Filtered for a working professional · verified 4 September 2026

The best AI for professionals

100 tools 83 with a free plan 10 jobs broken out Prices verified 4 September 2026

By job

Each of these is the same list narrowed to one kind of work, with the tools that are not for a working professional named rather than quietly dropped.

General-Purpose AI Assistants

Questions, brainstorming, explanations, everyday tasks, decision-making, general advice.

10 of the 31 in this category →

Search, Research & Academics

Web research, deep research, books, academic papers, citations, news, fact-checking.

9 of the 52 in this category →

Writing, Communication & Language

Emails, reports, essays, editing, summarizing, translation, presentations.

20 of the 64 in this category →

Coding, Data & Technical Work

Programming, debugging, data analysis, spreadsheets, math, engineering, technical research.

4 of the 78 in this category →

Business, Finance & Professional Work

Business strategy, investing, market research, legal, sales, HR, accounting, consulting.

21 of the 84 in this category →

Image & Design

Image generation, photo editing, logos, graphics, product design, advertising creatives.

11 of the 124 in this category →

Video

Video generation and editing, clipping, subtitles, avatars, animation and motion capture.

8 of the 99 in this category →

Audio, Voice & Music

Voice generation, transcription, music, dubbing, sound cleanup and podcast production.

6 of the 79 in this category →

Marketing & Content Creation

Social media, SEO, advertising, copywriting, content ideas, scripts, brand development.

21 of the 79 in this category →

Productivity, Automation & Personal Life

AI agents, workflows, scheduling, meetings, organization, shopping, travel, personal finance.

14 of the 100 in this category →

All 100 tools for professionals

Adobe Firefly

By AdobeSan Jose, United States1 product across 1 category

Built for this. Trained on licensed material and sold with indemnification, which is the whole point if you ship client work. Sits inside Photoshop and Illustrator.

Free plan
Yes
Small monthly credit allowance
Month to month
$9.99/mo
Firefly Standard
Billed yearly
—
No yearly price published

Watch out: Weakest as a standalone generator; its value is the integration and the legal cover. Full use needs a Creative Cloud plan.

All plans (6)
PlanPriceWhat you get
Free$0Small monthly credit allowance
Firefly Standard$9.99/mo2,000 generative credits a month
Firefly Pro$19.99/mo4,000 generative credits a month
Firefly Pro Plus$49.99/mo10,000 generative credits a month
Firefly Premium$199.99/mo50,000 generative credits a month
Teams$199.99/mo
Open Adobe Firefly Pricing and company Prices checked 4 September 2026

Ahrefs

By AhrefsSingapore, Singapore1 product across 1 category

Built for this. Its own crawler and index rather than a licensed one, which is why its backlink data is the reference point most others are compared against.

Free plan
Yes
Ahrefs Webmaster Tools is free indefinitely, but only for sites you verify you own
Month to month
$29/mo
Starter
Billed yearly
—
No yearly price published

Watch out: The free tier is Webmaster Tools and only works on sites you can verify you own — no competitor research without paying.

All plans (6)
PlanPriceWhat you get
Free$0Ahrefs Webmaster Tools is free indefinitely, but only for sites you verify you own
Starter$29/mosee what people search for and check competitors, without the full toolset
Lite$129/mo · $108/mo yearly5 projects, 750 tracked keywords, 5 tracked AI prompts, 100,000 crawl credits, one user, extra users $40 each
Standard$249/mo · $208/mo yearly20 projects, 2,000 keywords, 10 AI prompts, 500,000 crawl credits, extra users $60 each
Advanced$449/mo · $374/mo yearly50 projects, 5,000 keywords, 20 AI prompts, 1.5M crawl credits, extra users $80 each
Enterprise$1499/mouncapped API access, SSO, access management and audit log, unlimited historical data
Open Ahrefs Pricing and company Prices checked 4 September 2026

Canva Magic Studio

By CanvaSydney, Australia2 products across 2 categories

Built for this. The tool most non-designers actually finish work in. Layouts, brand kits, background removal and generation in one place.

Free plan
Yes
Free forever for one person, with the editor, 1.6M templates and one three-colour Brand Kit
Month to month
$18/mo
Pro
Billed yearly
$15/mo
$180 a year, Pro plan −17%

Watch out: Image generation is powered by third-party models and is not the strongest available. Outputs look like Canva outputs.

All plans (4)
PlanPriceWhat you get
Free$0Free forever for one person, with the editor, 1.6M templates and one three-colour Brand Kit
Pro$18/mo · $15/mo yearlypremium tools, 3.6M templates, 141M premium assets, free trial
Business$25/mo · $20.83/mo yearlyteam admin and collaboration tools, 100 Brand Kits with approvals, free trial
EnterpriseCustomSSO and SCIM, custom apps, 1,000 Brand Kits with tiered approvals
Open Canva Magic Studio Pricing and company Prices checked 4 September 2026

ChatGPT

By OpenAISan Francisco, United States3 products across 8 categories

Built for this. The broadest feature set — voice, images, files, a large app ecosystem. Usually the easiest starting point.

Free plan
Yes
Ad supported; unlimited everyday text chats, limited image creation, memory and voice
Month to month
$8/mo
Go
Billed yearly
—
No yearly price published

Watch out: Check your data settings. On consumer tiers conversations may be used to improve models unless you turn that off.

All plans (6)
PlanPriceWhat you get
Free$0Free tier, ad supported; unlimited everyday text chats, limited image creation, memory and voice
Go$8/mo
Plus$20/moadvanced models, higher quality image creation, Work agent, Codex, 20GB of storage
Pro$100/mo
Business standard seat$25/mo · $20/mo yearly
Business premium seat$125/mo · $100/mo yearly5x the usage and no five-hour limit
Open ChatGPT Pricing and company Prices checked 4 September 2026

Claude

By AnthropicSan Francisco, United States3 products across 7 categories

Built for this. Long documents and reasoning that holds together over many pages. Handles large uploads well.

Free plan
Yes
Free tier with daily caps
Month to month
$20/mo
Pro
Billed yearly
$17/mo
$200 a year, Pro plan −15%

Watch out: Free tier caps out quickly under heavy use. Judge it against the others yourself rather than trusting any ranking.

All plans (6)
PlanPriceWhat you get
Free$0Free tier with daily caps
Pro$20/mo · $17/mo yearly
Max$100/mo
Team standard seat$25/mo · $20/mo yearly
Team premium seat$125/mo · $100/mo yearly
Enterprise$20/mo
Open Claude Pricing and company Prices checked 4 September 2026

DeepL Write

By DeepLCologne, Germany1 product across 1 category

Built for this. The same quality that made its translation worth paying for, applied to rewriting. Notably better than the field on European languages.

Free plan
Yes
Free tier with a character limit
Month to month
$10.49/mo
Individual
Billed yearly
$8.74/mo
Individual plan −17%

Watch out: Improves phrasing rather than argument, and will not tell you a paragraph is not worth keeping. Write is not sold on its own: it comes with a DeepL Pro subscription, whose entry tier is capped at 300,000 characters a month.

All plans (7)
PlanPriceWhat you get
Free$0Free tier with a character limit
Individual$10.49/mo · $8.74/mo yearly300,000 characters a month, 3 file translations a month, one glossary and no training on your data. Sold as DeepL Pro, which carries Write alongside the translator
Team$34.49/mo · $28.74/mo yearly1,000,000 characters per user a month, 20 file translations a month, bulk file translation, 5 shared style rule lists and 5 glossaries
Business$68.99/mo · $57.49/mo yearlyunlimited characters, 100 file translations a month, 20 shared style rule lists, unlimited glossaries and translation memory
EnterpriseCustom
Voice Starter$13/mo · $11/mo yearly300 minutes a user a month of real-time meeting translation, up to 50 participants online and 10 in person
Voice Business$38/mo · $32/mo yearly600 minutes a user a month pooled across the subscription, up to 300 participants online and 100 in person, and single sign-on. Voice sits on its own tab, as does the API, and the translator plans open on a 30-day trial against 14 days on Voice
Open DeepL Write Pricing and company Prices checked 4 September 2026

Descript

By DescriptSan Francisco, United States1 product across 2 categories

Built for this. Edits video and audio by editing the transcript, which is the fastest workflow available for podcasts and talking-head content.

Free plan
Yes
Free tier with limited transcription hours
Month to month
$24/mo
Hobbyist
Billed yearly
$16/mo
Hobbyist plan −33%

Watch out: Less suited to cinematic editing. It is a spoken-word tool first.

All plans (5)
PlanPriceWhat you get
Free$0Free tier with limited transcription hours
Hobbyist$24/mo · $16/mo yearlyone person, 10 media hours and 400 AI credits a month, 1080p export without watermark
Creator$35/mo · $24/mo yearlyteams up to 3 billed separately, 30 media hours and 800 AI credits a month, 4K export, full Underlord access
Business$65/mo · $50/mo yearlyteams up to 5, 40 media hours and 1,500 AI credits a month, team-wide Brand Studio
EnterpriseCustom
Open Descript Pricing and company Prices checked 4 September 2026

ElevenLabs

By ElevenLabsNew York, United States1 product across 1 category

Built for this. The category standard for voice — generation, cloning, dubbing across languages, and voice agents.

Free plan
Yes
Free tier with text to speech, speech to text, sound effects, voice design and music, roughly
Month to month
$6/mo
Starter
Billed yearly
$5/mo
Starter plan −17%

Watch out: Voice cloning consent rules are strict and vary by country. Free tier is small; costs scale with audio minutes.

All plans (4)
PlanPriceWhat you get
Free$0Free tier with text to speech, speech to text, sound effects, voice design and music, roughly 10 minutes of audio a month
Starter$6/mo · $5/mo yearlycommercial licence, instant voice cloning, 20 Studio projects
Creator$22/mo · $18.33/mo yearlyprofessional voice cloning and extra credits
Pro$99/mo · $82.50/mo yearly44.1kHz PCM output over the API and 192kbps audio
Open ElevenLabs Pricing and company Prices checked 4 September 2026

Fathom

By FathomSan Francisco, United States1 product across 1 category

Built for this. Records, transcribes and summarises calls, then pushes action items where you keep them. Free tier covers unlimited recording.

Free plan
Yes
Free forever plan with unlimited recordings, instant call summaries and LLM integrations
Month to month
$19/mo
Team, sold to teams rather than to one person
Billed yearly
$15/mo
Team plan −21%

Watch out: Recording a call has consent implications that vary by jurisdiction, and that is on you rather than the tool.

All plans (4)
PlanPriceWhat you get
Free$0Free forever plan with unlimited recordings, instant call summaries and LLM integrations
Team$19/mo · $15/mo yearlyunlimited meetings, AI action items, conversational meeting assistant, 90-day guarantee
Business$34/mo · $25/mo yearlyCRM field sync, Deal View, coaching metrics and AI scorecards
Enterprise$35/mo yearly
Open Fathom Pricing and company Prices checked 4 September 2026

Gamma

By GammaSan Francisco, United States1 product across 3 categories

Built for this. Turns a prompt or a pile of notes into a finished deck or document. The fastest route from rough thinking to something presentable.

Free plan
Yes
Free plan with no card, 400 credits at signup, up to 10 slides a prompt and export to PDF
Month to month
$12/mo
Plus
Billed yearly
$9/mo
$108 a year, Plus plan −25%

Watch out: House style is recognisable. Fine internally, worth restyling for anything external.

All plans (6)
PlanPriceWhat you get
Free$0Free plan with no card, 400 credits at signup, up to 10 slides a prompt and export to PDF, PPTX, PNG and Google Slides
Plus$12/mo · $9/mo yearly1,000 credits a month, 100 slides a prompt, Gamma branding removed
Pro$25/mo · $18/mo yearly4,000 credits a month, premium image models, custom branding, API access
Ultra$100/mo · $90/mo yearly20,000 credits a month and the most advanced text, image and video models
Business$40/mo yearly10,000 credits a seat, SSO, SOC 2 documentation on request, advanced data controls
EnterpriseCustomcustom credits, admin and API governance, SCIM provisioning, dedicated onboarding
Open Gamma Pricing and company Prices checked 4 September 2026

Gemini

By Google DeepMindLondon, United Kingdom6 products across 6 categories

Built for this. Sits inside Gmail, Docs and Drive, so it already has your context. Very large context windows and a generous free tier.

Free plan
Yes
Free tier with generous limits
Month to month
$4.99/mo
Google AI Plus
Billed yearly
$4.17/mo
$49.99 a year, Google AI Plus plan −16%

Watch out: Which underlying model you get varies by tier, and quality varies with it. Plus and Pro were both showing introductory offers when checked — a fraction of the price for the first three months, or a discount on the first year — so the number on the page is not the standing price, and the rows here quote the standing one.

All plans (6)
PlanPriceWhat you get
Free$0Free tier with generous limits
Google AI Plus$4.99/mo
Google AI Pro$19.99/mo
Google AI Ultra$99.99/mo
Google AI Ultra 20x$199.99/mo
Workspace with Gemini$14/mo
Open Gemini Pricing and company Prices checked 4 September 2026

Gemini Deep Research

By Google DeepMindLondon, United Kingdom6 products across 6 categories

Built for this. Runs a multi-step search across dozens of sources and returns a structured, referenced report. Strong first pass on an unfamiliar field.

Free plan
Yes
Included in the free Gemini tier, with a limited number of reports
Month to month
$4.99/mo
Google AI Plus
Billed yearly
$4.17/mo
$49.99 a year, Google AI Plus plan −16%

Watch out: Searches the open web, not scholarly databases. It will miss paywalled literature a library search would find.

All plans (4)
PlanPriceWhat you get
Free$0Included in the free Gemini tier, with a limited number of reports
Google AI Plus$4.99/mo2x the usage limits. Deep Research is part of the Google AI plans, not sold separately
Google AI Pro$19.99/mo4x the usage limits and the Pro model behind longer reports
Google AI Ultra$99.99/mo5x the Pro limits for the heaviest research use
Open Gemini Deep Research Pricing and company Prices checked 4 September 2026

Gemini Notebook

By Google DeepMindLondon, United Kingdom6 products across 6 categories

Built for this. You upload the sources and it answers only from them, linking every sentence to the passage it came from. The strongest verification pattern here.

