Which AI to pick
for the job in front of you

Moises

Pulls a finished track apart into separate stems

$3.99per month

Separates vocals, drums and bass out of a finished recording — and carries the cheapest paid plan in the whole catalogue

• Split a track into vocals, bass, drums
• Change key and tempo
• A practice app for musicians

QuillBot

Paraphrasing and proofing someone else’s paragraph

$4.17per month

The cheapest paid access among the writing tools — four dollars a month billed annually, with a free tier that adds no watermark

• Paraphrasing in several modes
• AI-text and plagiarism checks
• Free: up to 125 words at a time

ElevenLabs

Voice-over people do not separate from a studio take

$6per month

Carries a cloned voice’s intonation into another language — the same timbre reads Russian, Japanese and German

• Voice clone from a short sample
• Over 30 languages in one voice
• A separate model for dialogue

OpenArt

Many models in one window, with a generous free tier

$7per month

Fifty free credits a day with no watermark — the most open entry in a job where the rest either stamp the image or charge at the door

• Several models in one interface
• Custom characters you can train
• Storyboards and consistent series

Photoroom

A backdrop for a product shot on a phone

$7.5per month

Drops a phone-shot product into a generated scene and processes a whole catalogue export at once rather than card by card

• Background removal and scene replacement
• Batch processing for a catalogue
• A phone app, not only a website

Otter.ai

A meeting transcript split by speaker

$8.33per month

Joins the call as a participant of its own and returns a transcript split by speaker with the decisions listed out

• Joins Zoom, Meet and Teams
• Speaker-by-speaker transcript
• A decisions summary after the call

Higgsfield

Camera moves picked from a list of shots

$9per month

You pick the camera move from a list of named shots — dolly, orbit, crash zoom — instead of describing it and hoping the model guesses

• A catalogue of camera moves instead of prose
• Generate from your own photograph
• Discount for paying annually

Hugging Face

The open-model repository the whole field links to

$9per month

The open model in the news is almost always hosted here: this is the field’s shared warehouse, not somebody’s product

• Open models and datasets
• Host your own model and demo
• GPU rental for training

The only service in the top ten with no free tier at all, and still the highest-grossing image generator of the lot

• A recognisable house style
• Style reference and transfer between works
• Stealth mode only from the $60 plan

Kling AI

Motion that holds up across a long take

$10per month

Holds physical motion together on takes where rival models start breaking hands and faces, which is how a Chinese app reached the revenue list

• Native 4K, but only from the $37 plan
• Extend a clip out to two or three minutes
• Lip-sync to an uploaded voice track

Fireflies.ai

The call lands in your CRM without retyping

$10per seat / month

Files the call transcript straight into the deal record in your CRM, so sales stops retyping conversations by hand

• Writes into Salesforce, HubSpot and Pipedrive
• Search across every past call
• Analytics: who spoke how much

Suno

A song with vocals from one line of description

$10per month

Writes a finished song with vocals and lyrics rather than a backing track — and on the free tier grants no commercial rights to it

• Vocals and lyrics, not only music
• Upload your own sketch to extend
• 50 free credits a day

Notion

Writing next to the database where the work already lives

$10per seat / month

Answers from your own document base rather than the web, so you can ask about your own brief from last year

• Search and answers across your own docs
• Writing happens where the project lives
• Connects to Slack, Jira and email

NovelAI

Prose and anime imagery in one subscription

$10per month

The only entry here that keeps text and image generation in one subscription without imposing outside moderation on the story

• Prose without outside story moderation
• Anime-style image generation
• Its own model rather than someone’s API

Sudowrite

A tool for a novel, not for a post

$10per month

Holds plot and characters across a whole book, remembering who is who at the hundred-thousandth word

• A map of characters and plot lines
• Works across a hundred thousand words
• Credit rollover on the Max plan

Speechify

Reads aloud what you do not have time to read

$11.58per month

Reads PDFs, email and web pages at up to nine times speed — the product was built for dyslexia, not for podcasts

• Reads PDFs, email and web pages
• Up to nine times playback speed
• Browser extension and apps

Gamma

A deck that lives as a link, not a file

$12per month

Hands over the deck as a link with view analytics rather than a file, so you see who reached which slide

• Slides built from one paragraph of brief
• Deck as a page with view stats
• Export to PowerPoint and PDF

Recraft

A generator that hands back SVG, not a bitmap

$12per month

Produces real vectors: an icon or logo opens in an editor and is edited by nodes instead of being redrawn

• SVG output rather than raster
• Train a house style on your own work
• Free output lands in a public gallery

