpaceX) · Web & Mobile Application

SpaceXAI's frontier AI assistant with real-time X integration, deep reasoning, and an unfiltered approach for power users. Formerly an xAI product.

Freemium
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Microsoft Copilot

Microsoft · OS-Level AI Platform

Microsoft's productivity OS integrating autonomous agents, persistent collaboration pages, and native Copilot+ PC acceleration across the Windows ecosystem.

Freemium
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Mistral Le Chat (now Vibe)

Mistral AI · Web Application & API (renamed Vibe)

Le Chat was renamed Vibe on May 28, 2026. Mistral AI's assistant now spans Work Mode, Code Mode, a CLI and a VS Code extension, under…

Freemium

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Text & Writing

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Audio & Voice

AI Agents & Automation

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