Free plan
Yes
Free, and the core product is not gated: what a paid plan buys is headroom — a bigger notebook
Month to month
$4.99/mo
Google AI Plus
Billed yearly
$4.17/mo
$49.99 a year, Google AI Plus plan −16%

Watch out: Deliberately limited — it will not answer what your documents do not cover, and cannot tell you whether they are any good. Paid headroom comes from a Google AI subscription rather than a plan of its own.

All plans (4)
PlanPriceWhat you get
Free$0Free, and the core product is not gated: what a paid plan buys is headroom — a bigger notebook, more sources per notebook and higher limits on Audio and Video Overviews and Slides
Google AI Plus$4.99/mothe cheapest step that raises its limits, with more Gemini access, increased feature limits and a bigger notebook. Introductory offers were showing: $1.29/month for 3 months, or $44.99 for the first year
Google AI Pro$19.99/moexpanded Gemini access for complex research, expanded feature limits and a large notebook size. Introductory offers were showing: $4.99/month for 3 months, or $179.99 for the first year
Google AI Ultra$99.99/mothe highest Gemini access and the largest source limits, for working across several big notebooks
Open Gemini Notebook Pricing and company Prices checked 4 September 2026

Grammarly

By GrammarlySan Francisco, United States1 product across 1 category

Built for this. Works inside the apps you already write in rather than a separate window, which is why it actually gets used. Grammar, tone and clarity in place.

Free plan
Yes
Writing without spelling and grammar mistakes, tone detection, and 100 AI prompts for
Month to month
$30/mo
Pro
Billed yearly
$12/mo
$144 a year, Pro plan −60%

Watch out: Better at fixing than composing. It smooths writing toward a neutral register, which is not always what you want.

All plans (3)
PlanPriceWhat you get
Free$0Free tier: writing without spelling and grammar mistakes, tone detection, and 100 AI prompts for generating text
Pro$30/mo · $12/mo yearlyrewriting whole sentences in a click, tone adjustment, unlimited personalised suggestions, and plagiarism and AI-text detection. It opens on a 7-day free trial with nothing to pay on the day and a reminder two days before it ends
EnterpriseCustomadds proactive AI across the apps you work in, dedicated support, bring-your-own-key encryption, custom roles and permissions, and data loss prevention
Open Grammarly Pricing and company Prices checked 4 September 2026

Hemingway Editor

By Boondoggle StudioUnited States1 product across 1 category

Built for this. Marks the sentences that are hard to read and the adverbs you did not need, and does nothing else. The free web version has no sign-up.

Free plan
Yes
Free in the browser with no sign-up: the readability marking, and no AI at all
Month to month
$25/mo
Individual 5K
Billed yearly
$8.33/mo
$100 a year, Individual 5K plan −67%

Watch out: Readability is not the same as quality — it will flag a precise technical sentence as difficult. Deliberately narrow.

All plans (4)
PlanPriceWhat you get
Free$0Free in the browser with no sign-up: the readability marking, and no AI at all
Individual 5K$25/mo · $8.33/mo yearly5,000 AI sentence rewrites a month, unlimited advanced grammar fixes, tone, length and style adjustment, and unlimited document review
Individual 10K$30/mo · $12.50/mo yearlythe same again at 10,000 AI sentence rewrites a month
Team 10K$30/mo · $12.50/mo yearly10,000 AI sentence rewrites a user a month, licences managed on one bill, admin roles and extra AI credits. All three are Hemingway Editor Plus, the paid AI layer, and each opens on a free trial
Open Hemingway Editor Pricing and company Prices checked 4 September 2026

HeyGen

By HeyGenLos Angeles, United States1 product across 2 categories

Built for this. Avatars and video translation with lip-sync, aimed at repurposing one video across many languages.

Free plan
Yes
Free plan with the AI Studio editor, videos up to one minute and no export; enough to test, not
Month to month
$29/mo
Creator
Billed yearly
—
No yearly price published

Watch out: Same synthetic-presenter caveat. Check likeness rights before cloning anyone.

All plans (5)
PlanPriceWhat you get
Free$0Free plan with the AI Studio editor, videos up to one minute and no export; enough to test, not to publish
Creator$29/movideos up to 30 minutes, 1080p export, fast processing
Pro$49/movideos up to 30 minutes, 4K export, faster processing
Business$149/movideos up to 60 minutes, 4K export
EnterpriseCustomno duration cap, fastest processing. Usage is credit-based on every plan, so heavy editing costs more than the sticker
Open HeyGen Pricing and company Prices checked 4 September 2026

Ideogram

By IdeogramToronto, Canada1 product across 1 category

Built for this. The one that renders readable text inside an image, which almost nothing else does reliably. That makes it the choice for anything with words in it.

Free plan
Yes
Free tier with a daily generation allowance
Month to month
$20/mo
Plus
Billed yearly
$15/mo
$180 a year, Plus plan −25%

Watch out: Narrower than the general generators once you move past typography. Its pricing page has refused or 404ed on three separate runs.

All plans (5)
PlanPriceWhat you get
Free$0Free tier with a daily generation allowance
Plus$20/mo · $15/mo yearly1,000 credits a month, private generation, unlimited slow credits, priority top-ups at $4
Pro$60/mo · $42/mo yearly3,500 credits a month, batch generation, quality export
Team$30/mo · $20/mo yearly1,500 credits a user a month, central billing
EnterpriseCustomprivate custom models and API volume discounts. API usage is priced separately
Open Ideogram Pricing and company Prices checked 4 September 2026

Julius AI

By Julius AISan Francisco, United States1 product across 1 category

Built for this. Upload a spreadsheet and it writes and runs real code against it, showing the working rather than describing it.

Free plan
Yes
Free tier with a monthly message allowance
Month to month
$20/mo
Plus
Billed yearly
$16/mo
$200 a year, Plus plan −20%

Watch out: A generated analysis is only as good as the question. Work is metered in credits, and Max and Business are sold at a credit level you choose, so their headline price is the entry rate.

All plans (5)
PlanPriceWhat you get
Free$0Free tier with a monthly message allowance
Plus$20/mo · $16/mo yearly
Pro$45/mo · $37/mo yearly
Max$200/mo · $166/mo yearly
Business$450/mo · $375/mo yearly
Open Julius AI Pricing and company Prices checked 4 September 2026

LanguageTool

By LearneoRedwood City, United States2 products across 1 category

Built for this. Strong across more than 30 languages rather than English alone, and it can be self-hosted, which almost nothing else in this category offers.

Free plan
Yes
Free tier covering basic grammar and spelling
Month to month
$24.90/mo
Premium
Billed yearly
$5.83/mo
$69.90 a year, Premium plan −77%

Watch out: Owned by the same company as QuillBot since 2023. Month to month costs more than four times the annual rate, and there are four payment intervals to pick between, so the interval matters more than the tier.

All plans (3)
PlanPriceWhat you get
Free$0Free tier covering basic grammar and spelling
Premium$24.90/mo · $16.63/mo quarterly · $5.83/mo yearlyenhanced grammar, punctuation and style checking, up to 150,000 characters a text field, unlimited AI sentence paraphrasing, a style guide and the browser add-on
Teams$11.07/moeverything in Premium plus user management, a team style guide and a team dictionary. Every price on the page includes VAT
Open LanguageTool Pricing and company Prices checked 4 September 2026

Leonardo.ai

By CanvaSydney, Australia2 products across 2 categories

Built for this. Fine-grained control over style and consistency across a set, with a generous daily free allowance to work through.

Free plan
Yes
150 fast tokens a day
Month to month
$12/mo
Essential
Billed yearly
$10/mo
Essential plan −17%

Watch out: Owned by Canva since July 2024, so its future is tied to a design suite rather than to itself. Its pricing page refused automated reading three times.

All plans (6)
PlanPriceWhat you get
Free$0Free plan, 150 fast tokens a day
Essential$12/mo · $10/mo yearly8,500 fast tokens a month
Premium$30/mo · $24/mo yearly25,000 fast tokens a month
Ultimate$60/mo · $48/mo yearly60,000 fast tokens a month
Team Starter$24/mo25,000 fast tokens a seat plus 75,000 shared
Team Growth$48/mo60,000 fast tokens a seat plus 180,000 shared. Custom team plans and an API tier are priced separately
Open Leonardo.ai Pricing and company Prices checked 4 September 2026

Lex

By LexSyracuse, United States1 product across 1 category

Built for this. A word processor that happens to have AI in it, so the writing surface comes first and the suggestions stay out of the way until asked.

Free plan
Yes
Free tier available
Month to month
$24.99/mo
Lex Pro
Billed yearly
$14.99/mo
$179.88 a year, Lex Pro plan −40%

Watch out: Fewer features than a dedicated editing tool, by choice. There is one paid tier, and the $30 of AI credits it includes each month is worth more than the subscription at either billing term, so what you are buying is model access more than software.

All plans (2)
PlanPriceWhat you get
Free$0Free tier available
Lex Pro$24.99/mo · $14.99/mo yearlypremium AI models including GPT-5 and Claude 4.1 Opus, $30 of AI credits included every month, much higher usage limits, priority support, early access to new features and a money-back guarantee. The annual plan opens on a trial where the monthly one subscribes straight away
Open Lex Pricing and company Prices checked 4 September 2026

Lovable

By LovableStockholm, Sweden1 product across 1 category

Built for this. Built for people who cannot code. Describe an app in plain language and get something deployed.

Free plan
Yes
A few credits daily
Month to month
$25/mo
Pro
Billed yearly
$21/mo
Pro plan −16%

Watch out: Fine for prototypes and internal tools. Anything you run as a business needs a developer to review it, especially the security.

All plans (4)
PlanPriceWhat you get
Free$0Free tier, a few credits daily
Pro$25/mo · $21/mo yearly
Business$50/mo · $42/mo yearly
EnterpriseCustom
Open Lovable Pricing and company Prices checked 4 September 2026

MagicSchool AI

By MagicSchoolDenver, United States1 product across 1 category

Built for this. Dozens of narrow tools for the jobs teaching actually involves — lesson plans, rubrics, differentiated texts, parent emails — instead of one blank prompt box.

Free plan
Yes
Forever free plan for individual teachers, with 80+ teacher tools
Month to month
$12.99/mo
Plus
Billed yearly
$8.33/mo
$99.96 a year, Plus plan −36%

Watch out: Output still needs a teacher to check it against the curriculum being taught. Free tier is generous but capped.

All plans (3)
PlanPriceWhat you get
Free$0Forever free plan for individual teachers, with 80+ teacher tools
Plus$12.99/mo · $8.33/mo yearlyunlimited generations, every MagicSchool tool, past work and previews, free trial
EnterpriseCustoma custom data privacy agreement, oversight and admin controls
Open MagicSchool AI Pricing and company Prices checked 4 September 2026

Magnific

By MagnificMalaga, Spain1 product across 1 category

Built for this. The upscaler that adds detail rather than smoothing it, and the one people use on a render that is right but too small.

Free plan
Yes
Free tier with a small daily credit allowance, which upscaling exhausts quickly
Month to month
$20/mo
Premium
Billed yearly
$14.50/mo
Premium plan −28%

Watch out: Adding detail means inventing it, so faces and text change. One subscription now covers generation and upscaling from a shared credit balance that upscaling drains fast.

All plans (6)
PlanPriceWhat you get
Free$0Free tier with a small daily credit allowance, which upscaling exhausts quickly
Premium$20/mo · $14.50/mo yearly20,000 credits a month (240,000 a year with rollover on annual), about 133 images or 21 videos a month, Spaces and 250M stock assets
Premium+$45/mo · $33.75/mo yearlyunlimited generations, 45,000 credits a month (600,000 a year on annual), about 300 images or 47 videos a month
Pro$110/mo · $82.50/mo yearly112,500 credits a month (1.5M a year on annual), with a 300,000-credit option that adds Nano Banana Pro
Business$69/mo · $55/mo yearly90,000 credits a month shared across the team (1.08M a year on annual), no training on your data
EnterpriseCustomunlimited users, custom credits, advanced controls
Open Magnific Pricing and company Prices checked 4 September 2026

Notion

By NotionSan Francisco, United States2 products across 2 categories

Built for this. Notes, tasks and documents in one workspace with AI that has the surrounding context rather than a blank slate.

Free plan
Yes
Free for individuals; a trial of Notion AI, basic forms and sites, Notion Calendar and databases
Month to month
$12/mo
Plus
Billed yearly
$10/mo
Plus plan −17%

Watch out: Only as good as how organised your workspace already is. It will not fix a mess for you.

All plans (4)
PlanPriceWhat you get
Free$0Free for individuals; a trial of Notion AI, basic forms and sites, Notion Calendar and databases
Plus$12/mo · $10/mo yearlycustom forms and sites, unlimited charts and collaborative blocks, a trial of Notion AI
Business$24/mo · $20/mo yearlyNotion Agent, AI meeting notes and enterprise search, so AI is included rather than an add-on
EnterpriseCustomzero data retention with LLM providers, SCIM provisioning, advanced security and an audit log
Open Notion Pricing and company Prices checked 4 September 2026

OpenEvidence

By OpenEvidenceCambridge, United States1 product across 1 category

Built for this. Built for clinical literature. Answers cite primary medical research, and it is free for verified clinicians.

Free plan
Yes
Free for verified clinicians, ad-supported
Month to month
None
Nothing to pay — there is no paid tier
Billed yearly
—
No paid tier to buy

Watch out: Medicine only, and access is gated behind clinician verification. No use for a history or engineering student.

Open OpenEvidence Pricing and company Prices checked 4 September 2026

Opus Clip

By Opus ClipSanta Monica, United States1 product across 1 category

Built for this. Takes a long video and cuts vertical clips from it, picking moments and adding captions automatically.

