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24 tools, assessed against the same criteria and updated as they change. We take no payment for inclusion, and every entry lists what it is bad at as well as what it is good at.
OpenAI
The general-purpose assistant that defined the category and still sets its default expectations
Anthropic
Anthropic's assistant, strongest on long-document reasoning, careful writing and agentic tool use
DeepSeek
Open-weight reasoning models with a free chat interface and unusually cheap API access
Google's multimodal assistant, deeply wired into Search, Workspace and Android
Microsoft
The assistant embedded across Microsoft 365, Windows and Edge for enterprise workflows
Anthropic
A terminal-native coding agent that reads, edits and runs your project the way a developer would
Anysphere
A VS Code fork rebuilt around AI editing, with codebase-wide context and multi-file agents
Aider (open source)
Open-source terminal pair programmer that edits your repo and commits its own changes
GitHub
The incumbent coding assistant, embedded in GitHub, VS Code and the pull request workflow
Windsurf
An agent-first AI IDE built around continuous awareness of what you are doing in the codebase
Pinecone
Managed vector database that removes the operational work from production retrieval
Midjourney
The image generator with the strongest default aesthetic and the deepest style control
Adobe
Commercially safe generative imaging built into the Creative Cloud workflow
Black Forest Labs
Open-weight image models from Black Forest Labs, built for developers and custom pipelines
Notion
AI search, writing and agents layered over a workspace that already holds your team's knowledge
Perplexity AI
An answer engine that cites its sources, built to replace exploratory search rather than chat
A source-grounded research notebook that answers only from the documents you give it
Runway
A generative video studio with the deepest set of editing and control tools for filmmakers
OpenAI
OpenAI's video generation model, packaged as a social creation app rather than an editing suite
Synthesia
AI avatar video for training, onboarding and internal communication at enterprise scale
ElevenLabs
The quality benchmark for synthetic speech, voice cloning and multilingual dubbing
OpenAI
OpenAI's open-source speech recognition model, the default for self-hosted transcription
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