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Best ai tools

Ranked by a formula we publish in full, not by who paid. 12 tools considered.

  1. 1
    LangChain

    The framework most LLM applications are still assembled with.

    Open source · 18 upvotes

  2. 2
    Pinecone

    Managed vector search, so retrieval is somebody else's operational problem.

    Freemium · 14 upvotes

  3. 3
    Ollama

    Run language models on your own machine with one command.

    Open source · 12 upvotes

  4. 4
    Replicate

    Run open-source models behind an API without touching a GPU.

    Paid · 12 upvotes

  5. 5
    Suno

    Full songs (vocals, instruments, structure), from a text prompt.

    Freemium · 12 upvotes

  6. 6
    ChatGPT

    OpenAI's assistant, with browsing, images and code execution built in.

    Freemium · 8 upvotes

  7. 7
    ElevenLabs

    Speech synthesis and voice cloning that survives being listened to closely.

    Freemium · 8 upvotes

  8. 8
    Hugging Face

    The model hub. Weights, datasets and demos for most of open-source ML.

    Freemium · 8 upvotes

  9. 9
    Midjourney

    Image generation with a house style nothing else quite matches.

    Paid · 7 upvotes

  10. 10
    Perplexity

    An answer engine that cites its sources instead of listing ten blue links.

    Freemium · 6 upvotes

This order comes from the published formula. Paid placement never enters it, the ranking code cannot import the payments code, and the build fails if it does.