Free plan
Yes
Free forever plan with 60 credits a month, 1080p clips with a watermark, no editing, and clips
Month to month
$29/mo
Pro
Billed yearly
$14.50/mo
$174 a year, Pro plan −50%

Watch out: Its idea of a good moment is not always yours, and the caption timing needs a pass.

All plans (4)
PlanPriceWhat you get
Free$0Free forever plan with 60 credits a month, 1080p clips with a watermark, no editing, and clips that stop being exportable after three days
Starter$15/mo150 credits a month, AI clipping, captions in 20+ languages, auto-posting, one brand template
Pro$29/mo · $14.50/mo yearly300 credits a month (3,600 a year on annual), two-seat team workspace, AI B-roll, scheduler, limited API access; extra credit packs sold on top
BusinessCustompriority processing, custom credits and seats, API and integrations, dedicated storage
Open Opus Clip Pricing and company Prices checked 4 September 2026

Otter.ai

By Otter.aiMountain View, United States1 product across 2 categories

Built for this. Joins meetings, transcribes them, and produces summaries and action items without anyone taking notes.

Free plan
Yes
3 lifetime file imports
Month to month
$16.99/mo
Pro
Billed yearly
$8.33/mo
Pro plan −51%

Watch out: Recording-consent rules vary by jurisdiction. Say it is running before it runs.

All plans (4)
PlanPriceWhat you get
Free$0Basic plan, free; Zoom, Teams and Meet, AI chat across meetings, live transcription, speaker identification, 3 lifetime file imports
Pro$16.99/mo · $8.33/mo yearly1,200 in-app recording minutes, advanced AI workflows, 10 file imports a month
Business$30/mo · $19.99/mo yearlyunlimited meetings and recordings, custom AI workflows, unlimited file imports
EnterpriseCustomunlimited custom workflows, Otter Sales Notetaker, CRM and dialler integrations
Open Otter.ai Pricing and company Prices checked 4 September 2026

Perplexity

By PerplexitySan Francisco, United States1 product across 3 categories

Built for this. Purpose-built for cited web answers. Every claim carries a numbered link, and Comet extends it across normal browsing.

Free plan
Yes
Free tier with citations in every answer, basic AI models and limited daily use
Month to month
$20/mo
Pro
Billed yearly
—
No yearly price published

Watch out: A citation proves a source was consulted, not that it supports the sentence attached to it. Click through on anything that matters.

All plans (6)
PlanPriceWhat you get
Free$0Free tier with citations in every answer, basic AI models and limited daily use
Pro$20/modeep research, top AI models, expanded Computer access, 4,000 bonus credits
Max$200/moexpert-level research, frontier models, 35,000 bonus credits and 10,000 monthly credits
Enterprise Pro$34/mo yearlyno training on your data, SSO, SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA and GDPR compliance, 500 Computer credits a seat
Enterprise Max$271/mo yearlythe most advanced reasoning models, 15,000 Computer credits a seat, SCIM and audit logs
Additional security and governanceCustomrole-based access control, custom retention, volume discounts
Open Perplexity Pricing and company Prices checked 4 September 2026

Poe

By QuoraMountain View, United States1 product across 1 category

Built for this. One subscription across most of the major models, so you can put the same question to several and compare rather than committing to one lab.

Free plan
Yes
Free tier with a daily points allowance
Month to month
$4.99/mo
Subscription
Billed yearly
—
No yearly price published

Watch out: Points, not messages, and different models burn them at wildly different rates. Heavy use of a frontier model empties an allowance faster than the plan name suggests.

All plans (2)
PlanPriceWhat you get
Free$0Free tier with a daily points allowance
Subscription$4.99/moannual billing is ten times the monthly rate, from $49.99 to $2,499.99 a year
Open Poe Pricing and company Prices checked 4 September 2026

ProWritingAid

By ProWritingAidLondon, United Kingdom1 product across 1 category

Built for this. Built for manuscripts rather than emails: pacing, repetition, dialogue tags and the reports a novelist actually wants. Sells a lifetime licence.

Free plan
Yes
Free tier with a word limit, plus Story Canvas and 2 runs of the line editing report a day
Month to month
$30/mo
Premium
Billed yearly
$10/mo
$120 a year, Premium plan −67%

Watch out: The volume of suggestions is overwhelming until you turn most of them off. There are three ways to pay — monthly, yearly, or a one-off lifetime licence — and the yearly rates the page shows are sale prices rather than the standing ones.

All plans (3)
PlanPriceWhat you get
Free$0Free tier with a word limit, plus Story Canvas and 2 runs of the line editing report a day
Premium$30/mo · $10/mo yearlyeverything in the free tier plus unlimited runs of the line editing report. A Storyteller Sale running as this was checked cut the yearly rate 25 per cent to $7.50 a month, or $90 for the year
Premium Pro$36/mo · $12/mo yearlyeverything in Premium plus 30 chapter critiques a day. The same sale cut its yearly rate to $9 a month, or $108 for the year. Yearly and lifetime both carry a 3-day money-back guarantee, and the sale applies to yearly plans only
Open ProWritingAid Pricing and company Prices checked 4 September 2026

QuillBot

By LearneoRedwood City, United States2 products across 1 category

Built for this. The paraphraser most students actually use, with modes that change how far it moves from your original rather than one setting.

Free plan
Yes
Paraphrasing up to 125 words at a time in 2 modes, basic grammar fixes, humanizing up to 125
Month to month
$19.95/mo
Premium
Billed yearly
$8.33/mo
Premium plan −58%

Watch out: Rewriting someone else’s sentence is still their sentence, and universities treat it that way. The free tier caps paraphrasing at 125 words at a time, and paying month to month costs about two and a half times the annual rate.

All plans (3)
PlanPriceWhat you get
Free$0Free tier: paraphrasing up to 125 words at a time in 2 modes, basic grammar fixes, humanizing up to 125 words for 6 uses a day, basic summaries, and limited access to the AI detector
Premium$19.95/mo · $8.33/mo yearlyfull access to paraphrasing in unlimited modes, advanced grammar recommendations, full humanizing, custom summaries and full access to the AI detector
Team Planno price published on the plan cards, sold through a separate pageeverything in Premium plus team usage metrics, a user management dashboard, centralised billing, data control, and priority assistance with account management support
Open QuillBot Pricing and company Prices checked 4 September 2026

Riverside

By RiversideNew York, United States1 product across 2 categories

Built for this. Records remote interviews at full quality on each end rather than over the call, then edits by transcript.

Free plan
Yes
Free plan with limited hours, and a 14-day trial of the paid plans
Month to month
$35/mo
Pro
Billed yearly
$24/mo
Pro plan −31%

Watch out: Local recording needs everyone to stay on the page until the upload finishes. Free tier is capped tightly.

All plans (5)
PlanPriceWhat you get
Free$0Free plan with limited hours, and a 14-day trial of the paid plans
Pro$35/mo · $24/mo yearlyup to 4K video, 48kHz audio, no watermark, teleprompter, multi-cam recording, AI editing
Grow$45/mo · $34/mo yearlyadds social scheduling, newsletter, creator website, podcast hosting for two shows, video hosting
Webinar$99/mo · $79/mo yearlywebinars for up to 100 registrants, pre-recorded streams, recurring webinars, unlimited sessions
BusinessCustomunlimited studios and separate track downloads, up to 10,000 webinar registrants, unlimited storage, custom branding
Open Riverside Pricing and company Prices checked 4 September 2026

Runway

By RunwayNew York, United States1 product across 1 category

Built for this. The longest-running video lab, with editing tools around the generation rather than just a prompt box.

Free plan
Yes
Free forever plan with 125 one-time credits, a selection of models to test and 5GB storage
Month to month
$15/mo
Standard
Billed yearly
$12/mo
Standard plan −20%

Watch out: Credit-based pricing burns fast when iterating. Free tier is for evaluation, not production.

All plans (6)
PlanPriceWhat you get
Free$0Free forever plan with 125 one-time credits, a selection of models to test and 5GB storage
Standard$15/mo · $12/mo yearly625 credits a month, all video and image models, 5 parallel generations, 3 projects, no watermarks, 4K upscaling, 20GB storage
Pro$35/mo · $28/mo yearly2,250 credits a month, 15 parallel generations, 5 projects, a Brand Kit, a custom voice clone, unlimited 4K video upscaling, 100GB storage
Max$95/mo · $76/mo yearly9,500 credits a month that roll over a month, 20 parallel generations, 10 projects, early access to new models, studio-grade output
Team$69/mo · $55/mo yearly165,600 credits a year shared across the team, 100 shared projects, 24 parallel generations
EnterpriseCustomunlimited members and projects, custom credits, security and admin controls. An API tier is priced separately
Open Runway Pricing and company Prices checked 4 September 2026

Scalenut

By ScalenutGurugram, India1 product across 1 category

Built for this. Takes a keyword through research, outline and draft in one pass, at a price well below the American SEO suites.

Free plan
Yes
Free version with a monthly allowance, plus a seven-day trial of the paid plans
Month to month
$59/mo
Starter
Billed yearly
$24/mo
Starter plan −59%

Watch out: The SEO data underneath is thinner than the dedicated tools. It optimises toward what already ranks, which is a floor rather than a ceiling.

All plans (5)
PlanPriceWhat you get
Free$0Free version with a monthly allowance, plus a seven-day trial of the paid plans
Starter$59/mo · $24/mo yearly10 tracked prompts, one workspace, 5 GEO articles a month
Plus$89/mo25 tracked prompts, two workspaces, 30 articles a month
Professional$199/mo100 tracked prompts, unlimited workspaces, 75 articles a month, adds Perplexity tracking
VIP ServiceCustomdedicated GEO experts, content development, backlinks, monthly technical audits and defined SLAs
Open Scalenut Pricing and company Prices checked 4 September 2026

Semrush

By SemrushBoston, United States1 product across 1 category

Built for this. Real search data underneath the AI, so a keyword volume or a ranking is something you can check rather than something a model guessed.

Free plan
Yes
Free account, capped at around ten results per report and ten reports a day
Month to month
$139.95/mo
SEO
Billed yearly
$117.33/mo
SEO plan −16%

Watch out: The free account is heavily capped — around ten results a report and ten reports a day — which is enough to evaluate and not to work.

All plans (5)
PlanPriceWhat you get
Free$0Free account, capped at around ten results per report and ten reports a day
SEO$139.95/mo · $117.33/mo yearly5 websites, 500 keywords tracked daily, position tracking and site audit, without AI search tracking
Starter$199/mo · $165.17/mo yearlyadds AI visibility with 50 prompts tracked daily, 300 AI visibility reports a day and MCP access
Pro+$299/mo · $248.17/mo yearly15 websites, 1,500 keywords, historical data, content optimization, 100 prompts tracked daily
Advanced$549/mo · $455.67/mo yearly40 websites, API data integration and deeper insights for larger teams. Custom plans on request
Open Semrush Pricing and company Prices checked 4 September 2026

Synthesia

By SynthesiaLondon, United Kingdom1 product across 1 category

Built for this. Avatar-presented video from a script, in dozens of languages. Built for training and internal comms at scale.

Free plan
Yes
200 credits a month for up to 10 minutes of video and 25 AI-generated assets
Month to month
$19/mo
Starter
Billed yearly
$14/mo
Starter plan −26%

Watch out: Unmistakably synthetic presenters. Fine for compliance training, wrong for brand storytelling.

All plans (4)
PlanPriceWhat you get
Free$0Basic plan, free with no card; 1,200 credits a month for up to 10 minutes of video and 25 AI-generated assets
Starter$19/mo · $14/mo yearlyvideo downloads, AI Video Assistant, AI dubbing
Creator$89/mo · $59/mo yearly5 personal avatars, branded video pages
EnterpriseCustomunlimited video minutes, one-click translation into 80+ languages, 240+ stock avatars
Open Synthesia Pricing and company Prices checked 4 September 2026

Wordtune

By AI21 LabsTel Aviv, Israel1 product across 1 category

Built for this. Offers several rewrites of a sentence at once and lets you pick, which is a better fit for how editing actually works than a single suggestion.

Free plan
Yes
Free Basic plan: 10 rewrites and AI suggestions a day plus AI generations, 3 AI summarisations
Month to month
$13.99/mo
Advanced
Billed yearly
$6.99/mo
Advanced plan −50%

Watch out: Sentence-level by design, so it will not fix a paragraph that is structured wrong. The free tier runs to 10 rewrites a day and 3 AI summaries a month, and even the middle plan is capped at 30 rewrites a day — only the top plan is actually unlimited, which is what its name is doing.

All plans (3)
PlanPriceWhat you get
Free$0Free Basic plan: 10 rewrites and AI suggestions a day plus AI generations, 3 AI summarisations a month, and unlimited spelling corrections and grammar checks
Advanced$13.99/mo · $6.99/mo yearly30 rewrites and AI suggestions a day, 15 AI summarisations a month, and unlimited AI recommendations, spelling corrections and grammar checks
Unlimited$19.99/mo · $9.99/mo yearlyunlimited rewrites, AI suggestions and summarisations, with vocabulary enhancements, clarity improvements, fluency increases and premium support. Both paid plans open on a 3-day free trial, and annual billing is exactly half the monthly rate on each
Open Wordtune Pricing and company Prices checked 4 September 2026

You.com

By You.comPalo Alto, United States1 product across 2 categories

Built for this. Answers a question from one live search pass and lists the pages it used beside the answer, so a claim can be checked without leaving it.

Free plan
Yes
Free tier of 100 web search queries a day, no API key required
Month to month
None
Not published
Billed yearly
—
No yearly price published

Watch out: The company has moved toward developers: the pricing page now sells APIs by the thousand calls, and the consumer assistant has changed shape several times while that happened. Good for checking a fact, less safe to build a habit on.