Wispr Flow

Dictation into any text field, not into its own window

$12per month

Types straight into whatever field the cursor is in — an email, a chat, code — and strips the "ums" into a clean sentence on the way

• Works inside any application
• Cleans speech into readable text
• Custom dictionary of names and terms

Figma

A file everyone works in at once

$12per seat / month

Charges by role rather than by head: a viewer, a developer and a designer each cost differently, so teams stop overpaying for spectators

• Several people in one file
• A separate cheaper developer seat
• A commenting seat costs $3

Beautiful.ai

The slide relays itself when you add a point

$12per month

The slide rebuilds its own layout the moment you add a point, instead of leaving you to drag boxes

• Slide layout rebuilds automatically
• One brand style across the team
• PowerPoint export

Runway

A video model with a full editing suite around it

$15per month

The only generator with an editor beside the model: you extend, recolour and re-voice a shot without leaving the tab

• 4K and watermark-free from the $15 plan
• Generate from your own frame or an existing clip
• Editing tools: object removal, rotoscoping

PLAUD

A card-sized recorder with transcription attached

$17.99per month

Records on its own card-sized device rather than through a phone — the only entry here that sells hardware alongside the subscription

• Its own device rather than a phone app
• Records phone calls
• 300 free transcript minutes

Canva

Design for people who are not designers

$18per month

Generation is built into an editor people already know how to use, so nothing new has to be learned — which explains the scale

• An enormous template library
• Background removal and image editing
• A brand kit across the team

Topaz Labs

Upscaling and restoration that runs on your own machine

$19per month

Processes on your own machine rather than someone’s server, so the originals never leave — the only service here that does

• Upscale photo and video without losing detail
• Restore old and noisy shots
• Processing runs locally, nothing uploaded

Ideogram

Text in the image that you do not have to redo

$20per month

Renders legible words and whole signs inside an image — the task every generator before it stumbled on

• Signage and captions without mangled letters
• Templates for logos and covers
• Free tier: ten slow generations a week

Perplexity

Search that shows where the answer came from

$20per month

Puts a link against every claim in the answer, so it can be checked line by line instead of taken on trust

• A link against every claim
• Multi-step deep research
• Reads files you upload

Replit

Environment and hosting in the browser, nothing installed

$20per month

Builds the app and publishes it to a live address straight away, with no environment or server to set up

• Agent builds an app from scratch
• Publishes to a live address from the same window
• Runs in the browser, nothing to install

Manus

An agent that carries a task through to a result

$20per month

Runs its own browser and file system: it opens sites, fills forms and comes back with a finished file rather than instructions

• The task is done, not described
• The agent has its own browser and files
• Reports assemble into a sheet or a page

Meshy

A 3D model from an image or a description

$20per month

The only entry here that hands back a textured 3D model — the output goes straight into a game engine rather than a render

• A textured model ready for an engine
• Generate from a photograph of an object
• Free 100 credits, but licensed with attribution

Cognition (Devin)

An agent takes a ticket and brings back a pull request

$20per seat / month

Works as a performer rather than a prompt: it takes the ticket, runs the tests itself and comes back with a pull request

• Briefed like a person, not like an editor
• Runs tests and fixes failures itself
• Usage counted in ACU, not requests

Cursor

An editor that sees the whole project

$20per month

Indexes the entire repository, so changing one function accounts for where it is called rather than only the open file

• Indexes the whole repository, not the open file
• Agent edits several files in one pass
• Model choice per task

Claude

The assistant picked for long reasoning rather than speed

$20per month

The only one of the three that puts its coding tool in the same subscription: Claude Code is included in every paid plan at no extra cost

• Claude Code included in every paid plan
• Works through long documents whole
• Desktop and phone apps

Claude Code

An agent that works in the terminal, not in an editor

$20per month

Lives in the terminal and asks you to change no editor: it edits files, runs tests and commits where you already work

• No separate subscription — included with a Claude plan
• Runs in the terminal, no editor to switch
• Runs tests and fixes failures itself

MiniMax

In-house video, audio and text models in one place

$22per month

Runs its own video, speech and text models at once — a rare case of one team holding the full set, with some weights released openly

• Video, speech and text on in-house models
• Some weights released openly
• An API and an app at once

Descript

Edit video by editing the transcript

$24per month

Delete a word in the transcript and it leaves the video: podcast editing becomes document editing

• Strip filler words in one click
• Voice clone to re-record a line
• Screen and call recording

n8n

Block-built flows you can move onto your own server

€24per month

The open edition installs on your own server and runs with no execution cap and no payment at all — the only case of its kind here

