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AI tools
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Compare the AI tools teams actually ship with on the terms that decide the purchase: pricing, commercial use, enterprise contracts, and Japanese-language support. Researched from official documentation and public sources, not vendor marketing.
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Claude
Long-context reasoning with careful, well-structured writing. Strong on drafting, research and design work.
v0.dev
Turns a prompt into production-ready React UI, built on shadcn/ui so it drops into real codebases.
Galileo AI
Generates UI mockups from text, editable in Figma in one click.
Figma AI
AI built into layers, prototypes and handoff — included in Figma at no extra cost.
Framer AI
Describe the brief, get a landing page: from blank to a published URL in minutes.
Runway
Text to video, motion brush and magic edit — the whole loop in the browser.
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Coding, chat, UI, image, video, audio, meeting notes, writing, enterprise search. Pick the job and compare only what is relevant to it.
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60 tools have a complete English review: what it is good for, the trade-offs, and our verdict. The rest of the directory carries pricing and terms while we work through it.
Claude
Long-context reasoning with careful, well-structured writing. Strong on drafting, research and design work.
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Turns a prompt into production-ready React UI, built on shadcn/ui so it drops into real codebases.
Read the reviewGalileo AI
Generates UI mockups from text, editable in Figma in one click.
Read the reviewFigma AI
AI built into layers, prototypes and handoff — included in Figma at no extra cost.
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Describe the brief, get a landing page: from blank to a published URL in minutes.
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Text to video, motion brush and magic edit — the whole loop in the browser.
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Midjourney
The benchmark for image quality — strongest when you are building a visual world or mood board.
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Magic Patterns
Sketch to React component, aimed at shortening the prototyping loop.
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Lovable
Generates a complete full-stack web app from a prompt.
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Tldraw
An infinite canvas where a drawing becomes a working interface.
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Ideogram
The image generator that actually renders legible text inside the picture.
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Krea
Real-time generation and upscaling, with the result updating as you type.
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Recraft
Vector-native generation for brand-consistent icons and illustrations.
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Magnific
Upscaling that adds plausible detail rather than just more pixels.
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Leonardo
Game and concept art pipelines, with trainable custom models.
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Pika
Short-form video generation with controllable camera moves and effects.
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Cursor
An AI-native code editor that reads the whole project before it suggests, edits or refactors.
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GitHub Copilot
The AI pair programmer from GitHub and Microsoft, with plugins for VS Code, JetBrains, Vim and more.
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ChatGPT
The default general-purpose assistant: writing, coding help, research and analysis in one place.
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Gemini
Google's multimodal assistant, wired natively into Gmail, Docs and Drive.
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Notion AI
AI inside your Notion documents — summaries, translation, drafts and action items in your own context.
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Microsoft Copilot
AI across Microsoft 365: drafting, summarising and analysis inside Word, Excel and Teams.
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Perplexity
An answer engine that cites its sources — built for research you have to defend.
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Claude Code
Claude as a terminal coding agent: multi-file edits, test runs and git operations, executed on its own.
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Windsurf
AI-native IDE whose Cascade agent mode carries multi-step implementation work end to end.
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Cline
Open-source coding agent that runs as a VS Code extension on your own API key.
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Devin
Cognition's autonomous software engineer: hand over a task, get back a pull request.
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Bolt.new
Full-stack development in the browser — prompt to running web app in one step.
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Codeium
Free-for-individuals AI completion with support for 70+ IDEs, so it is easy to roll out.
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Tabnine
The veteran of private code completion: air-gapped deployments and models trained on your own code.
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Cody
Sourcegraph's coding assistant, with Code Search integration that puts the whole repository in context.
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Open-source terminal pair programmer with git integration that works diff by diff.
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Replit Agent
Generate, deploy and run an app from the browser alone — popular for teaching and prototypes.
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Developer-focused AI search that answers Stack Overflow-style questions with code and sources.
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Mistral Le Chat
EU-based (France) LLM, chosen where GDPR compliance and EU data residency matter.
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DeepSeek
High-performing open models from China, strong at code and maths with very low API pricing.
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Grok
xAI's assistant with live access to X, for questions about what is happening right now.
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Cohere
B2B-first LLM platform covering RAG, embeddings and reranking in one stack.
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Adobe Firefly
Adobe's image model built for commercial use, integrated into Photoshop and Illustrator with clean licensing.
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Flux
Next-generation image models from the Stable Diffusion founders, in commercial and open versions.
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Stable Diffusion
The open-source standard: run it locally, fine-tune it, host it yourself.
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HeyGen
Avatar video at scale: text to a presenter in many languages, with lip-sync and dubbing in one click.
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Synthesia
Enterprise avatar video for training and product documentation, with SOC 2 and GDPR coverage.
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Luma Dream Machine
Short clips from text or an image, with motion quality professionals actually use.
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Kling AI
Video generation from Kuaishou, rated for longer takes, higher resolution and believable physics.
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ElevenLabs
The industry standard for synthetic speech: multilingual narration, voice cloning and dubbing.
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Suno
Full-length songs from a text prompt — lyrics, melody and vocals included.
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Udio
Studio-quality AI tracks from a genre and a prompt; the main alternative to Suno.
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Descript
Edit audio and video by editing the transcript, including filler removal and voice correction.
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Otter.ai
Transcription wired into Zoom, Google Meet and Teams, with automatic summaries and action items.
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Fireflies.ai
The veteran meeting recorder: CRM sync, speaker analytics and topic extraction for teams.
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Granola
Takes your rough notes during the meeting and completes them afterwards; processing stays on your device.
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tl;dv
Records, transcribes and summarises Zoom, Meet and Teams calls with shareable timestamps.
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An AI voice recorder: capture, transcribe, then summarise through ChatGPT or Claude — hardware for meetings and interviews.
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Jasper
Marketing-first AI covering brand voice, campaign structure and SEO.
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Copy.ai
Sales and marketing copy, with workflows you can wire into an actual sales process.
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Grammarly
The default English proofreader, now with generative drafting and tone adjustment built in.
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Writesonic
Blog posts, landing pages and ad copy in one place, with Chatsonic for conversational research.
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DeepL
The benchmark for machine translation — the natural Japanese output is why teams here standardise on it.
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Glean
Enterprise AI search across Slack, Drive, Confluence and the rest of your internal knowledge.
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