All plans (6)
PlanPriceWhat you get
Free$0Free tier of 100 web search queries a day, no API key required
Web Search API$5 per 1,000 calls, 1 to 100 results a call, news included$100 free credit
Contents API$1 per 1,000 pages extracted as Markdown or HTML, several URLs a request$100 free credit
Answer API$5 per 1,000 calls for a cited, synthesised answer$100 free credit
Research APIfrom $12 per 1,000 calls on Lite, rising through Standard, Deep, Exhaustive and Frontier tiers$100 free credit
Finance Research APIfrom $110 per 1,000 calls on Deep, with an Exhaustive tier above$100 free credit
Open You.com Pricing and company Prices checked 4 September 2026

Zapier

By ZapierRemote, United States1 product across 1 category

Built for this. Connects thousands of apps and now runs agents across them. The integration count is the moat — an agent is only as useful as what it can touch.

Free plan
Yes
Free forever plan, 100 tasks a month; unlimited Zap workflows, Tables and Forms, two-step Zaps
Month to month
$29.99/mo
Professional
Billed yearly
$19.99/mo
Professional plan −33%

Watch out: Free tier caps task volume quickly. Debugging a broken multi-step automation is genuinely tedious.

All plans (4)
PlanPriceWhat you get
Free$0Free forever plan, 100 tasks a month; unlimited Zap workflows, Tables and Forms, two-step Zaps and Zapier Copilot
Professional$29.99/mo · $19.99/mo yearlymulti-step Zaps, unlimited premium apps, webhooks, AI fields, conditional form logic
Team$103.50/mo · $69/mo yearly25 users, shared workflows and app connections, SAML SSO, priority support
EnterpriseCustomunlimited users, advanced admin and app controls, annual task limits, observability, a technical account manager. Every paid tier is priced from a task volume you choose, so the price rises with the tasks
Open Zapier Pricing and company Prices checked 4 September 2026

Amazon Q

By AmazonSeattle, United States2 products across 1 category

Strong fit. The assistant that already has your AWS account in context, which makes it the practical choice for questions about infrastructure you actually run.

Free plan
Yes
Amazon Q Developer free tier with limited agentic requests a month, the latest Claude models
Month to month
$19/mo
Amazon Q Developer Pro
Billed yearly
—
No yearly price published

Watch out: Sold and billed through AWS on top of your cloud bill. Q Developer Pro is $19 a user a month; Q Business is a separate product at $3 (Lite) or $20 (Pro) a user a month, with a 60-day trial for up to 50 users.

All plans (4)
PlanPriceWhat you get
Free$0Amazon Q Developer free tier with limited agentic requests a month, the latest Claude models, and use in the IDE or CLI
Amazon Q Developer Pro$19/mo
Amazon Q Business Lite$3/mo60-day free trial for up to 50 users per application
Amazon Q Business Pro$20/mo60-day free trial for up to 50 users per application
Open Amazon Q Pricing and company Prices checked 4 September 2026

Anyword

By AnywordNew York, United States1 product across 1 category

Strong fit. Scores a draft against predicted performance for a specific audience rather than only generating it, which gives you something to compare.

Free plan
Yes
Free tier for light use, plus a seven-day trial of the paid plans
Month to month
$49/mo
Starter
Billed yearly
$39/mo
Starter plan −20%

Watch out: The prediction is a model, not a result, and it is trained on other people’s campaigns rather than yours.

All plans (5)
PlanPriceWhat you get
Free$0Free tier for light use, plus a seven-day trial of the paid plans
Starter$49/mo · $39/mo yearlyfor solo marketers and freelancers, with on-brand content backed by Anyword performance data
Data-Driven$99/mo · $79/mo yearlyeverything in Starter for marketing teams
BusinessCustomAI trained on your most successful past messages and campaigns
EnterpriseCustomcustom-built AI tailored to your brand with enterprise-grade security, privacy and control
Open Anyword Pricing and company Prices checked 4 September 2026

Apollo

By Apollo.ioSan Francisco, United States1 product across 1 category

Strong fit. Contact data, sequences and call recording in one place, so research and outreach do not live in separate tools.

Free plan
Yes
Free plan with 75 credits per seat per month
Month to month
$65/mo
Basic
Billed yearly
$49/mo
Basic plan −25%

Watch out: Contact data is never as accurate as the counter suggests, and the AI writes on top of whatever it found. Every plan is metered in credits, so what you pay tracks how much you export rather than how many people log in.

All plans (4)
PlanPriceWhat you get
Free$0Free plan with 75 credits per seat per month
Basic$65/mo · $49/mo yearly
Professional$99/mo · $79/mo yearly
Organization$119/mo yearly
Open Apollo Pricing and company Prices checked 4 September 2026

AskYourPDF

By ProtonLabs TechnologyBirmingham, United Kingdom1 product across 1 category

Strong fit. Straightforward document chat with citation back to the page, and it handles long PDFs without the usual truncation.

Free plan
Yes
Free, but tightly capped: 1 document a day, 100 pages per document and a 15MB upload limit
Month to month
$14.99/mo
Premium
Billed yearly
$11.99/mo
Premium plan −20%

Watch out: A thin layer over a general model, so it inherits that model’s habits. Little here that a general assistant with file upload does not also do.

All plans (4)
PlanPriceWhat you get
Free$0Free, but tightly capped: 1 document a day, 100 pages per document and a 15MB upload limit
Premium$14.99/mo · $11.99/mo yearly50 documents a day, 2,500 pages per document and a 31MB upload limit
Pro$19.99/mo · $14.99/mo yearly150 documents a day, 6,000 pages per document and an 877MB upload limit
EnterpriseCustom1,000 documents a day, unlimited pages per document and a 1,431MB upload limit
Open AskYourPDF Pricing and company Prices checked 4 September 2026

Buffer

By BufferSan Francisco, United States1 product across 1 category

Strong fit. The simplest scheduler that still works properly, and one of the last in this category with a genuine free plan rather than a trial.

Free plan
Yes
Free forever plan for up to 3 channels, with 10 scheduled posts a channel, 100 ideas, the AI
Month to month
$6/mo
Essentials
Billed yearly
$5/mo
$60 a year, Essentials plan −17%

Watch out: Deliberately light on analytics and approvals compared with the agency tools. The free plan covers three channels.

All plans (3)
PlanPriceWhat you get
Free$0Free forever plan for up to 3 channels, with 10 scheduled posts a channel, 100 ideas, the AI Assistant, insights and API access
Essentials$6/mo · $5/mo yearlyunlimited scheduled posts and ideas, advanced analytics, 3 API keys, 14-day trial
Team$12/mo · $10/mo yearlyunlimited team members, 5 API keys, 14-day trial. Both plans are priced per channel, so the price rises with the channels you connect
Open Buffer Pricing and company Prices checked 4 September 2026

ChatGPT deep research

By OpenAISan Francisco, United States3 products across 8 categories

Strong fit. Long autonomous research runs that produce a cited write-up. Useful for scoping a topic before you commit to reading.

Free plan
Yes
A small number of deep research runs on the free ChatGPT tier
Month to month
$20/mo
ChatGPT Plus
Billed yearly
—
No yearly price published

Watch out: Web-first rather than database-first. Verify every citation before it enters a bibliography.

All plans (4)
PlanPriceWhat you get
Free$0A small number of deep research runs on the free ChatGPT tier
ChatGPT Plus$20/mofar more deep research runs, advanced models and Codex. Deep research is part of the ChatGPT plans, not sold separately
ChatGPT Pro$100/mo
ChatGPT Business$25/mo · $20/mo yearly$100 or $125 for a premium seat with 5x the usage
Open ChatGPT deep research Pricing and company Prices checked 4 September 2026

ChatGPT image generation

By OpenAISan Francisco, United States3 products across 8 categories

Strong fit. Best for iterating conversationally — describe a change in words rather than re-prompting from scratch.

Free plan
Yes
Included in the free ChatGPT tier with limited image creation
Month to month
$20/mo
ChatGPT Plus
Billed yearly
—
No yearly price published

Watch out: Free tier generation limits are tight, and the free tier is ad supported. There is no separate image plan: you pay for ChatGPT Plus or a Business seat.

All plans (3)
PlanPriceWhat you get
Free$0Included in the free ChatGPT tier with limited image creation
ChatGPT Plus$20/mohigher quality image creation is part of the plan, not sold separately
ChatGPT Business$25/mo · $20/mo yearly$100 or $125 for a premium seat with 5x the usage
Open ChatGPT image generation Pricing and company Prices checked 4 September 2026

Clay

By ClayNew York, United States1 product across 1 category

Strong fit. A spreadsheet where each row can call data providers and models, which makes research that used to take a week into an afternoon.

Free plan
Yes
Free plan with no strings attached: 500 actions and 100 data credits a month, unlimited seats
Month to month
$185/mo
Launch
Billed yearly
$167/mo
Launch plan −10%

Watch out: Credits, not seats, so the bill tracks how much you run rather than how many people use it. The paid rates are starting points that the action and data-credit selectors push upward.

All plans (4)
PlanPriceWhat you get
Free$0Free plan with no strings attached: 500 actions and 100 data credits a month, unlimited seats and tables, up to 200 rows a table, multi-provider waterfalls, Claygent enrichment and your own API keys
Launch$185/mo · $167/mo yearlystarts at 15,000 actions and 2,500 data credits a month, adding phone enrichment, unlimited search with Audiences, job-change and other signals, reusable functions across workflows and sending through Clay or an integration
Growth$495/mo · $446/mo yearlystarts at 40,000 actions and 6,000 data credits a month, adding CRM and data-warehouse sync, a 250,000-record audience import, the HTTP API, webhooks off any signal, web intent signals and priority support
EnterpriseCustomadds unlimited search and imports, single sign-on, role-based access control and a dedicated growth strategist. Both paid tiers carry action and data-credit selectors that raise the price above the starting rate, so those figures are floors rather than fixed prices
Open Clay Pricing and company Prices checked 4 September 2026

ClickUp

By ClickUpSan Diego, United States1 product across 1 category

Strong fit. Docs, tasks, chat and whiteboards under one AI that can see all of them, which is a genuine advantage over four separate tools.

Free plan
Yes
Free Forever plan, capped on storage rather than on time: 60MB, with unlimited tasks and
Month to month
$10/mo
Unlimited
Billed yearly
$7/mo
Unlimited plan −30%

Watch out: The breadth is also the complaint — it is a lot of product to configure before it helps. The free plan is real but holds 60MB, so it is storage that runs out rather than time or seats.

All plans (4)
PlanPriceWhat you get
Free$0Free Forever plan, capped on storage rather than on time: 60MB, with unlimited tasks and unlimited members, collaborative docs, Kanban boards, sprint management, calendar view, two-factor authentication and 24/7 support
Unlimited$10/mo · $7/mo yearlyunlimited storage, integrations, Gantt charts, custom fields and spaces, plus native time tracking, goals and portfolio management, resource management, guests with permission control and ClickUp Chat
Business$19/mo · $12/mo yearlyunlimited dashboards, message history, activity and timeline views, webhooks and automation integrations, 5,000 automations a month, mind mapping, private whiteboards and custom exporting
EnterpriseCustomenterprise permissions and governance, unlimited custom roles, SAML SSO and SCIM provisioning, an audit log, session management, the enterprise API, 250,000 automations a month, custom branding, and MSA and HIPAA available. Brain, the AI layer, is a separate product in the navigation and does not appear on these plan cards
Open ClickUp Pricing and company Prices checked 4 September 2026

Clipdrop

By JasperAustin, United States2 products across 2 categories

Strong fit. A set of single-purpose tools — background removal, cleanup, relighting — that each do one job without a prompt.

Free plan
Yes
Free tier; background removal and 2x upscaling at 20 a day, no text to image or uncrop
Month to month
$15/mo
Pro
Billed yearly
—
No yearly price published

Watch out: Owned by Jasper since 2024 and no longer the flagship it was under its previous owner. It sells one Pro plan plus a usage-priced API.

All plans (2)
PlanPriceWhat you get
Free$0Free tier; background removal and 2x upscaling at 20 a day, no text to image or uncrop
Pro$15/motext to image, uncrop, high-resolution background removal and 16x upscaling at 1,000 a day each, with queue skipping. An API is priced on usage
Open Clipdrop Pricing and company Prices checked 4 September 2026

Copy.ai

By Copy.aiMemphis, United States1 product across 1 category

Strong fit. Runs repeatable marketing and sales workflows rather than one-off prompts — briefs, sequences, competitor summaries.

Free plan
Yes
Free plan available
Month to month
$29/mo
Chat
Billed yearly
$24/mo
$288 a year, Chat plan −17%

Watch out: The ladder jumps steeply once you need more than one seat. Output needs an editor before it is publishable.

All plans (3)
PlanPriceWhat you get
Free$0Free plan available
Chat$29/mo · $24/mo yearly5 seats, unlimited words and chat projects, access to OpenAI, Anthropic and Gemini models
EnterpriseCustomthe self-serve page carries only the Chat plan
Open Copy.ai Pricing and company Prices checked 4 September 2026

Figma AI

By FigmaSan Francisco, United States1 product across 1 category

Strong fit. Aimed at interface work rather than pictures — component layouts, design systems, editable layered output.

Free plan
Yes
150 AI credits a day up to 500 a month
Month to month
$5/mo
Professional collab seat
Billed yearly
$3/mo
Professional collab seat plan −40%

Watch out: Built for product teams. Print and brand identity work fits awkwardly, and per-seat pricing scales fast.

All plans (6)
PlanPriceWhat you get
Free$0Starter plan, free; limited access, unlimited drafts, 150 AI credits a day up to 500 a month
Professional full seat$20/mo · $16/mo yearlyevery Figma product and 3,000 AI credits a month
Professional dev seat$15/mo · $12/mo yearlyDev Mode, FigJam, Slides and Buzz with 500 AI credits a month
Professional collab seat$5/mo · $3/mo yearlyFigJam, Slides and Buzz with 500 AI credits a month
Organization$5/mo yearly3,500 AI credits on a full seat
Enterprise$5/mo yearly4,250 AI credits on a full seat. AI is included in every seat rather than sold separately
Open Figma AI Pricing and company Prices checked 4 September 2026

Fireflies.ai

By Fireflies.aiSan Francisco, United States1 product across 1 category

Strong fit. Records, transcribes and searches meetings, then pushes the summary into a CRM or a channel. Useful when the record of a call matters more than the call.