• Flows assembled from blocks
• Over 400 ready integrations
• Free and uncapped on your own server

Genspark

Research that assembles into a page, not a reply

$24.99per month

A hundred free credits a day with no card — the most open entry in a job where the rest put deep research behind a paywall

• Results assembled into a page with tables
• An agent works the task step by step
• 100 free credits a day

Lovable

An app from a description, with real code at the end

$25per month

Hands the result over as an ordinary GitHub repository, so the project can leave for a developer instead of being locked into the platform

• App assembled from a plain description
• Code pushes to your own GitHub
• Database and auth wired in from the start

Superhuman

An inbox already triaged by the time you open it

$25per seat / month

Triages the inbox before you open it — sorted, noise set aside, replies drafted — and has no free tier at all

• Inbox sorted automatically
• Reply drafts in your own voice
• Keyboard-only control

InVideo

A finished clip from one written brief

$28per month

Assembles a complete clip with voice-over, captions and music from a single paragraph of brief, with no shot-by-shot work

• Script, voice-over and captions in one pass
• Edits by spoken command
• Stock footage library built in

HeyGen

A talking avatar instead of a shoot day

$29per month

Re-voices footage into another language and reshapes the mouth to the new speech, keeping the same person on screen

• Your own avatar from one phone recording
• Video translation with lip reshaping
• Over 170 voice-over languages

TopView

An ad clip built from a product listing

$29per month

Parses a product URL and drops the item into a ready ad storyboard with a presenting avatar — the job starts from a link, not a brief

• Clip from a product URL
• A presenting avatar on camera
• Variants per platform

Zeely

Creative, campaign and budget in one app

$29.95per month

Does not hand over a file: it launches the campaign in the ad account itself, and takes a share of ad spend on top of the subscription

• UGC-style clips from a product link
• Launches the campaign from the same app
• Variant testing

Jasper

Marketing copy that holds a brand voice

$59per month

Trains on your own text archive and holds the brand voice across a whole campaign — not one good paragraph but two hundred consistent ones

• Brand voice trained on your own writing
• Whole campaigns rather than single pieces
• Your data stays out of model training

OpenRouter

One access point to every provider’s models

—on request

Serves every provider’s models through one key with no token markup — you pay the provider’s list price plus a percentage on top-up

• Over 300 models through one key
• No token markup, only a top-up fee
• Automatic failover to a backup provider

Reface

Face swapping out of a Kyiv lab

—on request

Grew out of a Kyiv research team and was first to put face swapping into a mass-market app, long before every editor had the feature

• Face swap in photos and short video
• Phone app
• The service publishes no price list

Jumpspeak

Speaking practice without a human on the other side

—on request

Teaches speech rather than words: the whole lesson is you talking out loud and being interrupted, not flashcards

• Lessons built around speaking aloud
• Pronunciation corrected as you go
• Paid by term, not by month

JustDone

AI detection, and rewriting to get past it

—on request

Works both sides of the same job: it checks text for machine origin and rewrites it against that check

• AI-text detector plus rewriting against it
• Proofing and plagiarism checks
• Browser-based

Evoto

Retouching an entire shoot in one pass

—on request

Copies one frame’s retouching settings across a whole shoot, so an eight-hundred-shot wedding goes through in a batch

• Batch portrait retouching
• Copy settings across the whole shoot
• Background and sky replacement

fal

Generative models as a fast API

—on request

Specialises in image and video latency — it sells the response time rather than the model, fast enough to work in real time

• Image and video models over an API
• GPU rental by the hour
• Host your own model

FaceApp

The oldest mass-market app for editing a face

—on request

Shipping since 2017 and still on the revenue list — a rare case of a mobile app outliving two waves of industry fashion

• Age, smile and hairstyle edits
• Phone app
• The service publishes no price list

Nous Research

Open models the community keeps refining

—on request

Releases weights freely and trains distributed across other people’s machines — the opposite of the closed labs on this list

• Weights released freely
• Distributed training across participants’ machines
• Models run on your own server

ChatGPT

The chat that started it for most people

—on request

The only one people reach for without knowing any other model exists — the default, not a choice

• Voice mode and spoken conversation
• Reads files, spreadsheets and images
• Generates images in the same window

Gemini

The assistant already sitting where you work

—on request

Arrives inside the mail, documents and spreadsheets you already use rather than as another website — and ships in one subscription with cloud storage

• Built into Gmail, Docs and Sheets
• The subscription bundles Google One storage
• Voice mode and image work