Free plan
Yes
Free forever plan: unlimited transcription
Month to month
$18/mo
Pro
Billed yearly
$10/mo
Pro plan −44%

Watch out: Recording colleagues and customers has consent rules that vary by country and state. Settle that before switching it on across a team.

All plans (4)
PlanPriceWhat you get
Free$0Free forever plan: unlimited transcription, though the page marks that with an asterisk, plus limited AI summaries, 400 minutes of storage for the whole team and 20 AI credits, across Zoom, Google Meet, Teams and others in more than 100 languages
Pro$18/mo · $10/mo yearlyunlimited transcription and AI summaries, 8,000 minutes of storage a seat, 20 AI credits, video recording, downloadable transcripts and recordings, and the personal and email assistants
Business$29/mo · $19/mo yearlyunlimited storage, 30 AI credits, multi-language mode, conversation intelligence, team analytics for admins and public meeting access
Enterprise$39/mounlimited storage, 50 AI credits, a rules engine, SSO and SCIM, audit logs through the API and HIPAA compliance. AI credits are what separate the tiers as much as storage does, and Pro carries the same 20 credits as the free plan
Open Fireflies.ai Pricing and company Prices checked 4 September 2026

Gemini in Workspace

By Google DeepMindLondon, United Kingdom6 products across 6 categories

Strong fit. Drafts directly in Gmail and Docs with your existing files as context. No copy-pasting between tools.

Free plan
Yes
Gemini is available in the free consumer tier, but not inside Gmail and Docs on a personal
Month to month
$19.99/mo
Google AI Pro
Billed yearly
$16.67/mo
$199.99 a year, Google AI Pro plan −17%

Watch out: Best features are tied to a paid Workspace plan rather than the free consumer tier. There is no separate price: it comes with a Workspace subscription.

All plans (4)
PlanPriceWhat you get
Free$0Gemini is available in the free consumer tier, but not inside Gmail and Docs on a personal account
Workspace with Gemini$14/moGemini in Gmail, Docs and the rest of Workspace with your files as context. Gemini in Workspace comes with a Workspace subscription, not as a separate purchase
Google AI Pro$19.99/mothe consumer plan that raises Gemini limits outside Workspace
Google AI Ultra$99.99/mothe highest consumer limits
Open Gemini in Workspace Pricing and company Prices checked 4 September 2026

Ginger

By Ginger SoftwareTel Aviv, Israel1 product across 1 category

Strong fit. A long-running grammar checker that works across desktop and mobile keyboards, with translation and a rephraser included.

Free plan
Yes
Free tier with a daily correction allowance
Month to month
$13/mo
Ginger Premium
Billed yearly
$7.50/mo
Ginger Premium plan −42%

Watch out: Has moved more slowly than the newer entrants and publishes no pricing page that survives an automated check — the plans live on an upgrade page rather than a pricing one. The prices it shows there are a 50 per cent promotion, so the standing rates are twice what the page leads with.

All plans (3)
PlanPriceWhat you get
Free$0Free tier with a daily correction allowance
Ginger Premium$13/mo · $7.50/mo yearly
Students and teachers70 per cent off, subject to an eligibility check. Every interval carries a 7-day money-back guarantee and can be cancelled at any time
Open Ginger Pricing and company Prices checked 4 September 2026

Grok

By xAIPalo Alto, United States2 products across 2 categories

Strong fit. Real-time access to X posts, which no other assistant has.

Free plan
Yes
Free tier with limits
Month to month
$10/mo
SuperGrok Lite
Billed yearly
$8.33/mo
$100 a year, SuperGrok Lite plan −17%

Watch out: Thinner enterprise and privacy controls. Less suited to sensitive material.

All plans (7)
PlanPriceWhat you get
Free$0Free tier with limits
SuperGrok Lite$10/mo · $8.33/mo yearlybasic access, 2x longer chats, Expert mode
SuperGrok$30/mo · $25/mo yearly5x longer chats, Grok Bot, 720p video, faster replies
SuperGrok Plus$100/mo · $83.33/mo yearly1080p video and much higher usage
SuperGrok Heavy$300/mo · $250/mo yearlyhighest usage plus X Premium+ at no extra cost
SuperGrok Business$30/mo · $25/mo yearlyteam management, central billing, excluded from training
SuperGrok EnterpriseCustomSSO, SCIM, custom retention and role-based access
Open Grok Pricing and company Prices checked 4 September 2026

HubSpot

By HubSpotCambridge, United States1 product across 2 categories

Strong fit. The free CRM is genuinely usable rather than a demo, and the AI reaches across contacts, email and content once you pay.

Free plan
Yes
Free plan at $0/month for up to 2 users, free indefinitely rather than a trial and no card
Month to month
$10/mo
Marketing Hub Starter
Billed yearly
$7/mo
Marketing Hub Starter plan −30%

Watch out: The free tier is the on-ramp and the jump to paid is steep. The listed prices cover Marketing Hub; the Sales, Service, Content and Data hubs are each priced separately.

All plans (4)
PlanPriceWhat you get
Free$0Free plan at $0/month for up to 2 users, free indefinitely rather than a trial and no card required
Marketing Hub Starter$10/mo · $7/mo yearly1,000 marketing contacts, 500 HubSpot credits, and the free tools with their limits raised and HubSpot branding removed
Marketing Hub Professional$890/mo · $800/mo yearly3 core seats included and further seats at $45/month annually or $50 month to month, 2,000 marketing contacts and 3,000 HubSpot credits, with omni-channel campaigns, automation and reporting
Marketing Hub Enterprise$3600/mo5 core seats included and further seats at $75/month, 10,000 marketing contacts and 5,000 HubSpot credits. Every tier is quoted for Marketing Hub alone and rises with the marketing contacts and core seats you add; Sales, Service, Content and Data Hub are priced on their own tabs
Open HubSpot Pricing and company Prices checked 4 September 2026

Humata

By HumataAustin, United States1 product across 1 category

Strong fit. Ask questions across a set of uploaded documents and get answers with the page they came from, which suits a folder of papers rather than one.

Free plan
Yes
Free, capped at 60 pages of use in total rather than per month, with the basic features and
Month to month
$9.99/mo
Expert
Billed yearly
—
No yearly price published

Watch out: Answers only from what you upload, so the quality of the shortlist is the quality of the answer. The free tier is 60 pages in total, and the step from Expert to Team switches from a flat rate to per user.

All plans (4)
PlanPriceWhat you get
Free$0Free, capped at 60 pages of use in total rather than per month, with the basic features and GPT-5 support
Expert$9.99/mo
Team$49/mo
EnterpriseCustompersonalised service and enterprise security for large teams
Open Humata Pricing and company Prices checked 4 September 2026

HyperWrite

By OthersideAINew York, United States1 product across 1 category

Strong fit. Learns from your own writing to match your voice, and will drive a browser to carry out a task rather than only draft text.

Free plan
Yes
Free tier with a monthly allowance
Month to month
$19.99/mo
Premium
Billed yearly
$16/mo
$192 a year, Premium plan −20%

Watch out: The agent features are the newest and least reliable part. The free tier is a small monthly allowance, and Premium is still capped at 250 AI messages a month — only Ultra is uncapped, at nearly twice the price.

All plans (3)
PlanPriceWhat you get
Free$0Free tier with a monthly allowance
Premium$19.99/mo · $16/mo yearly250 AI messages a month, citations and real-time information, 3 custom personas, the library of pre-made AI tools and unlimited TypeAheads
Ultra$44.99/mo · $29/mo yearlyunlimited AI messages, 10 custom personas, first access to experimental writing and agent features, and unlimited TypeAheads
Open HyperWrite Pricing and company Prices checked 4 September 2026

Kagi Assistant

By KagiPalo Alto, United States1 product across 1 category

Strong fit. Sits on top of a search engine you pay for rather than one funded by advertising, so the results behind an answer are not ranked by who bought them.

Free plan
Yes
Trial tier, 100 searches with the Assistant included, no card needed
Month to month
$5/mo
Starter
Billed yearly
$4.50/mo
$54 a year, Starter plan −10%

Watch out: The free tier is a 100-search trial. Beyond that you are buying the search subscription, and the assistant comes with it rather than being sold on its own; prices exclude sales tax.

All plans (8)
PlanPriceWhat you get
Free$0Trial tier, 100 searches with the Assistant included, no card needed
Starter$5/mo · $4.50/mo yearly300 searches a month and the Assistant in Quick mode
Professional$10/mo · $9/mo yearlyunlimited searches and a larger Assistant allowance
Ultimate$25/mo · $22.50/mo yearlyadds Research mode and flagship models
Duo$14/mo · $12.60/mo yearlytwo Professional accounts, each upgradable to Ultimate for $15 more
Family$20/mo · $18/mo yearlyProfessional for up to six people, each upgradable to Ultimate for $15 more
Team Professional$10/mo
Team Ultimate$25/mo
Open Kagi Assistant Pricing and company Prices checked 4 September 2026

Khanmigo

By Khan AcademyMountain View, United States1 product across 1 category

Strong fit. Tutors by asking rather than answering, and stays inside the material rather than wandering. The teacher tools sit alongside the student ones.

Free plan
Yes
Free for teachers in supported regions
Month to month
$4/mo
For you
Billed yearly
$3.67/mo
$44 a year, For you plan −8%

Watch out: Deliberately slower than a chatbot, because it will not simply give you the solution. Tied to Khan Academy content.

All plans (3)
PlanPriceWhat you get
Free$0Free for teachers in supported regions
For you$4/mo · $3.67/mo yearlypersonalised tutoring on Khan Academy content, writing and debate prompts, career coaching, coding feedback and chat history
For families$4/mo · $3.67/mo yearlyeverything in the personal plan plus child accounts from a parent login, interaction history, moderation alerts and college admissions coaching
Open Khanmigo Pricing and company Prices checked 4 September 2026

Kickresume

By KickresumeBratislava, Slovakia1 product across 1 category

Strong fit. Drafts and rewrites a resume or cover letter against a specific job advert, and keeps the formatting from falling apart.

Free plan
Yes
Free plan with 4 resume and 4 cover letter templates, a basic website template, 20,000
Month to month
$24/mo
Premium
Billed yearly
$8/mo
$96 a year, Premium plan −67%

Watch out: A generated resume reads like one unless you rewrite it in your own voice. Free tier limits templates and exports.

All plans (2)
PlanPriceWhat you get
Free$0Free plan with 4 resume and 4 cover letter templates, a basic website template, 20,000 pre-written phrases and unlimited downloads
Premium$24/mo · $18/mo quarterly · $8/mo yearly40+ resume and cover letter templates, AI Writer, ATS resume checker, Career Map, LinkedIn and PDF import, mobile apps, with a 14-day money-back guarantee on the longer terms
Open Kickresume Pricing and company Prices checked 4 September 2026

Krea

By KreaSan Francisco, United States1 product across 1 category

Strong fit. Shows the image forming as you sketch or type instead of making you wait for a render, which changes how you iterate.

Free plan
Yes
100 units a day; Krea 2 and limited LoRA training, without the full image, video or 3D model
Month to month
$9/mo
Basic
Billed yearly
$5/mo
Basic plan −44%

Watch out: The real-time mode trades quality for speed, and the finished output still trails the leading generators. Its pricing page did not respond.

All plans (4)
PlanPriceWhat you get
Free$0Free plan, 100 units a day; Krea 2 and limited LoRA training, without the full image, video or 3D model catalogue
Basic$9/mo · $5/mo yearly5,000 units a month, all image models, selected video models, LoRA training
Pro$35/mo · $21/mo yearly20,000 units a month, all image, video, 3D and lipsync models
Max$105/mo · $63/mo yearly
Open Krea Pricing and company Prices checked 4 September 2026

Le Chat (Mistral)

By Mistral AIParis, France2 products across 3 categories

Strong fit. European data residency and open weights. The default if EU hosting is a hard requirement.

Free plan
Yes
With $10 a month of API credits
Month to month
$14.99/mo
Pro
Billed yearly
—
No yearly price published

Watch out: Smaller ecosystem and fewer integrations than the US majors. Every plan bundles a monthly allowance of API credits — $10 free, $30 on Pro, $15 on Education — and API use beyond it is priced per token on the API tab of the same page.

All plans (4)
PlanPriceWhat you get
Free$0Free tier, with $10 a month of API credits
Pro$14.99/mo
Team$24.99/mo
EnterpriseCustom
Open Le Chat (Mistral) Pricing and company Prices checked 4 September 2026

Luma AI

By Luma AIPalo Alto, United States1 product across 1 category

Strong fit. Fast generation with good camera-motion control, plus 3D capture from ordinary footage.

Free plan
Yes
Free tier with monthly credits
Month to month
$30/mo
Plus
Billed yearly
$25/mo
$300 a year, Plus plan −17%

Watch out: Shorter clips. Consistency across shots is still the weak point across this whole category.

All plans (4)
PlanPriceWhat you get
Free$0Free tier with monthly credits
Plus$30/mo · $25/mo yearly10,000 credits, Luma and third-party image and video models, guest editing, commercial use
Pro$90/mo · $75/mo yearly40,000 credits and 4x Luma Agents usage
Ultra$300/mo · $250/mo yearly150,000 credits and 15x Luma Agents usage
Open Luma AI Pricing and company Prices checked 4 September 2026

Monday.com

By monday.comTel Aviv, Israel1 product across 1 category

Strong fit. Work management with AI blocks you drop into a board, so the automation is visible rather than hidden behind a prompt.

Free plan
Yes
Free forever plan for up to 2 seats, with up to 3 boards, up to 3 docs, 200+ templates and 8
Month to month
$12/mo
Basic
Billed yearly
$9/mo
Basic plan −25%

Watch out: Seats are sold in blocks, so a team of three often pays for five. The free plan stops at two seats and carries no AI at all.

All plans (5)
PlanPriceWhat you get
Free$0Free forever plan for up to 2 seats, with up to 3 boards, up to 3 docs, 200+ templates and 8 column types, but no AI at all — the AI features start at Basic
Basic$12/mo · $9/mo yearlyunlimited free viewers and unlimited items, plus Basic AI at 3 tools and 1,000 AI credits a month
Standard$14/mo · $14/mo yearlyadds 3 workflows, automations and integrations at 250 actions a month each, and AI Essentials at 5 tools and 2,000 AI credits a month
Pro$24/mo · $22/mo yearlyadds Premium AI at 6 tools and 3,000 AI credits a month, covering the AI agent workforce, the meeting notetaker, the Sidekick assistant and the Vibe app builder
EnterpriseCustomadds 250 workflows, enterprise-grade security and governance, and Enterprise AI at 6 tools on a custom credit allowance. Every figure above is quoted at the 10-seat team size the page opens on, and the per-seat rate moves with the team size you choose
Open Monday.com Pricing and company Prices checked 4 September 2026

Murf

By MurfSan Francisco, United States1 product across 1 category

Strong fit. Generates narration in a range of voices with control over pace and emphasis, aimed at training and explainer video.

Free plan
Yes
Free plan with no card, 10 projects and 10 minutes of voice generation
Month to month
$29/mo
Creator
Billed yearly
$19/mo
$228 a year, Creator plan −34%

Watch out: Voices are recognisable as synthetic on long listens. Commercial use sits on the paid tiers.

All plans (4)
PlanPriceWhat you get
Free$0Free plan with no card, 10 projects and 10 minutes of voice generation
Creator$29/mo · $19/mo yearly100 projects, 24 hours of voice generation a year on annual or 2 hours a month on monthly, all 200+ voices
Business$99/mo · $66/mo yearly500 projects, 96 hours a year or 8 hours a month, business licence
EnterpriseCustomunlimited voice generation, custom projects and editors. Dub and API products are priced separately
Open Murf Pricing and company Prices checked 4 September 2026

Notion AI

By NotionSan Francisco, United States2 products across 2 categories

Strong fit. Writes and summarises inside the workspace where your notes already live, so it has the surrounding context.

Free plan
Yes
Trial of Notion AI on the free and Plus plans
Month to month
$24/mo
Notion Business, sold to teams rather than to one person
Billed yearly
$20/mo
Notion Business plan −17%

Watch out: Only as good as how organised your Notion already is. Beyond the trial it is not sold on its own: the full AI features arrive with the Business plan.

All plans (3)
PlanPriceWhat you get
Free$0Trial of Notion AI on the free and Plus plans
Notion Business$24/mo · $20/mo yearlythe first plan with Notion AI in full, including Notion Agent, AI meeting notes and enterprise search
Notion EnterpriseCustomadds zero data retention with LLM providers and admin controls over AI. Notion AI is part of these plans rather than sold separately
Open Notion AI Pricing and company Prices checked 4 September 2026

Petal

By PetalCambridge, United States1 product across 1 category

Strong fit. A document library with AI built in rather than a chat window you paste into, so your sources stay organised between sessions.

Free plan
Yes
Free, with 1GB of cloud storage, one seat and three guests. Support is included rather than
Month to month
$4.25/mo
Plus
Billed yearly
$2.55/mo
Plus plan −40%

Watch out: You have to commit to keeping documents in it for the value to appear. The individual tiers are separated by storage rather than by features, and the two cheapest are priced for .edu addresses — without one they cost around two thirds more.

All plans (7)
PlanPriceWhat you get
Free$0Free, with 1GB of cloud storage, one seat and three guests. Support is included rather than priority
Plus$4.25/mo · $2.55/mo yearly$2.99 and $4.99 respectively month to month. 2GB of storage
Advanced$8.49/mo yearly$9.99 and $13.99 month to month. 10GB of storage and priority support
Premium$29.99/mo · $25.49/mo yearly
Teams Starter$59.99/mo · $50.99/mo yearly5 seats, 10 guests and 50GB
Teams Pro$119.99/mo · $101.99/mo yearly20 seats, 100 guests and 1TB
Teams EnterpriseCustom
Open Petal Pricing and company Prices checked 4 September 2026

Photoroom

By PhotoroomParis, France1 product across 1 category

Strong fit. Cuts an object out of a photo and puts it on a new background cleanly, at volume, for product listings.

Free plan
Yes
Free tier with limited exports
Month to month
$12.99/mo
Pro
Billed yearly
$7.50/mo
Pro plan −42%

Watch out: Fine edges like hair and glass still need a manual pass. Free exports are watermarked or limited.

All plans (5)
PlanPriceWhat you get
Free$0Free tier with limited exports
Pro$12.99/mo · $7.50/mo yearly8,000 AI credits and 1,000 exports a month, unlimited core tools, free trial
Max$34.99/mo · $20.99/mo yearly25,000 AI credits and 3,000 exports a month, free trial
Ultra$99/mo · $82.50/mo yearly
EnterpriseCustomadds adjustable AI shadows
Open Photoroom Pricing and company Prices checked 4 September 2026

Podcastle

By PodcastleBerkeley, United States1 product across 2 categories

Strong fit. Records, cleans and edits a podcast in the browser, with transcription and voice tools in the same place.

Free plan
Yes
Free sign-up, with a free trial of the paid plans; Podcastle now sells as Async at async.com
Month to month
$19.99/mo
Essentials
Billed yearly
$11.99/mo
Essentials plan −40%

Watch out: Podcastle has rebranded as Async and now sells a credit-priced creative suite, so the price depends on how many credits you pick. Browser recording is only as good as the connection.

All plans (5)
PlanPriceWhat you get
Free$0Free sign-up, with a free trial of the paid plans; Podcastle now sells as Async at async.com
Essentials$19.99/mo · $11.99/mo yearly450 credits a month at the base level, roughly 61 short videos or 900 images
Pro$39.99/mo · $23.99/mo yearly1,200 credits a month at the base level, all video, image and audio models
Teams$84.99/mo · $49.99/mo yearly3,000 credits a month per creator at the base level
BusinessCustom
Open Podcastle Pricing and company Prices checked 4 September 2026

Qwen

By Alibaba QwenHangzhou, China1 product across 8 categories

Strong fit. Among the best open options for multilingual drafting and translation, especially across Asian languages.

Free plan
Yes
Free to use, weights downloadable
Month to month
None
Nothing to pay — there is no paid tier
Billed yearly
—
No paid tier to buy

Watch out: Self-host or use a third-party host if the text is sensitive.

Open Qwen Pricing and company Prices checked 4 September 2026

Read AI

By Read AISeattle, United States1 product across 1 category

Strong fit. Summarises meetings, email and messages together, so the follow-up lands in one place rather than three.

Free plan
Yes
Free forever plan, no card required: 5 meeting transcripts a month, unlimited enterprise
Month to month
$19.75/mo
Pro
Billed yearly
$15/mo
Pro plan −24%

Watch out: Reaches across a lot of surfaces at once, which is the point and also the thing to check against your own data rules. The free plan stops at five meeting transcripts a month, and the compliance features sit in Enterprise+, which takes a minimum of five licences and so starts near $150 a month.

All plans (4)
PlanPriceWhat you get
Free$0Free forever plan, no card required: 5 meeting transcripts a month, unlimited enterprise search, summaries across meetings, email and messaging, a personalised meeting coach, Topic Readouts, more than 20 languages and apps for Windows, macOS, Android and iOS
Pro$19.75/mo · $15/mo yearlyunlimited meeting transcripts, priority report processing, 100 file upload credits a month and premium integrations with Notion, Salesforce, HubSpot, Jira, Confluence, Zapier and webhooks
Enterprise$29.75/mo · $22.50/mo yearlyadds audio and video playback, video highlights, 200 file upload credits a month and premium support
Enterprise+$39.75/mo · $29.75/mo yearlyadds HIPAA compliance, SAML and SCIM, domain capture, a custom data retention policy, 300 file upload credits a month and workspace onboarding. Every paid tier carries unlimited meeting reports, unlimited storage and workspace access
Open Read AI Pricing and company Prices checked 4 September 2026

Rows

By RowsBerlin, Germany1 product across 1 category

Strong fit. A spreadsheet that will fetch data and run analysis from a prompt, without leaving the grid. Familiar shape for anyone who already works in one.

Free plan
Yes
5 AI tasks a month, data tables imported by hand, integrations across 10 accounts and up to 3
Month to month
$8/mo
Plus
Billed yearly
$6/mo
Plus plan −25%

Watch out: A spreadsheet is only as right as its inputs, and a generated formula is easier to trust than to check. AI tasks are capped by tier, at 5 a month free, 200 on Plus and 1,000 on Pro, and Pro charges a flat monthly fee on top of its per-seat price.

All plans (4)
PlanPriceWhat you get
Free$0Free plan at $0: 5 AI tasks a month, data tables imported by hand, integrations across 10 accounts and up to 3 guests
Plus$8/mo · $6/mo yearly200 AI tasks a month, data tables that refresh once a day, 10 integration accounts and up to 10 guests
Pro$8/mo · $6/mo yearly1,000 AI tasks a month, data tables that refresh by the minute, 100 integration accounts, up to 200 guests and video support
Enterpriseno price published, sold on enquiryadvanced API endpoints, custom AI models, functions and integrations, high-volume usage, custom themes and designs, SAML SSO and a dedicated customer success manager. Every figure on the page is quoted net, so sales tax or VAT is added on top
Open Rows Pricing and company Prices checked 4 September 2026

Rytr

By RytrWalnut, United States1 product across 1 category

Strong fit. The cheapest usable option in this category by a wide margin, with a genuine free tier rather than a trial.

Free plan
Yes
Free forever with no card required: 10,000 characters a month of AI content generation, and no
Month to month
$9/mo
Unlimited
Billed yearly
$7.50/mo
Unlimited plan −17%

Watch out: Output needs more editing than the pricier tools, which is what you are trading for the price. The free tier is 10,000 characters a month, a few articles at most, and neither paid tier caps generation — the extra money buys tone matching across brands rather than volume.

All plans (3)
PlanPriceWhat you get
Free$0Free forever with no card required: 10,000 characters a month of AI content generation, and no tone matching
Unlimited$9/mo · $7.50/mo yearlyunlimited AI content generation and one tone match
Premium$29/mo · $24.16/mo yearlyunlimited generation with multiple tone matches, aimed at freelancers writing for several brands. The yearly rate is ten months of the monthly one, which is how the page frames it as two months free
Open Rytr Pricing and company Prices checked 4 September 2026

Taskade

By TaskadeSan Francisco, United States1 product across 1 category

Strong fit. Outlines, tasks and project structure in one place, with agents that can work through a list rather than answer a question.

Free plan
Yes
Free plan for 2 users, up to 3 apps, community app cloning, desktop and mobile apps and 500+
Month to month
$20/mo
Pro
Billed yearly
$10/mo
Pro plan −50%

Watch out: Breadth costs depth against a dedicated task manager. Agent output needs checking.

All plans (5)
PlanPriceWhat you get
Free$0Free plan for 2 users, up to 3 apps, community app cloning, desktop and mobile apps and 500+ templates
Pro$20/mo · $10/mo yearly10 users, unlimited AI apps, agents, workspaces and automations, train agents on your data
Business$50/mo · $25/mo yearlyunlimited users, multi-agent workflows, custom domains, white-label branding, API and 100+ integrations
Max$200/mo · $100/mo yearlyautonomous agents, agentic workflows, extended thinking modes, per-agent model selection
Enterprise$500/mo · $250/mo yearlyMCP integration, SCIM provisioning, role-based access, bring your own key, a custom SLA
Open Taskade Pricing and company Prices checked 4 September 2026

TextCortex

By TextCortexBerlin, Germany1 product across 1 category

Strong fit. A browser extension that writes inside whatever site you are already in, rather than a separate window you paste between.

Free plan
Yes
Free tier with a daily creation allowance and no card required: knowledge bases, up to 50MB of
Month to month
$29.99/mo
Premium
Billed yearly
$23.99/mo
Premium plan −20%

Watch out: Breadth over depth against a dedicated tool. There is only one paid tier before Enterprise, and the model usage it includes is footnoted rather than stated, so check the allowance before committing.

All plans (3)
PlanPriceWhat you get
Free$0Free tier with a daily creation allowance and no card required: knowledge bases, up to 50MB of file storage and custom agents
Premium$29.99/mo · $23.99/mo yearlyeverything in the free tier plus access to all the major models and an included AI model usage allowance, which the page footnotes rather than states
EnterpriseCustomeverything in Premium plus single sign-on with SCIM and SAML, and dedicated deployment. Every figure on the page is quoted excluding VAT
Open TextCortex Pricing and company Prices checked 4 September 2026

TypingMind

By TypingMindSheridan, United States1 product across 1 category

Strong fit. One interface over every model you have an API key for, with your chats stored on your own machine and a licence you buy once rather than rent.

Free plan
Yes
Free, but chat history is not saved and a prompt appears every few minutes
Month to month
None
Not published
Billed yearly
—
No yearly price published

Watch out: You supply and pay for the API keys, so the licence is not the whole cost. The free version does not save chat history and interrupts you periodically.

All plans (4)
PlanPriceWhat you get
Free$0Free, but chat history is not saved and a prompt appears every few minutes
Standard$39 one-time licenceremoves ads, basic chat, AI agents, shared chats and plugins, voice input
Extended$79 one-time licenceadds web search, vision, image generation, text to speech and document upload
Premium$198 one-time licence, on offer at $99 as this was checkedadds multi-model parallel chats, projects and folders, artifacts, unlimited plugins and MCPs, free updates. Model API keys are paid separately on every plan
Open TypingMind Pricing and company Prices checked 4 September 2026

Zoho CRM

By ZohoChennai, India2 products across 1 category

Strong fit. A full CRM with its own in-house AI, at a price well below the American incumbents, and a free edition for up to three users.

Free plan
Yes
Free edition, forever free for up to 3 users and no card required: contact management
Month to month
$20/mo
Standard
Billed yearly
$14/mo
Standard plan −30%

Watch out: The suite is enormous and the parts vary in polish. The AI agents only start at Professional, so the free edition and Standard are a CRM without them, and annual billing runs 20 to 34 per cent below month to month depending on the tier.

All plans (4)
PlanPriceWhat you get
Free$0Free edition, forever free for up to 3 users and no card required: contact management, follow-up reminders, workflow automation, custom email templates, tasks, meetings and calls, data import and export, and standard reports
Standard$20/mo · $14/mo yearlyemail integration and mass emails, built-in calling, multiple sales pipelines, calendar integration, data capture through forms, sales forecasting and data enrichment
Professional$35/mo · $23/mo yearlythe tier where the AI agents start, alongside process and inventory management, predictive intelligence, unlimited reports, configure-price-quote and custom portals
Enterprise$50/mo · $40/mo yearlymulti-team management, reporting hierarchy, custom buttons and functions, extended field types, sequential data collection, an approval process and account-based marketing. These are Zoho CRM prices alone; the rest of the Zoho suite is priced product by product
Open Zoho CRM Pricing and company Prices checked 4 September 2026

Bitrix24

By Bitrix24Alexandria, United States1 product across 1 category

Can do it. The largest genuinely free tier in this category — CRM, tasks, chat and telephony for a whole team without paying.

Free plan
Yes
Free plan for an unlimited number of users, covering CRM, tasks, chat and telephony
Month to month
$89/mo
Basic Vibe+
Billed yearly
$59/mo
Basic Vibe+ plan −34%

Watch out: Free is generous and the interface is dense in proportion. Paid plans are priced per organisation with a fixed number of users included rather than per seat, so the bundle is what to compare.

All plans (5)
PlanPriceWhat you get
Free$0Free plan for an unlimited number of users, covering CRM, tasks, chat and telephony
Basic Vibe+$89/mo · $59/mo yearly5 users included, with the Vibecode app builder, unlimited market apps and the REST API, and AI for everyday work
Standard Vibe+$199/mo · $120/mo yearly50 users included, about $2.39 a user, and the tier where unlimited AI in Bitrix24 starts
Professional Vibe+$399/mo · $240/mo yearly100 users included, about $2.39 a user
Enterprise Vibe+$799/mo · $480/mo yearly250 users included, about $1.92 a user, on a selector that raises the price as you add more. All four are the Vibe+ tab; a separate Essentials tab is priced on its own, and every figure is per organisation rather than per seat
Open Bitrix24 Pricing and company Prices checked 4 September 2026

Trello

By AtlassianSydney, Australia1 product across 1 category

Can do it. The simplest board tool that a whole team will actually adopt, now with AI that drafts cards and summarises lists.

Free plan
Yes
Free plan for up to 10 collaborators a workspace, with unlimited cards, up to 10 boards a
Month to month
$6/mo
Standard
Billed yearly
$5/mo
Standard plan −17%

Watch out: A board tool with AI added rather than an AI tool. If you want the model to do the work rather than tidy the card, look elsewhere.

All plans (4)
PlanPriceWhat you get
Free$0Free plan for up to 10 collaborators a workspace, with unlimited cards, up to 10 boards a workspace, and to-do capture from email, Slack and Teams
Standard$6/mo · $5/mo yearlyunlimited boards, AI, and to-do capture from email, Slack and Teams powered by AI
Premium$12.50/mo · $10/mo yearlyadds the Calendar, Timeline, Table, Dashboard and Map views, and workspace-level views
Enterprise$17.50/mo yearlythe rate moves with the number of users, so it is not a fixed figure. Adds unlimited workspaces, organisation-wide permissions, organisation-visible boards, Atlassian Guard Standard and 24/7 enterprise admin support. AI starts at Standard, so the free plan is boards without it
Open Trello Pricing and company Prices checked 4 September 2026

Wave

By WaveToronto, Canada1 product across 1 category

Can do it. Accounting and invoicing that are genuinely free rather than trial-free, paid for by the payment processing sold alongside.

Free plan
Yes
Indefinitely: unlimited estimates, invoices, bills and bookkeeping records, invoicing from the
Month to month
$19/mo
Pro
Billed yearly
$15.83/mo
$190 a year, Pro plan −17%

Watch out: Free means the accounting; payments and payroll are charged, and that is where the business model actually is. 60 per-transaction fee rather than features, so on annual billing it only starts paying for itself somewhere above roughly 26 card transactions a month.

All plans (2)
PlanPriceWhat you get
Free$0Starter plan at $0, indefinitely: unlimited estimates, invoices, bills and bookkeeping records, invoicing from the mobile app, and one dashboard for cash flow and customers. Card payments can be switched on at 2.9% plus $0.60 a transaction, or 3.4% plus $0.60 on Amex
Pro$19/moeverything in Starter, plus the flat $0.60 per-transaction fee waived so cards run at 2.9% and Amex at 3.4% with nothing added, and bank transactions imported, merged and categorised automatically
Open Wave Pricing and company Prices checked 4 September 2026

Zoho Books

By ZohoChennai, India2 products across 1 category

Can do it. Accounting with the same AI assistant as the rest of the suite, and a free plan that is free indefinitely rather than for a month.

Free plan
Yes
Indefinitely, for solopreneurs and micro businesses under the published revenue threshold:
Month to month
$20/mo
Standard
Billed yearly
$15/mo
Standard plan −25%

Watch out: The free plan stops when your revenue passes the threshold, which is the point at which you can least be bothered to migrate. Paid plans are priced per organisation rather than per seat, so headcount does not move the bill.

All plans (6)
PlanPriceWhat you get
Free$0Free plan, indefinitely, for solopreneurs and micro businesses under the published revenue threshold: invoices, quotes, expenses and journals, receipt autoscans and sales receipts
Standard$20/mo · $15/mo yearlyprogress invoicing, sales and use tax tracking, and 1099-MISC and 1099-NEC e-filing
Professional$50/mo · $40/mo yearlyadds sales and purchase order tracking and multi-currency records
Premium$70/mo · $60/mo yearlyadds basic revenue recognition, fixed asset management and profit margin reporting
Elite$150/mo · $120/mo yearlyadds advanced revenue recognition, dashboard customisation and full inventory management
Ultimate$275/mo · $240/mo yearlyadds advanced analytics with more than 50 pre-built visualisations and KPI tracking. Every figure is per organisation a month rather than per seat, and the page splits them across two tabs, the first three here and Elite and Ultimate on the second
Open Zoho Books Pricing and company Prices checked 4 September 2026

Jasper

By JasperAustin, United States2 products across 2 categories

Built for this. Built around a brand voice and a campaign rather than a chat box, with the workflows a marketing team actually repeats.

Free plan
No
Paid from the start
Month to month
$69/mo
Pro
Billed yearly
$59/mo
Pro plan −14%

Watch out: No free plan at all — a seven-day trial that takes a card up front and bills on day eight unless cancelled.

All plans (2)
PlanPriceWhat you get
Pro$69/mo · $59/mo yearlyone seat, the Canvas platform, agents for core marketing workflows, 2 Brand Voices, 5 knowledge assets and 3 audiences
BusinessCustomadds agents for complex workflows including GEO and deep research, a no-code builder for custom agents, Jasper Grid, unlimited IQ customisation, API access, admin governance and dedicated account management. There is no free plan, only a seven-day trial that takes a card
Open Jasper Pricing and company Prices checked 4 September 2026

Microsoft 365 Copilot

By MicrosoftRedmond, United States1 product across 1 category

Built for this. Sits inside Word, Excel, Outlook and Teams, so it works on the documents and meetings a company already has. The closest thing to AI that needs no change of habit.

Free plan
No
Paid from the start
Month to month
$25.20/mo
Microsoft 365 Copilot Business, sold to teams rather than to one person
Billed yearly
$21/mo
Microsoft 365 Copilot Business plan −17%

Watch out: An add-on rather than a standalone purchase: the enterprise Copilot seat is $30 a user a month on top of a qualifying Microsoft 365 licence you must already hold, and Copilot Chat is only included if you already pay for an eligible subscription. Agents need an Azure subscription on top again.

All plans (5)
PlanPriceWhat you get
Microsoft 365 Copilot Business$25.20/mo · $21/mo yearlyan add-on to an existing Microsoft 365 plan rather than a subscription in its own right
Microsoft 365 Business Standard with Copilot$28.20/mo · $23.50/mo yearlythe Microsoft 365 apps across devices with Copilot built in
Microsoft 365 Business Premium with Copilot$38.40/mo · $32/mo yearlythe same again with the advanced security tier
Microsoft 365 Copilot, the enterprise seat$30/mo yearly
Microsoft 365 Copilot Chatincluded at no additional cost for Microsoft Entra users on an eligible Microsoft 365 subscription, though agents need an Azure subscription and Copilot Studio capacity is bought prepaid
Open Microsoft 365 Copilot Pricing and company Prices checked 4 September 2026

Midjourney

By MidjourneySan Francisco, United States1 product across 1 category

Built for this. Still the benchmark for pure aesthetic quality — concept art, hero imagery, mood boards.

Free plan
No
Paid from the start
Month to month
$10/mo
Basic
Billed yearly
$8/mo
$96 a year, Basic plan −20%

Watch out: Generates images, not layouts, and has no built-in editor. Commercial-rights terms are less clear-cut than Adobe's.

All plans (4)
PlanPriceWhat you get
Basic$10/mo · $8/mo yearly3.3 hours of fast GPU time a month, no relax mode, SD video
Standard$30/mo · $24/mo yearly15 fast hours a month, unlimited relaxed images, HD video
Pro$60/mo · $48/mo yearly30 fast hours, unlimited relaxed images and SD video, stealth mode
Mega$120/mo · $96/mo yearly60 fast hours, unlimited relaxed images and SD video, stealth mode. Extra fast GPU time is $4 an hour on every plan
Open Midjourney Pricing and company Prices checked 4 September 2026

Surfer SEO

By SurferWrocław, Poland1 product across 1 category

Built for this. Scores a draft against what already ranks for a term, and says which sections and phrases are missing. Built around the editor rather than a report.

Free plan
No
Paid from the start
Month to month
$119/mo
Standard
Billed yearly
$99/mo
Standard plan −17%

Watch out: It optimises for resemblance to current winners, which is a floor rather than a ceiling. Paid from the start, and the entry plan is not cheap.

All plans (4)
PlanPriceWhat you get
AI Search Analytics$185/mo · $158/mo yearlytracks brand visibility across ChatGPT, Gemini and AI Overviews, 100 AI prompts refreshed daily, mention gap and brand sentiment
Standard$119/mo · $99/mo yearly30 documents to create or optimise, 25 AI prompts refreshed weekly, brand knowledge
Pro$219/mo · $182/mo yearly50 AI prompts refreshed daily, 5 brand spaces, more integrations
Peace of Mind$359/mo · $299/mo yearlyunlimited documents and brand spaces, 100 AI prompts refreshed daily, API access and VIP support. There is no free plan, only a free start
Open Surfer SEO Pricing and company Prices checked 4 September 2026

AdCreative.ai

By AdCreative.aiParis, France1 product across 1 category

Strong fit. Generates ad creative in every size a platform asks for and scores each against predicted performance, which is the time-consuming part.

Free plan
No
Paid from the start
Month to month
$39/mo
Starter
Billed yearly
—
No yearly price published

Watch out: A predicted score is not a result. No free plan, only a trial, and every tier is priced by a monthly credit allowance you pick, so the headline rate is a floor.

All plans (3)
PlanPriceWhat you get
Starter$39/mo10 credits a month at the default setting, pitched at small businesses
Professional$249/mo50 credits a month at the default setting, pitched at mid-sized businesses and high-volume ad teams
Ultimate$999/mo100 credits a month at the default setting, pitched at agencies. Every tier carries a credits-a-month selector that moves the price, so these are the rates at the credit levels the page opens on
Open AdCreative.ai Pricing and company Prices checked 4 September 2026

Brand24

By Brand24Wroclaw, Poland1 product across 1 category

Strong fit. Watches for mentions across the web and social and summarises what is being said, which is the job nobody has time to do manually.

Free plan
No
Paid from the start
Month to month
$249/mo
Individual
Billed yearly
$199/mo
Individual plan −20%

Watch out: No free plan, only a 14-day trial, and it starts at $199 a month. Priced by tracked keywords and monthly mentions rather than seats, so a busy brand hits the ceiling fast.

All plans (5)
PlanPriceWhat you get
Individual$249/mo · $199/mo yearly3 keywords, 2,000 mentions a month, one user, updates every 12 hours and AI sentiment analysis
Team$349/mo · $299/mo yearly7 keywords, 10,000 mentions a month, unlimited users, hourly updates and chat support
Pro$499/mo · $399/mo yearly12 keywords, 40,000 mentions a month, real-time updates, priority support, Lightning Search, AI events detection, the AI brand assistant, and AI insights and topics across two projects
Business$699/mo · $599/mo yearly25 keywords, 100,000 mentions a month, AI insights across five projects and unlimited AI topics
Enterprise$1499/mo yearlya custom keyword count and mentions limit, with unlimited AI insights and topics. There is no free plan, only a trial, and every tier is bounded by tracked keywords and monthly mentions rather than by seats
Open Brand24 Pricing and company Prices checked 4 September 2026

Hootsuite

By HootsuiteVancouver, Canada1 product across 1 category

Strong fit. Schedules and monitors across every network a large team needs, with approvals and permissions built for agencies.

Free plan
No
Paid from the start
Month to month
$99/mo
Standard
Billed yearly
—
No yearly price published

Watch out: It withdrew its free plan in 2023 and now starts at $99 per user a month, so a three-person team is $297 before anything else, which has pushed most small users elsewhere. Standard also caps you at 10 social accounts.

All plans (4)
PlanPriceWhat you get
Standard$99/moup to 10 social accounts on one calendar, unlimited scheduled posts, AI post and image generation, one inbox for replies, and brand and competitor monitoring
Professional$199/mounlimited social accounts, automated inbox replies and workflows, social trend forecasting up to 90 days ahead, and custom performance reports
Advanced$399/moadds team review and approval, auto-routing of messages to the right people, coordinated content and customer care, and team performance measurement
EnterpriseCustomadds advanced analytics, listening across social, digital and AI, single sign-on and custom compliance. Every rate is quoted per user, so the bill scales with seats, and the three self-serve tiers open on a free 14-day trial. The free plan was withdrawn in 2023
Open Hootsuite Pricing and company Prices checked 4 September 2026

Instantly

By InstantlySheridan, United States1 product across 1 category

Strong fit. Cold email at volume with deliverability tooling — warmup, rotation, sending limits — which is the part that decides whether any of it lands.

Free plan
No
Paid from the start
Month to month
$47/mo
Growth
Billed yearly
—
No yearly price published

Watch out: No free plan. Every tier is bounded by monthly sends and uploaded contacts rather than seats, and Hypergrowth’s send cap is lower on yearly billing than monthly.

All plans (4)
PlanPriceWhat you get
Growth$47/mounlimited email accounts and unlimited warmup, 1,000 uploaded contacts, 5,000 emails a month and chat support
Hypergrowth$97/mounlimited accounts and warmup, 25,000 uploaded contacts and premium live support, with 100,000 emails a month on the yearly tab against 125,000 on the monthly one
Light Speed$358/moeverything in Hypergrowth plus 500,000 emails a month, 100,000 uploaded contacts and the SISR system
EnterpriseCustom500,000+ emails a month, 100,000+ uploaded contacts and a private deliverability network, with a dedicated account manager and shared Slack channel listed on the yearly tab. These are the Outreach plans; Instantly Credits and VIP are sold on their own tabs
Open Instantly Pricing and company Prices checked 4 September 2026

Intercom

By IntercomSan Francisco, United States1 product across 1 category

Strong fit. Answers customer questions from your own help content and hands over to a person when it cannot, inside the support inbox.

Free plan
No
Paid from the start
Month to month
$39/mo
Essential
Billed yearly
$29/mo
Essential plan −26%

Watch out: 99 a Fin outcome on top of every seat, so cost scales with volume rather than headcount. The entry price advertised is a new-customer offer against a $29 to $39 seat, and Fin can be bought on its own with no seats if you already run a helpdesk.

All plans (4)
PlanPriceWhat you get
Essential$39/mo · $29/mo yearlyevery plan also meters Fin at $0.99 or more per outcome on top of the seat price. Fin across service, sales and ecommerce, the Messenger, a shared inbox and ticketing, pre-built reports and a public help centre
Advanced$99/mo · $85/mo yearlymultiple team inboxes, the workflows automation builder, round robin assignment, a private and multilingual help centre, and 20 free Lite seats
Expert$139/mo · $132/mo yearlysingle sign-on and identity management, HIPAA support, service level agreements, a multibrand Messenger and help centre, and 50 free Lite seats
Fin AI Agentsold on its own for teams that already run a helpdesk such as Salesforce, with no seats required at all and nothing charged but that per-outcome rateit answers email, live chat and phone, takes action on external systems and sets up in under an hour
Open Intercom Pricing and company Prices checked 4 September 2026

Motion

By MotionSan Francisco, United States1 product across 1 category

Strong fit. Takes your tasks and calendar and builds the day, rescheduling automatically when something moves.

Free plan
No
Paid from the start
Month to month
$49/mo
Pro AI
Billed yearly
$29/mo
Pro AI plan −41%

Watch out: It only works if you let it own the calendar, which is a bigger commitment than a task list. Paid from the start.

All plans (2)
PlanPriceWhat you get
Pro AI$49/mo · $29/mo yearlyAI chat, projects and tasks, calendar and meetings, docs and notes, task planner, writer and editor, unlimited storage. Free trial, no free plan
Business AI$69/mo · $39/mo yearlyeverything in Pro AI for power users and businesses with more complex needs
Open Motion Pricing and company Prices checked 4 September 2026

Ocoya

By OcoyaVilnius, Lithuania1 product across 1 category

Strong fit. Copy, image and schedule in one pass, which suits a person doing all three for a small business rather than a team splitting them.

Free plan
No
Paid from the start
Month to month
$19/mo
Bronze
Billed yearly
—
No yearly price published

Watch out: No free plan, only a seven-day trial, and the entry tier is a single user with one workspace. Every plan is capped on credits as well as seats and social profiles, so heavy generation runs out before headcount does.

All plans (4)
PlanPriceWhat you get
Bronze$19/mo1 workspace, 1 user, 5 social profiles and 100 credits a month, for one person scheduling their own posts
Silver$49/mo5 workspaces, 5 users, 20 social profiles and 500 credits a month
Gold$99/mo20 workspaces, 20 users, 50 social profiles and 1,500 credits a month
Diamond$199/mounlimited workspaces and credits, 50 users and 150 social profiles. Yearly billing takes 20 per cent off every tier, and there is no free plan, only a seven-day trial
Open Ocoya Pricing and company Prices checked 4 September 2026

Pipedrive

By PipedriveTallinn, Estonia1 product across 1 category

Strong fit. Deliberately narrow — a pipeline, and the AI works on moving deals along it rather than on everything a company does.

Free plan
No
No usable free tier
Month to month
$24/mo
Lite
Billed yearly
$14/mo
Lite plan −42%

Watch out: No free plan, only a 14-day trial, though it asks for no card. Its pricing page refuses automated reading, so these figures were transcribed by hand.

All plans (5)
PlanPriceWhat you get
Free$0No free plan — a 14-day trial only, though it takes no credit card
Lite$24/mo · $14/mo yearlylead, calendar and pipeline management, AI-powered report creation and a real-time sales feed
Growth$49/mo · $39/mo yearlyadds full email sync with tracking, automations and nurturing sequences, subscriptions and forecast reports, and the meeting scheduler
Premium$79/mo · $59/mo yearlyadds lead generation and routing, custom scoring, company data enrichment and AI-powered multi-email tools
Ultimate$99/mo · $79/mo yearlyadds fortified account security with alerts, phone and email data enrichment and a sandbox testing account. Every tier is badged as carrying AI, including the entry one
Open Pipedrive Pricing and company Prices checked 4 September 2026

Sudowrite

By SudowriteSan Francisco, United States1 product across 1 category

Strong fit. Built for long fiction: it holds a story bible, keeps characters consistent across chapters, and suggests rather than replaces.

Free plan
No
Paid from the start
Month to month
$19/mo
Hobby & Student
Billed yearly
$10/mo
Hobby & Student plan −47%

Watch out: Paid from the start, though the trial takes no card. The tiers differ mainly by monthly credits — 225,000, one million and two million — rather than by features, so the question is how much you write.

All plans (3)
PlanPriceWhat you get
Hobby & Student$19/mo · $10/mo yearly225,000 credits a month, for people writing for fun or for school
Professional$29/mo · $22/mo yearly1,000,000 credits a month, raised from 450,000 as this was checked, and pitched at a novel or a screenplay
Max$59/mo · $44/mo yearly2,000,000 credits a month, for authors publishing several times a year. Every tier carries the same story intelligence, style matching and continuity across a series, and all three open on a free trial that asks for no card
Open Sudowrite Pricing and company Prices checked 4 September 2026

Writesonic

By WritesonicBengaluru, India1 product across 1 category

Strong fit. Tracks how a brand turns up in ChatGPT, Gemini and Google AI Overviews, then drafts articles and audits the site to close the gaps it finds.

Free plan
No
Paid from the start
Month to month
$99/mo
Starter
Billed yearly
$79/mo
Starter plan −20%

Watch out: Now sold as an AI search visibility platform rather than the copywriter it started as, and priced accordingly, from $79 a month. Plans are capped on prompts and answers tracked, not seats, and agencies are quoted on a separate page.

All plans (5)
PlanPriceWhat you get
Starter$99/mo · $79/mo yearly50 prompts and 50 answers tracked across ChatGPT, Gemini and Google AI Overviews, with AI articles and site audits to close the gaps
Basic$249/mo · $199/mo yearly100 prompts and 300 answers tracked daily, with SEO and GEO on one platform
Growth$499/mo · $399/mo yearly200 prompts and 600 answers tracked daily, sentiment analysis, the Action Center and agentic workflows
EnterpriseCustomall 10 AI platforms tracked, custom prompts, regions and languages, the full Action Center and a dedicated strategy team
Agency Starter$250/mo · $200/mo yearlyup to 20 pitch projects and 2,000 answers a month, with Agency Enterprise priced by arrangement
Open Writesonic Pricing and company Prices checked 4 September 2026

Beautiful.ai

By Beautiful.aiSan Francisco, United States1 product across 1 category

Can do it. Turns an outline into a deck that holds its layout as you edit, which removes most of the fiddling.

Free plan
No
Paid from the start
Month to month
None
Shortest billing is yearly: $14.50/mo
Billed yearly
$14.50/mo
Pro plan

Watch out: Design decisions are made for you. That is the appeal, and the limit if you need a specific house style.

All plans (3)
PlanPriceWhat you get
Pro$14.50/mo yearlyunlimited AI content generation, your own brand styling applied to every slide, extra context pulled in from files or links, and AI image generation
Teams$50/mo · $40/mo yearlyeverything in Pro plus a shared workspace for collaboration and control, with version control and locked slides
EnterpriseCustomeverything in Teams plus dedicated onboarding and team training, CCPA, PCI, SOC 2 Type II and GDPR certification, and single sign-on. There is no free plan at all, only a 14-day trial
Open Beautiful.ai Pricing and company Prices checked 4 September 2026

Docusign

By DocusignSan Francisco, United States1 product across 1 category

Can do it. The signature tool most counterparties already accept, with AI that reads an agreement and pulls out the obligations and dates.

Free plan
No
No usable free tier
Month to month
$11/mo
Personal
Billed yearly
$10/mo
$120 a year, Personal plan −9%

Watch out: The free tier is three documents for the life of the account, which is a demo rather than a plan. The AI is not on these eSignature plans at all: it sits on the separate IAM line, sold as unlimited envelopes plus AI.

All plans (5)
PlanPriceWhat you get
Free$0A free tier exists but is capped at three documents for the life of the account
Personal$11/mo · $10/mo yearly5 envelopes a month, for one person
Standard$30/mo · $25/mo yearly100 envelopes per user per year, shared templates and real-time collaboration
Business Pro$45/mo · $40/mo yearly100 envelopes per user per year, plus mobile-friendly web forms and payment collection during signing
Enhanced plansCustomthe AI sits on a separate IAM tab sold as unlimited envelopes plus AI, priced on its own page
Open Docusign Pricing and company Prices checked 4 September 2026

FreshBooks

By FreshBooksToronto, Canada1 product across 1 category

Can do it. Invoicing and time tracking built for people who bill by the hour, with AI now doing the categorising and the chasing.

Free plan
No
No usable free tier
Month to month
$23/mo
Lite
Billed yearly
$23/mo
$276 a year, Lite plan

Watch out: There is no free plan at all — the 30 days is a trial and then it stops. The prices on its cards are a 90 per cent introductory discount for three months, so the standing rates are ten times what the page leads with.

All plans (5)
PlanPriceWhat you get
Free$0No free plan — 30 days as a trial, then it stops
Lite$23/mobilling to 5 clients, real-time expense tracking, estimates, card, ACH, Apple Pay, Google Pay and buy-now-pay-later collection, and tax-time reports. An offer running as this was checked cut the first three months to $2.30 a month, or a first-year total of $191.27
Plus$43/mobilling to 50 clients, plus proposals, client retainers and financial and accounting reports. The same offer cut the first three months to $4.30, or a first year of $357.59
Premium$70/mounlimited clients on everything above. The offer cut the first three months to $7, or a first year of $582.12
SelectCustomunlimited clients, lower credit card transaction fees and capped ACH bank transfer fees
Open FreshBooks Pricing and company Prices checked 4 September 2026

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What is the best AI for professionals?

There is no single answer, which is why this page lists 100 rather than one. 44 of them are built for the job they are listed under. Start with a free one.

Which of these are free for professionals?

83 of the 100 have a genuine free plan: Adobe Firefly, Ahrefs, Canva Magic Studio, ChatGPT, Claude, DeepL Write, Descript, ElevenLabs, Fathom, Gamma, Gemini, Gemini Deep Research, Gemini Notebook, Grammarly, Hemingway Editor, HeyGen, Ideogram, Julius AI, LanguageTool, Leonardo.ai, Lex, Lovable, MagicSchool AI, Magnific, Notion, OpenEvidence, Opus Clip, Otter.ai, Perplexity, Poe, ProWritingAid, QuillBot, Riverside, Runway, Scalenut, Semrush, Synthesia, Wordtune, You.com, Zapier, Amazon Q, Anyword, Apollo, AskYourPDF, Buffer, ChatGPT deep research, ChatGPT image generation, Clay, ClickUp, Clipdrop, Copy.ai, Figma AI, Fireflies.ai, Gemini in Workspace, Ginger, Grok, HubSpot, Humata, HyperWrite, Kagi Assistant, Khanmigo, Kickresume, Krea, Le Chat (Mistral), Luma AI, Monday.com, Murf, Notion AI, Petal, Photoroom, Podcastle, Qwen, Read AI, Rows, Rytr, Taskade, TextCortex, TypingMind, Zoho CRM, Bitrix24, Trello, Wave, Zoho Books. Free means a real free tier, not a trial.

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